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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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In this third instalment of our critique, will be circuitously covering chapter one from greyburn wengrow's new book. Before i dig in, i want to outline where i'm coming from and why i'm spending so much time criticizing this particular book. I don't destroy my income making pod casts about political theory because i like blathering on about abstractions and i like not having any money. Bad political theory leads to bad political instincts, which means doom political actions. And if your goal is to change the world in major ways, you're going to end up making revolutions that fail, or else that succeed,. but then end up replicating the same types of hierarchies

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