Vicky Osterweil, an author and writer known for her book 'In Defense of Looting', joins the conversation to unpack the political climate during Trump's second term. They discuss the alarming rise of fascism and mass deportations, emphasizing the importance of grassroots movements. Vicky critiques how health is weaponized against marginalized communities, advocating for resilience and community organizing. As they reflect on existential joys, the duo urges listeners to find everyday revolutionary actions that foster hope and change in challenging times.
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Embodiment of a Fascist Agenda
Recent events reveal a more emboldened and cohesive fascist agenda integrating protest repression, eugenics, and surveillance.
This shift reflects a consolidation of policies aimed to normalize brutality and dismantle protections for vulnerable populations.
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Trump's Fascist Coup Falters
The Trump administration is executing a fascist coup aiming to dismantle progressive victories and restore a 19th-century economic order.
Despite this, internal disagreements and incompetence suggest this fascist coup is likely to fail.
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Overreach Undermines Regime
The second Trump administration intensified its approach, believing the first was too cautious and slow.
This over-aggressive approach ignores the importance of having a street movement to sustain power, which they have underestimated.
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This book offers a dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging fundamental assumptions about social evolution, the development of agriculture, cities, the state, democracy, and inequality. Graeber and Wengrow argue that traditional theories of human history, such as those posited by Hobbes and Rousseau, are not supported by anthropological or archaeological evidence. Instead, they show that humans have lived in large, complex, but decentralized societies for millennia, often without ruling elites or hierarchical systems. The authors draw on extensive research in archaeology and anthropology to reveal a history that is more varied and hopeful than previously assumed, emphasizing human experimentation with different social arrangements and the potential for new forms of freedom and societal organization.
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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Jules Joanne Gleeson
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Artie Vierkant
In Defense of Looting
A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
Vicky Osterweil
In 'In Defense of Looting', Vicky Osterweil presents a compelling case for rioting and looting as strategies for social change, challenging traditional notions of property and ownership. The book explores historical examples of violent protests and their impact on social movements, from slave revolts to modern-day activism.
Abolish Rent
Abolish Rent
How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
Tracy Rosenthal
Leonardo Vilcice
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Beatrice and Vicky Osterweil discuss what the first months of Trump’s second term tell us about the administration’s particular approach to fascism, the holes in their theory of power this time around, and how the field is ripe for mass movements to challenge not just Trump administration policies like mass deportation, but federal power itself.
Find Vicky's writing and support her work at CAW Journal here: https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Find Vicky's 2020 book In Defense of Looting here or read it for free at The Anarchist Library: https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-defense-of-looting-a-riotous-history-of-uncivil-action-vicky-osterweil/14595474
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent
Preorder Phil's new book, Counting Like a State, here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/
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