Jacobin Radio Folgen

Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science.Subscribe to Science for the People at magazine.ScienceForThePeople.orgPlease support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

With guest Asad Haider, we discuss at length the theoretical polemic of E.P. Thompson against Louis Althusser. What was the historical context for each side of this conflict (in which Althusser never participated directly)? What was Thompson’s critique? Asad argues that Thompson did not understand Althusser correctly, or even provide a satisfactory conceptual account of what was best about his own empirical research. The two, may have been closer to each other than Thompson understood. A humanist, he preferred the young Marx; Althusser, an anti-humanist, argued systematically for the importance of the mature Marx. Both, however, were reacting to the Stalinist ossification of their respective national Communist parties.Readings discussed in this episode:Louis Althusser, For Marxhttps://www.versobooks.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;books/35-for-marxLouis Althusser, “Contradiction and Overdetermination” (from For Marx)https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;reference/archive/althusser/&lt;wbr /&gt;1962/overdetermination.htmLouis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capitalhttps://www.versobooks.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;books/2042-reading-capitalLouis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;reference/archive/althusser/&lt;wbr /&gt;1970/ideology.htmPerry Anderson, “Origins of the Present Crisis”https://newleftreview.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;issues/I23/articles/perry-&lt;wbr /&gt;anderson-origins-of-the-&lt;wbr /&gt;present-crisisPerry Anderson, Arguments Within English Marxismhttps://www.versobooks.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;books/576-arguments-within-&lt;wbr /&gt;english-marxismAsad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump https://www.versobooks.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;books/2716-mistaken-identityKarl Marx, Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyhttps://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;archive/marx/works/1859/&lt;wbr /&gt;critique-pol-economy/appx1.htmE.P. Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English”<u>https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;archive/thompson-ep/1965/&lt;wbr /&gt;english.htm</u>E.P. Thompson, “An Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski” https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;archive/thompson-ep/1973/&lt;wbr /&gt;kolakowski.htmE.P. Thompson, “The Poverty of Theory:Or, An Orrery of Errors” https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;archive/thompson-ep/1978/pot/&lt;wbr /&gt;intro.htmE.P. Thompson, “Outside the Whale”https://www.marxists.org/&lt;wbr /&gt;archive/thompson-ep/1978/&lt;wbr /&gt;outside-whale.htm

Dan is playing catch up. Here's a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism's totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that capitalism exploits. This is painfully relevant today as people everywhere do the work of staying at home and social distancing to beat this pandemic while capitalists reap the rewards of the world's reproduction.Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig