Millennial Marxists
Added 2022-11-08 18:13:42 +0000 UTCMatthew John from This American Left joins Breht to discuss his book "Millennial Marxist" and a slate of contemporary political topics
Find Millennial Marxist here: https://linktr.ee/millennialmarxist
Check out Breht's guest interview on This American Left: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-a-conversation-with-breht-oshea/id1529673234?i=1000498698013
Outro music "Riot Rhythm" by Sleigh Bells
Comments
Fair points for sure. There certainly doesnt HAVE to be, but if they want to re-legitimize themselves to broad swaths of average Americans, tamp down on the rise of conspiratorialism and fascism, and stabilize the system that benefits them, they would have to do something like that. OF course, they can continue to do nothing, let everything deteriorate around them, let fascism and terrorism continue to rise, and hope the people dont fully revolt, but thats rolling the dice too. Moreover, at the very least, there is a massive opening for some charismatic candidate or movement to rise, claim that mantle, and destroy the two parties as they currently exist if neither of them takes the relatively obvious option I mentioned. Strategically, for the non-psychotic, rational elements of the ruling class, it seems that their best bet would be robust social democratic reforms across the whole system. The basic hierarchy that they sit atop would be stabilized, instead of increasingly destabilized by the other options. But the ruling class isnt a monolith, and intense conflict exists within their ranks, and we see that play out in part through the line of the two major parties of capital as well as the divisions within each party. Those conflicts will continue to grow, spread, and widen - in the ruling class and among the people in society - until something has to give one way or the other: massive reform, fascist or military dictatorship, a totally destabilized and slow collapsing social order, revolution, etc. That status quo cannot hold.
Revolutionary Left Radio
2022-11-17 00:19:13 +0000 UTCI don’t agree that there “has” to be a push towards more wealth distribution by one of the parties, in order for them to tamp down against rising working class anger. The anger from deteriorating material conditions doesn’t manifest into anything threatening beyond sporadic violence, which is great for fundraising. So why would the 2 parties buck off their donors, ruin their future lobbying/NGO careers? Who would fund their campaigns? I don’t think the political system can metabolize working class deteriorating conditions like it could in decades past - the labor movement is still weak and there is no communist threat
Major bit me
2022-11-10 02:10:43 +0000 UTC
