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A Critique of "The Dawn of Everything" with Sam Biagetti

Outsider Theory

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Anti-Marxism, but It's All Within Our Power

i think the book is anti marxist, but it's also still revolutionary in its own way. And that's probably what's very appealing about the book to a lot of self described radicals. But i really appreciated the argument that, you know, people, at all times have been self conscious political actors. I think they take this argument in directions that i don't understand or fully m indorse. They're drawing upon some anthropological and archaeological research. It did em you know. The notion of social forms as always being at least partly the result of people's ability to reflect on how society should be organized is a valuable kind of argumentit.

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