Ep. 7: Gerald Horne on Class Struggle in Hollywood, the WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strike & Rethinking the Lumpen

In this interview, Gerald Horne and I discuss his two books on Hollywood, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, & Trade Unionists (University of Texas Press, 2001) and The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. Dr. Horne also discusses the import of the ongoing 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. We also dig into an early essay of Dr. Horne's entitled "Rethinking the Lumpen: Gangsters and the Political Economy of Capitalism" from the journal Nature, Society, and Thought (1997), and discuss the role of the lumpen in contemporary American politics, specifically with regard to the recent RICO indictment of Donald Trump and co. in Fulton County, Georgia, charged with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Other works discussed in this episode:
Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, available here: tinyurl.com/yh...
Dr. Horne's interview with Dr. Sepinwall for Freedom Now KPFK Los Angeles is available here: • Freedom Now Gerald Hor...
Anthony Ballas's commentary on Dr. Sepinwall's book is available here: tinyurl.com/v8...
Intro Theme: "Channel 3" by Dyad
Outro Theme: "For Love" by Jason Moran
Special thanks to Aspen Ballas for her editing assistance on this episode.
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THANKS for this!!!! Gerald Horne is a national treasure among historians!!!!

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Love Gerald Horne

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Spending my day watching all of your episodes- sick but this is medicine for the soul. Time well spent! Love your show and I adore Dr Horne
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Your engagement is deeply appreciated! And thank you for the mind words! We hope you feel better soon, body and soul! 🙏 ✊️

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[@kalebnbrown]

Gerald Horne is a genius!

[@kgthoughts]

Great information.

[@paulray494]

another great one…thanks !

[@johnrusselljr89]

I was a History major in college and this is dead on!

[@robertrichard6107]

Who can't forget 'When Johnny Dillinger got his V-8 Ford'?😂

[@johnrusselljr89]

Amen! Reagan SUPER BLOWS! FLYING IS DANGEROUS SINCE REAGAN!!!

[@FrostRare]

Doctor Horne on his Old Head arc lmao

[@robertrichard6107]

Less than 30 days before Oct. 7, was launched on us! Almost a different world, but the Empire was losing its hybrid WWIII.

[@user-wd4qk3el7j]

Will free rainge movie making ever be a thing again, just the case of the intervateing mine set, thinking freely. If so i would like to give my creativity to the craft, with the help of my favorite supper stars Tiffany Haddish, and Tamar Braxton paired. I see the light shining though them when we can be freely creative again. With these two joining to gether with their special talented to help the come back of Hollywood real intertaiment , and like to invite Dr Horns in on the reverlation also and like always, always a couple of others Shout to Hollywood, sometimes you have to get back to doing what you do best, I see you Atlanta GA.