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Pop the Left

by Douglas Lain, Nicholas Pell, C Derick Varn

Pop the Left

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  1. 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…

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  2. 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…

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  3. 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...

  4. Pop the Left #3: The Conspiracy Conspiracy

    Â C Derick Varn and Douglas Lain return for the third episode of Pop the Left, a podcast dedicated to moving beyond the impasse in Left politics. Â This week we take a look at <a...

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Pop the Left

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Douglas Lain, Nicholas Pell, C Derick Varn

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