Diving into the Wreckage: Specters of Left Melancholia w/ C. Derick Varn

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.

What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.)

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to diving into the wreckage with me and Sean,-loafada collaboration that we've been doing now for
0:15.8	two years.
0:16.8	Two years!
0:17.8	That's great.
0:18.8	I've been having a lot of fun with it.
0:19.8	It's a good break from, you know, the other stuff that we've all been doing.
0:24.0	I think boundless and bottomless is kind of a hit for me, so I'm really enjoying reading the
0:29.3	Duggan with you and Jason.
0:31.3	Yeah, it's funny because I think people are like boundless and bottomless
0:35.0	this is a Dugan show and I'm like we're gonna be doing Dugan a lot
0:38.0	but once we've done with this book and I do a couple of supplementary episodes on a few other elements of Dugan.
0:45.4	We're done for a while because I got to cover other right-wing thinkers.
0:49.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:51.5	Including more normy ones like.
0:53.7	Yeah, we could do one on So Rob Amari.
0:57.6	Yeah, Sir Rob, the.
0:59.8	So Rob is an interesting character
1:01.2	because he's a guy we both actually know.
1:03.4	Yeah.
1:04.4	And I personally like him.
1:06.8	Yeah.
1:07.8	And I think also he's a totally sincere actor, which also means that his major shifts in his conservatism and his leftism at different
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