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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Taking a break from the ongoing debt crisis analysis, Sean and Varn lay out a series of first principles. This miniseries is meant to lay out some basics for how to think about the world and act within/upon it, what differentiates our particular political bent from others on the left and ultimately what is to be done with the social knowledge and beliefs that all of us hold in common.
By the end of this series we hope to have hammered out these principles into a basis for a recomposition of communist organizing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the confusingly title diving into the selected 7 point run |
| 0:14.8 | principles and heuristics and the reason why it's confusing is that series six is |
| 0:19.7 | not over. It's not over folks. It's it isn't. We're not done with it and the debt crisis is not done with us. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.1 | So as it looks like the the fallout of the current debt crisis is mostly going to be in |
| 0:36.7 | tech in our part of the world, we can now look to principals. |
| 0:46.2 | One of the things I think we have to do, and you wrote a series of principals |
| 0:48.6 | and we'll be adding and modifying this. |
| 0:51.9 | And while we could do all a dicktad and read this like a manifesto I think we're just going to have to go through each kind of step in the logic and break down what we mean. |
| 1:04.0 | And we're going to do one theory, one practice, |
| 1:06.3 | one theory, one practice is the way kind of organize this. |
| 1:08.2 | And I think this will take a bunch of shows, honestly. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:11.2 | I think it's a worthwhile endeavor, as you and I was just talking about, you know, I've been doing this for years and you've been doing it for longer, you know, at least twice as long as me if not longer than that. And I feel like maybe when I when we began the podcast I laid things out more about how I feel about the world how we theorize the world and the practice that comes out of that. But even if I did, that was like three, four years ago. |
| 1:35.7 | And I think it makes sense for me and for us together |
| 1:38.6 | and for you to make explicit some of the sort of the first principles and sort of preconceptions that we have about how the world works because otherwise it sounds like |
| 1:49.7 | where maybe harping on little minutia of theory |
| 1:55.2 | or that our practice is simply to like critique people, |
| 1:59.6 | other leftist in the DSA |
| 2:01.4 | and like maybe just call people Democrats or whatever when I think that like we you and I have managed separately and then together to sort of come up with a I think a framework of understanding the world and the beginning like the embryonic sense of what would be necessary to change the world under vastly different conditions that people have done it in the past with some similarities to. So it makes sense for us I think to take a beat to stop and I personally I need it myself because people know if they listen to the last anti-fought episode especially the bonus that I'm going through something right now. |
| 2:35.6 | You know, I'm not losing heart per se, but a lot of things that have happened over the last couple |
| 2:39.6 | few years have made me progressively start to think more about and question my own presupposition. |
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