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🗓️ 11 August 2025
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Hubert Henry Harrison was a writer, orator, & political activist who played a crucial role in the rise of Marcus Garvey and was a influential voice in the Socialist Party and in Harlem during the famed "Renaissance" of the early 20th century. And yet, as Dr. Brian Kwoba argues, Harrison has largely been erased from contemporary memory because he consistently challenged orthodoxy within both socialist and Black liberation circles, pressuring the Socialist Party to attend to the specific needs of America's most proletarian group -- Black Americans -- and scrapping with W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey over their reformist and imperialist turns, respectively. Harrison and his erasure provide a stunning example of what happens to leftist figures who are not so easily sanitized, and Kwoba's book Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism reveals a history that we are regrettably reliving today. This episode addresses how to break the cycle of the endless "race first vs. class first" debate, Harrison's heterodox views on sex and non-monogamy, & more.
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| 0:00.0 | the way you beat the lesser evil is to be the greater good. |
| 0:04.2 | Because in addition to all those factors that you mentioned about black folks being loyal to Cuomo because of institutions and churches and like, you know, inertial fealty to Democrats, |
| 0:15.0 | they're also loyal because that's the lesser evil because black workers see a Hillary Clinton or a Joe Biden or a Cuomo as a lesser evil to what else is there. |
| 0:26.2 | And I think what Zoran is in a position to do is to be the greater good, not just to be a lesser evil, but to be a greater good. |
| 0:33.5 | And to do that, he has to, just like he says free Palestine, and that's attractive, |
| 0:38.2 | not only to Muslims and Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews, but he has to be like, we need freedom |
| 0:43.8 | from racial oppression, which will be attractive to all people of color, including black people. |
| 0:48.3 | I agree. I'm very frustrated with him backing down off of his to fund the police position. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm very frustrated with it. Because for the exact reason that we just talked about with respect to the socialist party, |
| 0:58.8 | trying to kick out the more radical bits and then losing its subscriber. |
| 1:03.9 | Subscribers is not the word. |
| 1:05.0 | Sorry, I got podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | It's membership. |
| 1:07.0 | It's membership. |
| 1:09.0 | The same way that India Walton described losing |
| 1:12.3 | some of her support, |
| 1:13.7 | moderating after winning her primary. |
| 1:16.2 | I think that Zerun won |
| 1:17.3 | because he said, |
| 1:18.3 | globalized this into Fada |
| 1:19.7 | and, you know, |
| 1:21.4 | didn't back down. |
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