S1E7: Trump's Mafia Capitalism and the Crisis in American Politics

EPISODE 7: TRUMP’S MAFIA CAPITALISM AND THE CRISIS IN AMERICAN POLITICS

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago

Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)

See his Bio Capital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life (Duke University Press, 2006)

Rajan, “Plutocracy, Populism and the 2016 American Election” (EPW)

See also the works of Susan Gal, Thorstein Veblen, Lenin, and Gramsci

Recommended Reading: Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”