Ep 124 - On the Xmas Question w/ Dave Silverberg
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas!
Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi
Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state
Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012
Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone
Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy
Transcript
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| 0:12.5 | Hello everybody and welcome to a very special Antifada Christmas special. We are here today of course with myself, Sean K.B. |
| 0:16.0 | and also... |
| 0:17.0 | I'm A.P. Andy. |
| 0:18.1 | Merry Christmas, Sean. |
| 0:19.3 | And we have a very special guest, of course. |
| 0:22.2 | Dave Silverberg calling in from Chicago. How's it going man? |
| 0:25.5 | It's going pretty good. How's it going? |
| 0:28.4 | I'm. Thanks for having me. First time, a long time. I'm feeling pretty excited. |
| 0:33.0 | Are you guys all excited for the celebration of the Christmas holiday this year? |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, we're gonna go a wassalin. |
| 0:39.6 | We're going to tell tales of ghost stories for some reason that's that's in the song too that's what you heard |
| 0:46.2 | Christmas is about yeah and so Dave why don't you before we begin why don't you introduce yourself and your work? |
| 0:53.0 | Then afterwards, hopefully Santa will come and give us our topic. |
| 0:57.0 | Sure. |
| 0:58.0 | So yeah, my name is David Silverberg, and I study religious discrimination all over the world, but particularly in India and Europe, which requires a bit stuff around that we'll probably have time to do right now. |
| 1:17.7 | But yeah, and I'm working on some stuff around that that hopefully will be published relatively soon. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, great. |
| 1:26.0 | So yeah, maybe we'll talk about, oh what's that I hear? |
| 1:28.8 | Are those sleigh bells? |
| 1:29.8 | I, oh my God, I hear sleigh bells. |
| 1:31.7 | Somebody's up on the roof. Who in the world? I hear something I hear some rustling in the chimney. |
| 1:37.0 | I come down now. |
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