“Arrested in the Office of DEI” - On the New Racial Regime with Alana Lentin
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Release Date: 07/28/2025
Nothing is More Sacred than the Defense of Humanity: Gerald Perreira on Cuba, Iran, Liberation Theology, and the Caribbean
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we sit down with Gerald Perreira, longtime Guyanese anti-imperialist activist, educator, and organizer, for a conversation on Cuba, U.S. power, and the unfinished struggle for true independence in the Caribbean and broader Global South. We unpack the tightening of U.S. pressure on Cuba, including the attack on Cuban medical brigades across the region, and examine why Guyana’s recent political decisions represent a historic betrayal of transnational solidarity. From Cuba’s lifesaving medical internationalism and its decisive role in defeating apartheid forces in Angola and...
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The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we are joined by Idris Robinson to unpack his book, , a searing meditation on race, revolt, civil war, and the psychic wreckage of American life. Reflecting on the 2020 uprisings, Robinson challenges the myth of Black leadership, reframes racial violence through the lens of a “morbid libidinal economy,” and argues that revolution is as much a transformation of the human spirit as it is a political event. Drawing on the legacies of Black insurgency, Robinson interrogates liberalism, identity politics, and the hollowing out of American cities—while pondering on what it...
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The Long Transition to Socialism & Unequal Exchange with Torkil Lauesen
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, longtime revolutionary activist and author Torkil Lauesen returns to the show. Our conversation revolves around two of his recent works published by Iskra Books: and . Drawing on a lifetime of political engagement and his close relationship with theorist Arghiri Emmanuel, Lauesen discusses his motivation for writing these books as a means of passing down hard-won knowledge to a new generation of organizers. We examine the “long transition” from capitalism to socialism, a process Lauesen frames through the lens of historical materialism. He also explains how the transfer...
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Spring Surge to Melt ICE: Dare to Struggle on Building Organized Mass Resistance to Smash the Deportation Machine
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we are joined by organizers from Dare to Struggle, a multinational organization committed to struggling against all forms of domination. Throughout this conversation we discuss some of their tactics deployed in response to the recent uptick in ICE raids happening nationally. We take a critical look at what has been effective and what has not, and the stakes for those who are daring to struggle against the deportation machine are up against. We also discuss their recent calls for a Spring Surge to melt ice, please check out the show notes to see how you can connect and get...
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"Death Itself Is On Sale" - Ali Kadri on The Accumulation of Waste
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this conversation a group of us interviewed Dr. Ali Kadri about his book The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction. This conversation was the final discussion in a study group which began last October and involved participants from all over the world. The book provides a theoretical framework which understands waste as a value making process where war-making, the wasting of social classes, and the wasting of social nature become central to capitalist accumulation and to how capital resolves crises in accumulation. The questions in this discussion were those that...
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Queen Mother Audley Moore: Midwife of Black Revolutionary Nationalism with Dr. Ashley D Farmer
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ashley Farmer to discuss the life and legacy of Queen Mother Audley Moore—an organizer, theorist, and political visionary who helped shape the very foundations of modern Black nationalism and the contemporary reparations movement. Though she was, as our guest writes, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century,” Mother Moore’s figure has been largely confined to a handful of photographs and passing references, even as her ideas reverberate across generations. Dr. Farmer discusses how if Rosa Parks is remembered as...
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Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE’s Kidnappings with Ed Vogel
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this conversation we speak with Ed Vogel from Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure about the rapid expansion of various police surveillance programs. We talk about the nexus of private corporations, policing agencies, and nonprofit foundations and organizations that facilitate the expansion of these technologies and how they seek to circumvent democratic processes and oversight mechanisms. We discuss ICE, Customs & Border Patrol, Atlanta’s Cop City, Shot Spotter, Flock Safety, Fusus, and automated license plate readers. Ed also talks about what we do and...
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Lebanon's Split Condition of Grief Under Domination with Wassila Abboud
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode we are joined by Wassila Abboud to discuss her essay, "." Our conversation begins with her meditations on grief in Lebanon. We explore how people often name today’s grief through the language of past griefs — and what this transference between past and present reveals about the psyche under domination. From there, we turn to Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history” and why Abboud argues this analogy fails to capture Lebanon’s relationship to catastrophe. We discuss why so many returns cluster around 1982, how that year fractured grief itself, reshaping collective...
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Rootedness and the Black Commune with Austin Cole
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we’re joined by Austin Cole to discuss the three-part series Black/African Liberation & Grassroots Economies, beginning with part one: “Rootedness for our people, our economies, our liberation.” We start with Toni Morrison’s concept of rootedness and how it informs urban planning and economic development. From there, we’ll dig into Strategies of Counter-war—how fascists are shaping local policy, and how BAP-Baltimore is building alternatives from the ground up. We examine the threat of elite capture and the strategic use of municipal power: how can engagement...
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Give Warmth To Gaza with Hala Sabbah of The Sameer Project (Live Audio)
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
This is the audio from a video we hosted with Hala Sabbah from The Sameer Project on December 3rd, 2025. Hala returned to the program to talk about life in Gaza nearly two months into the so-called "ceasefire." We spoke about the realities on the ground and the needs of people in Gaza right now, what is getting into the strip and what is not, and how the Sameer Project is working within the current conditions in Gaza. We also talk about the need for continued organizing, boycotts, and direct action against the zionist entity. And we spoke about creative ways people can fundraise for Sameer...
info_outlineIn this conversation we’re exited to welcome Alana Lentin back to the show to talk about her new book The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy, which works with the concept of the racial regime put forth by Cedric Robinson in his book Forgeries of Memory and Meaning. The book features a foreword by Elizabeth Robinson, long time interlocutor, partner in critical media work, and life partner of Cedric Robinson.
We talk about this project which starts with an analysis of the war on so-called Critical Race Theory, and the attendant fascistic agenda, the “whitelash” against Black Studies, and gets deep into zionist counterinsurgency efforts throughout academia, as well as the so-called “war on antisemitism,” and how we make sense of “the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured.”
It’s a really interesting read and I definitely recommend people pick it up.
Alana Lentin is a teacher and writer, and identifies as a Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). Her work focuses on a critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism.
She is a Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is the author and editor of multiple books, including Why Race Still Matters and Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe.
More about Dr. Lentin and her work can be found at her website.
This also is the first episode that Josh and Jared have recorded together since October of 2023, and it was great to collaborate again on an episode!
We hosted with the Sameer Project last week. With the forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, it is absolutely critical that we ways to continue getting support their way. We we’ll put a link to donate to the Sameer Project and to that conversation in the show description.
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Correction: in the interview Jared said it was the "National Federation of Teachers" which is not accurate (or a thing). It was the National Educators Association, however that vote from the a majority of the 7,000 delegates of the largest US teacher's union was rejected by the union's board. Read more here.
Now here is our conversation with Alana Lentin on The New Racial Regime
The title of the episode is a reference to this tweet.
Source of the image in the thumbnail.
Some References:
Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare & Counterinsurgency
"Stop Asian Hate" as Zionist Policing with Dylan Rodríguez
"Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness" by Siddhant Issar, Rachel H. Brown, and John McMahon
The War on Anti-Semitism with Anna-Esther Younes
Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Decolonization & Islamophobia with Alana Lentin (MAKC episode)
Prior audio episodes with Alana Lentin