Gender Abolition, Michel Foucault, and Marxism-Leninism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 8 July 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Alyson Escalante joins Brett to discuss gender nihilism, Marxist feminism, Judith Butler, Leninism, trans liberation, Foucault, social media discourse, and much more!
Follow Alyson on Twitter @Alysonesque
Read her work here: https://medium.com/@alysonescalante/how-we-talk-about-trans-inclusion-matters-75e1c6fce5dc
Alyson's recommendations for further reading:
Wittig - The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Federici - Caliban and the Witch
Jules Gleeson - The Call For Abolition
Sylvia McCheyne - You Are More Oppressive
Foucault - History of Sexuality
Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Butler - Undoing Gender
Butler - Precarious Life
Althusser - Marxism and Humanism
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| 1:12.1 | comrade Bredo-She. |
| 1:13.4 | And today we have on a special guest, Allison, to talk about gender, feminism, |
| 1:17.8 | nihilism, Marxism, Leninism and a lot more stuff. So I'm really excited about |
| 1:21.7 | this. Allison, would you like to introduce yourself and say a bit about your |
| 1:24.2 | background? Yeah, definitely. So my name is Allison. My background, I guess I |
| 1:29.6 | form a grad student just recently dropped out of grad school, philosophy student. |
| 1:33.7 | I've done a lot of studying philosophy, writing online and doing some local |
| 1:38.1 | organizing work in the town where the college I've been going to is located. |
| 1:43.0 | Mostly putting writings out there on the internet trying to do theory work that |
| 1:46.9 | bridges sort of more formal philosophical stuff with the revolutionary |
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