Hello everybody and welcome to RevLeft Radio.

This is the introduction to part 3B of our dialectics deep dive.

I'm releasing this on the same day as I'm going to release part 3A, which is on Spanoza

and his ethics with regards to bodies and mind, etc.

And this is going to be a continuation of that conversation.

But in the second half we discuss Marshall McClune and just get into a bunch of really

fascinating deep philosophical territory.

And as I say at the end of this episode, I've been talking a lot in recent episodes,

particularly around optimism related to climate change and whatnot, about this arising

new consciousness, this new way of understanding the world and relating to ourselves, to others

and to the natural world that is part and parcel with the political, social and economic

transformations that we're trying to make happen politically through organization and agitation,

etc.

And this whole series, dialectics deep dive, is the philosophical exploration of that new

consciousness.

And it's not really new, as I say in this episode, it goes, it was present in spiritual communities

2500 years ago, it's been present in the mythologies and the understandings of indigenous cultures

for millennia.

It's always been present even in Western philosophy quote unquote, even though it's been sort

of hard to pull out and has been submerged by bourgeois metaphysics, which we talk about

as well.

But it's always present.

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