Season 5 Episode 27: Banana Discourse + the Right's War on Egalitarian Modernity

Matt McManus comes back for the fuller discussion of his new book "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" we teased a few weeks back, and then Ben and the crew switch to a distinctly more low-brow look at the strangest aspect of Matt Wlash's interests in the postgame. At the beginning of the main show, they talk about two of Ben's recent articles for Jacobin. One takes on the idea that we won't have bananas under socialism:

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/bananas-socialist-economy-production-consumption-abundance-twitter

The other talks about the way that conservative freakouts about pride flags and drag shows on military bases (along with several other issues) have made the process of nailing down this year's Pentagon budget unusually contentious--even as the vast majority of lawmakers in both parties if fundamentally on board with a country that doesn't even have universal healthcare pouring an unprecedented 900 billion dollars into its war machine:

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/pentagon-budget-right-wing-culture-war-amendments-house-bernie-sanders-ndaa

Last but very definitely not least, they mention Jason Myles' Kayfabe documentary. You can contribute to make that happen (and get various perks) here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kayfabe-documentary#/

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https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Right-and-Equality-Turning-Back-the-Tide-of-Egalitarian-Modernity/McManus/p/book/9781032310831

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