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This is episode 2-11, part 3.

On John Paul Sartre, we have been talking about his anti-semitan Jew.

Let's move on to Black Orpheus, finally.

So we already said what this was about at the beginning of the episode.

West, did you want to recap slash elaborate?

So this is an introduction to a book of poetry by Black authors.

What is it called, Mark?

Entology, the novel, plays, and the language is French.

Alright, some of it just starts reflection on the poetry that's in the volume and he turns

that into an overall thesis about black consciousness, which he says requires poetry.

By black consciousness, he's talking about something on analogy to class consciousness.

What you achieve when you no longer subject to the ideology of the ruling class.

For Marks, in the case of class dynamics, it's the idea that classes are just natural

and one ends up in a certain class through natural conditions and there's no way out of

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