In this episode of Karl Marx Ate My Field Notes, medical anthropologst, Dr. Edgar Rivera Colon, provides a critical analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic using the insights of evolutionary biology, radical political economy, critical geography, and liberation spiritiualities of mass hope as an antiodote to mass fear. The unveiling has come. What must be done and hoped for in this time of racialized biopolitical class warfare?

Karl Marx Ate My Field Notes

COVID 19 Special Episode: Can We Turn Fear into the Power to Strive for a New Public Health Commons and Society?

This episode focuses on the hidden potential of the popular bases for revolutionary action that undergird our lives and the tasks of re-enchantment that break up our sense of interior and exterior and frees us for soul power.

Re-enchating Our Land: Collective Spirituality & Mass Revolutionary Pilgrimage

Our seventh episodes deals with what we will need to break through the politics of loneliness in Trump's America. The search for liberation in this country allows us to make comrades out of strangers.

The Politics of Loneliness in Trump's America

This episode is about revolutionary spiritual discernment.  We can use this tool from Ignatius Loyola to understand the political and spiritual conjuncture we are living in during the Trump era. Even Jose Carlos Mariategui, the great Marxist revolutionary, shows up to add his two-cents on the need for a new revolutionary social myth. 

Between the Spiritual Discernment & Revolutionary Hope

In this episode, we discuss virtue as a revolutionary tool and the way to the discernment of spirits.

Revolutionary Virtue Will Order Our Love and Hope

Can Our Capitalist Society Produce Full Human Flourishing Or Is A Revolution Our Best Bet? If We Can't Flourish, Then It's Not In Our Interest.

Human Flourishing & Revolution: Perfect Together

In this episode, we explore the idea of growing our souls in order to undermine and challenge Trumpism through the politics of revolutionary love.

The Times Has Come to Grow Our Souls for Revolutionary Freedom

Anthropologist Edgar Rivera Colon talks about how dominant ideas are aimed at our hearts and gut, not just our pocket books. Capitalist oppression is definitely a feeling.

Capitalist Ideologies Are Always Trying to Break Our Hearts

Spend some time with anthropologist, Edgar Rivera Colon, as he gives us the 911 on how to do serious, but funny social analysis in the Trumpian era. Karl Marx may have ate his field notes, but Dr. Rivera Colon has plenty of material to help you get your critical thinking sharp as knives and ready to give Orange Man a richly deserved political haircut.

Learn Critical Thinking Skills in Trumpian Times With Anthropologist Edgar Rivera Colon