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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Jasper Bernes chats with us about his new book on the history of revolution from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising and the task of communists today.
Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution
Excerpt: https://illwill.com/inquiry-and-organization
Check out Red May: https://www.redmayseattle.org/
BK Rail debates: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/on-the-future-and-past-of-revolution/
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/workers-councils-solution-or-problem/
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/jasper-bernes-responds/
Jasper’s critique of Bevins’ If We Burn: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/field-notes/What-Was-To-Be-Done-Protest-and-Revolution-in-the-2010s/
Song: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies
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0:00.0 | All right. |
0:08.0 | Andy's grabbing some water now. |
0:10.9 | I've got my sippy thing that I got during my stroke, |
0:15.4 | which my lovely wife got me to make sure I drink a lot of water. |
0:19.0 | It tells you good job |
0:20.8 | through the course of drinking |
0:22.7 | it down. Yeah, your wife, your wife is |
0:24.7 | lovely and she's, I like |
0:26.7 | to hear her talk about your matrimonial |
0:29.0 | happiness. She is |
0:30.8 | a lovely. She is lovely. She's lovely |
0:32.9 | and she's great. She's writing |
0:34.6 | an article right now about that |
0:36.5 | Sinners movie. I don't know if you saw that one. |
0:38.5 | Yeah, I did. And I really, I liked it a lot, actually. I liked it too. I would have, you know, |
0:44.5 | that's another of many things that I wish I could talk with Joshua about because, you know, |
0:50.0 | it's kind of right up his alley. We, you know, I think i think i think we i don't know if we saw |
0:54.7 | rufuel station together but i certainly talked about pretty much every ryan cougler film with |
0:59.1 | joshua i was impressed i i thought it was um a very good movie and i thought and i think that |
1:07.3 | she um there's different ways to come at it. And she's like, |
1:11.2 | spends a lot of time at jalopy. |
1:13.4 | And she's like kind of like a folk music person. |
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