Ep 124 - On the Xmas Question w/ Dave Silverberg
Added 2020-12-23 11:00:00 +0000 UTCSanta visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas!
Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi
Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state
Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012
Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone
Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy
Comments
basically tell them that the dark force that controls our lives and that is ruining this planet and making our lives shit seems like a shadowy cabal because that's the only way we are trained to understand things (as the results of good or bad actors in control of shit) but actually nobody is running the shit and it's capital
The Antifada
2021-01-15 06:02:34 +0000 UTCEducational, but I need the language to rebut these anti-semitic claims. I can’t just tell someone to read three books. What is the response?
Tia Benedict
2020-12-29 20:45:29 +0000 UTCLearning lots. Cheers.
Elwyn
2020-12-29 12:23:07 +0000 UTCMan I lost my shit when Santa said “ho-ho-holocaust”. 🤣
Chris Bush
2020-12-24 14:52:27 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Feel compelled to say that Weird Al's originals are really fucking good.
GolfBaller
2020-12-24 04:49:05 +0000 UTC
