About this episode
Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the limitations of political action and the need for resistance against despair and resignation.
This episode was originally released June 23rd, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their own oppression (e.g. dismissal of the south as somehow “deserving” Republican control). We also discuss how this tendency towards indirect democracy vs direct democracy can spur despair and resignation, and how to resist it. Read William's piece, Another way out: Fighting back against inaction here: https://prismreports.org/2025/06/03/inaction-voting-revolutionary-change/ Find William's book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Aboliton here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781849354349 and his book, co-authored with Zoé Samudzi, As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781849353168 We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the…
People in this episode
Host: Beatrice
Guest: William C. Anderson
Topics covered
- political action
- voting
- direct democracy
- indirect democracy
- oppression
- resistance
Keywords
- political action
- voting
- oppression
- democracy
- resistance
- William C. Anderson
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Another way out: Fighting back against inaction, The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Aboliton, As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, Get Health Communism, Abolish Rent, A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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