Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left

Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left

by Ben Burgis
Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left

Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left

by Ben Burgis

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Overview

'Ben Burgis has written a clarifying, humorous and sharp as hell wake up call for the left, and political culture at large. Read this book...'
Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show

Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called "actually existing socialism," and the long exile of even social democrats from the levers of real power, we have gotten far too used to thinking of leftism as a performative exercise in expressing our political commitments rather than a serious effort to achieve left-wing goals in the real world. Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns calls for a smarter, funnier, more strategic left.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789045475
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 05/01/2021
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.52(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Ben Burgis is philosophy instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College, a columnist for Jacobin Magazine and Arc Digital Media, and the co-host of the Dead Pundits Society. He also does a regular segment on The Michael Brooks Show called "the Debunk." He lives in Norcross, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xii

1 Lenny Bruce Can't Save Us 1

2 Scenes from a DSA Convention 19

3 Decision Theory for the Left 28

4 Antifa and the Pathologies of Powerlessness 39

5 Tankies are Wreckers 56

6 Neo-Anarchy in the UK (and in the United States) 66

7 "No One Is Ever Really Canceled" 72

8 The Genealogy of Left Moralism 83

Links to Some of the Articles Discussed in This Book 95

Appendix: NYC-DSA Cancels Adolph Reed as Police Stations Burn 98

Bonus Essay on Jacobin and Quillette: The Ballad of Archie Carter 104

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