Ep 135 - Don't Kronstadt me w/ Bini Adamczak
Added 2021-03-10 10:00:00 +0000 UTCAuthor Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of counterrevolution through the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the cult of Lenin, the Stalinist purges, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The book begs to ask how our revolutionary thinking is hindered by these tragedies, suggesting that things could have and may proceed differently in the future.
She also discusses her group Zero Covid, which criticizes the far-right and neoliberal approaches the pandemic. Follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/zeroCovid_DACH
Check out Bini's books:
Communism for Kids
Yesterday's Tomorrow
On the Communism for Kids controversy: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Why-Conservatives-Are-Panicking-Over-a-Short-Story-About-Communism
And some of her writing:
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/Corona-Crisis-Governmentality
https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/field-notes/The-Future-of-the-Past
Song: Matrosen von Kronstadt!
(a GDR rendition of the Soviet song "Forward, Red Marines!" about the events of the naval theater of the Russian Civil War, rewritten by Helmut Schinkel, to glorify the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion)
Comments
Very interesting convo. I appreciate when communists take these failures and betrayals seriously rather than justifying them or trying to paper over it. Would like to read the book myself. Since I had to play though a couple times to get them all, the list of names of other communists to take seriously was: Victor Serge, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Susanne Leonhard, and Isaac Steinberg
Cole rainey-slavick
2021-03-10 18:17:58 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this one!
Matt Crossin
2021-03-10 10:02:24 +0000 UTC
