Vivek Chibber: How the Left Got Lost | Doomscroll

Well, this means if you want to get a job in cultural studies and gender studies and race studies, you're going to have to talk that oppression talk. People get incredibly upset when you say that you couldn't dream of a better left for the capitalist class than this. So, this was in one way you could say an abandonment of radical scholarship. If by radical we mean what it's always meant, which is you go to the root of things and the root of modern society is capitalism.

That generation of the left had itself degenerated morally and intellectually to essentially now shifting towards various forms of identity politics. Academia and NOS's. These are the two sectors that control the left. Now it's a dead left.

We are I really do believe we're starting over. I don't think the intellectual resources of the left have been weaker at any point in its history than they are today. Welcome to Doomscroll. I'm your host Joshua Cinderella.

My guest is VC Chibber, a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of several books including Confronting Capitalism published by Verso in 2022, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn published by Harvard University Press in 2022, and Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital from Verso Books in 2013. The VC Chippber is the editor of Catalyst Journal founded in 2017 and published by Jacaban magazine. He is the host of the Confronting Capitalism podcast.

Is critical race theory a Marxist plot? Uh, no. It has nothing to do with my Trump told me it was. I know.

Well, there's a deeper point here, which is this, that the the great conj job that the current woke left has done is that it's branded all of this um the this culture of [ __ ] as a lineal descendant of Marxism, right? And what's dangerous now it's important for them themselves because they want to present themselves not as the voices of reaction which is what they are but as people who took everything that was absorbable from Marxism but now adorned it with the most recent theoretical advances. So it's actually now more powerful than it used to be because a lot of the population and the right sees it for the [ __ ] that it is. It's now able to say that the ...