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Jul 2023

2h 17m

Identity Crisis: Historical Materialism ...

Fucking Cancelled

About this episode

In Episode 49 we discuss historical materialism, a foundational concept within Marxist theory, and look at how it offers a much better way of understanding the world we find ourselves in than identitarianism does. Also, Clementine discovers that she may be a Marxist-Leninist.

SHOW NOTES:

Racecraft by Fields and Fields

Base and Superstructure

Early European Farmers

The Indo-European Migrations

The Bantu Expansion

The Austronesian Expansion

The Inca Civil War

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