Ep 213 - Refusal of Turk w/ Djene Bajalan
Added 2023-05-10 09:59:01 +0000 UTCAt long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, and in the bonus: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.
Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care
Comments
Amazing interview!
Saviourself
2023-05-15 20:03:55 +0000 UTCThis just makes me think of season 1 of white lotus; where the anti colonial middle class girl ends up fetishizing and exploiting native hotel worker. All while crying about her own “exploitation”
Adam
2023-05-14 04:38:59 +0000 UTCSolid episode. When it comes to autonomies in Chiapas or NE Syria, I think a critical but broadly supportive stance is the right way to go. As usual, what matters about these projects is the extent to which they reflect the effective autonomy of oppressed peoples. We support them where they do, and critique them where they don't.
The Inner Moon
2023-05-13 10:08:59 +0000 UTCAs someone who still often finds 'anti-imperialism' to be a more useful heuristic than not, I really appreciated the analysis here, which I think are really necessary correctives to some of the more vulgar and less robust ways that this manifests (mostly online) in supposedly anti-imperialist analysis. I remember having to explain to someone in an ML Facebook group that, no, the Tudeh party isn't 'a random group calling itself communist' that is furthering U.S. imperialism by criticizing their own government lol.
Matt Pierce
2023-05-10 20:45:31 +0000 UTC
