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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 Intro

01:45 Was Identity Politics A Psyop?

05:35 Woke 1 Was Crazier

09:53 Is Egg Freezing Anti-Feminist?

14:17 The Professional Managerial Class

21:22 Why Class Analysis Went Out of Vogue

26:36 Is Catherine’s ‘Working Class’ Ahistorical?

38:12 University’s IdPol Script

44:20 Depressed Wages and Mass Migration

51:35 Left-Liberal Death of Vision

55:46 The Satanic Panic

1:00:18 Ever-Enlarging Bureaucracy

1:06:20 Institution Building

1:16:17 Zombie Liberalism and Disability Dependency

1:22:30 Does Work Give You Dignity

1:27:08 Mimetic Theory