Surrealism, Spiritual Enlightenment, and The Revolution
This video is a follow-up to our celebration of the Cult of Bill Murray. In this video, we compare The Razor’s Edge to The Surrealist Manifesto. We take up an excerpt from Mikkel Bolt Rassmussen’s book After the Great Refusal as we ask the question, “Do we have to become enlightened before we can have our revolution?”
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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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This video is about the impossibility of nihilism, the phony honesty of Michel Houellebecq, and how to find the meaning of life. Jumping off from Ben Jeffrey's book Anti-Matter we poke holes in the concept of ‘Depressive Realism’ and then fill those holes in again.
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In this video, Matt McManus interviews Ronald Beiner on his book "Dangerous Minds: Dangerous Minds-Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right."
From the Book Jacket: In Dangerous Minds, Ronald Beiner traces the deepest philosophical roots of such right-wing ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, and Steve Bannon to the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger—and specifically to the aspects of their thought that express revulsion for the liberal-democratic view of life. Beiner contends that Nietzsche's hatred and critique of bourgeois, egalitarian societies has engendered new disciples on the populist right who threaten to overturn the modern liberal consensus. Heidegger, no less than Nietzsche, thoroughly rejected the moral and political values that arose during the Enlightenment and came to power in the wake of the French Revolution. Understanding Heideggerian dissatisfaction with modernity, and how it functions as a philosophical magnet for those most profoundly alienated from the reigning liberal-democratic order, Beiner argues, will give us insight into the recent and unexpected return of the far right.
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Moishe Postone is a Western Marxist and a Professor of History at the University of Chicago and he is the author of the book Time, Labor and Social Domination a book that won the American Sociological Association’s prize in the theory. In this episode of Zero Squared, Postone discusses whether the working class is the true subject of capitalism and history, the particular particularity of today’s left, and the new Black Lives Matter visa card.
Angela Nagle’s book Kill All Normies is now available for pre-order through Amazon and to let you know that there will be a link to both the UK and US editions in the show notes.
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For a bit of a change of pace we have started livestreaming an RPG on Sundays. This is an experiment. Let us know what you think in the comments.
In this second episode of Zeroquest Djene Rhys Bajalan continues to lead the Lain family (Douglas, Simon and Noah) on a trek into deep space. The game is called Mothership, the future is dark, and the goal is a working-class adventure.
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In this week's Pop the Left, Kuba Wrzesniewski talks to Varn about the history of Poland and Communism, how the left was liquidated in Poland, and how Poland was pushed into the NATO orbit. We talk about misconceptions about the progress and if the Soviets could have handled things differently.
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Symptomatic Redness is a show about political economics and historical analysis. Hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu the show is sometimes a dialogue between the hosts and sometimes features interviews with activists and academics.
This month's Symptomatic Redness features a conversation about Marx and Marxism's relationship with religion. The podcast circles around the questions
Does Marxism have a coherent ethics?
Does Marxism have a theory of consciousness?
And to what extent is Marx or Marxism guilty of idealism?
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Throughout the Obama Administration America's military footprint on the African continent expanded greatly through the development of Africom. China has been developing infrastructure on the African continent since the 90s. Now the Russians are showing a presence in Sudan, and even Turkey is playing a role in Somalia. Are we witnessing a 21st Century Scramble for Africa? Will Africa be the next flashpoint for military conflict for competing global Empires? We will ask this question and many more of our guest Milton Allmadi
Milton Allimadi publishes www.blackstarnews.com and is an Adjunct Professor of African History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Allimadi has been a guest commentator on African news on VOA, BBC, Al Jazeera, and WABC TV. He’s the author of the upcoming book “Manufacturing Hate—How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media” due to be published in June, 2021.
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Owen Symes is the author of "He Was Our Man in Washington," a highly critical interpretation of president Obama and his brand of "hope and change," grounded in a reality that goes beyond the headlines. In this video we ask the questions "Was Obama a neoliberal?" and "Will neoliberalism ever die?"
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