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Nov 10, 2022
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
“Identity politics” continues to polarize public discourse, but the problem is not with identity politics itself. In this session, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss how this and other radical concepts can be stripped of their political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.
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Nov 15, 2022
Monsters Against Moralism: The Politics of Our Golden Age of Horror
John McDonald speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
Moralism has been the life blood of the horror genre for as long as there have been boogey-men in hockey masks stalking around murdering teenagers. And yet, on today's blood splattered celluloid, cheap morality tales have mostly been replaced by overt political/social anxieties. What do the rise of Family Horror, social thrillers, and anti-moralist monsters say about our cultural moment?
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Nov 15, 2022
The ABCs of Marxism
Phil Gasper speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
This talk will explain key Marxist ideas about class, the state, economic crises, and revolution with the aim of showing how they remain relevant for socialists in the 21st century. The emphasis will be on Marxism as a method that requires creative application to the problems we face today.
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Nov 17, 2022
Building Debtor Power in the Age of Finance
René Christian Moya, Lindsey Muniak, and Ami Schneider speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Debt Collective.
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As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, people are increasingly forced into debt to make ends meet. What could a debtors movement achieve in our financialized economy? This session will consider recent economic trends, examine different forms of household debt and their interrelation, and explore how indebtedness creates the conditions for new forms of political organization.
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Nov 17, 2022
Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Socialist Solutions to the Gun Crisis
Danny Katch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
Gun violence–from mass shootings to homicides to suicides–is on the rise, worsening an ongoing crisis and feuling a “law and order” backlash. This meeting will lay out how socialists can reject the failed “good guys vs bad guys” framework of both the NRA and police departments–and respond to the sometimes conflicting demands of public safety, decriminalization, non-violence, and self-defense.
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Nov 17, 2022
A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Hadas Thier speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
In our new reality of abortion bans in half of the country, what is the To dismantle the economy of the 1%, we have to understand it. Marxism offers a radical economic theory that explains both the basics of how capitalism works (and doesn't work), as well as current predicaments: from inflation, to the anarcho-capitalism of cryptocurrencies, to the coming recession.
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