NEW EP indigenous activist and educator gregg castro joins us for a wide-ranging and heartfelt discussion of robin wall kimmerer's "the serviceberry," weaving in personal anecdotes about growing up in the bay area and his own ramaytush ohlone heritage
in less than 500 years we've undone this. the philosophy underpinning liberal capitalism destroyed that wisdom which is now mostly lost, buried in mass graves and reduced to whispers. we now live in the age of the self, a mass suicidal cult of the individual
as socialists and communists we have so much to learn from Indigenous wisdom and culture. the "commune" in "communism" is a practice that has been around in many forms, and although we cannot approach it in a reactionary way, we have a lot we can learn from the old ways
the reason everything is so expensive and dysfunctional in the united states is because all of the most basic elements of our society are owned, controlled, and run by gangs of criminals in business suits