Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. “Identity politics” continues to polarize public discourse, but the problem is not with identity politics itself. In this session...
11 Nov 202235min
Socialist Politics in Tenant Organizing
Lizette Montes, Mason Andrew Kilpatrick, and Sabrina Davis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, CLR James Forum for Socialist Organizing, and Aga...
11 Nov 202252min
Racial Capitalism, Deaths of Despair and the Black Working Class in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This talk will focus on the fate of Black working class people in the 1970s through the present, as a way to challenge mainstream under...
10 Nov 202231min
Social Resistance in Contemporary China
Eli Friedman, Lu Yao, and Eric Chen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Although the space for explicitly leftist movements has become increasingly constrained in China in recent years...
10 Nov 202248min
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell and Thomas Mariadason speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. The 2020 uprisings against police violence opened a new horizon for many people. In this session, Derecka Purn...
10 Nov 202259min
Municipal Socialism in the US Midwest
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and Anthony Joel Quezada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com Socialist electeds will discuss m...
9 Nov 202251min
Abortion Struggles Across the World
Martyna Jałoszyńska, Rayito Rocha, Natalia Tylim, and Lexi McMenamin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. At this meeting we'll get an in depth look at the movements for abortion in Pol...
9 Nov 202251min
What is a Culture War and Can it be Won?
Ben Davis speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. “Culture war” is everywhere today as a concept, on the right and left. This talk looks at the concept’s origin in the late ‘80s at the end...
9 Nov 202239min
