For the second part of our three-parter on Red-Brown Zombies – the infection of far right ideas on the left – we swivel to the Belly of the Beast, the US of A. We interview Peter Soeller of fashbusters.com on dirtbag leftism and related issues, and fellow anti-fascist Jae Em Carico on his work.
Timecodes (visible on Spotify and iTunes but not the Anchor player embedded above):
- Recs: 3.00
- Peter Soeller interview: 11.00
- Musical segue – 4 Deep In The Suburbs, KUDZAI: 1.24.40
- Jae Em Carico interview: 1.29.00
- Obituaries – Noel Ignatiev, Blair Peach: 2.16.00
Recs:
- Just Be Nice You Nerds, video essay by Thought Slime on YouTube
- “The Dirtbag Left”, video essay by NonCompete on YouTube
- Examined Life – Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor, video excerpt from Examined Life documentary on YouTube
- The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability, article by Sunny Taylor on Monthly Review
- Historical Materialism Melbourne conference, December 7th-8th Victorian Trades Hall (Ani speaking on the 8th at 3.30 at ‘Social Movements and Parties’ session)
Furious Political Thought references:
- The Red-Brown Zombie Plague: How fascist ideas are becoming popular on the left, article by Daphne Lawless on Fightback (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- Fashbusters.wordpress.com
- Dirtbags to Deplorables, article by Peter Soeller on Medium
- “The Voice of the Dirtbag Left”: Socialist US comics Chapo Trap House, article by Yohann Koshy on The Guardian
- Meet the anti-woke left, article by Fraser Myers on Spiked
- Teen Vogue has better politics than Angela Nagle, article by Jordy Cummings on Red Wedge
- The Left Case against Open Borders, article by Angela Nagle on Current Affairs
- Theses on Nagle, or I See a Red Door and I Want to Paint it Brown, article by Jordy Cummings on Red Wedge
- Do America’s Socialists Have a Race Problem? Article by Miguel Salazar on The New Republic
- LILAC’s response to the Steering Committee of Philly DSA, article by Lilac Philly DSA on Medium
- Radicals in the Barrios: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class, book by Justin Akers Chacón
- What is Duginism? Article by Thorne Melcher on Medium
The Russian connection: When Franklin Graham met Putin, article by Jack Jenkins on the National Catholic Reporter - An Investigation Into Red-Brown Alliances: Third Positionism, Russia, Syria, Ukraine and the Western Left, article on Ravings of a Radical Vagabond (use a VPN to browse fascist links from this post).
- Right-Wing Extremism Linked to Every 2018 Extremist Murder in the US, article by the Anti-Defamation League
- The Day Shall Come, feature film by Chris Morris
- Alt-Right: Age of Rage, feature documentary
Music credits:
- 4 Deep In The Suburbs (featured track), KUDZAI
- Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven
- Where’s My Jetpack, Radio Free Babylon
- Dreams, Joakim Karud
- Awaken, Martynas Lau
- Bass Meant Jazz
- BXL, Chuki Beats
- Thundermine, Distant Star
- Ambivert, by FSM Team
- Various, Kevin MacLeod
- Various, Lakey Inspired
- Various, therealtheremin
- Various, Tryad
Video sampled:
- Plan 9 From Outer Space (Criswell intro)
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