The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
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episode 1: Hegel's Bastards: Sam Teaches Us About Hegel Like We are Dumb Babies
We are dumb babies who don't understand Hegel. Sam, who recently joined our network as a part of the Red Library's The Red Desert series is not. He sat down with us and helped us understand some key Hegelian concepts that he posits need to be understood in order to continue the radicalization of Marxism.
Mladan Dolar on The Phenomenology
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Lecture on the Zizek chapter below.
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episode 2: Mammon No 5: The Enchantments of Mammon - Part V (With Red Library)
This week we are joined by Adam, Don, and Alex from the Red Library.
We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity...
episode 3: Subject, Alienation, and So On: Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library) PART I
This week we are joined by Alex and Adam from Red Library to talk about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists...
episode 4: Subject, Alienation, and So On (PART II): Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library)
This week we continue our discussion about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists...
episode 5: Happiness Industry Socialism
Everyone knows what the happiness industry is, that vapid misapplication of eastern spiritual practice, adapted to help stave off deaths by despair or convince you that alienated depression is the fault of your brain chemistry and not the crushing weight of capitalism.
As the contemporary left is little more than liberalism turned up to 11, it should surprise no one to learn that there is a "socialist" version of this as well...
episode 6: Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #1 (With C. Derick Varn)
Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.
Marxism and Ethics
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episode 7: Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #2 (With C. Derick Varn)
Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.
Marxism and Ethics
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episode 8: The End of Capitalist Realism?
There are many on the left who seem to be incapable of letting a momentary upturn in struggle, or a softening of policy by the ruling class, pass without declaring the end of Capitalist realism.
The common ruin of the contending classes is all we have to look forward to unless we can find a way to assert our agency. Until we realize our world historic mission, capitalist realism and its devastating consequences are here to stay...
episode 9: Expanding the Austerity Panopticon: The Capitol Riot as Political Theater (with C. Derick Varn, PH Higgins, and Steven)
This week we are joined by C. Derick Varn, PH from Radical Thoughts Podcast, and Steven from Supreme Leap Forward to discuss how the Capitol Riot wasn't a coup, or a terrorist attack, and admonish the "left" for supporting the expansion of the security state.
The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph
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episode 10: Posting Made Flesh: Scattered Thoughts on the Current and Future State of the Left (With C. Derick Varn and PH )
This is the second, but only peripherally related, part of our discussion with C. Derick Varn and PH from Radical Thoughts. In this episode we talk about the abysmal state of the left, the bankruptcy of liberalism, and how the hell we can possibly move forward.
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