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Spring Podcast
by Spring Manchester
This is podcast created by the Spring Manchester group consisting of recordings from the conferences and events that we organise.We believe that the left is in diaspora. Its historic support base – the organised working class, and with it notions of solidarity and collective discipline – is a pale reflection of its former self. Without this traditional constituency, every facet of the left has fallen into decay. Working class education and traditions, and most importantly a solid grounding in the needs and experiences of the mass of the population, have been lost to the winds. In place of retreating class politics, forms of identity politics less fundamentally critical of capitalist structures have tended to dominate discourse… an indirect attempt to combat the alienation and disempowerment felt by so many. We have lost confidence on every level. Once progressive movements of the left such as modernism in art and architecture to the contemporary eye seem contrived and faulty; the m
Episodes
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Spring Podcast 6 - POLITICALLY PERSONAL & PERSONALLY POLITICAL. SOCIALISM & SEXUALITY
Since ‘The personal is political’ became the mantra of the 1970s feminist movement, sexuality and sexual politics have been central to the development of left-wing ideology. Gay and women’s liberation groups became an integral aspect of the left, informing its discourse and cultural development....
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Spring Podcast 5 - RARELY TRUE AND NEVER SIMPLE. SATIRE, TRUTH & SUBVERSION
In an article accusing comedy website The Onion of being the most effective Marxist propaganda machine in America, a journalist reflected that ‘from King Lear’s Fool to Samuel Clemens, humor is often the cover by which the radical reaches the mainstream’. From the Chartist usage of seditious,...
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Spring Podcast 4 - THE PARAMETERS OF POWER
A whole generation of left-wingers in the United Kingdom have never had to deal directly with the question of wielding political power. But following a momentous summer, shocked socialists have found themselves with a radical Labour leadership advocating a ‘new politics’ and espousing ambitious...
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Spring Podcast 3 - CULTURE & THE CROWD
Many cultural movements relate to the crowd – from music, to football, to theatre. Being a part of a mass is clearly an integral aspect of the cultural drive… an event witnessed alone can be quite different from the same event in isolation.The scale of audience and participation builds into what...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is podcast created by the Spring Manchester group consisting of recordings from the conferences and events that we organise.We believe that the left is in diaspora. Its historic support base – the organised working class, and with it notions of solidarity and collective discipline – is a pale reflection of its former self. Without this traditional constituency, every facet of the left has fallen into decay. Working class education and traditions, and most importantly a solid grounding in the needs and experiences of the mass of the population, have been lost to the winds. In place of retreating class politics, forms of identity politics less fundamentally critical of capitalist structures have tended to dominate discourse… an indirect attempt to combat the alienation and disempowerment felt by so many. We have lost confidence on every level. Once progressive movements of the left such as modernism in art and architecture to the contemporary eye seem contrived and faulty; the m
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This is podcast created by the Spring Manchester group consisting of recordings from the conferences and events that we organise.We believe that the left is in diaspora. Its historic support base – the organised working class, and with it notions of solidarity and collective discipline – is a pale...
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