Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist, author, Revolutionary, and anarcho-primitivist thinker who urges us to examine civilization, its premises, its psychology, its pathologies, and its manifestions (including capitalism). She sits down with Brett to discuss the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism and debunks myths that many leftists have about the tendency and the philosophy that goes with it. It's not a call to dismantle everything with no concern for who it hurts; rather it offers a way *forward* by insisting on an analysis that goes deeper than capitalism, and cuts to the core of our civilization, our evolutionary history, and our psyches. This is a must-listen episode!
Topics Include: Civilization, language, anthropology, symbolic culture, the use of language, the agricultural revolution, Marxism, the concept of "rewilding", meditation, train journies across Russia, going into nature, and much more!!!
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| 0:18.0 | Where's the world you night? |
| 0:20.2 | We're educated. We've been given a certain set of tools |
| 0:22.9 | But then we're just throwing right back into the working class. Well good luck with that because more and more of us are waking the fuck up |
| 0:31.0 | So we have a tendency to what we have we have earned right and what we don't have |
| 0:36.7 | We are going to run we |
| 0:39.9 | unintentionally I think oftentimes kind of frame our lives |
| 0:44.0 | As though we are you know the predestined people want to be guilt free like I didn't do it |
| 0:49.6 | Like this is not my fault |
| 0:50.7 | And I think that's part of the distancing from like we don't want to admit that this privilege |
| 0:56.8 | When the main function of a protect and serve |
| 1:00.6 | Supposedly group is actually revenue generation |
| 1:05.0 | They they don't protect and serve |
| 1:07.7 | Simply illogical to say that the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing our house that can result in us |
| 1:14.0 | Not having clean drinking water. Why should those be in anybody else's hands? |
| 1:17.8 | They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions |
| 1:21.5 | If engaged and to overcome oppression to fight back and to identify those systems of structures that are oppressing them |
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| 1:33.8 | Welcome to revolutionary left radio. I am your host and comrade bread O'Shea and today I have a very special guest |
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