Most histories of the present either overlook the seventies, jumping from the sixties of radical struggle to the eighties of Reagan/Thatcher and repression, or dismiss it as just the end point of the previous era struggles, the point where the sixties fell apart, collapsing into infighting, or went too far, devolving into violence. 

What do we overlook in not thinking about the seventies as a decade of struggle? Moreover,  what does an examination of the  history of that period offer for thinking about politics today? Joining us this week to talk about what we can learn from the seventies and his recently published book, The Subversive Seventies, is Michael Hardt.

In this episode, we discuss the following ideas/thinkers/texts/etc.:

• Star Trek: Strange New World’s musical episode
• Rebecca F. Kuang’s book Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
• Captain Fall on Netflix  
• Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book Empire 
• Michael Hardt’s The Subversive Seventies 
• Liberation Theology in Latin America 
• Amílcar Cabral 
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• Iris Marion Young Beyond the Unhappy Marriage
• Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor’s From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation
• The Assassination of Fred Hampton
• Robin D.G. Kelley
• Antonio Negri’ The Savage Anomaly  
• Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital 
• Gilles Deleuze’s Book on Foucault 
• The Twilight Zone
• Louis Althusser

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