Philosophy Discussion

Karl Marx

📍 with Syamasundara ⏱ 74 min
Without changing the heart, no political system can reform human greed and exploitation.
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Prabhupāda: [indistinct] and as soon as they get opportunity to become fat by taking others' blood. Unless you feel in your heart these things cannot be.

Śyāmasundara: His idea is that only the workers are entitled to the surplus value of the product but the nature [indistinct].

Prabhupāda: But as soon as the workers get some profit. They may not no longer work, they become a capatalist. He teaches other workers.

Prabhupāda: Ah. Just like the some mill owner who has [indistinct]. He has a worker in a mill, who was working, and as soon as he gets some money he sits down as the proprietor of the mill and other, he takes advantage of working others. Because [indistinct]

Prabhupāda: There are many instances. Just like in your country, Ford he was some, what is? Some bogus-mechanic [?]. But he got the opportunity to become capitalist. And there are so many in our country also they write their adventures that I was a police [?] [laughs] I was out getting money, I was starving, and now I have become first-class.

Śyāmasundara: [laughter] Jayom [?] Prasad.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So they take credit. I recall one book in Mathur one Mr. Nadan, he was begging his brothers. Alright he became a very businessman, so he wrote his history, that I was begging now I am sitting [break] at this. That's all. So, this theory that my propensity is there, that as soon as I get the opportunity I suck the blood of others and become fat. So unless he changes mentality, there is no question of changing capitalist or communist or this or that. It is all useless.

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