Big Daddy Varn's Baby Leftist Primer (with C. Derick Varn)
Channel: Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person Podcast
Date: 2017-10-21

To hear Derick Varn's 2018 appearance on our show, check here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZvDGiISy8
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A LOT of people got radicalized and activated by political events of the last year. Derick Varn(@skepoet) is a lecturer, poet, and reader for Zero Books who joins us to give advice and warnings to folks on the Left who are new to this sort of thing. All of this has happened before and will happen again. There's a great reading list here of stuff y'all need to check out. Jacob (@jacobmercy) is here to help. 
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More notes and reading list: https://goo.gl/iESPhT 
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Notes:
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Stephen J Gould writing on Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve in The Mismeasure of Man

Zero Books — and here’s that Angela Nagle book mentioned

Mark Fisher’s Exiting the Vampire Castle

Reading recommendations:

Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

Jack Ross, The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme

Howard Brick & Christopher Phelps, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War

Curious about the First International? Check out G.M. Stekloff’s History of the First International

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Blade Runner 2049

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Derick’s Podcast: Symptomatic Redness

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