We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public. Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower. We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core...
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episode 79: "White Reconstruction" - Dylan Rodriguez On Domestic War, The Logics of Genocide, and Abolition
Dylan Rodríguez is a Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a founding member of Critical Resistance. In this episode we talk to Rodríguez about his new book White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide. Rodríguez explains the historical process of white reconstruction, and the current phase marked by a shift towards what Rodriguez calls multicultural white supremacy. We talk about themes from multiple chapters, including Rodríguez’s readings of archival documents related to the Freedman’s Bureau and the US colonial war in the Philippines. Rodríguez also talks about Barry Goldwater’s creepy white pseudo-indigenous men’s club and tribal tattoo. Rodríguez's discusses his analysis of the 13th Amendment, prison strikes and the abolitionist practice of Chicago’s We Charge Genocide campaign. We frame the conversation around Rodríguez analysis of Safiya Bukhari’s notions of security and radical self-defense. Concepts that he says necessitate forms of militant mutual aid. And he talks about how these concepts along with Bukhari’s definition of Black Liberation are central to abolitionist expressions that deal with the reality of anti-Blackness.