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/562/ No More Populist Shortcuts? ft. Daniel Tutt & C. Derick Varn

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Show Notes

On dead ends and new beginnings. Socialist writers, teachers and podcasters, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn, talk to Alex and George about their pamphlet, The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, which came out this year.

Is left populism not dead and buried?

What's wrong with trying to unite people against the elite?

What is the 'populist method' of class analysis?

Are professionals and managers a class, and are its interests always opposed to the working class?

Where did post-Marxists go wrong?

Links:

The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, Revol Press, 2026

Varn Vlog

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