In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the weird as hell political environment of the Age of Trump. Was 2016 the worst year ever? Are we caught in the midst of a rising reactionary wave? And why do the failures of the liberal establishment feel to so many people to be failures of the Left? (And what is the Left? Are we the Left?) What’s with the amateur sociology about voting demographics that is everywhere now? Do we really have to choose between identity politics and Left economic populism? Where can we draw hope from and what about the historical experience of working class anti-racism? All this and more!
Articles/organisations we refer to include:
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Hard Crackers From A Small New England Town As Told To Noel Ignatiev
The Weimar Analogy
KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks
Tsiolkas - The Second Coming The Politics Of Rage Won’t Let Us Listen To One Another
Many in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didn’t Vote — and Don’t Regret It
It Was My Primal Scream
Revolutionary Hillbilly: An Interview With Hy Thurman of the Young Patriots Organization
Ghassan Hage – Recalling anti-racism
Knives out for Hanson staffer Ashby, accused of profiting off candidates
redneckrevolt
The great student swindle: how young people are being ripped off
Music by Sharon Jones and Dap-kings and Joe Pug
And watch this footage of this amazing meeting between the Black Panthers and the Young Patriots.
#SandersofSthBrisbane ? Council elections, social movements & the #RighttotheCity
Living the Dream - Last Drinks in (the workers) Paradise?
Living The Dream 'Dominant Society Needs A Slap in the Face': Sovereignty Solidarity & Decolonisation
Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds
Living the Dream: Climate, Capitalism & Crisis
New Year's Thoughts - Prospects, Predictions, Postulations
#qldworkersparadise : Sunny times for the working class in Qld under Labor?
From Liberation to Human Rights - changes in the language of critique
Everything You Know Is Wrong -Conspiracy Theory
Queensland: beautiful one day, workers’ paradise the next?
Stranger Choices: Getting ready for the hangover
Stranger Choices: Qld Uncut - Lessons for tomorrow's struggle
Stranger Choices: Pig City! Anti-Politics, Law & Order and Populism
Stranger Choices Queensland Election #1: elections, Joh, debt and emancipatory politics
'...from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again': "Really Existing Socialism", Liberalism and Violence
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #2 No Shelter
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #1 UOW Uncut
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 2
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 1
HooHa - Living the Dream Intro
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