Speaker: Chris Knight

Chris Knight is a British anthropologist, high-profile political activist and a founding member of the Radical Anthropology Group (http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/).

Knight published his first book, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture in 1991. Since then, he has been a major figure in debates on the origins of human symbolic culture and especially the origin of language. He is best-known for the theory that human language, religion and culture emerged in our species not simply by gradual Darwinian evolution, but in a process culminating in revolutionary social change – what is often termed “the first human revolution”. Chris has also written extensively for the Weekly Worker, you can find his articles here: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/authors/chris-knight/

Part of Communist University 2021 summer. Organised by CPGB (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/) and Labour Party Marxists (www.labourpartymarxists.org.uk).

The views in this video do not necessarily represent the views of either organisation