The Wasteland and the Mountain
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.
Episodes
6 episodes
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 i...
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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 sp...
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58:37
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...
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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, th...
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48:15
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 P...
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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.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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