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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by philosopher and writer Daniel Tutt, who recently co-authored the book The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism. We discuss why left populism failed, whether socialism can avoid populism, Bernie Sanders and the problem of recuperation, Trump and Bonapartism, the difference between populism and democracy, working-class “common sense,” Gramsci vs. Machiavelli, and the widening class divide between the contemporary left and the people it claims to represent.
There are two Patreon-exclusive Backroom episodes this week: one titled“Strategizing the Class War” and one titled“Culture War As Class War,”Daniel and I continue the debate over what a serious class politics would actually look like. We get into the PMC and the “cultural apartheid” between classes, immigration, welfare and lumpenization, rentierism and private property, Christopher Lasch, DSA and woke politics, and whether the contemporary left can be reformed from within or is already locked in a civil war over what socialism is supposed to be.
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Backroom Preview
6:15 Populism vs Marxism
11:13 Recuperation, Bonapartism, and Trump
19:52 Bernie Sanders and the Failure of Left Populism
16:51 Populism As a Style Vs as an Ideology
29:11 Populism vs. Democracy
35:53 Common Sense, Gramsci, and Machiavelli
43:04 Who Are the Common People?
51:55 Why Marxism Attracts Intellectuals
55:11 DSA, Culture War, & Immigration
1:00:02 Rebuilding Class Politics
1:02:16 Transition to The Backroom
GUEST:
Daniel Tutt | Philosopher, writer, host of Emancipations, and co-author of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism
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