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The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture (Pt. 2)
Manage episode 273676166 series 2531047
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!
Further Readings/References
- C. Derick Varn
- Christopher Lasch
- 1848 Revolutions
- Ferdinand Lassalle
- Jacques Ellul
- Clip of Bob Lee of the BPP Organizing with the Young Patriots in Chicago
- Bob Lee
- 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
116 episodes
Manage episode 273676166 series 2531047
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!
Further Readings/References
- C. Derick Varn
- Christopher Lasch
- 1848 Revolutions
- Ferdinand Lassalle
- Jacques Ellul
- Clip of Bob Lee of the BPP Organizing with the Young Patriots in Chicago
- Bob Lee
- Days of Rage Review
- Analytical Marxism
- George Kennan
- Saul Alinksy
- Phyllis Schlafly
------------------------------------------------
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
116 episodes
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