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Radical Friendship: Reimagining the World and Fighting the Far Right

Radical Friendship: Reimagining the World and Fighting the Far Right

Update: 2025-09-18
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With Laura C. Forster and Joel White.


What draws people into political movements? And what sustains us, in the face of defeat, infiltration and state repression?


For the authors of Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities, friendship is an undertheorised, but vital piece of the puzzle, and full of revolutionary potential. 


In this episode we are joined by Laura C. Forster and Joel White for a conversation about the generative and prefigurative possibilities of friendship. We discuss family abolition and comradeship, the Kurdish idea of Hevalti, friendship as a form of social reproduction, and how the state simultaneously dismisses friendship and reads it as a threat. We talk about friendship in relation to solidarity, and whether far right movements are sustained by friendship too.


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Radical Friendship: Reimagining the World and Fighting the Far Right

Radical Friendship: Reimagining the World and Fighting the Far Right

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