WHAT IS POLITICS?

Politics is one of the only practical disciplines where none of the main concepts have clear, coherent definitions. We define ourselves with terms like "left” and "right" and we believe in things like "democracy," “markets,” "capitalism" and "socialism" even though we don’t really know what any of these words actually mean. This series aims to make sense out of the political muddle that we've inherited from media, academia, and from decades of cold war propaganda, so that we can figure what it is that we want when it comes to politics, and how we can achieve it.

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Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine

Apr 30, 2024

Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine – Who Started It?

Apr 23, 2024

12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians”: The ABC’s of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Mar 5, 2024

9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: when right wing politics masquerade as left wing politics

Aug 10, 2023

9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People (TRANSCRIPT)

Aug 10, 2023

11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism

Mar 21, 2023

11.1 Why The Russian Revolution Failed (TRANSCRIPT)

Mar 20, 2023

11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?

Nov 4, 2022

10.4 What Causes Seasonal Social and Political Structures? The Dawn of Everything Chapter 3:

Apr 26, 2022

10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

Feb 22, 2022

10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

Dec 19, 2021

10.1 Graeber & Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything”: What is an “Egalitarian” Society?

Oct 27, 2021

10. David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The “Dawn of Everything”: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk

Oct 4, 2021

Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder

Jul 20, 2021

9.1. Cancel Culture is Corporate Management Culture

Jul 15, 2021

9. The Real Cancel Culture is At-Will Employment

Jun 7, 2021

8. Idealism vs. Materlialism – How History is Made: Haudenosaunee Women / the Suffragettes / the Double V Campaign / The English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 / The Anarchist Revolution in Spain 1936-39

Mar 19, 2021

7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism

Nov 27, 2020

7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong

Nov 26, 2020

6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works

Sep 10, 2020

5. How Do We Know What Left and Right Mean? Who’s who on the left and right: 1789-1917

Sep 10, 2020

Understanding the News: How Tax Cuts Fuel Police Brutality

Jun 9, 2020

4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality

May 31, 2020

3. The Left-Right Political Spectrum is About Class Conflict

Mar 28, 2020

2. What is Politics and Why Should I Care? (video)

Jan 15, 2020

1. Worbs: when political terms have no meaning

Dec 6, 2019