Pt.13 MICHAEL BROOKS TRIBUTE SERIES: Vivek Chibber, Cedric Johnson & Todd McGowan w. Bhaskar Sunkara

This is part 13 of The Michael Brooks Tribute Series: Identity and the Left Ft. Vivek Chibber, Cedric Johnson & Todd McGowan with Bhaskar Sunkara (moderator)

Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

Cedric Johnson is associate professor of African American studies and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of several titles including "Universality and Identity Politics" and "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution"

Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.

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This panel was edited by Forrest Miller @AlwaysFlacko, and produced by Russell Sbriglia and Lisha Brooks @for_mjb