C Derick Varn and Douglas Lain return to discuss the difference between united and popular front politics and what either approach would look like in the age of Sanders and Trump. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLSe3pp_xtQ

Did the 80s ever happen or is vaporwave the ghost of a past that never was? Are we doomed to mash up, distort and repeat, or has the crystallized moment called Neoliberalism shattered? This video reexamines Grafton Tanner's theories on Vaporwave, reassesses Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, and considers the possibility that history has reasserted itself in the worst of ways. http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6UAKCU5vEs

Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Marx's feelings about utopianism and blueprints in this episode of Pop the Left. Can we develop a working-class project for socialism without having a good idea of what socialism will work and what will replace capitalist production? Did Marx think we could? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6JGv4snLgc

Many believe that socialism is a struggle to overturn the market and that revolutionaries should attempt to deprogram the masses who have been suckered, brainwashed, and ultimately corrupted by cheap consumer goods. In this third episode of WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY author MK Hobson (Native Star-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3PKFY) and Zero Books publisher and author Douglas Lain (Bash Bash Revolution-https://www.amazon.com/Bash-Revolutio...) question this view as they explore and explain the topic of “Anti-Consumerism” while taking an excerpt from Swift’s “A Left For Itself” WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY is a new monthly video series modeled on educational television programs like 3...2...1 Contact and Square One Television, only rather than explaining the natural sciences, WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY aims to explore Critical Theory of the Marxist variety. Also Starring: Noah Lain as the boy with his damn hat. Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole https://www.instagram.com/robotbloodco/ Related Books A Left for Itself: Left-Wing Hobbyists and the Rise of Identity Radicalism by David Swift https://www.amazon.com/Left-Itself-Left-Wing-Hobbyists-Radicalism/dp/1789040736 Adverts Cited That’s Some Spicy Meatball by Alka Seltzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k Teach the World to Sing by Coca-Cola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q Video and Music Clips from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive Other Music Includes Zero Squared Theme or “Untitled” by Nik Walton An Acoustic version of Macintosh plus by The Guests Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books Zero Books Manifesto: The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization. Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyepZ2d7lt8