Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-14
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Mike Andrews discussed A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, July 1858 by Lysander Spooner. Robert Ovetz discussed When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 by Robert Ovetz. Also mentioned: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Black reconstruction by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R.
Discussed“Peter Teal owns Palunteer and Anderil. Um, the palunteer is Palanteer. Both of those are names from Lord of the Rings.”
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Black reconstruction
Black Reconstruction by W.
Discussed“In Web Deo's famous book, Black Reconstruction, he explains how it was a general strike of the enslaved black proletariat that brought down the plantation system, not President Lincoln or Union Bullets.”
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A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, July 1858
Discussed“He produced this really early text which is just fantastic. It's called a plan for the abolition of slavery uh published in 1858. So this is a couple years before the civil war.”
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When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
Discussed“The 1877 strike actually resulted in uh what I show in a lot of detail in my first book, When Workers Shot Back, how the state and capital reorganized themselves in order to um be able to respond a lot quicker to self-organized workers and and strikes and especially general strikes.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“If you've ever read the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or watched the movie, it's where Hunter Thompson starts hallucinating.”
“If you've ever read the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or watched the movie, it's where Hunter Thompson starts hallucinating.”
Passing The Coming Insurrection
“I'm going to read a bit of to our friends, which is a work produced in late 2014 by the Invisible Committee, which is the pen name of some French anarchists who are most famous for writing the coming insurrection.”
“Wanting to know more about this history of these general strikes and their importance, we caught up with labor historian and author Robert Ovettes, author of When Workers Shot Back and We the Elites.”
Passing We the Elites
“Wanting to know more about this history of these general strikes and their importance, we caught up with labor historian and author Robert Ovettes, author of When Workers Shot Back and We the Elites.”
“So again, we've been listening to Robert Ovetsz, author of When Workers Shot Back and We the Elites. Just a few key takeaways from that discussion.”
Passing We the Elites
“So again, we've been listening to Robert Ovetsz, author of When Workers Shot Back and We the Elites. Just a few key takeaways from that discussion.”
Passing Fight Like Hell
“With the current uptick in strikes under Biden continuing into 2023 and the economic conditions of poor and working people continuing to worsen, we asked labor reporter and author of Fight Like Hell, Kim Kelly, just what are the possibilities of mass strike action in the coming year?”
Passing Fight Like Hell
“Once again, that was Kim Kelly, author of F Like Hel. Over the past two episodes, we've taken a deep dive into the history of general strikes in the United States, looking at everything from the mass strike of enslaved plantation workers during the Civil War all the way up to current examples during Occupy Oakland.”