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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 his…
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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 th…
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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 envir…
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 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.  This week we take a look at c…
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