2020 Flashback: Generalized Precarity and Subversive Pragmatism / Albena Azmanova

04/07/2025 39 min
2020 Flashback: Generalized Precarity and Subversive Pragmatism / Albena Azmanova

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Episode Synopsis

While Chuck is out this week, we revisit our first interview from 2020. Theorist Albena Azmanova examines the dynamics of post-2008 precarity capitalism, the left's long failure to strike through capitalism's competitive production of profit, and explains why radical change for the precarious multitude is possible without a revolutionary break - but through subversive pragmatism.

Albena is author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia from Columbia University Press.