“You Don’t Have a Choice. It’s the Moral Thing to Do.”
Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby, hosts of Street Fight Radio, talk about their twisting paths to the Left through punk and libertarianism in suburban Ohio, hating your job and barely making it, and how to prevent angry young white men from going over to the alt right.
A still from Brett and Bryan’s appearance on Means TV, an anticapitalist video channel. You can watch their appearance here.
Street Fight Radio is a podcast hosted out of Columbus, Ohio by Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby. The show touches on a wide range of subjects, from the hosts’ personal lives to listeners’ bad boss stories to general discussion of left-wing politics.
Brett and Bryan, who are thirty-five and forty years old respectively, both grew up in working-class households just outside of Columbus, and both traveled a twisty path — through Alex Jones, NOFX, Ron Paul, and psychedelic mushrooms — to arrive at the world views they have today.
Jacobin’s Meagan Day talked to them about their own political awakenings, anarchism and the value of taking state power, and whose responsibility it is to stop disaffected young white guys from drifting right.
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