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/470/ Political Reaction to System Failure ft. Tim Pendry (Patreon)

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On the world under Trump, and British responses.

Tim Pendry, author of the Unstable Times substack, as well as an international affairs consultant, talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about the world under Trump II, the massive shifts underway, and his own policy work with the Workers Party of Britain.

How has intra-bourgeois struggle shaped the past decades in politics?

What is "American imperial nationalism (MAGA)" plus a "real-estate negotiation style"?

Who are the winners & losers of a "rational" return to classical great-power, sphere-of-influence politics?

Why are the UK's tensions and problems an extreme version of what may soon apply to any ostensible American ally?

What is the Workers Party of Britain's pitch and strategy?

Are the bulk of British people really "left on economics, right on culture", and how does the WPB try to appeal to workers?

What are the practical challenges of building and organising a new party?

Links:

Manifesto – Britain Deserves Better, Workers Party of Britain

The Foundations of the Liberal Polycrisis, Unstable Times, Tim Pendry

Taking Trump Seriously, Unstable Times, Tim Pendry

Trumpism and Geo-Politics, Unstable Times, Tim Pendry

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@maltOmalk

This one was fascinating. Nice to hear a rare materialist analysis of "wokeism". Australian government stats show about 1 in 5 university enrolment offers are for "society & culture" degrees, which has remained fairly stable over the past decade despite increasing fees. That's an annual cohort of more than 60,000 young people who, when they graduate, are destined for the NGO industrial complex or to slosh around the dilapidated remnants of the academy because they are either brainwashed and/or not suitably qualified for anything else (full disclosure: I did a BA majoring in Literature). A policy proposal for Mr Pendry: that these undergraduate degrees be abolished and absorbed as elective components of more practical courses focused on growth and development. Everybody benefits from studying arts and humanities but they should be the sole focus only for people with fully developed brains. The high level of discourse on Bunga and adjacent podcasts, magazines, blogs, etc shows that the public sphere benefits from intellectuals embracing entrepreneurial action rather than academic otium. I want less PhDs about olfactory oppression, and more clubs and salons for intellectually-inclined professionals in their down time.

Ellen Anderson

why do you never discuss environmentalism?

Eli A

I can't get over how retarded this guy's comments about Elon musk and federal government workers were. He call civil servants in the federal bureaucracy an intellectual literati class when in reality these people are the regulators and workhorses of the machinery of state. Does he think the consumer financial protection bureau is a woke non-profit? This is why we can't have Brits opining on American politics.

Roman

There seems to be an intractable problem for doing left wing politics today. It's been the case since the 1990s by which point working class consciousness had been all but extinguished. How can you do left wing politics when the working class isn't even a codified class that is aware of its own interests. All attempts to do so dissolve into populism and come to nothing. I take Phil, George, Lee and co's remedy or hope to be politics since we can't change the sociological makeup of society, but improving political representation seems more possible. Nonetheless it doesn't even seem like these democratic reforms are possible without some semblance of an organised working class.