Next Reading Club: Woke Stalinism
Added 2021-08-30 12:33:56 +0000 UTCOut next Reading Club will be on Mike McNair's article, Intersectionalism, the highest stage of western Stalinism? (attached).
The article argues that ‘intersectionality’ is ultimately derived from the People’s Front policy of the 1930s Comintern, as modified by late 1960s–1970s ‘soft Maoism’, and then adopted in the late 1970s–1980s by the political representatives of US capital.
It'll be recorded in late September (exact date TBA shortly). As always, Reading Clubs are for patrons $10+
Comments
>"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement This just comes across as messianic, egomaniacal and insane.
Eli S
2021-08-31 16:44:14 +0000 UTCI read How We Get Free, for a DSA reading group once and I'm happy this author is really bringing up all the issues I had with the book. I didn't say anything because I'm not very articulate and didn't want conflict, but damn he did it for me haha
Fombat
2021-08-31 05:23:58 +0000 UTCYeah, though at least the part about Maoism entailing a hardened theory of labor aristocracy helps make sense of the New Left.
Eli S
2021-08-30 15:07:07 +0000 UTCBit of a mess. American popular frontism = Stalinism; consciousness raising = Maoism ... what is really gained by such broad strokes?
Duncan MacRae
2021-08-30 14:11:06 +0000 UTC
