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Dec 15, 2023
AI and Creative Labor
Ben Davis speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
The explosion of generative artificial intelligence in the last year has dizzying implications for the future of labor, culture, and the economy. Already it is being used as a tool to automate and further alienate aspects of creative production and has played a part in touching off at least one major labor action, the WGA Writers Strike. This talk will be a starting point in thinking about the theoretical and practical issues for socialists raised by A.I.
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Dec 16, 2023
The Far Right, Border Abolition, and Anti-fascism in Crisis
Brendan O'Connor speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Echoing Angela Davis: it is not enough to be non-fascist; one must be anti-fascist. But what does it mean to be an anti-fascist in practice today? The forces of revanchism are not static, but rather shift and mutate: conjuring a moral panic here, inciting terror there. What might it take to stop reacting to reaction and begin building towards abolition?
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Dec 16, 2023
Popular Science Fiction and Left Political Imaginations
Adam Kotsko, David K. Seitz, and Steven W. Thrasher speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
What popular visions of emancipatory futures might the Left wrest from commercial science fiction mass entertainment? This session will investigate the contradictions and possibilities of Hollywood allegory for critiquing racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and U.S. empire as well as imagining liberatory alternatives.
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Dec 16, 2023
Lenin: Catastrophe and Revolution
Paul Le Blanc, Promise Li, and Cliff Connolly speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com
Over the last century, the legacy of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin has been fiercely contested. This discussion with acclaimed scholar of communist history Paul Le Blanc presents a modern take on the revolutionary icon, with an emphasis on the powerful democracy and collective struggles behind much of Lenin’s political thought.
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Dec 18, 2023
Walter Rodney: A Revolutionary For Our Time
Leo Zeilig and Robert Cuffy speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus.
https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/afrosocialists-and-socialists-of-color-caucus
In recent years, Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney and his contributions to Marxist thought, history and political organizing have reached a larger audience. Rodney's books and political work have inspired a new generation of political activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, and in research and activism across Africa. This panel will bring together Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig to discuss the life, politics and relevance of Rodney's ideas today.
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Dec 18, 2023
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Ella Baker (1903-1986) was a grassroots organizer who shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the Black freedom struggle. What not everyone knows is that she was also a radical with socialist politics. Barbara Ransby discusses Baker's life and her political contributions, many of which hold lessons for organizers struggling for justice today.
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