Lindsay Shepherd and the pseudo-Free Speech Movement
This video addresses Lindsay Shepherd's announcement that she was leaving the left as well as the right-wing's opportunistic embrace of free-speech. There is no commitment to free speech and free thinking on the right, rather there is only the weaponization of the left's failure to be consistent and sensible.
Matthew McManus and Michael Brooks discuss Brooks recent book "Against the Web" in the context of the expanding crisis known as 2020. The conversation covers everything from Sam Harris, to the current massive global protests, to COVID 19, to the need for cosmopolitan socialism.
Relevant Books
Against the Web by Michael Brooks
https://redemmas.org/titles/34612-against-the-web---a-cosmopolitan-answer-to-the-new-right
https://www.waterstones.com/book/against-the-web/michael-brooks/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 tackles both the problem of narcissism and the problem of solipsism by examing John August's 2007 film "The Nines," David Swift's "A Left For Itself" and Mike Watson's "Can the Left Learn to Meme?"
Relevant Books:
Can the Left Learn to Meme by Mike Watson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z47FCNL
A Left for Itself by David Swift
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Itself-Left-Wing-Hobbyists-Radicalism-ebook/dp/B07YL9379N
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyq6Ksg7qf4
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Responding to Tucker Carlson’s Prager U video Illegal Immigration: It's About Power we take excerpts from Agata Pyzik’s “Poor But Sexy” and Yasin Kakande’s “Slave States” in order to explore the true impact of undocumented workers on the economy and on wages, and in order to explore what the consequence of offering a path towards citizenship might really be for both the native working class and for the working class as a whole.
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Yes We Can Obama Ad
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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Douglas Lain was recently interviewed by Isabel Webster on Sky News. He appeared in opposition to the failed gubernatorial candidate Peter Lumaj in order to provide a left-wing take on Trump’s move to end the government shut down, and to comment on the meaning of and prospects for a potential border wall between the United States and Mexico.
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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.
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This Zero Books feature includes excerpts from Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Chistopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and Anselm Jappe's The Writing on the Wall and answers the question: Does the left hate the family?
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
http://www.zero-books.net/books/kill-all-normies
The Writing on the Wall by Anselm Jappe
http://www.zero-books.net/books/writing-on-wall
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Check out the story they're calling "Deadwood in Wales". Niall Griffiths' OF TALONS AND TEETH is out now on audiobook and paperback.
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Rick Kuhn is a Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a translator and editor of the works of Henryk Grossman and a radical in his own right. In this Zero Books interview, he discusses the pessimism of David Harvey and the possibilities for revolutionary socialism.
If you enjoy this conversation listen to the second hour of conversation in the Zero Books parrot room wherein Rick talks about how to break with social democratic parties and why it is necessary.
The parrot room conversation is available to our supporters on Patreon.
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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 explains the fallacy known as "begging the question" by referencing the recent debate between Gene Epstein and Richard Wolff. Begging the question doesn't mean "raising the question" but rather it means "assuming your conclusion" and it turns out that libertarians beg the question frequently.
Epstein vs. Wolff Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQSuUZdcV4
Relevant Book
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
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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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Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss are joined by interviewer Daniel Tutt to discuss how philosophers are thinking the ecological crisis. Fluss and Frim argue the two dominant strains of thinking ecology today, Accelerationism and Gaian philosophies are ultimately inadequate frameworks because they reject the human frame as grounding politics; each seeks to subordinate the human in favor of a wholly alien other, either in the form of an anarchic nature or a dynamic technology. To transcend this strange coincidence of opposites, Fluss and Frim make the positive case for a Marxist humanism that is rationalist without being anthropocentric. This conversation is centered around their new book Prometheus and Gaia: Technology, Ecology and Anti-Humanism.
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Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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