Fucking Cancelled

In Episode 45, we're joined by friend of the pod Alexia Roditis, lead singer of the California band Destroy Boys. We talk about the impact of cancel culture on musicianship, navigating the Nexus while young, and how acting like a cop all the time isn't very punk. We finish off with an acoustic performance of some of our favourite Destroy Boys songs.

Part of the Replatformed series.

Show Notes

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In Episode 44, we're joined by friend of the pod Kier Adrian Gray, a writer and recovering social justice kid based in Vancouver. We discuss the trials and tribulations of being an anarchist in Montreal, the effects of toxic social justice world on mental health, how to get out of the Nexus, and what to do once you're out. 

Part of the Experience, Strength, and Hope series.

Show Notes

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In episode 43 we are honoured to be joined by Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, long time organizer, and prolific scholar. We discuss the collapse of the Left in North America, the Nexus as the 'left wing of neoliberalism', race reductionism, identiarianism, and the need to work toward a politics of solidarity and class consciousness. 

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Class Matters Podcast

The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph Reed Jr.

No Politics but Class Politics by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr.

The Trouble with Disparityby Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr.

Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine by Adolph Reed Jr.

The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States by Mark Dudzic and Adolph Reed Jr.

Racecraft by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields

Race, Culture, and Evolution by George W. Stocking, Jr.

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

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In Episode 42, we are joined by Hephestion and Scott, spokespeople for Class Unity, a Marxist pole of attraction in the United States. We discuss the DSA and Class Unity's decision to seperate from the DSA. We talk solidarity, the necessity of building a movement by and for the working class, and the issues preventing the Left from getting organized. 

Part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.

Show Notes

ClassUnity.org

Join Class Unity

Introduction to Class Unity Reading Group

Class Unity Reading List

'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America' by Barbara Ehreinreich

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In Episode 41, we are joined by friend of the pod Michael Imperioli. You may know him from the Sopranoes but he is so much more than that. We talk Buddhism, meditation, the function of the arts, and the importance of celebrating people while they are still alive. We discuss aspiring to our Buddha nature while creating space for our full humanity.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Michael's instagram

Michael's meditation class

Zopa, Michael's band

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In Episode 40, we look at the art of making friends while cancelled. We live in a hyper-alienated time, when more people than ever before report having few or no close friends. On top of that, renewed puritanical impulses within the culture threaten to exile already-atomized people from what little community they have left. In such a context, how are we to create and nurture meaningful connections and break the isolation so poisonous to the human spirit?

Part of the Nexit series.

Show Notes

30% of Millennials say they are often or always lonely. 20% report having no acquaintences at all

Hikikomori, the Japanese phenomenon of extreme social isolation is going global

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In Episode 39, we return to our principles and discuss kindness. What is its political utility? What are its psychospiritual implications? And have you ever noticed that it feels really good?

Part of the Principles Before Personalities series.

Show Notes

Everything Everywhere All At Once

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In Episode 38, we talk about how our relationships are affected when we leave the Nexus, and discuss some strategies for interacting with people who remain believers, especially our friends and ex-friends. We talk about ways in which the process of leaving the Nexus is similar to exiting a cult or getting sober, and ask what lessons we can learn from those experiences.

Part of the Nexit series.

Show Notes

Jay's new zine

Love is stronger than mind control

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In Episode 37, we sit down with author and academic Dr. Touré Reed, author of 'Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism'. We talk about his book, discuss the concepts of class reductionism and race reductionism, and look into the ways that liberal identitarianism can be used to uphold ruling-class power.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism

“Jess La Bombalera” and the Pathologies of Racial Authenticity by Touré F. Reed

The Resurgence of Race Reductionism — Touré Reed (Jacobin Youtube)

Touré Reed's author page on Nonsite

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In Episode 36, we take a look at the slow-motion implosion of the Green Party due to identitarian infighting before moving on to a more hopeful topic: Québec Solidaire, the democratic socialist party set to make significant gains in the upcoming Quebec election.

Part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.

Show Notes

CBC - Green Party president quits, tells members 'the dream is dead'

CBC - Green MPs threatened to leave party if leadership race paused, email to party council says

The 2022 Platform of Québec Solidaire translated into English

Québec Solidaire's website

The Quebec Sovereignty movement (Wikipedia)

The FLQ (Wikipedia)

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