WHAT IS POLITICS?

A podcast by WorldWideScrotes

Categories:

Education News & Politics

25 Episodes

  1. Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine

    Published: 4/30/2024

  2. Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine – Who Started It?

    Published: 4/23/2024

  3. 12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians”: The ABC’s of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

    Published: 3/5/2024

  4. 9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: when right wing politics masquerade as left wing politics

    Published: 8/10/2023

  5. 9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People (TRANSCRIPT)

    Published: 8/10/2023

  6. 11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism

    Published: 3/21/2023

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

    Published: 11/4/2022

  8. 10.4 What Causes Seasonal Social and Political Structures? The Dawn of Everything Chapter 3:

    Published: 4/26/2022

  9. 10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

    Published: 2/22/2022

  10. 10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

    Published: 12/19/2021

  11. 10.1 Graeber & Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything”: What is an “Egalitarian” Society?

    Published: 10/27/2021

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

    Published: 10/4/2021

  13. Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder

    Published: 7/20/2021

  14. 9.1. Cancel Culture is Corporate Management Culture

    Published: 7/15/2021

  15. 9. The Real Cancel Culture is At-Will Employment

    Published: 6/7/2021

  16. 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

    Published: 3/19/2021

  17. 7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism

    Published: 11/27/2020

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

    Published: 11/26/2020

  19. 6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works

    Published: 9/10/2020

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

    Published: 9/10/2020

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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.