The Trump Doctrine and Its Mandarin Detractors

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Stephen Wertheim, a Lecturer in American and international history at Birkbeck, University of London, breaks cuts through the suffocating foreign policy debate that shapes American Empire under Trump. Peace has broken out across the Korean Peninsula—or, at least, the odds that Donald Trump will blow the world up have gone down a just a bit—at least temporarily. Yes, Trump is the one who pushed us way too close to the brink of nuclear war. And yes, he likely sought peace with Kim Jong-Un because he loves wins, whatever their political or ideological content. But wow, has the liberal reaction been revealing. According to the mindset that pervades the liberal media and political elite, a move toward peace with North Korea is bad because Trump is bad. Or perhaps worse yet, it's bad because the national security state conventional wisdom that has governed Washington under both parties for so long—purveyed by the very people who have brought us endless war almost everywhere—says that it's bad. It's clearer than ever that the task of the left to find a way out of this ideological closed circuit of the liberal vs. Trump foreign policy debate—and, if we win power, to shut down its warmongering for good. Thanks to Verso. Check out Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-identity And register for the Socialism 2018 conference (July 5-8, Chicago!) at socialismconference.org Support this podcast with $ and access our weekly newsletter at patreon.com/TheDig

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:06.4	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.8	One that you might like is mistaken identity, race and class in the age of Trump, by Assad Hater.
0:19.2	Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question
0:24.3	right at the heart of recent histories, most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find
0:30.4	common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Assad Hater turns to the rich
0:36.7	legacies of the black freedom struggle.
0:39.9	Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists,
0:43.7	he argues that identity politics, as we have come to know it,
0:47.6	is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements.
0:54.0	It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity,
0:58.4	and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure.
1:04.6	Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, and theoretical exegesis,
1:11.0	mistaken identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind
1:16.6	chauvinism and the ideology of race.
1:20.3	Mistaken Identity, Racing Class in the Age of Trump by Assad Hater.
1:24.9	Out now from Verso Books.
1:35.0	Music by Assad Hater. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.
1:39.1	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:45.0	Peace has broken out across the Korean Peninsula.
1:48.7	Or, at least, the odds that Donald Trump will blow up the world have gone down just a bit,
1:54.3	at least temporarily.
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