The strange afterlife of the Revolutionary Communist Party w/ Evan Smith
Added 2022-03-09 10:37:14 +0000 UTCHistorian Evan Smith joined PTO to talk about the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the LM network, and the journey of its members from trotskyist revolutionary politics to the particular brand of libertarianism they espouse today.
Comments
A valuable conversation, even three years on. Thanks.
Alan Keenan
2025-01-02 01:05:50 +0000 UTCI don't. I think they are both great but give me a sense of unease at their lack of values other than free speech. Mate and Blumenthal plus Norton are also valuable but ethereal too. No matter what I read about the spiked bunch I still don't quite get what they want. Are they accelerationists?
Guy Dean
2022-03-09 19:04:40 +0000 UTCHa yes, was just chatting to someone about Greenwald the other day - I haven't followed closely enough. Do you know anyone who's written anything good on him?
Politics Theory Other
2022-03-09 18:45:19 +0000 UTCBe good to hear an analysis of Greenwald and Taibbi etc. Not that they are in anyway the same other than the contrarian tendencies.
Guy Dean
2022-03-09 18:38:20 +0000 UTCCan't wait to listen to this
Liam Shrivastava
2022-03-09 10:40:13 +0000 UTC
