269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
This Machine Kills
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The Paradox of Socialism
Stafford Beart had trouble connecting to that tradition even though they were his natural allies. He made enormous changes within himself to kind of understand really how his class prevented him from really understanding what was really happening in the world. The critiques he was getting from this bottom-on-pradical British leftists were exactly of that nature. There is an interesting kind of STS expertise story to be told here but then again you need to see it against the geopolitical struggles of the day right and this is where I think not to sound like Lenin but there was a certain infantilism among the British leftists who were criticizing Beart.
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