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🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained.
Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld?
Dialectics, baby!
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antipada. So we have some very nice bonuses available for the people who become patrons of our show. |
0:16.8 | Our show relies on your support, of course, of course. We have a discord community |
0:22.1 | where you can talk to us and other people about politics, history, music, |
0:30.3 | anything you want, basically. We've got a bunch of different channels in there we also have a series of bonus episodes so we figured to show everybody what these bonuses are like and the benefits of membership at the Antifada. |
0:46.0 | We unlocked a bonus episode today so without further ado here is the first in a series of bonus episodes called |
0:55.0 | History as a Weapon and in this first one Sean explains historical materialism |
1:01.3 | enjoy historical materialism. Enjoy. Enjoy. Historical materialist readings, friends, |
1:13.2 | fiends, and everybody in between them. |
1:15.2 | I am Shaw K. B. |
1:17.1 | And this is the first in a new series where one of us Antifadas does a deep dive |
1:22.2 | into political theory, historical analysis, or whatever |
1:26.2 | we feel didn't get enough attention in one of our main episodes. |
1:30.4 | So welcome to my series, which we will be calling history is a weapon. This is actually a continuation of a free co-educational project I used to run at the base, which is a self-organized anarchist space in Brooklyn. |
1:43.0 | Those classes were a great outlet for my history nerdy, |
1:47.0 | and were very well attended, |
1:49.0 | but the toll that heavy construction takes on the mind, the body, and the geist became too much for me at the time. |
1:56.0 | But now we're back and I am super hyp for it. |
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