Culture and Freedom with Paul Gilroy

This introduction to the life and work of Paul Gilroy concentrates on his changing engagement with Marxism and the shape of his anti-racist, anti-nationalist commitment to universal human freedom from the "long 1970s" to the present. Asking what resources of hope we can find in a world scarred by violence, Paul moves from a discussion of shame and guilt to the promise of humanism.

This is episode 2 of postscript, reflecting on the future of the left after the passing of twentieth century assumptions.

Chapters:

(00:39) Parents

(9:42) First music

(15:30) School struggles

(16:18) Oz trial

(20:56) Gillian Rose

(23:35) To Birmingham

(28:15) Cultural Studies

(32:10) EP Thompson

(37:28) Stuart Hall

(38:56) Nationalism

(40:34) White guilt

(46:19) Reparations

(47:47) Shame

(51:33 Dissident Marxisms

(1:00:30) Cedric Robinson

(1:01:59) CLR James + Race Today

(1:05:25) Music + freedom

(1:08:28) Andre Gorz

(1:09:25) Marx's Jamaica

(1:10:44) Green post-Marxism

(1:16:29) Humanism

(1:23:35) Zionism

(1:29:00) Optimism