Ep 144: Commoners All! w/ Peter Linebaugh

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy are honored to sit down with Marxist historian of the Transatlantic World and Anglo-Irish labor history, Peter Linebaugh, to discuss his 2019 book, "Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard".

What is revolutionary love? How were the commons enclosed? What's the connection between capital and the anthropocene? How can the racialization of proletarians be overcome? How do we wrest back the commons for ourselves?

This was a great conversation and we're really proud to present this episode.

Outro: Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues

Check out Peter's excellent book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383036/red-round-globe-hot-burning

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm here in D.
0:09.0	Hello and I'm here at the time.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to the Antifada.
0:12.0	This is Sean K B and I'm here and welcome to the Antifada. This is Sean K. B. and I'm here with Andy. What's up Andy?
0:16.0	Hello, feeling good.
0:18.0	In addition to Mapache Andy, we are here today with a very special guest. We have Peter Limbao, a Marxist historian of the
0:26.4	colonial Atlantic world and a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. Today we'll be
0:31.8	discussing in particular his excellent 2019 book, Red Round Globe
0:37.0	Hot Burning, a tale at the crossroads of Commons and Culture, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of
0:43.0	race and class and of Kate and Ned Despart.
0:46.0	But also more generally we're going to be
0:48.0	talking about historical struggles for the Commons
0:51.0	and against capitalism and empire, both in the past and today.
0:55.1	Peter welcome to the show.
0:56.7	Thanks a lot.
0:57.7	Glad to be here, Sean.
0:59.3	Great to have you.
1:00.6	Your book, it's about a lot of things, it's about the revolutionary era at the end of the 18th century
1:06.7	in Haiti, in Latin America, and Ireland, and in Europe.
1:10.7	But really, it's about this incredible couple, Ned and Kate, and their relationship, which is, it's
1:19.2	international, it's interracial, and you describe it as a sort of commons in itself as a way of
1:24.6	understanding the comments and how like all comments their relationship had to be
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