Kansas: from populist left to Bible Belt

As told 8

“what happened then in 30, 40 years, the very bedrock of progressive leftist populism turned into...”
1:15:52 On Apocalyptic Times2009-11-24 · 1:22:49

“Kansas is a small American Bible Belt state which was till years ago the single most radical in the leftist sense American state”
~0:10 The Situation is Catastrophic but not Serious2011-05-09 · 1:26:09

“The disappearance of the left meant that it's now the bedrock of Christian fundamentalism. This should give us something to think.”
11:01 From The Critique of Religion to the Critique of Political Economy2008-12-06 · 1:28:52

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

fascism as failed revolution ×4 fundamentalism as symptom of liberalism ×3 determining element ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Thomas Frank6 Jacques Vergès3 Jean-Pierre Taguieff2 Moishe Postone3 John Brown2 Alan Greenspan2 Peter Mandelson2 Jean-Marie Le Pen2

alongside works

What's the Matter with Kansas?6 Left in Dark Times2 The Lost Symbol2 Transcritique1 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid1 Les penchants criminels de l'Europe démocratique1 Sixth Sense (gestural interface)1 Zizek's Ontology1

Told together with

73% Afghanistan: from secular to fundamentalist 8 shared talks 22% Clinton's 'We Blew It on Global Food' speech 2 shared talks 22% Swat Valley Taliban / class revolt in New York Times 2 shared talks 9% Stephen Hawking's brain-wired wheelchair 2 shared talks 9% Bill Gates as rent-extractor from general intellect 2 shared talks 4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 8

1:15:52 On Apocalyptic Times2009-11-24 · 1:22:49

Kansas, once the most radical anti-slavery and populist-left US state (home of John Brown), is now the Bible Belt fundamentalist heartland. Žižek uses this transformation as evidence that American religious fundamentalism is produced by the disintegration of left alternatives under liberal capitalism., illustrating liberalism generates fundamentalism,determining element,failed revolution thesis

~0:10 The Situation is Catastrophic but not Serious2011-05-09 · 1:26:09

Kansas was once the most radical left-wing US state (antislavery movements from Lincoln's time) and is now the most fundamentalist Bible Belt state, a paradigm case of global capitalism generating fundamentalism., illustrating capitalism generates fundamentalism,authoritarian capitalism

11:01 From The Critique of Religion to the Critique of Political Economy2008-12-06 · 1:28:52

Kansas was historically the bedrock of American radical leftist populism and the most pro-Roosevelt state; as the left disappeared, it became the bedrock of Christian fundamentalism, confirming the pattern that fundamentalism replaces failed left politics., illustrating fundamentalization,fascism as symptom of failed revolution

47:50 Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semite and Jew2009 · 1:12:54

Kansas, once the bedrock of radical leftist populism (John Brown, anti-racism), is today the bedrock of Christian fundamentalism, confirming Benjamin's thesis that fascism is the index of a failed revolution., illustrating fascism as symptom of failed revolution,What's the Matter with Kansas,failed left

35:18 Jealousy as a political category2009-04-24 · 1:28:39

Thomas Frank's book shows that Kansas, historically the heartland of radical left populism and home to John Brown, is now the bedrock of Christian fundamentalism, exemplifying Benjamin's thesis domestically., illustrating fascism as failed revolution,populism,Benjamin thesis

~0:01 Radical Politics Today: Hegel’s Teaching2015-07-25 · 1:48:48

Thomas Frank's 'What's the Matter with Kansas?' traces how the most progressive American state became a bedrock of Christian fundamentalism, parallel to Afghanistan, showing fundamentalism's global non-cultural character., illustrating religious fundamentalism as capitalist product,Thomas Frank