For Episode 67, we spoke with activist and writer William C. Anderson about racism, electoral politics, DEI backlash, anarchism's relation to socialism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin, and the Black radical tradition.
William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian, MTV, British Journal of Photography, Logic(s) Magazine, and Prism, where he’s a monthly columnist. He is the author of The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014).
Links:
https://bsky.app/profile/williamcson.bsky.social
https://williamcanderson.info/
https://offshootjournal.org/
https://blackautonomy.libsyn.com/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:09:29 Distinctly Black Anarchism
00:19:21 Political Education
00:25:24 Representation
00:37:02 The Lead-up to Fascism
00:42:49 Ethnonationalism
00:49:42 Online Leftist Posturing
00:56:37 Marx's Influence
01:08:31 Meet the Ervins
01:14:39 Lightning Round Plus
01:35:56 Media Recommendations
01:39:01 Outro
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