Christopher Lasch and the Capitalist Realism of the Progressives
In Christopher Lasch's book "The Agony of the American Left" he claimed that early 20th-century "progressivism, except when it was informed by socialist or populist perspectives, was progressive chiefly in attacking the archaic entrepreneurial capitalism the existence of which impeded the rationalization of American industry." In this video, we'll be examining Lasch's argument as well as the ideas he outlined in "The Culture of Narcissism" to see how the rise of this form of progressivism might have led to what Mark Fisher called "Capitalist Realism" even as we begin the process of subjecting Lasch to ruthless criticism.
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Ben Burgis takes on the absurd idea that Venezuela's woes undermine the appeal of a US socialist transformation while arguing for left unity around Bernie Sander's presidential run.
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Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history. The book is a relatable pop culture history that critiques the capitalist status quo our generation inherited - a critical tour of the music, movies, books, TV shows, and technology that have defined us and our times.
Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer, historian, and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Jacobin Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and the film journal Senses of Cinema.
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On this episode of Conver/gences, Will and Adam speak with Tom Whyman, author of The German Ideology: A New Abridgement, available on Repeater Books. The new abridgment revisits Marx and Engels' controversial and often misunderstood text, offering an impetus to rethink the tenets of Marxist theory against ensuing efforts to achieve communism around the world.
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Pascal Robert joins Douglas Lain to discuss Matt Taibbi's recent essay "Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual." Robert is a writer, essayist, and political commentator for the Black Agenda Report, and he is the co-host of the This is Revolution Podcast.
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Responding to Tucker Carlson’s Prager U video Illegal Immigration: It's About Power we take excerpts from Agata Pyzik’s “Poor But Sexy” and Yasin Kakande’s “Slave States” in order to explore the true impact of undocumented workers on the economy and on wages, and in order to explore what the consequence of offering a path towards citizenship might really be for both the native working class and for the working class as a whole.
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How class division amongst Black Americans facilitated housing discrimination.
We will be joined by professor Preston Smith, II
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Postwar black politics with an emphasis on housing and class. Inner-city neighborhood revitalization including economic development, affordable housing, quality public education, and equal and adequate delivery of municipal services
Preston Smith's research interests in urban studies and postwar black politics are reflected in his many publications and presentations. He has been published in such journals as the Journal of Urban History and edited volumes such as Without Justice For All. He has made presentations at Social Science History Association meeting, Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics, Institute for Social Policy Studies, at Yale University, and The Centennial of W.E.B. DuBois’s Souls of Black Folks symposium at Williams College. His most recent book, Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012) examines housing debates in Chicago that go beyond black and white politics, showing how class and factional conflicts among African Americans actually helped to reproduce stunning segregation along economic lines.
Smith's commitment to urban studies led to his becoming Director of the Community-Based Learning (CBL) program at the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. Smith's Involvement with CBL began with his development of an advanced seminar that utilized CBL pedagogy. In this class students interact with local communities through community-based research and service, allowing them to enhance their understanding of public concerns while fostering leadership and advocacy skills.
Smith is part of group who developed a faculty seminar that examines Puerto Rican history and culture in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and on the island. The unique feature of this seminar is that it combines area college faculty and community leaders from Holyoke. It is targeted to faculty and community-based organizations that collaborate on community-university partnerships. Since many of the families living in Holyoke are Puerto Rican, the seminar focuses on educating CBL students on Puerto Rican history and culture.
Smith believes that one of the ways to best teach politics is to be politically engaged. He is a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, an independent political party that comes out of the labor movement. The Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, which is the educational and cultural arm of the Labor Party, sponsors the Free Public Higher Education campaign. Smith is currently the co-chair of the Institute's national campaign, which asserts that higher education is a necessity in today’s
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Chris Cutrone is the founder and President of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He is also the author of the rather infamous essay “Why Not Trump?” and other essays such as The Millennial Left is dead and Democratic revolution and the contradiction of capital. In this episode of the Zero Books podcast we discuss the Trump administration’s first year and the left’s various panicked reactions to what Cutrone says is a moment of transition for capitalism itself and US politics in particular.
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Can a left that is more concerned with moral superiority gain any sort of power to enact real fundamental change?
Is the online left really a good example of what the left is today?
Is the obsession with electoral politics and a lack of a real left movement rooted in working class movements a chasm for real radical change?
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