Vivek Chibber

[intro music] Welcome to Confronting Capitalism.

I'm Melissa Naschek, and I'm here, as always, with Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at NYU, and the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

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[theme music] Welcome to Confronting Capitalism.

I'm Melissa Naschek, and I'm here, as always, with Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at NYU and the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

Quick reminder that if you like what you hear, please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and we also publish transcripts and recordings on Substack.

V, this is our 50th episode of Confronting Capitalism.

Uh, one of Naomi Klein's book, doppelganger, and one of Femi Taiwo's, uh, Elite Capture.

And, and then one, actually it's kind of a response to a book review, uh, William Clare Roberts of Vivek Chibber's Class Matrix.

And then, and then one that's adapted from a conference presentation on, on class abstractionism, which is a sort of Marxist academic concept.

Like, all, you know, in using that title, Confessions of a quote, "Class Reductionist," unquote, right? It's, yeah, it's, it's, it's being a little playful and provocative but, you know, but it's, the point is that I'm, the debate I'm trying to intervene in is one where people that I generally agree with are, are accused of this, right? And, and I, I want to, you know, make the case that like, no, no, no, actually this thing that gets them accused of this, you know, is stuff that they're right about, right? I mean, that's the, that's the, the, you know, that's the case that I'm trying to make in these essays.