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The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture (Pt. 2)
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We are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture.
In Part 2, we discuss Lasch's critiques of how the word revolution functions on the Left, who the revolutionary subject was in the 1960's, the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago with the BPP, similarities between the Left and Right, culture's relationship to capitalist resistance, educational institutions, and tons more!
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- George Kennan
- Saul Alinksy
- Phyllis Schlafly
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- Days of Rage Review
- Analytical Marxism
- George Kennan
- Saul Alinksy
- Phyllis Schlafly
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Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod
Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast
Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes
Click here to support Red Library on Patreon
Click here to find Red Library on Facebook
Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front
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