Behind the News: Contradictions of Afropessimism w/ José Sanchez

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Erik Baker, author of a recent article for Bias magazine, joins Doug for another look at the latest Behind the News obsession: post-leftism. Then, José Sanchez, author of a critique in Jacobin about Afropessimism, examines the school of thought and its contradictions.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:36.0	My name is Doug Hinwood.
0:38.0	Two segments today, Earth's shattering surprise there,
0:40.0	will get yet another view on the post-left,
0:42.0	this from Eric Baker.
0:44.0	And then Jose Sanchez will take a critical look
0:46.0	at Afro-Pesimism.
0:48.0	Over the last few months I've done a couple of interviews
0:50.0	on the topic of post-leftism,
0:52.0	which blends strangely into the newest iteration of the new right.
0:54.0	The anti-aletus, but also hostile to what has dismissed its
0:56.0	wokeness or an older iteration, identity politics.
1:00.0	Here's another view, this from the historian Eric Baker,
1:02.0	a lecturer at Harvard and author of
1:04.0	The Only Way Out is Through,
1:06.0	against reactionary anti-capitalism
1:08.0	on the Christian Socialist website,
1:10.0	Bias Magazine.
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