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We are back finally about 2-3 weeks too late with reference to the whole Afghanistan shit but this is actually about bureaucracy and power and more nebulous navel gazing stuff so it's ok timeless issues that only we can tackle with powerful brains and full hearts.

Special guest Kyle Jackson is kind enough to join the show and challenge us on our general approach to forever ongoing Class vs. Race analysis of politics on the left. We use the 1619 Project as an example to get off the ground, and branch out into some of the broader more central disagreements that we have. NYT: We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html The Atlantic: The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/ Jacobin: How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/how-slavery-shaped-american-capitalism Politico: Trump blasts 1619 Project as DeVos praises alternative Black history curriculum: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/17/devos-black-history-1776-unites-417186 Trump's 1776 Unites Commission Website: https://1776unites.com/

Matt and I discuss the films of Quentin Tarantino as well as a clip from Douglas Laine at Zero Books discussing Adam Curtis' new series. I attempt to relate all this to the subconscious desires of the mass murderer/terrorist. Matt does a good job of defending the stale and all-encompassing Marxist interpretation of all things. See: https://nonsite.org/django-unchained-or-the-help-how-cultural-politics-is-worse-than-no-politics-at-all-and-why/ https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/empire-podcast-edgar-wright-and-quentin-tarantino-in-conversation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76StMC0l7kU&ab_channel=ZeroBooks

Matt lays down a juicy narrative for why everything's so totally whacked from the basic premise of Mike Macnair's essay: "Intersectionalism, the highest stage of western Stalinism?" in 'Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory' https://classunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/intersectionality.pdf

This is the last time we talk about Trump ever I swear.