Karl Marx’s 1880 ‘workers’ inquiry’ was a survey written by him and sent to workers across France to aid in understanding the nature of capitalist production in the country at the time, and to encourage workers to reflect on the conditions of their own labour. While this survey has usually been regarded as an abject failure, Clark McAllister in his new book ‘Karl Marx’s Workers’ Inquiry: International History, Reception, and Responses’, published by Notes from Below, provides important insights into its successes both in its own time and as a strategy for contemporary anticapitalist organising. In this interview, Clark McAllister, a PhD student in Sociology at the Open University specialising in workers’ inquiry and an associate of the Notes from Below collective, discusses with Kenneth Novis the history of Marx’s inquiry, as well as recent developments in Marxist sociology around controversial figures in the Italian left like Antonio Negri and Mario Tronti. Clark’s book can be downloaded for free or bought through the following link: https://notesfrombelow.org/issue/karl-marxs-workers-inquiry Are you a worker who would like to be involved in a current workers’ inquiry initiative? Notes from Below are running a survey, hoping to gather responses from workers across the UK to understand how the sale of labour power and the extraction of surplus value from workers function in the world today. A link to their survey can be found here: https://notesfrombelow.org/article/the_project Clark is also a member of Pagliacci Rossi, a workerist study group situated in London. Their website can be found in the following: https://pagliaccirossi.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 Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books (mentioned in the episode): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717040/the-philosophers-tarot-by-sereptie/9781914420917?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB 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 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=TMF-haeEl0Y

In the next of our series on reification, Varn moves to discussion reification in specific logical and linguistic fallacies. We will discuss Vicious Abstraction, a fallacy first named by William James, and how can be used to fool others and yourself. 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. Zero Books aims to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMpGR8hHo8

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. LInk to Dangerous Minds https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15834.html 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXTnQD5sYQ

In this conversation with Slavoj Zizek, Douglas Lain discusses how working in the gig economy as a floating freelancer without a contract is symptomatic of overall trends in capitalist culture. While Zizek reflects on his two volumes: Pandemic and Pandemic 2. https://www.patreon.com/criticaltheorydouglain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgmbX4CuBc