On this week's show, our host Brian McGleenon is joined by leading Marxist academic Richard D Wolff to talk about the blockchain's potential to democratise the workplace and lead to less work and more leisure, unless it is "subordinated by the present capitalist economic structure". The epsiode discusses how Karl Marx could see bitcoin and the potential of blockchain technology as a revolutionary tool to upend capitalism, but one that would need to be struggled for "because there are powerful forces that want it to be nothing of the sort, and would want it to be another servant of the present system".

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