E259: Lethal Strength Through Joy w/ Zhana Kurti
Added 2024-08-26 10:00:09 +0000 UTCBronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.
Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in depth discussions of the protests in Chicago, and why some found them underwhelming.
Essay about CLR James' American Civilization: https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-democracy
Check out Zhana's books: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and States of Incarceration (buy them from Chicago's radical bookstore Pilsen Community Books!)
song: Charli XCX - 360 + 365 (ガキ brat - slowed and reverbed)
Comments
Unrelated, but it brings me no pleasure to point out that Andy’s skepticism looks to have been warranted by the news out of France. Need another ep with Henry soon
Daniel E
2024-08-27 02:10:33 +0000 UTCI’ll try to remember how much better dems are for a bureaucratic labor movement when the NLRA gets repealed with them in power and they do nothing except maybe force more striking workers back on the job.
Kenny Allums
2024-08-26 18:26:57 +0000 UTCI say this in light of sentiments like Chuck Schumer's in 2016: “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” And the fact that Democrats have abandoned hard-to-win legislative seats, leaving an astounding amount of Republican seats to go uncontested, particularly in Red states. This is where issues like reproductive health for women, police brutality, labor issues, and trans-rights really meet reality. If they cared about those issues, they would be fighting for those seats.
Gray
2024-08-26 15:03:39 +0000 UTCI'm starting to think "we're not going back" means they are moving to the right, and they aren't going back to any leftist politics. When Trump tore up the GOP, Democrats took that opportunity to be the new Right with all the technocratic implementations they've been developing over the years. It's a nightmare.
Gray
2024-08-26 14:42:08 +0000 UTC"And the Elder gods will teach them to Shout and K*ll and Revel In Joy!" Sounds like the DNC LoL
Trey
2024-08-26 11:00:56 +0000 UTC
