/407/ Beyond Bare Life ft. Dustin Guastella

On saving society from the antisocial-ists. In partnership with Damage magazine.

 

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Trade unionist and researcher Dustin "Dino" Guastella joins us to talk about the deficiencies of a libertarian or antinomian approach to social problems. We start off with Dino telling us about the Teamsters union, before moving on to:

• How have American cities developed such problems?

• What are the pros and cons of the 'Portuguese Model' of drug decriminalization?

• What is the problem with harm reduction, and how does it connect to notions of 'bare life'?

• How are insecurity and precarity changing people's political demands and expectations?

• Is there something to be learned from the Christian tradition? Should we all be reading Alasdair MacIntyre?

• How do we build a politics of human flourishing?

Links:

• Making the Present the Enemy of the Future, Dino Guastella, Damage
• Anti-Social Socialism Club, Dino Guastella, Damage
• Christianity, Morality, and Socialism, Dino Guastella, Jacobin
• The left must embrace law and order, Slavoj Zizek, New Statesman
• After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Alasdair MacIntyre