UNLOCKED: History is a Weapon #4 - Pivotal Decade (1970s) w/ Matt Christman part I

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this installment, Matt and Sean shoot a little shit about the radical geography of Europe before we plunge into the pool of disco and despair that was the 1970s: how the global crisis upended the 'Golden Age' of American capitalism, how Richard Nixon rode a wave of aggrievement to become the voice of a 'silent majority' in backlash, and how the uneasy alliance between organized labor and the Democratic Party began to fracture as stagflation undermined the post-war compromise.

Part II (another goddamn hour-and-a-half of historical goodness: the complete the story of how this thing called neoliberalism came to dominance, how it, too, is now crumbling, and how we might dialectically overcome the limitations of working class self-organization evident in previous cycles of struggle) available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-4-w-27337372

Outro: The Mekons - 'Hello Cruel World'

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0:00.0	Oh yeah, this is two men one potting after dark it is anti-fata after hours. Yeah, it's like a
0:09.4	playboy after dark with Moody Blues.
0:13.0	Oh yeah, that's nice element.
0:15.0	Now, see this is why you're the hype wife,
0:17.0	because you know how to aesthetically set the scene.
0:19.0	I like the idea of a hype wife.
0:22.0	That's actually like, uh... I'm trying to think of some hype wife. That's actually like...
0:23.0	I'm trying to think of some hype wives in history.
0:25.0	There's been a number of hype wives.
0:28.0	There's been a number of hype wives.
0:30.0	That's, that might be like, we Marxist history as a weapon on like hype wives through history or something like that
0:40.3	Theodosia I think was a hype wife the wife of the Byzantine Empire
0:45.1	Emperor.
0:46.1	She was like all she was huge she was very powerful.
0:48.8	Oh, um, Catherine Demondichy was a hype wife.
0:51.3	Yeah, Eleanor Roosevelt. Yeah Eleanor Roosevelt serious based type wife based type way.
0:56.0	In fact she ended up being like the the leader of like the left wing of the
1:01.5	Democratic Party. Yeah.
1:03.4	Yeah. She was an institution.
1:05.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:06.2	No, she is the absolute height.
1:08.0	Yeah.
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