Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder
07/20/21 • 0 min
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Interview with Arnold Schroeder of Fight Like an Animal, a wonderful and endessly fascinating show that looks through 20 years of experience of hardcore climate activism, at why left political movements are so weak and ineffective and how to change that, and which covers everything from history, to political psychology, to anthropology, psychiatry, animal behaviour, religious cults, and much more.
I highly recommend everyone check out his show, and dig deep into the extensive bibliographies for every episode, which in and of themselves are a gold mine.
And look for my interview on Arnolds show in the coming days
All music is by me.
What Is Politics Video Channel (video version of this interview and all episodes can be found here plus other stuff)
https://archive.org/download/arnoldschroeder/INTERVIEW%20WITH%20ARNOLD.mp3
Interview with Arnold Schroeder of Fight Like an Animal, a wonderful and endessly fascinating show that looks through 20 years of experience of hardcore climate activism, at why left political movements are so weak and ineffective and how to change that, and which covers everything from history, to political psychology, to anthropology, psychiatry, animal behaviour, religious cults, and much more.
I highly recommend everyone check out his show, and dig deep into the extensive bibliographies for every episode, which in and of themselves are a gold mine.
And look for my interview on Arnolds show in the coming days
All music is by me.
What Is Politics Video Channel (video version of this interview and all episodes can be found here plus other stuff)
https://archive.org/download/arnoldschroeder/INTERVIEW%20WITH%20ARNOLD.mp3
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The European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by Native American critiques of European culture.
That European intellectuals reacted against this by developing the theory of “stages of human progress” where we went from from egalitarian hunter-gatherers to pastoralists to farmers to market civilization.
That Jean-Jacques Rousseau synthesized the Native American critique and the stages of progress theory into a seemingly egalitarian critique of European social hierarchies which resigns us to accept hierarchy as the price of civilization.
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Graeber & Wengrow 2019 – “La Sagesse de Kandiaronk, la critique indigène, la mythe du progrès et la naissance de la gauche“, chapter from The Dawn of Everything (2021), published in French in Journal du MAUSS
Sally Roesch Wagner 2015, How Indigenous Women Inspired The Feminist Movement, Bust Magazine
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