Apr 28, 2019
This week, we are kicking off a new series of mini-episodes on that bad boy of French philosophy and history, The Notorious Michel Foucault. Comrade Commissar Don joins me to begin tackling the lecture series Foucault gave in 1975 called Society Must Be Defended. Foucault uses these lectures to explore the...
Apr 21, 2019
I'll take a little theory and history with my labor organizing, please. And I'd like them shaken...not stirred.
Comrade and fellow social worker/labor organizer, Sam, is on the show this week to help me talk about Jane McAlevey's dynamite book on labor organizing in the current era of capitalism, No Shortcuts:...
Apr 14, 2019
The saga continues...
Don and I continue our dive into Left-Wing Melancholia and focus on Traverso's "landscape of fragmented sufferings" which includes the relationship between anti-capitalist/anti-bureaucratic/anti-colonial struggles and the category of victims in political discourse. We also get more into the...
Apr 7, 2019
OG Comrade Commissar Don joins me on this week's episode to discuss a book very near and dear to my heart, Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso. THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.
This is the first of a two-part exploring Traverso's ideas about why the Left has lost its ability to invent the...