Podcast recommendations, episode discussions, and struggle sessions about which shows need to be cancelled.
Rest In Power, Michael Brooks.
Marxism really was like the quantum physics breakthrough of the social sciences
I liked how they used the analogy in that episode that Marx is to socioeconomics as Darwin is to biology. It's something I've said when trying to persuade science-minded but liberal family members to give consideration to leftist ideas, and I'm surprised I don't hear it used a lot more often.
I literally spent dozens of hours in college studying "theories of social change" trying to find a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of how qualitative changes in society occur and every librarian I went to told me I was out of luck and all theories that were easy to find were narrowly focused on some specific feature of change (e.g. "resource mobilization theory"). Then I find Marxism and I realised bourgeois social science must be intentionally keeping students in the stone ages.
tl;dr I was literally going to go to grad school unknowingly trying to re-discover Marxism but after I actually read Marx I'm glad I don't have to
Really understanding dialectical and historical materialism is such a profound shift in how you can interpret the world. Every liberal I know thinks I'm an asshole.
Every liberal I know thinks I’m an asshole.
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