Tiananmen, Denialism and History w/ Mia Wong (E89)

This is a conversation with Mia Wong, a writer and researcher with Cool Zone Media whose essay "When communists crushed the international workers’ movement" for Lausan was the subject of this conversation.Topics Discussed:The Tiananmen massacre in its historical contextThe meaning of TiananmenHow we remember Tiananmen and what we eraseThe before and the afterThe cost of denialismTiananmen/Syria comparisonsOccupying the squares vs occupying the factoriesOn class identitiesHow could it have been different?Aesthetics and politicsBurying the pastOn tankiesRecommended Books:Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia by Raquel Gutiérrez AguilarThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David GraeberCarbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy MitchellHatta Shūzō and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan by John Crump+ I recommended Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi