I was sleeping on this podcast till now because I'm lazy. But yesterday I decided to go through the episodes/clips on YouTube and wow they are good! I've no idea how they manage to get so many awesome guests - Richard Wolff, Zizek, Chomsky, then you've got Nina Turner and Cornel West, there's Boots Riley, it's just incredible. And all of them are so honest and upfront and open when talking. I've never seen Wolff this animated and lively when talking to someone else or even on his own show! It's incredible.
EDIT - What the fuck happened in the comments?
You always think that BJG is about to finally get it and then she comes back with a god awful lib take. Until she reads some Lenin she's on the pay no mind list
“It was scary for the bourgeois ruling class during the capitol riot!”
Lol when the guests were like “No sympathy for those fuckers,” and BJG was like “Watch the tapes!”
Fasc on fasc violence. Chickens have come home to roost, etc.
That's an actual quote?
No, sorry. Those are my “sarcastic” quotes.
I like the rigor but yes that is something that sounds very Briahna. She's like a blindfolded person grasping for the door.
I’ve ranted about this in other threads to death probably. But why make a show of saying you’re dropping the “democratic” for dem soc, but then immediately fall for the emotional manipulation by the bourgeois state, in a concern for their lives?
the same reason you drop the "dem" but still make a show that basically still centers around the Democratic party.
Right wing Opportunism?
I wouldn't go that far. It's just old fashioned petite bourgeois reaction. Or just a mind limited by small horizons.
You’re most likely correct. I’ll add that her time working in the politics obviously has corrupted her. If she hasn’t worked in the capitol itself, she has at the very least imagined herself being there. So maybe some projection? I’m not sure the right term here.
Everyone's allowed to have a bad take every once in a while, she'll get there just give her time
Say whatever you will about Dore, at least he brought out and read Lenin on his show. The way Briahna talks sometimes you'd think for her Lenin is a textile.
Asymptotic democratic socialism
It seems impossible to me that she isn't hiding her power level for the sake of the show and her credibility as a Blue Check Mark. She gets soooo close and ask such leading questions to her guest
If she's afraid to go there because of a blue check on Twitter, then is it really want different than simply not being a socialist?
Seems to me her strategy is to platform people to her left/build a leftist pipeline. If she can pretend (or actually be, doesn't really matter) to be a lib and also signal boost something like The Gravel Institute or Struggle Session, seems worth trying.
I could be convinced that building a leftist pipeline by pretending to a lib is a fool's errand, and that bullying is the only effective method, but I haven't been yet.
I agree that she's going to be a good entry for libs, but imagining her as a secret communist isn't healthy.
Fair
She isn't hiding her power level. There's no 6D chess. Grow up man. People are what they are and you're just projecting.
If she's a communist why would she keep wasting time on bourgeois state bullshit. Have you ever met a communist who doesn't profess his beliefs proudly.
What credibility? Everyone in the establishment already hates her