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Zero Squared #209: Comedy, Politics and Revolution
Charlie Demers, is a Canadian writer, comedian and political activist. He is the voice of Walter from the 2016 Netflix original series Beat Bugs. and the voice of Night Light in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season seven episode "Once Upon a Zeppelin". His comedy album Fatherland was nominated for a Juno Awards in 2018, and he is the author of the novels The Prescription Errors and Property Values.
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This week’s podcast is available in full while next week’s podcast will be available for our Patreon supporters. Our patrons get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Patrons also receive access to our new video series called The History of Communism every month and get access to the Capital Reading group. Book Club members receive electronic copies of a new Zero Book titles every month and are invited to an online discussion group.
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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.
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During Douglas Lain's interview with Chris Nineham in London, Chris talks about the need for extra-parliamentary movements from the masses to support Corbyn if he wins after discussing Corbyn's prospects in the general election.
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Susanna Kleeman is the woman behind the novel Twice which came out from Zero Books in June of 2021. In this video, she discusses how Capitalism is murdering the imagination even as she discusses her novel.
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Twice by Susanna Kleeman
https://www.susannakleeman.com/twice
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The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. In this video the economist Richard D. Wolff discusses how capitalism works and doesn't work as he describes his new book from Democracy at Work "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" and Douglas Lain tries to set up a conversation on State Capitalism and Workers Co-Ops for the parrot room.
Democracy at Work
https://www.democracyatwork.info/
Relevant Books
The Sickness is the System by Richard Wolff
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/richard-d-wolff/the-sickness-is-the-system
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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.
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Along with taking a poke and Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris this video attempts to answer the following questions:
Does the belief that our social norms and values can change over time lead to moral relativism? Can the division between subject and object be overcome? Has abstract labor as Marx defined it always existed?
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Against the Web: A Cosmpolitan Answer to the New Right by Michael Brooks
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/against-the-web-michael-brooks/1136624345?ean=9781789042306
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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.
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This video is in response to both the EDA's book "Why are Animals Funny" and Eugene Thacker's "Tentacles Longer than Night."
The move towards the animal, the desire for the attainment of animal consciousness, is a move away from the depths of our responsibility as humans. It is not a way to escape from meaning, but is instead a move to naturalize and so obscure our view of the meanings and structures we produce and reproduce every day.
Why are Animals Funny?
http://www.zero-books.net/books/why-animals-funny
Tentacles Longer Than Night
http://www.zero-books.net/books/tentacles-longer-night
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Part Two of Ben Burgis’ response to the Distributist on whether “Capitalism” is a magic word includes a smack down. The Distributist is another soft-reactionary willing to publicly demonstrate how little he knows about Marx’s writings and Burgis takes him to task for his ignorance.
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
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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.
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Ben Burgis, the author of Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left, evaluates the logic behind the various demands coming out of the protests around the murder of George Floyd. Should we abolish the police? Defund the police? Overthrow the value-form of capitalism? Find out.
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
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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.
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Back in December of 2019, Marxist geographer David Harvey controversially claimed that capitalism was "too big to fail." In this video we'll consider Harvey's argument, the impediments we're facing, and the difference between the struggle for socialism in the 19th century and socialism today.
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RL Stephens is an organizer in Chicago, founding editor of Orchestrated Pulse, and the A. Philip Randolph Fellow at Jacobin. His essay The Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body was published in May at Viewpoint Magazine and is the topic for this week’s Zero Books podcast.
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