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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Ep. 13 | "The system isn't working - W/ Professor Mike Cole"
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
This week we welcomed Professor Mike Cole from the University of East London in efforts to deconstruct systematic racism from a neo-Marxist perspective—a perspective implicit in the revolutionary rhetoric of the majority of social media posting this past week. As such, in this episode we hope to provide you man with a better conceptual means as to understanding the recent socio-political turmoil. We start by unpacking racism, specifically within the context of the UK, and work towards asking what real political action will lead us to a future society without race?
Introduction to Mike Cole - 00:00
News Cycle - 01:00
Skepticism about Marxism - 05:35
What is Race and can it be intimately linked to the class struggle?- 10:24
What is Critical Race Theory and is it analogous in its ineffectiveness to recent social media posting?- 17:55
Tackling racism from a neo-Marxist perspective - 22:31
How do we differ from the US - from a historical and socio-political aspect? - 24:49
What does it mean for Racism to be systemic - 27:30
The failings of the educational system, inside and outside of the classroom - 31:34
What can the younger apathetic generation do? - 39:10
Deconstructing common arguments against BLM - 45:17
What does a future society without race look like? - 50:10
The entire reading list with links will be posted on our Instagram - Scoreperpodcast
Mike's email for anyone who would like further reading materials and to ask some more questions on these issues.
Post edit amendments/notes:
-05:00- Bristol bus strike was more so a boycott and the memorial was something in talks; not concrete (The colour bar was a discriminatory hiring practice against blacks and minorities)
- 13:32 - Anti-asian racism falls within the category of old-color-coded racism
- 33:03 - page number is 122 not 22.
- 45:54 - the UK Criminal justice system was described as a white supremacist, this was supposed to be in the context of the US criminal justice system.
Big Thank You To Mike Cole
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