/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
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The Potatoes
The way that Marx described the peasants in the 1848 revolution as a sack of potato potatoes and i'd written potatoes rather than potatoes which i think we can work with this Potato sort of theme. You point out that instead of peering aimlessly at the 1930s you know referring to this discussion about fascism by the trumps of fascists through all of us you would have to look at a much old and primal age of democracy for suitable perils with parallels with our populist era. So much of contemporary politics is an equivalent of what used to be called peasant politics um because what's very specific about peasants is not just the individual ethic but also the lack of an experience of social labor.
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