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Pop the Left

Douglas Lain, Nicholas Pell, C Derick Varn•www.blubrry.com
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Pop the Left #6: Historical Materialism

This month Douglas Lain , C Derick Varn and Nicholas Pell discuss the Marxist notion of historical materialism.  According to Wikipedia "historical materialism" is: Historical materialism is a methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, first articulated by Karl Marx (1818–1883) as "the materialist conception of history". Historical materialism looks for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the...

Jun 06, 2013

Pop the Left #5: More Thoughts on Zerzan

John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. Â He is a critic of civilization and especially agriculture and he wants to return to a more primitive collective life. Â He advocates the nomadic life of prehistoric hunters and gatherers as a potential future. Zerzan was the guest on Pop the Left #4 where we discussed the idea of reification and took a close look at Zerzan's own notion of nature. Â This month on Pop the Left C Derick Varn and I speak briefly about the...

May 03, 2013

Pop the Left #4: The Zerzan Reification

This month both C Derick Varn and Nicholas Pell are missing and instead there is a special guest. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. Â He's fairly well known, especially in the Pacific Northwest where I am, and his books about Green Anarchism have been influential. Â But we don't really talk about the environment, agriculture, or civilization, but rather I try to explain what I think is Zerzan's conceptual or philosophical mistake. For Zerzan civilized l...

Mar 20, 2013

Pop the Left #3: The Conspiracy Conspiracy

 <a href="http://skepoet.wordpress.com/">C Derick Varn</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Lain/e/B004Z9W0QO">Douglas Lain</a> return for the third episode of Pop the Left, a podcast dedicated to moving beyond the impasse in Left politics.  This week we take a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories">conspiracy theories</a>, the psychology behind them, and the Left's inability to cope with the prevalence of this a...

Feb 27, 2013
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