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On class.
Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking people together through common experiences of victimhood and inequality, rather than along lines related to production or power. Or is it? We discuss these questions with Ben Tippett, author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered to find out whether class still has any place in society and theory (spoiler: it does).
Reading:
UNLOCKED /328/ The New Scramble for Africa
Excerpt: /354/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (II)
/353/ Bunga Sells Out ft. Jason Myles
Excerpt: /352/ Cold War Marxism, East & West ft. Sean Sayers
Excerpt: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
Excerpt: /350/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (1)
/349/ The PMC & Their Politics ft. Dan Evans & Catherine Liu
Excerpt: /348/ Aufhebonus Bonus: June 2023
Excerpt: /347/ Feminists Touch Grass w/ Amber A’Lee Frost
Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History
UNLOCKED: /87/ Berluscoming
Excerpt: /345/ Who Is The New Elite? ft. Matt Goodwin
/344/ Don’t Do The Work ft. Ben Hickman
Excerpt: /343/ Reading Club: Freedom (4)
Excerpt: /342/ Maybe Don’t Abolish the Family? w/ Amber A’Lee Frost
/340/ How to Grow a Backbone ft. Russell Jacoby
/339/ Erdogone? People vs Nation in Turkey ft. Alp Kayserilioglu
/338/ The Energy Theory of Everything ft. Matt Huber
/337/ Nigeria Rising Downwards ft. Sa’eed Husaini
Excerpt: /336/ Reading Club: Freedom (3)
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