Ep 154: Anti-Anti Populism w Anton Jaeger
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Sean, Jamie and Andy are joined by Anton Jaeger (@antonjagermm), Marxist researcher of populism, to discuss the history, present and future of populism whether in the left or right mold.
Several years ago it seemed as though left populism - exemplified by practitioners such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders - had a decent shot at upending the Washington Consensus on austerity, markets and foreign policy. With the failure and retreat of these candidates and others, what is left of this project? Why does right populism seem everywhere ascendant? What do these movements say about the economy and the political order? How can we understand the populist mode of politics in relation to the fight to abolish capital?
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Works by Anton:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/anton-jager-rebel-regions
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/we-bet-the-house-on-left-populism-and-lost
https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/03/making-sense-of-populism
https://nonsite.org/back-to-work-review-of-david-graebers-bullshit-jobs/
Intro: Cincinnati's University Singers -The Hand the Holds the Bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqiAT6o7Kks
Outro: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Populism Yea Yea
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Monopoly's |
| 0:02.0 | The Monopoly's |
| 0:05.0 | already clutched the tiller's on the ground. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm right. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello folks and welcome to the Antifada that's a Sean K. B we have a full house tonight |
| 0:14.5 | Jamie and Andy are both here. What's up guys? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh you know chillin talk about populism thinking. Thinking? |
| 0:23.0 | Andy? |
| 0:24.0 | Nothing. |
| 0:25.0 | We got nothing from Andy. |
| 0:26.0 | He just looked over me and shook his head. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, that's great. |
| 0:29.0 | We, in addition to co-host, we also have a great guest today. We have Anton Yeager, he's a writer on populism, and a postdoctoral |
| 0:39.0 | fellow at Cambridge University. Anton, hello. Hello, hello. |
| 0:44.0 | How's everyone? |
| 0:45.0 | Doing pretty good. |
| 0:46.0 | Andy brought me some vegan, what is it, |
| 0:50.0 | vegan-lox cream cheese spread, |
| 0:52.0 | and I'm going to try it after the show I think because I'm not sure I'm a little dubious about it |
| 0:57.1 | We have to wrap this up very quickly if you have that waiting for |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, I'm just champing at the bit in order to try that out. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm sure it's actually really good. |
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