Monday, January 18, 2021

Call It 'FASCISM!' A Leftist Debate

 

Philosopher Jason Stanley, political scientist Jodi Dean, and journalist Eugene Puryear argue that the Left can and must use the term "fascism," and disagree with historians Daniel Bessner and Sam Moyn. Jason Stanley (https://twitter.com/jasonintrator) is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University whose latest book is "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them." He's a contributor to The New York "Times," The "Washington Post," The "Boston Review," "The Guardian," "Project Syndicate," and "The Chronicle of Higher Education." Jodi Dean (https://twitter.com/Jodi7768) is a political theorist who teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited 13 books, including "The Communist Horizon," "Crowds and Party," and "Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging." Samuel Moyn (https://twitter.com/samuelmoyn), is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University. His latest books are "Christian Human Rights" and "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World." Daniel Bessner is a historian, non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Contributing Editor at "Jacobin," and the author of "Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual," and is co-editor of "The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th Century." Eugene Puryear (https://twitter.com/EugenePuryear) is the host for Break Through News (https://twitter.com/btnewsroom) and The Punchout podcast; a member of the PSL Party For Socialism and Liberation (https://twitter.com/pslweb) and the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpe... Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps