E94: [TEASER] E94: Radical Reads w/ Jasper Bernes – ‘If We Burn’

Working Class History

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This is a teaser preview of our first Radical Read, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 68-minute episode without ads and support our work at https://www.patreon.com/posts/e94-radical-w-if-113750155
First of our new series, Radical Reads, in which we team up with Jasper Bernes to discuss Vincent Bevins’ 2023 book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
Welcome to ‘Radical Reads’, the second of our two new series of Patreon-only content.In Radical Reads, we hope to discuss political texts – both old and new – that have either influenced us here at WCH, or texts that we generally think that people involved in radical and working-class movements should be engaging with, discussing, and using to inform their activism.
Our Radical Read for this episode is Vincent Bevins’ If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, which we discuss with Jasper Bernes, author of an excellent article in the Brooklyn Rail, ‘What Was To Be Done? Protest and Revolution in the 2010s’. It’s a review and critique book and when we read Jasper’s article we felt that it really put into words some of the thoughts we had about Bevins’ work.In our conversation with Jasper, we covered not only what we see as some of the main issues with Bevins’ book, but also broader questions around social movements, revolution, the threat of cooptation, and what it means to win. And as Jasper says, understanding what we can learn from the movements of the 2010s is one of the most important questions we can be thinking about right now. In that sense, then, If We Burn is a valuable contribution in starting that conversation, even if we have some disagreements with its conclusions.
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E94: Radical Reads w/ Jasper Bernes – ‘If We Burn’ – Available exclusively for our Patreon supporters

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Read Jasper’s article: ‘What Was To Be Done? Protest and Revolution in the 2010s’
Buy Vincent Bevins’ book: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Acknowledgements

Thanks to our patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands, Jamison D. Saltsman, Fernando López Ojeda and Jeremy Cusimano.
Edited by Tyler Hill
Our theme tune is Montaigne’s version of the classic labour movement anthem, ‘Bread and Roses’, performed by Montaigne and Nick Harriott, and mixed by Wave Racer. Download the song here, with all proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians. More from Montaigne: website, Instagram, YouTube.

Full information and show notes at https://www.patreon.com/posts/e94-radical-w-if-113750155

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0:00.0	Hi. As you may know, working class history doesn't get any sort of funding from any wealthy
0:05.4	benefactors, corporations, governments or political parties. Our work is funded by you, our listeners
0:12.6	and readers, on Patreon. In return for their support, patrons get access to exclusive content
0:19.5	and benefits like ad-free episodes, bonus podcast episodes
0:23.5	and a couple of exclusive podcast series called Fireside Chats and Radical Reeds.
0:29.7	So here's a little preview of our latest episode for our patrons.
0:34.1	You can join us, help support our work and listen to the whole thing today at patreon.com
0:40.2	slash working class history.
0:42.4	Link in the show notes.
0:44.4	Hope you enjoy.
0:49.1	As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day.
0:55.0	A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill of gray
1:00.0	are brightened by the beauty, the sun and sun discloses.
1:05.0	And the people here are seeing bread and roses, bread and roses.
1:13.9	Hi everyone and welcome to our first installment of Radical Reeds, a new series where we talk about different political texts, both old and new, that have either influenced us here at WCH, or texts that we generally think that people involved in radical and working
1:28.2	class movements should be engaging with, discussing, and using to inform their activism.
1:33.3	We're going to be producing occasional Radical Reeds episodes, as well as other discussions,
1:37.5	as part of a new range of Patreon-only content that we're about to start rolling out.
1:41.9	This is basically motivated by two things. First, there's a bunch of
1:45.3	stuff that we'd really like to talk about, share and discuss with people that doesn't really fit
1:49.6	into the standard episode format. So basically, this is a way for us to produce that kind of content.
1:55.2	And second, we also thought it'd be a great way for us to show our appreciation for all the
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