738 - They Smile In Your Face feat. Corey Robin (6/5/23)
Chapo Trap House
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The Rhetoric of Reaction
Roland Martin: The overall, as you described it, has kind of, I suppose the term now would be Afro pessimism. He says there are uses for that in like a left wing sensibility, but it's also very useful to the overall right wing project too. There was a great book that came out 30 years ago now called the rhetoric of reaction by Albert Hirschman,. And he said there's basically three tropes or three ways of thinking about reactionary argument. One is perversity; another is jeopardy and third is futility.
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