About this episode
Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America and Real Philosophy Hourz Series We are joined by Comrade/Patron Brant of Houston Review of Books to tackle George Ciccarielo-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics and get into some real theoretical ICY COLD TAKES in the library this week. We discuss the relationship between dialectics and decolonization, postcolonialism and decolonial theory, Frantz Fanon, Enrique Dussel, try to recuperate Georges Sorel for today's Left a bit, universals, and the dialectic being mobile and armed in Venezuela under Chavez. This one is THICC, SPICY, and ICE COLD, comrades! Further Reading/References Houston Review of Books George Ciccariello-Maher GCM's Website Decolonizing Dialectics Bring the Ruckus Oakland Georges Sorel José Carlos Mariátegui Decoloniality Postcolonialism Jacobinism Teleology Communist International Hannah Arendt Négritude Alexandre Kojéve Afro-pessimism The Black Jacobins Enrique Dussel Emmanuel Levinas Can Dialectics Break Bricks Full Film Caracazo Jacobin Article on AFL-CIA in Venezuela The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Documentary about 2002 Attempted Coup of Chavez Ernesto Laclau
