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Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their own oppression (e.g. dismissal of the south as somehow “deserving” Republican control). We also discuss how this tendency towards indirect democracy vs direct democracy can spur despair and resignation, and how to resist it.

Read William's piece, Another way out: Fighting back against inaction here: https://prismreports.org/2025/06/03/inaction-voting-revolutionary-change/

Find William's book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Aboliton here: https://www.akpress.org/as-black-as-resistance.html

and his book, co-authored with Zoé Samudzi, As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, here: https://www.akpress.org/as-black-as-resistance.html

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