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Casualties of History: "They Came Out of a Culture"

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.7 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode, we talk about the emergence of what Thompson sees as mature class consciousness in the English working class. Through the writing and agitation of figures like Cobbett and Owen in the slow 1820s and then the great reform struggle of the early 1830s, the working class moved from its ambivalent position β€” partly resisting proletarianization, partly looking forward β€” toward a more aggressive vision of its own social power. We also reflect a bit on what we've taken away from this reading and collective project.
References:
Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy


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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to casualties of history on this our final episode final chapter

0:08.1

chapter 16 class consciousness this is what we've all been waiting for.

0:13.0

I love, I do love that like for all that this book is like an unorthodox, you know, class formation and development of the working class doesn't happen according to your formula man.

0:24.5

It like takes its own time, it follows its own rhythm, but like at the end is still like class

0:29.1

consciousness, we're there, we're ready, it happens. Right. Oh, For everyone who's listened to this many episodes and is listening to this,

1:16.4

thank you for listening to all of this show. It's been extremely fun and

1:22.3

ridiculous that we did an entire podcast about this book.

1:26.8

So thank you for listening along and if you read along, thank you especially for reading

1:30.5

along.

1:31.5

This has been a fun experiment.

1:32.8

And if you contribute to the slack?

1:35.2

And for contributing to the slack, if you contribute to the slack.

1:37.8

You know, heroic work building our own radical culture.

1:40.9

Exactly.

1:41.9

I would like to say when I realized that we were finally coming to the end of this book, I'd really hoped when we started this. You know, I'd sort of thought, this is a fun pandemic project.

1:53.4

And I sort of thought to myself,

1:55.0

I'm gonna get annoyed with this

1:56.5

because the pandemic's gonna end,

1:58.1

and I'm still gonna be doing this.

1:59.8

And jokes on me because this pandemic hasn't ended at all in the United States.

2:06.2

Nothing has changed since we started doing this months ago.

2:09.4

I am still locked in my room, basically. the actually the numbers are basically worse than ever in this country so

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