Anarchism: Philosophy and History (with Dr. Mark Bray)
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Brett sits down with Dr. Mark Bray to discuss the political philosophy, history, and future of Anarchism.
Topics include: Bakunin and Marx, the first international, the Spanish Civil War, Stalinism, listener questions, the anarchist view of the State, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, and much more!
Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He completed his PhD in Modern European and Women's and Gender History at Rutgers University in 2016, and is currently finishing his manuscript "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909." "The Anarchist Inquisition" explores the emergence of groundbreaking human rights campaigns across Europe and the Americans in response to the Spanish state's brutal repression of dissent in the wake of anarchist bombings and assassinations. At GRID, he will begin work on his next project which explores the cultures of violence and street resistance that emerge in the social movements of postwar Western Europe and their impact on conceptions of leftist masculinity in the context of the emergence of competing conceptions of feminism. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017) and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero Books, 2013) as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School (PM Press, 2018).
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| 0:00.0 | We're educated, we've been given a certain set of tools, but then we're |
| 0:03.8 | throwing right back into the working class. Well, good luck with that because more |
| 0:07.2 | and more of us are waking the fuck up. |
| 0:10.9 | So we have a tendency to what we have, we have earned, right? And what we don't have, |
| 0:16.4 | we are going to turn. We unintentionally, I think, oftentimes kind of frame our lives |
| 0:23.4 | as though we are, you know, the predestined. People want to be guilt-free. Like I |
| 0:29.2 | didn't do it. Like this is not my fault. And I think that's part of the |
| 0:32.3 | distancing from like we don't want it to get this privileged. |
| 0:37.7 | When the main function of a protect and serve, supposedly, group is actually |
| 0:43.2 | revenue generation, they don't protect and serve. Simply illogical to say that |
| 0:49.8 | the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing our house, that |
| 0:53.5 | can result in us not having clean drinking water, why should those be in |
| 0:56.8 | anybody else's hands? They should be in the people's hands who are affected by |
| 1:00.8 | those institutions. |
| 1:02.0 | People engage in to to overcome oppression to fight back and to identify those |
| 1:07.6 | systems of structures that are oppressing them. |
| 1:11.8 | God, those communists are amazing. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. I am your host and comrade, Bred O'Shea. |
| 1:19.0 | And we have a very special guest today. I'm extremely excited about this. |
| 1:23.0 | Dr. Mark Bray is on the episode to discuss anarchism. |
| 1:27.8 | Mr. Bray, would you like to give a little bit about your background and kind of |
| 1:31.0 | introduce yourself to our audience? Sure. Thanks for having me on. I really |
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