Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode we have back on the one and only Derek Ford.

This time to talk about his newest book, Teaching the Actuality of Revolution, Aesthetics,

Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle.

We talk about sensory perception, about the historical materialist account of sensory

perception, we talk about aesthetics and how capital shapes the way we see and view the

world, and we talk about revolutionary education and what the role of education is as compared

to mirror learning, what's behind the reactionary attack on education, which has become more

acute recently but is a long-standing object of reactionary hatred and disdain and attacks,

and just cover a lot of ground in a really fascinating, wide-ranging conversation with

somebody who expertly takes complex material and makes it accessible and approachable to

people who are not necessarily scholars or experts in any given field, lay people, if

you will, like myself in this regard.

So I couldn't have asked for a better guess to talk about this and it's a really fascinating

text and so whether you're an organizer or a teacher or just somebody interested in

ideas and in the Marxist tradition, highly recommend this text and getting it when it comes

out.

So without further ado, here is my discussion with Derek Ford on his newest text, which

by the time you're hearing this might not be out but we will probably re-upload it when

it does, called teaching the actuality of revolution, aesthetics, unlearning, and the sensations

of struggle.

Yeah, thanks for having me back on the show, it's really great to be here.

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