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In this fantastic episode of Guerrilla History, bring on Gabriel Rockhill to discuss the landmark new English translation of the legendary Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn, freshly out from Monthly Review Press. This critical work acts as a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia, showing how it is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. The conversation we have surrounding this is deep, generative, and thought provoking, so be sure to listen closely!
In addition to reading Western Marxism, Gabriel also recommended the book Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines, which is also available from Monthly Review Press. Check it out!
Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher and activist who has published numerous books. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Be sure to follow him on twitter @GabrielRockhill.
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Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide.
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Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2022).
Check out his latest bombshell on the widespread employment of the "Hannibal Directive" by the Zionist colonial military forces and police on October 7th, 2023. https://www.asawinstanley.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left on International Women's Day to discuss the real history of the holiday, socialist feminism, liberal co-option of radical history and movements, the Cold War alliances between socialist states and women in the global south, and so much more!
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We talk to satirical artist Darren Cullen about what led him away from a career in advertising and into a career producing political art. He uses the language of advertising to make work about the empty promises of consumerism and the lies of military recruiters. Join us as we discuss:
Military recruitment advertisingThe backlash of criticising the ‘sacred’ military institution Going ‘one step further’ than advertising messagesHis work at the permanent collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum His ‘Action Man: Battlefield Casualties’ video series produced with Veterans for Peace, and voiced by Matt BerryHis support for the campaign to raise the minimum age of military recruitment to 18The insidious power of advertisingThe British military’s sinister toy rangeMilitary links with the film and video game industriesWorking hard to annoy Shell and other oil companiesTrying to stop the DSEI arms fairThe upcoming ‘Art the Arms Fair’ art exhibition
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We are joined by Dr Victoria Basham, a reader in International Relations at Cardiff University and President of the European International Studies Association. Her research focuses on issues of gender, race, class and sexuality in relation to militaries, militarism and militarisation. She is editor of the Critical Military Studies (CMS) journal and a pioneering figure in the field.
Our wide-ranging discussion looks at:
The unique insights early career access to the military has given herHow military personnel have often led the struggle for dignity and equality, and the struggles they face within the British military institutionThe origins of Critical Military Studies and what it brings to the study of war and securityBattening down the hatches - how the military has recently made it harder for civilian academics to conduct researchHow the military instrumentalises armed forces kids and wounded veterans WW2 in memory - how narrative is shaped and why, and what is excluded such as colonialism and inequality
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Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and formerly enslaved person, allegedly planned an enslaved insurrection to coincide with Bastille Day in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Vesey modeled his rebellion after the successful 1791 slave revolution in Haiti. His plans called for his followers to execute the white enslavers, liberate the city of Charleston, and then sail to Haiti before the white power structure could retaliate.
Vesey and several of his co-conspirators worshiped at the African Church, the AME congregation which became Mother Emanuel after the Civil War. Along with white abolitionists in the North, Vesey referenced the Bible in his attacks on the institution of slavery. In the aftermath of the execution, white Charlestonians tore down the church and supported new efforts to control the black majority. Funds were appropriated to support a Municipal Guard of 150 men and the construction of "a Citadel" to house them and weapons. In 1843, the structure became home to the cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy.
Additionally, as Vesey's rebellion relied on assistance from free black sailors, South Carolina passed legislation known as the Negro Seamen Acts. The act called for the incarceration of visiting free black sailors in local jails while their vessel remained in Charleston to eliminate contact between free black sailors from outside of South Carolina and black Charlestonians. Despite protests from northern states and British consuls, South Carolina stubbornly insisted on its right to police its population in this way.
Denmark Vesey was later held up as a hero among abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, during the Civil War. Douglass used Vesey's name as a rallying cry in recruiting and inspiring African American troops, including the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Vesey's son, Robert, attended the April 14, 1865 ceremony at Fort Sumter. Today, however, his name remains largely unknown despite his foundational role in accelerating further slave rebellions and ultimately the civil war itself. We discuss why this is the case and what lessons can be learned from this story.
