This interview explores how "Marxist" ideas, when disconnected from Marx's own theory especially in Capital, can lead radicals in a multitude of directions, including to the right. The subject of the interview is Mickey Kaus. Mickey Kaus is a journalist and political blogger who started the website Kausfiles in 1999. He has written for the New Republic, Newsweek, Slate and the Daily Caller and he is the author of the book “The End of Equality.” He the co-founder of bloggingheads.tv along with Robert Wright and he appears weekly with Robert in their parrot room.
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.
Michael Albert is an organizer, publisher, teacher, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles. He cofounded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, ZNet, and various other projects, and works full time for Z Communications. He is the author, with Robin Hahnel, of the economic vision named participatory economics. He helped create the International Organization for a Participatory Society in 2012. He is also the podcaster behind Revolution Z and an instructor at the School for Social and Cultural Change.
Revolution Z Podcast
http://rps2044.org/revolutionz/
School for Social and Cultural Change
SSCC.teachable.com
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Working with Matthew McManus and Conrad Hamilton, Ben Burgis participated in their conference on Postmodern Conservatism. Specifically, Burgis revealed the postmodernism of Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.
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What is Postmodern Conservatism? by Matt McManus
https://www.amazon.com/What-Post-Modern-Conservatism-Essays-Tremendous/dp/1789042453
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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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss the UK election result and work out what their new podcast "Pop the Left" should aim at in 2020. Will the social-democratic turn end up liquidating the Marxist 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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMvKS6O5g0
Jules Taylor from the podcast No Easy Answers joins author and researcher Daniel Tutt to discuss the philosophy and politics of Nietzsche from a Marxist standpoint.
Find their work here:
No Easy Answers: https://smarturl.it/noeasyanswers
Daniel Tutt: danieltutt.com
Conver/gences is a series by Zer0 Books which brings together various thinkers, scholars, activists, artists, and many others. The interviews cover politics, philosophy, social issues, art, music and more through a radical lens.
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Should we shrink the law? One of Britain’s leading social justice barristers puts the case against the constant expansion of the law into new areas, and its greater control over more and more of our lives.
Since 2016, Britain has been ruled by populists, who have promised to expand democracy and decrease the law by taking back power from abroad. Yet what these populists have actually done is institute a vast increase in new laws, made by ministers and not Parliament, regulating every aspect of our lives.
Against this backdrop of ever-increasing laws and regulations, Renton argues that instead of seeking change within the bounds of the law, social movements should rather look to their own ability to force change, their willingness to protest, occupy and strike.
Against the Law dares us to imagine a world in which workers are winning, and ecocide is treated with the urgency that it deserves. But as this book argues, this world can only become a reality if the movements of the oppressed choose to disengage from the law.
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Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century, specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies. In this video, we consider Shaviro’s book as it relates to Spinoza’s philosophy of Affect and in relation to the films of Stan Brakhage.
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Book and Works Cited
Post-Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro
https://www.amazon.com/Post-Cinematic-Affect-Steven-Shaviro/dp/1846944317
Featuring clips from the Films of Stan Brakhage
Moth Light
https://youtu.be/Yt3nDgnC7M8
The Dante Quartet
https://youtu.be/7VI2U3K-gBk
I Dreaming
https://youtu.be/lkJK01toHww
Music Used
Satie’s Gnossienne
Mid Air Machine Breathing Out
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ask%20Again/Arena_Electronic_Music/Breathing_Out_1636
Iyanetha by John Bartmann
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One/iyanetha
Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
Along with Music from Jukedeck
https://www.jukedeck.com/
Negativland Track 2
https://youtu.be/DV08nrktjlI
And Clips from Cameron Rogers
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Michael Brooks is the host of the Michael Brooks Show/a and the co-host on the Majority Report. He is also a future Zero Books author with a book in the works on the Intellectual Dark Web and a regular guest on the Zero Books podcast. This week Brooks returns to discuss the tragic, awful, conspiracy that took Alex Jones off of youporn.
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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 is the second video in a series of two videos on the topic of the Intellectual Dark Web. How and why are these free speech warriors misunderstanding Marx and how is it that Capitalist Realism is contributing to the rise of the right and the weakness of the left.
Check out Brendan Cooney's youtube channel on Marxism.
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUY_zEkVz88
Ben Burgis takes on Ben Shapiro about Judaism and leftism. He challenges Ben Shapiro's accusation that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite and argues against Shapiro's claim that real Jews are conservative.
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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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