Intersectional Class Struggle

Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building geared toward the task of fighting all forms of oppression.

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Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave

Laborwave Radio is celebrating it's three-year anniversary! In three years we've produced 50 episodes and had nearly as many guests, and we've reached more than 17,500 listeners!

To celebrate this milestone we've put together this highlight reel from our latest year featuring Jarrod Shanahan, Asad Haider, Boots Riley, Raj Patel, Holly Lewis, Micah Uetricht, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Sarah Jaffe, Natasha Lennard, Liza Featherstone, Bill Fletcher Jr, Andrea Haverkamp, Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips, Nick Driedger, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.

We also take a moment to reflect on our history and give a shoutout to all our patreon members! Lots of credit needs to be given to our frequent guest host Andrea Haverkamp for all her work dreaming up this podcast and helping sustain it, thank you comrade for your all-around friendship and radical spirit that gives me hope!

Thank you Rank-and-Filers, Committee Members, and Strike Captains that make up our patreon community! You help keep Laborwave running, and we greatly appreciate your contributions. Our patreon community includes: Nicholas Fisher, Jason Sarkozi-Forsinski, Caroline Hunter (my mom!), Tony Vogt, Michael Marchmann, Dawson Hughes, Molly Harney, Hazel Daniels, David DeHart, Shane Scopatz, Meera Petroff, Lucas Carpenter, Erica Mercier, Sam Drake, and Nicholas Driedger.

Also thanks to Jon Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees and Damaged Bug for allowing us to use his music on our show, and final gratitude goes to our resident artist, my wonderfully talented and lovely wife Kerry Hill for all the artwork that goes into our stickers, zines, and t-shirts!

Towards a Queer Marxist Future with Holly Lewis

Transcript available here.

We speak with Holly Lewis, assistant professor at Texas State University and author of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection published by Zed Books.

The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to be that of desire/sexual expression. This emphasis on desire, Lewis argues, is symptomatic of the neoliberal project and has led to a continued fascination with the politics of identity. By arguing that Marxist analysis is in fact most beneficial to gender politics within the arena of body production, categorization and exclusion Lewis develops a theory of gender and the sexed body that is wedded to the realities of a capitalist political economy.

Boldly calling for a new, materialist queer theory, Lewis defines a politics of liberation that is both intersectional, transnational, and grounded in lived experience.