2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecturer Grace Blakeley sits down with Luke Savage in Toronto, Canada, for a conversation on the failures of neoliberal capitalism, the age of individualism it has produced, and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class.
Blakeley and Savage examine how the far-right have taken advantage of the gaps and inequities made under individualism and why organizing is needed to fight for working-class democratic power.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube and listen to Grace Blakeley's full 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture, 'Genuine Democracy in an Age of Hyper-Individualism' in Perspectives Journal.
Buy Grace Blakeley's latest book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedomand subscribe to her Substack for more writing and ideas.
Buy Seeking Social Democracy, Ed Broadbent's book co-authored by Luke Savage, Frances Abele, and Jonathan Sas, and subscribe to Luke Savage's Substack.