To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For more information and updates, visit www.poorproles.com and subscribe to our e-mail list. For the supplemental reader that goes along with the podcast, visit:
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Sources:
Jeremy Schipper “Denmark Vesey’s Bible”
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bouton/History407/SlaveStats.htm
https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/defining-charlestons-free-people-color
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Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and formerly enslaved person, allegedly planned an enslaved insurrection to coincide with Bastille Day in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Vesey modeled his rebellion after the successful 1791 slave revolution in Haiti. His plans called for his followers to execute the white enslavers, liberate the city of Charleston, and then sail to Haiti before the white power structure could retaliate.
Vesey and several of his co-conspirators worshiped at the African Church, the AME congregation which became Mother Emanuel after the Civil War. Along with white abolitionists in the North, Vesey referenced the Bible in his attacks on the institution of slavery. In the aftermath of the execution, white Charlestonians tore down the church and supported new efforts to control the black majority. Funds were appropriated to support a Municipal Guard of 150 men and the construction of "a Citadel" to house them and weapons. In 1843, the structure became home to the cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy.
Additionally, as Vesey's rebellion relied on assistance from free black sailors, South Carolina passed legislation known as the Negro Seamen Acts. The act called for the incarceration of visiting free black sailors in local jails while their vessel remained in Charleston to eliminate contact between free black sailors from outside of South Carolina and black Charlestonians. Despite protests from northern states and British consuls, South Carolina stubbornly insisted on its right to police its population in this way.
Denmark Vesey was later held up as a hero among abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, during the Civil War. Douglass used Vesey's name as a rallying cry in recruiting and inspiring African American troops, including the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Vesey's son, Robert, attended the April 14, 1865 ceremony at Fort Sumter. Today, however, his name remains largely unknown despite his foundational role in accelerating further slave rebellions and ultimately the civil war itself. We discuss why this is the case and what lessons can be learned from this story.
To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For more information and updates, visit www.poorproles.com and subscribe to our e-mail list. For the supplemental reader that goes along with the podcast, visit:
https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com
Sources:
Jeremy Schipper “Denmark Vesey’s Bible”
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bouton/History407/SlaveStats.htm
https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/defining-charlestons-free-people-color
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Capitalism’s addiction to growth doesn’t just show up in the external world. It can also be found inside us—in our manufactured desire for more and better. Not only do we have to keep wanting to keep the machine going, we have to keep wanting what is “scarce” and easily privatizable or commodifiable so that the capitalist class can continue to profit.
Critical hedonism(s) is an approach to pleasure and care that is critical of capitalism. It is a politics of pleasure that invites us to remake our desires to be less antisocial, competitive, and harmful, and to instead be more prosocial, collaborative and mutually beneficial.
The idea of critical hedonism(s) has been deeply studied and explored by our guests in today’s episode. Zarinah Agnew is a trained neuroscientist formerly at University College London, and then UCSF, a self-described guerrilla scientist, and part of the Beyond Return organization. Eric Wycoff Rogers is a historian, writer, community organizer, and designer currently based in London. Eric runs a thirdspace project in London, convenes a discussion series on the politics of pleasure, and is the author of the Critical Hedonist Manifesto.
This is Eric and Zarinah’s second time on the podcast, they joined us in 2022 to talk about Fully Automated Luxury Communism, which is a great compliment to this episode. This is also a great episode following our most recent conversation with Jason Hickel, Better Lives for All. Where that conversation focused on human needs, this one takes up the topic of human wants.
In this conversation, we explore what capitalism tells us to desire and why, we interrogate what is truly “cheap,” “expensive,” and “valuable,” and explore what it would be like to participate in a politics of pleasure based on critical hedonism(s)—creating conditions and opportunities for distributed pleasure that don’t cause harm to people or the planet. Finally, we are invited to learn about community gatherings and how to do the work of reclaiming and remaking pleasure.
Further Resources:
Critical Hedonist Manifesto Critical Hedonism(s) Beyond Return Decoding Labs The Joyless Economy, by Tibor Scitovsky The Right to Sex, by Amia Srinivasan The Zero Marginal Cost Society I Dream of Canteens The Listening Society: Possible and Necessary Post-Growth Living: For An Alternative Hedonism, by Kate Soper Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by Adrienne Maree Brown Becoming Feminist: Consciousness Raising and Social Ecology, Eric Woycoff Rogers (blog)Related Episodes:
Fully Automated Luxury Communism with Zarinah Agnew and Eric Wycoff Rogers Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel Grassroots Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject Suburban Hell and Ugly CitiesIntermission music: Night Cafe Radio
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Robert and Miles talk about the mid-century crisis in American masculinity and then catch up to the modern era, and Gamergate.
