The People Are Not One - Live from Philly

We kickoff a summer book tour with a live event on The People Are Not One at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Join the discussion or meet us in-person at the Education, Philosophy, and Religion department (2nd floor) of Parkway Central Library: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calend... This discussion is moderated by Timothy Schatz, Ph.D. candidate at Villanova University https://timothyschatz.github.io. More information about The People Are Not One: "In The People Are Not One, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn dismantle the central illusion of contemporary left politics: that “the people” can serve as a coherent subject of emancipation. Against both right and left populisms, they argue that this fantasy of unity obscures real class antagonisms and traps socialism in a dead-end politics of moral appeal and electoral maneuver. Through a sustained critique of left-populism, post-Marxist theory, and Democratic Party–oriented socialism, Tutt and Varn show how the collapse of mass politics, alongside debates over the professional-managerial class and the atomization of working-class life, has produced a strategic impasse on the left. What follows is not a lament but a provocation: a call to abandon populist shortcuts and rebuild socialist strategy on the terrain of class struggle as it actually exists—uneven, divided, and politically unformed. The People Are Not One is a manifesto for a post-populist left willing to confront fragmentation head-on and begin the long work of reconstructing class power."