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Revolutionary Left Radio

Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Professor and author Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left to discuss her newest book "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Together, her and Breht discuss intentional communities, social experiments, what utopia even means in this context, scientific v. utopian socialism, criticisms of the nuclear family and the socialist alternative, the function of student debt in modern america, the relationship between religious and spiritual orientations and radial social experimentation, public education, evolutionary biology, and more!

Check out the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyday-Utopia/Kristen-R-Ghodsee/9781982190217

Check out previous Rev Left episodes with Kristen here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=ghodsee

Kristen's website: https://kristenghodsee.com/

The AK47 podcast created and hosted by Kristen: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast

Outro music: "Kill in a Heartbeat" by Danger, Moth

Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

0:08.5

On today's episode we have back on the show fan favorite of the show Kristen Godsee to

0:14.3

talk about her newest book every day utopia what 2000 years of wild experiments can teach

0:19.6

us about the good life.

0:21.2

It's a fascinating book, it's really wonderful, cover so much fascinating history that I didn't

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even know about.

0:27.6

So many gems in this book, it's really that the breadth of it is fascinating the time and

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space that you go through and find all these different human efforts to build the egalitarian

0:39.5

communal societies and the heart of ancient slave societies, medieval feudal societies and

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modern day capitalist ones as well.

0:48.0

It's a fascinating ride and we're here to talk with the author about it and I think she

0:52.1

said we're the first interview that she's done on this book.

0:55.8

So it's pretty cool to be able to get that as I know she'll do many many more covering

1:00.2

it.

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of the outlines that I draw up for many of the conversations we had you can read those

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