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7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Materialist Analysis - What Is It?

Materialist analysis helps us figure out why things are the way that they are. It also helps us identify latent bargaining power and how to tap into it. We'll be looking at two situations where huge social changes happened overnight, one by accident and one by decades of deliberate organizing. Next time we look at matrilocal residence and at the eng peasants revolt of 13 81.

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