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With your hosts Marwan, Devin, and Phoenix, The Wasteland and the Mountain podcast is an effort to diagnose the problems the left faces, and articulate why and how the left must reinvent itself to serve the interests of the working class in the 21st century.

19/06/2023

Episode 6: Occupy Eden

In this weeks episode, we go over parts five and six of Ramsin Canon's article "Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left," where we discuss the political logic of NGOs and their effect on the ultraliberal tendency to police identity, authenticity and political agency, all while promoting unproductive and disingenuous ideological pluralism.

1h 10m
05/06/2023

Episode 5: Point of Personal Privilege!

Today, we explore Ramsin Canon’s article entitled Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left written on February 7, 2022 - considering with each other as to what it illuminates for us in a similar vein as Peter Camejo’s 1970 speech discussed in episode 4. https://midwestsocialist.com/2022/02/07/ultraliberalism-the-dominant-tendency-of-the-american-left/In reading and discussing Ramsin Canon’s article today we hope to achieve a great sense of appreciation and understandin...

59 min
22/05/2023

Episode 4: Turtlenecks and Biker Jackets

In our last episode, we opened up big questions about how we begin to map, ascertain, and distinguish between the elements and tendencies on the non-liberal left. In this week's episode we continue on that track by working through an article on left & socialist strategy: Kristen Lee’s 2018 introduction to Peter Camejo’s 1970 speech entitled, “Liberalism, Ultra-Leftism, or Mass Action."Join us next week as we continue this conversation by tackling Ramsin Canon's article "Ultraliberalism: T...

1h 0m
15/05/2023

Episode 3: Merlin and the Mass Line

In Episode 3 of the wasteland and the mountain, we settle our initial exploration of the state of the left on the questions of how postmodern notions of social justice merge and interplay with corporate overtures to wokeism. As a result, these ostensible challenges to the order of the day have been overcome by the ruling class, and even strengthens their position through the gesture and posture of playing woke.We also return to the question of religion and radical left politics. We explore th...

48 min
08/05/2023

Episode 2: Identity Crisis

In our second episode we further illustrate our views, politics, and perspectives on the wasteland of liberal left politics. Addressing the atomization of liberalism in United States social culture generally, from looking at Protestantism, to Postmodernism. We address the notion of freedom and explore the myriad ways it is conceived, and their contradictions. We touch upon the question of religion and politics and what this could mean for unity at a higher order than just uniting around the m...

49 min
30/04/2023

Episode 1: An Introduction to the Wasteland and the Mountain

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Wasteland and the Mountain where we summarize some of the major problems the left faces, and what we think the left needs to do to reinvent itself for the 21st century.

41 min

6 Episodes

With your hosts Marwan, Devin, and Phoenix, The Wasteland and the Mountain podcast is an effort to diagnose the problems the left faces, and articulate why and how the left must reinvent itself to serve the interests of the working class in the 21st century.

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The Wasteland and the Mountain

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Episodes

Episode 6: Occupy Eden

Episode 5: Point of Personal Privilege!

Episode 4: Turtlenecks and Biker Jackets

Episode 3: Merlin and the Mass Line

Episode 2: Identity Crisis

Episode 1: An Introduction to the Wasteland and the Mountain

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