The Black Panthers were largely Maoist in ideology and used Mao's little red book as a reference. If you watch Agnes Varda's short documentary on the Black Panthers you see them a lot. I was wondering how much the movie would should that they were Maoists.
The film has them reference Mao once if I remember correctly but definitely doesn't go into the group's ideology much.
40 mentions or citations of Zenz in a 55 page report with many 3rd party articles cited also linking to Zenz' 'research'
Of course I wouldn't ever say that a left movement should appeal to bigotry in any form. The anger I think that needs to be channeled is an economic populist one. Something that Trump did in fact channel alongside his anti-republican elite rhetoric (while of course never doing anything about it). One of Trump's successes was getting formerly apolitical (nonvoting) people to vote for him. And the cohort of Trump voters who voted for Obama at least once cannot be ignored either. Same with the reactionary working class segment in England and its Brexit vote, the working class is fucking angry since the fallout of 08 and the left needs to give it a productive outlet for that anger, ie towards a response that improves their material conditions and is based on class solidarity across race, gender, etc. If a mass left movement wants any success it has to engage people who are apathetic for rightly seeing Democrats and Republicans alike as an unresponsive elite.
And besides we can't base strategy off the assumption that a left movement can game its rhetoric in such a way to avoid a backlash. Bernie's 2020 campaign was about as non threatening to capitalist hegemony as possible for something that could be broadly considered leftist and yet the media still went all out against it. Look at how Trump used mainstream media's hatred of him to energize his base. A lot of people recognize the corruption of the MSM. Yes it'll piss of PMC libs but their support was tenuous and limited anyway.
I'm also not sure you can broadly categorize Bernie's image as the nice old man. I think the image of him as cantankerous old man is just as if not more commonly understood.
I mean doesn't Trump's success on some level show that anger is immensely appealing for a large chunk of this country?
Here's a recent journal dedicated to that very question if you want to do a deeper dive. Market Economy, Market Society: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of European Social Democracy
I definitely agree. I was disappointed because I've really enjoyed some of his other writings but it gets bogged down in too many anecdotes without fully developing an analysis of the phenomenon. I really hope someone else can come along and develop what Graeber started.
Are there any little red books shown?
May not be able to use them but these are great though!
Anyone know some good short leftist poems? Have to animate a poem in aftereffects for a class. Would also love to read some good one for their own sake.
https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1359173946541760515
Radio War Nerd if you're interested in geopolitics
We see you, we... we... you know the thing.
Radio War Nerd interview with the guy above talking about Forks, WA. Starts about 27 minutes in
https://www.breaker.audio/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2/e/68115575
Also if the minimum wage is tied to inflation at all so groups aren't going to have to spend a decade fighting to raise it 20 when that's not even enough.
I'd recommend watching the first film of the Small Axe series that came out on Amazon recently, Mangrove. It's a great point of comparison between two very different approaches to filming trials centered around injustice. For me it's the perfect antidote to what Sorkin did with Chicago 7.
Trial of the Chicago 7 has to be up there as an all timer. It uses a historical incident that is a clear indictment of the system and was intentionally used by the defendants to make a mokery of that system, and Sorkin turned that into a film about how great American institutions are. The troop worshipping ending is almost too incredible to believe until you see it yourself.
As a point of comparison 12 Angry Men is also an extremely lib take on the justice system. In this case it's how a single strong willed individual can, through their own moral convictions, uphold truth and justice within the just institution of the American trial. This film however isn't so hamfisted in its ideology and is actually extremely well crafted for what it is.
As a form of individual consumer choice, sure. As a frame to understand the exploitation of animals by humans I think it's very much compatible with a universal application of socialist theory.
Radio War Nerd episode with the author of Bitten
https://www.breaker.audio/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2/e/51502577
La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven)
Movie is great too if you can get your hands on it