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Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella
Left Wing Politics
In many ways, one of the inflection points that we've seen in the last a two years of the pandemic relates to something you called folk politics. I'm wondering if you sense a similar thing. Do you think that left wing politics has gotten more or less folk political in the last few years? Ye, definitely less folk political. By folk politics, we, at the most abstract level, understood it as a sort of politics of immediacy. It was focused on temporally limited interventions and these sorts of things which aren't permanent. But yes, i folk politics is all about this immediate scene.
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