Politics in Turkey: the Elites and the Streets
The more allies Erdoğan loses in his state apparatus, the more he has to rely on radical groups on the street to secure his power.
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This is Hell!
This is Hell! Radio has been broadcasting and podcasting from Chicago and “manufacturing dissent” since 1996. Between 2014 and 2021, Antidote Zine transcribed over two hundred of their in-depth interviews with scholars, activists, revolutionaries, and journalists on a variety of topics. This is of course only a tiny fraction of the fascinating material they have released, and still release on a regular basis.
Original audio and links to the show’s website are included in each post. Support This Is Hell! on their patronage site! And let us know if there are additional interviews of theirs you would like to see here in text form: antidote[at]riseup[dot]net.
The Awful Purgatory of Authoritarian Non-Consolidation
“I’m not even sure this can be called a system, because there aren’t very clear institutionalized rules for participation. It’s not just a lack of democratic channels of representation. The regime doesn’t have a clear social coalition of groups that have a vested interest in its presence or in its policies.”
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Against Antipolitics
Let’s build the institutions, let’s build the movements. Let’s see this as an enormous opportunity to redefine the meaning of politics. Let’s get radical. Let’s talk about radical democracy. Let’s talk about justice.
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How We Got So Racist
The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment racialized and whitened freedom, civilization, rationality, and beauty.
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Subvert Everything
There are resources within the university, both intellectual and material, that we can steal in order to sustain our survival.
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Take the Money Back!
“We’ve got this mythology that somehow there is a shortage of money, because money is a commodity and we have to compete for it, but that isn’t what money is. Money represents relationships.”
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Fight the Frackopoly
“If we’re really going to put together a movement to fight for something, why would we fight for these trading schemes? Why would we put the financial services industry in charge of the environment? We should work to ban fossil fuels.”
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A Disaster for the Whole World
“Go figure what is causing hunger. You’re displacing smallholder farmers from their land; you’re arresting them and charging them as terrorists if they protest; and then their lands are given away to foreign investors to grow what? Sugar and cotton.”
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What’s Greek is Global: “We’re All In It Together.”
“Europe—or at least our leadership—is following the script of the late 1920s, which with mathematical precision is going to lead to a major deflationary shock that the United States’ economic recovery is not strong enough to sustain.”
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To Make Protest About Power, Not Performance
There is still time to fundamentally influence the US presidential election. But we have to orient around that goal. We have to talk openly about that goal, and figure out what kinds of tactics we have to use in the streets to make it work.
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