ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Matthew tracks the attack on disability justice activist Beatrice Adler-Bolton after a clip from her Socialism 2026 panel — "Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State" — was stripped of context by a right wing rage-farmer, and made to go viral. Adler-Bolton used the word "dysgenic" ironically, as a reclamation, arguing the left shouldn't try to out-fitness fascists. The clip drew 12 million views and wound up on Rogan.
Matthew unpacks what his colleague Adler-Bolton actually said, and why swoletarians in the “Left Manosphere”—as per Ayman Makarem's framework—misheard her point about fitness as an attack on their attempts to prepare for revolution.
Show Notes
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State
Ayman Makarem, "The Leftist Manosphere and Identity Politics"
Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
Ben Case, Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
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