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Catherine Liu is literally the best. That’s all you need to know.
Slip into this portal of coherent dissent and slide on to the class politics bandwagon.
We take the scalpel to identity politics, liberal illiberalism and bioated bureaucracy.
What’s your universal principle? Ours is to increase the labour share of surplus value relative to capital. A perennial struggle.
Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:45 Was Identity Politics A Psyop? 05:35 Woke 1 Was Crazier 09:53 Is Egg Freezing Anti-Feminist? 14:17 The Professional Managerial Class 21:22 Why Class Analysis Went Out of Vogue 26:36 Is Catherine’s ‘Working Class’ Ahistorical? 38:12 University’s IdPol Script 44:20 Depressed Wages and Mass Migration 51:35 Left-Liberal Death of Vision 55:46 The Satanic Panic 1:00:18 Ever-Enlarging Bureaucracy 1:06:20 Institution Building 1:16:17 Zombie Liberalism and Disability Dependency 1:22:30 Does Work Give You Dignity 1:27:08 Mimetic Theory
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