Author: Adolph Reed Jr.

Adolph Reed, Jr. is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an organizer with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute’s Medicare for All-South Carolina initiative. His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Verso, 2022) and with Walter Benn Michaels, No Politics but Class Politics (ERIS, September 2022).

The Unhoused: Scapegoating Politics and Housing Struggles

From Anna Seghers, Comrades (translated by Todd Cronan): Steiner (the intellectual) talking to Bató (a Hungarian communist) in 1919: “Yes, people like you are fine! Join the party and then … Keep reading »

Poverty • May 22, 2024 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics

Amidst unfolding environmental disaster, ongoing genocide, and a lack of faith in public institutions, fascist and anti-democratic movements continue to gain political ground, both at home and abroad. How can … Watch video »

USA • February 18, 2024 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Scapegoating Politics: How Fascism Deploys Race, and How Antiracism Takes the Bait

Adolph Reed will be speaking in Toronto on February 9th, The Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics. In 2022 and early 2023, a highly publicized petition … Keep reading »

Anti-Racism, USA • January 30, 2024 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Inflation: What Workers Need to Know

Inflation and the fight against it is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. Adolph Reed Jr. leads a discussion with Sam Gindin and … Watch video »

Economy • September 18, 2022 • Adolph Reed Jr., Sam Gindin and Samir Sonti
Unlocked: Extended interview w/ Adolph Reed Jr.

Previously only available to our Patreon-supporters, we’ve decided to make the extended segment of the Oats interview with Adolph Reed accessible to everyone. Listen to audio »

Anti-Racism, USA • May 15, 2019 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Sneak peek: Extended Interview w/ Adolph Reed Jr.

We continue our discussion about race and class with Adolph Reed Jr. Become a patron of the podcast to hear the full version. Listen to audio »

Anti-Racism, USA • April 1, 2019 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Race, Class, and the Left w/ Adolph Reed Jr.

Oats for Breakfast talks to Adolph Reed Jr. about race and class. We begin the interview with a discussion about the legacies (and baggage) of the Black Power period. Listen to audio »

Anti-Racism, Theory • March 26, 2019 • Adolph Reed Jr.
Launching the Socialist Register 2015: Transforming Classes

This 51st annual Socialist Register completes the investigation of class formation and class strategies on a global scale begun with last year’s volume. Deploying an understanding of class as an … Watch video »

Theory • January 25, 2015 • David McNally, Sue Ferguson, Adolph Reed Jr., John Mccullough and Greg Albo
Left Alternatives to Social Democracy

Toronto — 16 March 2014. Moderated by Abbie Bakan. Presentations by: Leo Panitch is member of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly, is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and … Watch video »

Social Movements, Theory • March 30, 2014 • Leo Panitch, Adolph Reed Jr. and Roger Rashi
Race, Class and Crisis

Toronto, September 24, 2010. The economic crisis that started in U.S. housing markets in 2007 quickly swept across the world market. A long period of stagnation and austerity now seems … Watch video »

Anti-Racism, USA • September 26, 2010 • Adolph Reed Jr.