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#55 On non-fascist life w/ Natasha Lennard

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4.8551 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Natasha Lennard joins me to discuss her book, 'Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life'. We spoke about whether or not Donald Trump and the movement that has coalesced around him ought to be characterised as fascist, we also talked about the contributions of Wilhelm Reich, Michel Foucault, and other figures in the anti-psychiatry movement to theorising fascism. We discussed the legitimacy and history of anti-fascist violence and its treatment by the media, and finally we spoke about Natasha's writing on suicide and how the act of suicide brings into question capitalism's positing of the idea of the sovereign individual.

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The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success.

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The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to

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and the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Natasha Leonard.

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We spoke about whether or not Donald Trump and the movement that has co-rellaised around him

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ought to be characterised as fascist. We also talked about the contributions of Wilhelm Reich,

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Michelle Foucault and other figures in the anti-psychiatry movement to theorising fascism.

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We discussed the legitimacy and history of anti-fascist

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violence and its treatment by the media. And finally, we spoke about Natasha's writing on suicide

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and how the act of suicide brings into question capitalism's positing of the idea of the sovereign

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individual. Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Haymarket Books,

1:29.0

which has a great many left-wing titles that might be of interest to PTO listeners.

1:33.4

One that you might like to check out is The Debt System by Eric Toussaint.

1:37.5

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful

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force for maintaining the unequal relations between them.

1:44.3

Treated as sacrosanct, immutable and eternally binding,

1:47.7

it has become the yoke of choice for imperial powers in the post-colonial world

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to enforce the subservience of the global south.

1:54.7

In this groundbreaking book, renowned economist Eric Tucson

1:57.4

argues for a radical reversal of this balance of accounts

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through the repudiation

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of sovereign debt. Customers in North America can order the book directly from Haymarketbooks.org.

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