I am old enough (barely) to remember how terrible the late 70’s were for the larger cities in the US. Darryl mentions (in God’s Socialist) how the commentators of the 1977 World Series openly comment on the fact that the Bronx is on fire again. I actually have a memory of that since my father and I were watching the game (I was 7). Th…
I am old enough (barely) to remember how terrible the late 70’s were for the larger cities in the US. Darryl mentions (in God’s Socialist) how the commentators of the 1977 World Series openly comment on the fact that the Bronx is on fire again. I actually have a memory of that since my father and I were watching the game (I was 7). Therefore, I also remember the violence of the 80’s as a teenager. Luckily for me, I grew up in rural SC and watched from afar as cities destroyed themselves. And, being a teenager, had no idea what underpinned all this violence and degradation. All this context leads me to ask DC this question(s): what books have you read that try to explain the link between the collapse of the civil rights movements of the late 60’s into chaos and the ensuing violence and institutional collapse (at least in the cities) of the 1970’s? Second, you mention the Third Worldism ideology and the effect it had on the relationship between Blacks and Jews. Do you consider Third Worldism to be connected to or the same as the exporting of Marxism from Western intellectuals to the former European colonies so that the oppressed peoples of the world could throw off the colonial masters? Professor Bruce Gilley was on the Uncancelled History podcast and he referred to this exporting of Western Marxism as the true imperialism. What role does the Third Worldism outlook play in many people, particularly Blacks, in viewing the Jews as nothing more than the new imperialists (whether in the Middle East or the management of so many global businesses)? Maybe I am drawing too many connections here but there seems to be something there. Anyway, thank you for a great series! I needed a bit of a break after reading Stalin’s War and currently reading my 6th book on the Rwandan genocide.
I am old enough (barely) to remember how terrible the late 70’s were for the larger cities in the US. Darryl mentions (in God’s Socialist) how the commentators of the 1977 World Series openly comment on the fact that the Bronx is on fire again. I actually have a memory of that since my father and I were watching the game (I was 7). Therefore, I also remember the violence of the 80’s as a teenager. Luckily for me, I grew up in rural SC and watched from afar as cities destroyed themselves. And, being a teenager, had no idea what underpinned all this violence and degradation. All this context leads me to ask DC this question(s): what books have you read that try to explain the link between the collapse of the civil rights movements of the late 60’s into chaos and the ensuing violence and institutional collapse (at least in the cities) of the 1970’s? Second, you mention the Third Worldism ideology and the effect it had on the relationship between Blacks and Jews. Do you consider Third Worldism to be connected to or the same as the exporting of Marxism from Western intellectuals to the former European colonies so that the oppressed peoples of the world could throw off the colonial masters? Professor Bruce Gilley was on the Uncancelled History podcast and he referred to this exporting of Western Marxism as the true imperialism. What role does the Third Worldism outlook play in many people, particularly Blacks, in viewing the Jews as nothing more than the new imperialists (whether in the Middle East or the management of so many global businesses)? Maybe I am drawing too many connections here but there seems to be something there. Anyway, thank you for a great series! I needed a bit of a break after reading Stalin’s War and currently reading my 6th book on the Rwandan genocide.
+1 to this comment generally, and specifically I could use an explainer or “third worldism.” Until this podcast I’d never even heard it before.