Mar.20.12 Lay My Burden Down

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Tape stuff 05 11 2023

Get Off The Sidewalk

First Bell

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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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Ep. 16: What is Class and Why Does It Matter? w/ Vivek Chibber

Joining me to discuss race, class and the Democratic Socialists of America is Adolph Reed, Jr. He's a prolific commentator on black politics and has been on the socialist left for 50 years, so he's just the man to talk to about the upcoming DSA convention. In particular, we'll be addressing the proposal to establish an autonomous "Afro-socialist and Socialists of Color Caucus." The full resolution can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5P0FbY9YTM-UlVwTzRSTGhQRG8/view

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Ep. 22: Race, Class and DSA w/ Adolph Reed, Jr

Joining me this week to continue our "Anti-Essentialism Series, Summer 2017" is Walter Benn Michaels. We talk about the transformation of race science to cultural essentialism, and why we love diversity and hate inequality. Walter is a distinguished literary and social critic, and one of the leading theorists of anti-essentialism, so you won't want to miss this interview. 

Walter's most relevant book, The Trouble with Diversity, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Diversity-Learned-Identity-Inequality/dp/0805083316

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Ep. 25: Diversity vs. Inequality w/ Walter Benn Michaels

Are old racialist tropes re-emerging from the progressive left in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis? What is race reductionism and why does it have neoliberal trajectories? Adolph Reed, Jr. joins us to address these matter as well as riff on the Bernie campaign and what the left must do going forward. 

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-"Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine," https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/04/disparity-ideology-coronavirus-and-danger-return-racial-medicine

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Race Reductionism Redux w/ Adolph Reed, Jr.

My good friend Nick Kiersey was kind enough to invite me onto his podcast, Fully Automated. Part 2 of our chat will be available for patrons of DPS, so be sure to support DPS on Patreon for full access:

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Here is the original write-up: 

Hey everyone! Welcome to Episode 26 of Fully Automated… or, at least, Episode 26, Part One!

This is a super long overdue episode with a guest I have wanted to  have on the show for a long time: Adam Proctor, the host of Dead  Pundit’s Society. Adam has been doing his show FULL TIME for the last  four years, delivering not only on his commitment to evangelizing  “socialism for ordinary ass’ed people” but to making an incredibly  important (and often misunderstood) contribution to the critique of  political economy.

In Part One of this episode, we discuss Adam’s background, and the  story behind the Dead Pundit’s Society. DPS emerged as part of the 2016  leftist podcast wave. Some I suppose would associate Adam with the  “dirtbag left,” and shows like Chapo Trap House. But the story is more  complicated than that.

One of the interesting things about DPS is the niche it has always  occupied, between audience accessibility and issues-driven programming,  on the one hand, and a commitment to rigorous academic thought, on the  other. There’s a certain public intellectual function to the show. So,  in this episode, we discuss the role of the left intellectual. And the  question of how to balance this sort of awkward relationship, of being  neither an entertainer nor an academic, but something in between.

DPS covers a wide range of themes — everything from state theory  through race essentialism. These are less controversial topics today,  perhaps, but in 2016 Adam was taking huge risks by trying to mainstream  them among an American left that was still largely committed to  horizontalist or “occupy” style ideals. Four years into this project, it  is clear that DPS has played a major role in articulating these ideas  to a wider audience that one might have imagined possible, back in 2016.

In Part One, you’ll hear us address the early days of the show, and  Adam’s notorious attempts to take on freedom of speech issues, cancel  culture, and race essentialism. We also talk socialist strategy, and the  application of work by Sam Ginden and Leo Pantich to the Grexit  question. And as if these takes weren’t controversial enough, wait ’til  you see what we get into in Part Two! (Coming later this week). 

[Source: https://www.occupyirtheory.info/2020/10/20/episode-26-rise-of-the-dead-pundit-with-adam-proctor-part-i/?fbclid=IwAR2IFq402_y8vwADBvq_pRhTQYZNfRFITRwGFHILX0GuGVSiULxxtAW8zlI]

Rise of the Dead Pundit, with Adam Proctor (Part I)

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Mar.20.12 Lay My Burden Down

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