Ep. 16: On Cancel Culture and the End of the Bolivarian Revolution

On this episode, we tackle cancel culture and the legacy of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Sophia, a London-based member of Platypus, joins us to discuss the feud between beauty influencers, James Charles and Tati Westbrook, and what it might tells us about the exhaustion of cancel culture. In the second segment, Marco Torres, Chicago Platypus member, and Pamela's interview Alejandro Velasco, the author of Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela, and contributor to the New York Times, In These Times and Jacobin Radio, on the passing of Chavismo and the future of Venezuela. Finally, Pam Nogales sits down with the journalist and sociologist Marc Saint-Upéry, to make sense of the left's response to Venezuela and the Maduro regime. - Rose Freeman, "The Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, and the question of revolutionary politics today: An interview with Kathleen Cleaver" (PR 113, February 2019) https://platypus1917.org/2019/02/03/the-black-panther-party-malcom-x-and-the-question-of-revolutionary-politics-today-an-interview-with-kathleen-cleaver/ - Marco Torres, "The dead Left: Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution" (PR 25, July 2010) https://platypus1917.org/2010/07/09/the-dead-left-chavez-and-the-bolivarian-revolution/ - Alejandro Velasco, "A Call for Clear Heads on Venezuela: How To Criticize Maduro While Opposing U.S. Regime Change" (In These Times, March 2019) http://inthesetimes.com/article/21789/venezuela-maduro-trump-barrios-intervention-sanctions-chavismo-guaido - Marc Saint-Upéry, "La izquierda y los espejismos de la crisis venezolana" (2019) http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2019/03/la-izquierda-y-los-espejismos-de-la.html - James Charles response to Tati Westbrook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvtCUzfyL4&t=1896s Hosted by Pamela C. & Sophia