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Unraveling Christopher Lasch's Minimal Self with Elijah Emery

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Lash's World of Nations

Lash is often interesting in that how much of a Marxist framework he picks up, but particularly in World of Nations, he describes things that Marxists would describe. Like we would have the debate on whether or not the national liberation movements are socialist revolutions or bourgeois revolutions. They're crucial revolutions. And like, Lash sees that and but he doesn't see it in those terms. He's like, well, these regimes are gonna have to be neo-developmentalists...and so they can't be models for revolutionaries because there's no way for that to happen. There's no occupation for you to overthrow. Right.

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