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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 15 Class, Disasters, and
Mutual Aid with John Preston and Rhiannon Firth</b><br>
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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 <i>Coronavirus,
Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom</i> but branches off
to discussing broader issues including nuclear war, live
sociology, and conspiracies.<br>
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“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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.”<br>
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Intro / Outro Music:<br>
Dead Kenny G's cover the Dead Kennedys "Kill The Poor”<br>
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Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
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