[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 15 Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid with John Preston and Rhiannon Firth

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 15 Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid 
with John Preston and Rhiannon Firth*
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

For this episode we talk with John Preson and Rhiannon Firth about the 
relationship between class, disasters, and mutual aid. The conversation 
is formed mainly around re-visiting their 2020 book /Coronavirus, Class 
and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom/ but branches off to discussing 
broader issues including nuclear war, live sociology, and conspiracies.

“This book considers how the UK government’s response to the recent 
COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, 
based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and 
social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material 
and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class 
struggle and class interpolation. Preston and Firth examine how plans 
for quarantine and social isolation systematically work against the 
needs of the working class, and rely on classed assumptions about how 
markets and altruism operate.

In the face of neoliberal methods of dealing with a pandemic, ranging 
from marketization, disaster capitalism, to a strengthening of the 
State, Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom explains 
how radical alternatives such as social movements and mutual aid can be 
implemented to better cope with current and future crises.”

Intro / Outro Music:
Dead Kenny G's cover the Dead Kennedys "Kill The Poor”


-- 
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info
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