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/alpha-male-boot-camps-are-a-joke/
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics
2023/08/boy-problems-andrew-tate-masculinity-crisis-manosphere/
https://medium.com/sexstories/the-right-faces-its-cuckholding-sex-fantasies-1351ed88a8ae
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGy1SaXKxqA
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https://www.tesble.com/10.1177/0276146719897107
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https://www.tesble.com/10.1177/0276146719897107
https://www.themdkproject.com/flip-the-switch
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/fac_other_pubs/118/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/new-chat-logs-show-how-4chan-users-pushed-gamergate-into-the-national-spotlight/
https://www.wired.com/story/gamergates-aggrieved-men-still-haunt-the-internet/
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-did-you-know/moral-and-medical-panic-over-bicycles
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cosmetic-leg-lengthening-surgeries-luring-patients-courting-controversy/story?id=106826824
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/why-us-men-voluntarily-undergo-limb-lengthening-procedure/LNLGCLEFKY27BA2NTYGNIO5OKA/?ref=readmore
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Psychiatry and traditional medicine have failed in treating schizophrenia. They have done more damage than good if one includes pharmaceuticals. But what if the “voices” of schizophrenics are not hallucinations caused by chemical imbalances? What if they are malignant entities feeding off mental negativity and pain? We explore this possibility from two sides: a psychiatric evaluator who confronted these mind parasites while working in prisons; and an individual who escaped the grip of the “voices” by drawing from esoteric techniques.
Astral Guests – Jerry Marzinsky and Sherry Swiney, authors of An Amazing Journey Into the Psychotic Mind - Breaking the Spell of the Ivory Tower.
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Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023.
Our discussion flows across various subjects: Al-Aqsa Flood and the US-Israel genocide of Palestinians in Gaza; Islam and the crusading Euro-American imperial project; anti-colonial struggle as resistance, decolonization as "creating the world of many belows"; and Abdou's participation in the Palestine solidarity encampment at Columbia University, where he was targeted, threatened, and slandered by Zionists in the university administration, United States Congress, and by prominent media figures.
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Today we are focusing on Lebanon with a more military oriented episode wherein we will discuss leaked US intelligence documents, Israel’s targeting of banks in Lebanon, their preparations to start bombing hospitals, sectarian tensions rising in Beirut, and morale problems in the IDF as they ruminate on their crimes.
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Seamus Costello was the founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
Declaring as a principle, “I owe my allegiance only to the working class,” he is considered the most important republican socialist after James Connolly.
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James from Prolekult joins Breht to discuss Prolekult's expansive new documentary, which you can find for free on YouTube, called "For Land: Capitalism as Extinction". Together, they discuss the documentary, political education, how the internal logic of capitalism produces environmental destruction, how the commodity form of labor is at the root of the eco-crisis, eco-marxism, the hyper-destructive role played by colonialism and imperialism, what the revolutionary socialist left needs to grapple with in regards to the crises of our time, and much more!
Check out For Land Pt. 1: Capitalism as Extinction
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Robert sits down with Miles Gray to give a history of American Masculinity Grifters, and the media-created fears of a 'crisis' in masculinity.
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This episode features a conversation with Atom Kendrick, longtime friend and lover and cultivator of plant life. After earning an Associates in Horticulture, he moved into studying Botany and Chemistry at Boise State University. We discuss scientific literacy, the mass extinction of life on our planet, local food production vs mass food production, and the stories that penetrate through the numbness and ignorance of our time.
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Erna Bennett was a plant geneticist and one of the early pioneers of genetic conservation (biodiversity conservation). She was one of the first to raise the issue of biodiversity loss at the United Nations, and challenged the narrative of the Green Revolution being the solution to food security on a global scale.
Not only was she an advocate for local diversity, she was a pilot in World War 2, defected to join the antifascists in Greece, and spent her retirement trying to align Marxist values with ecologically-centered communism.
Happy pride month!
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To listen to Erna in her own words:
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Borschmann, G. (1994, November 21). Erna Bennett interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project. The Australia Oral History Project. other. Retrieved February 22, 2023, from https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/513784.
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