How We Do It

Joining me this week to talk about the encounter between Marxism and postcolonial theory is Nivedita Majumdar, a professor of English at John Jay College in New York and author of "Silencing the Subaltern: Resistance & Gender in Postcolonial Theory" just out in Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

You can find her article here: http://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no1/silencing-subaltern-nivedita-majumdar.html

The music played at the end of the show is by Ann Driscoll (aka Stunt Casting). You can find her on Twitter @stuntcasting and her website is: https://stuntcastingmusic.com/

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Journalist Emmett Rensin joins me to talk about his essay, “The Blathering Superego at the End of History” just out from LA Review of Books. We talk about the flailing center-left and how it has become wedded to small ideas and technocratic solutions. 



Liberalism is dead. Long Live Liberalism!


You can find Emmett’s essay here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-at-the-end-of-history/



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Tune in to learn why socialists are obsessed with "Class" and why it makes no sense to position class *against* forms of oppression like racism and sexism in capitalist society. Vivek Chibber, professor of sociology at NYU and co-editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, joins me to break down these matters and much more.

Check out Vivek's article, "Rescuing Class From the Cultural Turn" here: http://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no1/cultural-turn-vivek-chibber.html

The outro music was "Shapes" by Mount Defiance, a band based in Melbourne, Australia (and friends of the show). Check out their website at: https://mountdefiancemusic.bandcamp.com

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In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, the topic of "race and class" has been widely debated amongst socialists and progressives. Joining me this week to build on this discussion is Cedric Johnson, Associate Professor of African American Studies at University of Illinois-Chicago. He has an article in the first issue of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy called "The Panthers Can't Save us now: Anti-Policing Struggle & The Limits of Black Power." We discuss the current fad of romanticizing the Black Power moment, and highlight the limitations of this era in terms of forging a political strategy for today.

Find out more about Catalyst here: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/05/announcing-catalyst

Cedric's book, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders can be found here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/revolutionaries-to-race-leaders

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Joining me this week to contextualize the terrorist attack in Manchester is Max Blumenthal. He reveals that the so-called "War on Terror" is paradoxically spawning a far-right, reactionary form of Islamism that is being wielded by foreign intelligence services to spawn proxy armies to be used in the service of destabilizing enemy regimes. The left must wrap its head around the imperial roots of the latest wave of Islamic extremism in order to change our disastrous foreign policy and effectively face down the inevitable Islamaphobia and xenophobia coming from the right.

Max Blumenthal is senior editor of the Grayzone Project at Alternet. His latest article is titled "The Manchester Bombing Is Blowback from the West’s Disastrous Interventions and Covert Proxy Wars": http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/manchester-bombing-covert-proxy-wars

Max mentions a couple book during the interview:

-Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

-John Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism

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Joining me this week to talk about the disastrous effects of neoliberalism on education policy are Megan Erickson Kilpatrick and Kenzo Shibata. Megan is on the editorial board at Jacobin Magazine, an educator in NYC and author of “Class War: The Privatization of Childhood.” Kenzo is a former educator in Chicago and current education and labor activist.

We discuss the damage being done to children, parents and teachers under the neoliberal education regime, and what kinds of policies we need to reverse these trends.

Megan Erickson Kilpatrick’s book, Class War: The Privatization of Childghood was published under a joint venture by Verso Books and Jacobin Magazine in 2015 and can be found here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1954-class-war

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Joining me this week to talk about the disastrous effects of neoliberalism on education policy are Megan Erickson Kilpatrick and Kenzo Shibata. Megan is on the editorial board at Jacobin Magazine, an educator in NYC and author of “Class War: The Privatization of Childhood.” Kenzo is a former educator in Chicago and current education and labor activist.

We discuss the damage being done to children, parents and teachers under the neoliberal education regime, and what kinds of policies we need to reverse these trends.

Megan Erickson Kilpatrick’s book, Class War: The Privatization of Childghood was published under a joint venture by Verso Books and Jacobin Magazine in 2015 and can be found here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1954-class-war

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Joining me, once again, on this week's show is jack-of-all-trades, Christian Parenti. We talk about his work on climate change and the need to distinguish global warming as a subset of the broader ecological crisis. As he argues, we have the existing technology, policy platform, legal apparatus and economic system to address climate change today. We must tackle this impending crisis right now, rather than give in to cynicism or believe that we must wait until after we've defeated capitalism, altogether. It's a really important re-framing, and you're not going to want to miss it.

In this episode, we discuss a couple of Christian's publications:

-"A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis" - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-radical-approach-to-the-climate-crisis

-Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence - http://www.christianparenti.com/tropic-of-chaos/

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Joining me this week is Matt Bruenig, who writes on the politics and policy of welfare programs. I talk with Matt about his newly launched, crowd-funded, left-wing thinktank, as well as what kind of policies we need to shore up our welfare state in order to help folks who need it the most.

We discuss the racial wealth gap, reparations vs. universal social programs, Universal Basic Income, child poverty alleviation, and the overhaul necessary to reboot our welfare state for the 21st century.

Tune in and learn about Matt's thinktank and how you can support this important project.

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Joining me this week to talk about how the labor movement can fight and win collective action is labor organizer extraordinaire, Jane McAlevey. We talk about how to build real power in order to reverse the bad fortune of labor in the United States and beyond. When the workers go out on strike together, they still win. Jane tells us how.

Check out her book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-shortcuts-9780190624712?cc=us&lang=en&

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