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Historical materialism is supposed to be explanatory and predictive, but it is not a species of determinism.
Class in Theory, Class in Practice
William Clare Roberts
Tools, even good tools, are prehuman. The great evolutionary divide is in the relationship: tool-organism.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
For a long time, we have been told there are only two ways of thinking about depression. Either it’s a moral failing—a sign of weakness—or it’s a brain disease. Neither has worked well in ending depression, or in ending its stigma. But everything I had learned suggests that there’s a third option—to regard depression as largely a reaction to the way we are living.
Lost Connections
Johann Hari
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