With the NYC mayoral elections just two months away, we’re talking about one of the most important developments for the Left right now: Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic mayoral primary and his ongoing campaign to win the election in November. Mamdani’s mostly progressive platform speaks to the aspirations of working-class New Yorkers, and his mayoral primary victory reflects an important progressive shift in a context of right-wing attacks by the Trump administration, revealing broad di...
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With the NYC mayoral elections just two months away, we’re talking about one of the most important developments for the Left right now: Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic mayoral primary and his ongoing campaign to win the election in November. Mamdani’s mostly progressive platform speaks to the aspirations of working-class New Yorkers, and his mayoral primary victory reflects an important progressive shift in a context of right-wing attacks by the Trump administration, revealing broad di...
Helly and Mark, Hegel and Marx: Severance and Labor Alienation
The Red Thread
16 minutes
6 months ago
Helly and Mark, Hegel and Marx: Severance and Labor Alienation
In this episode, we're talking about Severance, which Apple TV claims is its most-watched show ever. And it has a cult following, including us! There are so many angles to analyze this show from, but in this episode we're focusing on Marx's idea of the alienation of labor. So, let’s head down to the severed floor of Lumon. Here, the “innie” exists only to work. They’re cut off from their own memories, so they have no access to their own history, culture, or any sense of life outside the offic...
The Red Thread
With the NYC mayoral elections just two months away, we’re talking about one of the most important developments for the Left right now: Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic mayoral primary and his ongoing campaign to win the election in November. Mamdani’s mostly progressive platform speaks to the aspirations of working-class New Yorkers, and his mayoral primary victory reflects an important progressive shift in a context of right-wing attacks by the Trump administration, revealing broad di...
