Give Them An Argument

Ben Burgis and Matt McManus chat with Laura K. Field about her excellent new book "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right."

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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds

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Deep State Kuba and New York Cynthia join Ben Burgis to talk about Curtis Yarvin's demented new essay "The Situation and the Solution."

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Marxist Twitter has been fighting about Vivek Chibber lately. Ben Burgis takes the opportunity to address the immediate controversy but also the much broader value of Chibber's work.

Read the Jacobin Chibber interview on the origins of capitalism that everyone is freaking out about:

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy

Read Ben's essay "Taking the Red Pill: William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix":

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/taking-the-red-pill-william-clare

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Ben Burgis talks about why he doesn't buy Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's defense of identity politics in Táíwò's book "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)."

Check out the book:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

Read Ben's review:

https://damagemag.com/2025/06/11/uncaptured-identity-politics-is-no-substitute-for-a-politics-of-class/

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Are service workers part of the "productive" part of the working class? And what does that mean? How about public sector employees--if they're not productive workers, does that mean that their interests don't align with productive workers and socialists shouldn't support the welfare state after all?

Ben Burgis talks about what the Trotskyist leader and Marxist economist Ernest Mandel gets right and wrong in his introduction to Capital Vol. 2.

Read Ben's essay:

benburgis.substack.com/p/are-service-workers-and-public-sector

Watch the Erik Olin Wright "Understanding Class" lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmiiSSMZPnE

Read his review of Jodi Dean's book:

https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-marx/

Read Dean's response to Ben:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies-a-response-to-ben-burgis

Read Ben's response to Dean's response:

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-servants-a-response-to-jodi-dean

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