On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part II)
Emancipations Podcast
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The Role of the Working Class in the Post-World War Two Epoch
Sartre is right in the critique of dialectical reason when he has this notion of seriality, and you can see where Badu would get his theory of the event from Sartre. We don't even have a theory of what a bourgeois institution is, and how to deal with them, how to negotiate on their terrain. And therefore, we underestimate the power and the tidal wave force field that they exert at the moment when proletarian energy is released onto the scene. If you don't have a kind of working-class counterculture developed, you're going to get co-opted very, very quickly, and it can become a serious problem. So that would be my rationale for
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