Karl Marx Ate My Field Notes

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?

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.

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.

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.

Revolutionary discernment of spirits is about the outside world folding into our souls.