Can 'Trauma' Bring You Clout? - Catherine Liu

JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club + Community Discussion Articles + Exclusive Content MAKE A DONATION: https://buymeacoffee.com/wtfisleft ****Catherine Liu is literally the best. That’s all you need to know.Slip into this portal of coherent dissent and slide on to the class politics bandwagon.We take the scalpel to identity politics, liberal illiberalism and bioated bureaucracy.What’s your universal principle? Ours is to increase the labour share of surplus value relative to capital. A perennial struggle. Chapters 00:00 Intro01:45 Was Identity Politics A Psyop?05:35 Woke 1 Was Crazier09:53 Is Egg Freezing Anti-Feminist?14:17 The Professional Managerial Class21:22 Why Class Analysis Went Out of Vogue26:36 Is Catherine’s ‘Working Class’ Ahistorical?38:12 University’s IdPol Script44:20 Depressed Wages and Mass Migration51:35 Left-Liberal Death of Vision55:46 The Satanic Panic1:00:18 Ever-Enlarging Bureaucracy1:06:20 Institution Building1:16:17 Zombie Liberalism and Disability Dependency1:22:30 Does Work Give You Dignity1:27:08 Mimetic Theory