E71: Working Class History Map, with Coffee with Comrades
Working Class History
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The Map Is a Way of Making History Vibrate in People's Minds
I feel that history and our connection to history is really fragile. They can't be easily, palletably, like, appropriated by the state to be turned into something else. And I think there's this quote from a, it was an art critic, a Marxist art critic called John Berger. So he's talking about all history being kind of contemporary history in that, in being history, it has to vibrate in the mind of the historian. It's not just that history kind of evaporates or something like that, but also there are very conscious efforts to stamp it out and delete it. You know, as you can see in particularly in US schools at the moment with what they
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