/382/ Death of the Millennial Left ft. Chris Cutrone
Added 2024-01-09 07:00:02 +0000 UTCOn the missed opportunity of the 2010s.
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Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss:
- Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?
- Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless protests a good thing?
- Did the talk of "winning" from 2015 onwards represent maturity?
- Should the turn to a more public, statist capitalism make us more optimistic?
- How will the 'lawfare' used against Trump play out?
Links:
- The Millennial Left is dead, Chris Cutrone, Platypus
- The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006-2022, Chris Cutrone, Sublation
Comments
This has been a great episode but my one quibble is I object to the idea that the BLM protests were leaderless (at least in the US). It absolutely had leaders in the form of activists, intellectuals, financiers, institutions and partisan backing. It was arguably aimless, but there was absolutely a leadership, albeit one of NGO hucksters, democratic party apparatchiks and corporate donors (I'm not sure it was totally aimless either, much of it functionally ended up as a tool to prop up a certain faction of the democratic party)
jkjkjkj
2024-01-10 23:03:36 +0000 UTCYes, this was good, but if you follow Cutrone around a bit of a rehash of his usual material. I would have liked more of a battle of ideas rather than letting Cutrone talk endlessly. For example, both Phil and Cutrone have self titled themselves "the last Marxist" so it would have been good to see that being resolved in the episode.
Knoroz
2024-01-10 23:02:52 +0000 UTC
