Vincent Bevins
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Oct 4, 2026
EmmaHOST
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WillGUEST
is very essential and you'll become very very angry but hopefully mobilized and empowered when you start asking those questions also like speak to your neighbor and also like read if you can I listen to audiobooks I love audiobooks I can give anyone my library of audiobooks if you'd like I was listening to Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins recently and I will say like there is a literacy crisis in the United States and the more you can listen to just easy reads but radicalizing things Assata by Assata Shakur absolutely fantastic the more you don't need to listen to a random white man on a podcast to tell you what to do hopefully it becomes radicalized a bit more but yeah what about you Emma what would you advocate people do
EmmaHOST
I definitely agree with you.
EmmaHOST
I think that it goes so much beyond voting.
JakeHOST
All right, never mind.
JakeHOST
Um, um, this is a na- this is, uh, a, this is a name of a book written by Vincent Bevins.
JakeHOST
Well, it's in it.
JakeHOST
It's a very good book.
ThomasHOST
Oh, is it-
JakeHOST
Uh-
ThomasHOST
... is it my favorite Vincent Bevins book?
JakeHOST
It would be your favorite, The Blank Method.
C. Derick VarnHOST
... that's my th- like, he thought it was necessary, so he helped Sukarno's nationalist government in a coalition, and they also tied in the cooperation with the national bourgeoisie versus the comprador bourgeoisie, just like is in China and Chinese theories, to help the progressive aspect of the state develop so that the communists could eventually take over.
C. Derick VarnHOST
The, the PKI, the c- the Communist Party of, of Indonesia entered into a united front, and they actually did it in a way that's kind of unique, and I think this is not discussed enough in the Vincent Bevins book.
Brandon LightlyGUEST
Hmm.
C. Derick VarnHOST
Which was, and this is a very Soviet-esque way to say this, I think funny, but Nasakom, Nasakom.
Julian FeeldHOST
radicalized.
Julian FeeldHOST
So, my dear Johnny, what do you know about Indonesia? What do you know about, let's say, a book called The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins or a movie called The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer?
Jon GabrusHOST
I've seen The Act of Killing, and I really...
Jon GabrusHOST
It's hard to say I love that movie, but I did enjoy...
RobHOST
Folks, all that and more on today's The Hunter interview.
RobHOST
I've been finishing up a book by Vincent Bevins, the journalist who also wrote The Jakarta Method.
RobHOST
This book is called If We Burn.
RobHOST
He has covered... basically foreign activity, foreign news for a bunch of different outlets, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and he's covered places like Brazil.
Jason MylesHOST
Those kids were so sweet.
Jason MylesHOST
Shout out to Vincent Bevins.
Jason MylesHOST
Um-
M. ToussaintPANELIST
I like that guy
Antonio Michael DowningHOST
What were you trying to
Anna LambeGUEST
read? I was trying to read The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
Anna LambeGUEST
Okay.
Anna LambeGUEST
And it's nonfiction.
Joshua CitarellaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Joshua CitarellaHOST
And that kind of underlying structure, Vincent Bevins makes this argument, a number of people make this argument, but it comes from a kind of Protestant belief system of like eventually arriving at heaven, the kind of ideal form of society.
Joshua CitarellaHOST
It's true.
Joshua CitarellaHOST
And now as teleology has become less interesting in like the past, let's say like the neoliberal period, right? Just those themes about the inevitability of socialism have kind of disappeared from the left.