Today, Adam from Acid Horizon welcomes Jacob Blumenfeld into the Zer0 Books Archives to discuss his 2018 Zer0 Books text All Things Are Nothing To Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Adam and Jacob discuss the context and legacy of this often-forgotten thinker of the left and a key influence on Marx and Engels in their development of dialectical materialism. They discuss Stirner’s critique of identity, his notion of ‘egoism’, his ideas around self-ownership as a critique of ideology, his critique of Utopian Socialism, and dive into Jacob’s thesis of a Stirnerian egoism as ‘Marx’s Communism from the First-Person Perspective’. This is an essential book for those interested in the Young Hegelian origins of Marx and Engels, and a communist theory that takes the fulfilment of the needs of the social and personal individual at its heart, at the same time as it encourages the creative development of the powers of all to enjoy themselves as an insurgent force of creativity; beyond debt, state, God, morality, and capital. You can find the book at: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/all-things-are-nothing-to-me You can read some of Jacob’s recent writings for the Brooklyn Rail here: Lifting the Ban, July 2021 https://brooklynrail.org/2021/07/field-notes/Lifting-the-Ban Normality is Death, June 2020 https://brooklynrail.org/2020/06/field-notes/Normality-is-Death You can also check out Jacob’s wider academic work at these links: https://uni-oldenburg.academia.edu/JacobBlumenfeld https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/ Adam's (interviewer) blog: https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/ Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books ----- Other links: The book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/productive-body Will's blog: http://www.revoltingbodies.com Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books: Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpo... iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon Merch: crit-drip.com Profane Illuminations Twitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshow The Horror Vanguard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buddies Without Organs Website: https://buddieswithout.org/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvTiW7RDVg

The second episode of our second attempt to read Capital, Volume 1. If you're interested then read Capital, Volume One, Chapter 1, sections 1-4 and then join us. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D33KieCRg0

In this interview, Kenny speaks with Jamie Allinson, co-founder with Charlotte Bence, Magpie Corvid, China Miéville, Richard Seymour and Rosie Warren of the important Salvage Collective. Salvage was formed in the context of growing discontent among members of the Socialist Workers’ Party with the organisation itself, and now publishes one of the leading journals for contemporary commentary on environmental politics and Marxism, describing themselves as being “for a communism of the ruins.” As well as this, Kenny and Jamie discuss Salvage’s latest book, ‘The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene’, and Jamie’s independent work on middle eastern politics and the meaning of contemporary counter-revolution. The Salvage Collective’s website: https://salvage.zone Salvage’s ‘The Tragedy of the Worker’ can be purchased here: https://versobooks.com/books/3727-the-tragedy-of-the-worker Please consider contributing to the campaign to free the Egyptian journalist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, about whom more can be read here: https://accessnow.org/free-alaa/ Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books ----- Other links: Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books: Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon Merch: crit-drip.com The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ The Horror Vanguard Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Buddies Without Organs Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939 Website: https://buddieswithout.org/ Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/ Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIXWia5lDrY

Is Jordan Peterson a liberal? While often seen as a mouthpiece of the alt-right, Peterson has downplayed this characterization, instead describing himself as a “classical British liberal.” In this video, Conrad Hamilton and Greg Taillon unite to explore how Peterson’s commitment to a politics of civil inclusion conceals—apropos his Jungian influence—a darker, more autarchic underbelly. Conrad Hamilton is the co-author of two books published by Zero: Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson (with Matt McManus, Ben Burgis and Marion Trejo) and What Is Postmodern Conservatism: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times (with Matt McManus and others). Greg Taillon built the website for the former text—drjordanbpeterson.ca—as well as designed its cover image. Together, they host a weekly show on video games and left-wing philosophy, Zero Plateaus. The contents of this video are derived from the seventh, Hamilton-authored chapter of Myth & Mayhem, “Exoteric and Esoteric, OR The Terrible Intensity of Peterson Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/myth... https://www.waterstones.com/book/myth... 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=a0ylDj84qMA