WHAT IS POLITICS?
A podcast by WorldWideScrotes
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25 Episodes
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Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine
Published: 30/04/2024 -
Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine – Who Started It?
Published: 23/04/2024 -
12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians”: The ABC’s of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Published: 5/03/2024 -
9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: when right wing politics masquerade as left wing politics
Published: 10/08/2023 -
9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People (TRANSCRIPT)
Published: 10/08/2023 -
11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
Published: 21/03/2023 -
11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?
Published: 4/11/2022 -
10.4 What Causes Seasonal Social and Political Structures? The Dawn of Everything Chapter 3:
Published: 26/04/2022 -
10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”
Published: 22/02/2022 -
10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street
Published: 19/12/2021 -
10.1 Graeber & Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything”: What is an “Egalitarian” Society?
Published: 27/10/2021 -
10. David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The “Dawn of Everything”: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk
Published: 4/10/2021 -
Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder
Published: 20/07/2021 -
9.1. Cancel Culture is Corporate Management Culture
Published: 15/07/2021 -
9. The Real Cancel Culture is At-Will Employment
Published: 7/06/2021 -
8. Idealism vs. Materlialism – How History is Made: Haudenosaunee Women / the Suffragettes / the Double V Campaign / The English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 / The Anarchist Revolution in Spain 1936-39
Published: 19/03/2021 -
7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism
Published: 27/11/2020 -
7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong
Published: 26/11/2020 -
6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works
Published: 10/09/2020 -
5. How Do We Know What Left and Right Mean? Who’s who on the left and right: 1789-1917
Published: 10/09/2020
Politics is one of the only practical disciplines where none of the main concepts have clear, coherent definitions. We define ourselves with terms like "left” and "right" and we believe in things like "democracy," “markets,” "capitalism" and "socialism" even though we don’t really know what any of these words actually mean. This series aims to make sense out of the political muddle that we've inherited from media, academia, and from decades of cold war propaganda, so that we can figure what it is that we want when it comes to politics, and how we can achieve it.
