The week I am delighted to welcome Cian Prendiville to the show to talk about the Limerick Soviet of 1917. Cian is a former Solidarity Councillor in Limerick city, currently a member of the Irish Socialist Party, and is the producer of the new podcast all about the Limerick Soviet ‘Bottom Dog’. You can find the podcast here: http://limericksoviet.ie/ And you can follow Cian here: https://twitter.com/cianplk
This week we finish our reading of Chapter Three: ‘The Revolutionary Strategy of the Centre’. We are joined by Lexi and Rosa of Swampside Chats. We are joined by Rosa and Lexi from Swampside Chats. Lexi lays bare her love for hunting foxes, which deeply shocked the panelists....
This week we continue reading Chapter Three: ‘The Revolutionary Strategy of the Centre’. We are joined by Lexi of Swampside Chats, Sophie of Trans Trans Revolution, and C. Derick Varn of Symptomatic Redness. Some of the panel get outraged by my scab stories.
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This week we start Chapter Three: ‘The Revolutionary Strategy of the Centre’ which deals with the strategy pursued by the German Social Democratic Party, or the SPD. The SPD was the most successful socialist revolutionary party in a major western power to this date, right up till it met with disaster by backing the German state in the WW1. We are joined by Lexi of Swampside Chats, Sophie of Trans Trans Revolution, and C. Derick Varn of Symptomatic Redness.
We continue with our reading of the second chapter - ‘Reform Coalition or Mass Strike’’ with panel stalwarts Lexi, and Grant of Swampside Chats. We give the Mass Strike strategy espoused by Rosa Luxembourg et al a thorough hauling over the coals.
We delve into the 2st chapter - ‘Reform Coalition or Mass Strike’ with panel stalwarts Lexi, and Grant of Swampside Chats. We pick apart exactly how MacNair lays out the 'Marxist Left', and we critique the three main strands: Centre Stragegy of Patience, Coalitionism, and the General Strike
We continue on our journey through the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ of Mike MacNairs 'Revolutionary Strategy' with Lexi, Sophie, and Grant. It all gets quite heated as I call 'Occupy' an premature ejaculant...
Today we continue our discussion of the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ of Mike MacNair's 'Revolutionary Strategy' book. This chapter lays out the traditional political strategy as laid out by Marx & Engels and refined by Bebel, Liebknecht and Kautsky.
Today we continue our reading of ‘Revolutionary Strategy - Marxism and the Challenge of Left Unity’ and grapple with the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ which lays out the traditional political strategy as laid out by Marx & Engels and refined by Kautsky. Panelists: Lexi & Donald - Swampside Chats C Derick Varn - Symptomatic Redness Emanuel - En Forlorad Sak Ian Szabo
‘Revolutionary Strategy - Marxism and the challenge of left unity’ was a book written by Mike MacNair in 2008 in which he analysed the history of the 20th century from a Marxist perspective to see what strategic learnings could be gleaned. In this reading group we hope to tease out what they are and what we think of them. In this first episode, we introduce the participants and discuss the introduction to the book. The panelists are: Sophia - Trans Trans Revolution Lexi, Rosa, Donald - Swampside...
This week we welcome Mike MacNair to the show. Mike is a long time political activist, author and Tutor in Law at St Hugh's College. He is also a regular contributor to the Weekly Worker newspaper. Today we discuss Mikes' seminal work: ‘Revolutionary Strategy: Marxism and the challenge of left Unity’. We talk about the history of the 20th century and how, as Marxists, we can hope to learn from its failures. We will be studying this book as part of our upcoming Reading Group series, so get yourse...
Today we have part 2 of our Anti-politics interview with Dr. Tad Tietze. Tad is currently writing a book on the topic for Verso Books, provisionally titled: ‘The Great Derangement’. We talk some more of Trump, take a look at Brexit, and discuss whether the Environmental Crisis can create a social base? You can find his writing on his blog: left-flank.org And you can follow him on twitter at @Dr_Tad.
Today we have part 1 of our interview with Dr. Tad Tiedtze. Tad is currently writing a book on anti-politics for Verso Books, the topic of todays podcast. We try to get a handle on what is meant by anti-politics, and how we can use this to understand our current see-saw political scene. You can find his writing on his blog: https://left-flank.org/ You can follow him on twitter at: @Dr_Tad
Hello and welcome to the 14th episode of the Refuting Marx's Inconsistency - Capital & the TSSI series. It’s the one you’ve been waiting for - this week the panelists give our final appraisal on Andrew Kliman’s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’, and what we see as the political and theoretical implications of it. It’s a belter. Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Derick - from https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/ Pouya - the mas...
This week we look at Chapter 11 of Andrew Kliman’s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’, where we dive into a critical appraisal of the empirical evidence that supposedly supports Marx’s Labour Theory of Value. This weeks panelists are: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Derick - from https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/ Additional Graphs & Equations: Figure 11.2: https://www.podomatic.com/ts/b5/3f/a6/tomobrien2004/0x0_13213064.jp...
Today we are delighted to welcome back Michael Roberts to the show to discuss the new book 'World In Crisis: A Global Analysis Of Marx's Law Of Probability', which he has co-edited with Guglielmo Carchedi. This is a collection of great scholarship by Marxist economists from around the globe, and contains a number of very interesting papers indeed. You can buy World In Crisis here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1216-world-in-crisis You can find Michaels Blog here: https://thenextrecession....
Hello and welcome to the 12th episode of the Refuting Marx's Inconsistency - Capital & the TSSI series. This week we dismember the rotting corpse of the Fundamental Marxian Theorem in our close reading of chapter 10 Andrew Kliman’ s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’. This weeks panelists are: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Pouya - The Mashed Up Marxist
Today we bash through as best we can Chapter 9 of Andrew Kliman's marxist masterpiece "Reclaiming Marx's Capital". This is a probably the densest of all the chapters and tables abound like a mofo. I've included the initial tables as the artwork for this episode. Many of these tables are extremely similar and repeatedly display similar phenomena, so don't worry about them toooo much. All the tables can be accessed by clicking on the image links below: Tables 9.1 & 9.2 https://www.podomatic.co...
Today we are speaking with Maximillian Alvarez, the host of the excellent ‘Working People’, a podcast by, for, and about the working class. You can find his podcast here: http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/ And you can follow him on twitter thus: https://twitter.com/WorkingPod https://twitter.com/maximillian_alv
This week we smite all foes in our path and finish of chapter 8 Andrew Kliman s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’ with great fanfare Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega The panel this week consists of: Lexi from https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Pouya - the mashed up Marx
This week we strive forward, thrashing all that lies in the way of our understanding of chapter 8 Andrew Kliman’ s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’. The tables we discuss form the graphic for this episode. This weeks panelists are: Pouya - the Mashed Up Marxist Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak
This week we welcome Rob Larson, Professor of Economics at Tacoma Community College, to the show. We talk about his new book ‘Capitalism vs Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom’ recently released by Zero Books. Enjoy!
This week we continue the Marxist self-flaggelation by finishing off Chapter 7 of Andrew Kliman’ s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’. We deal again with three tables all of which form the lovely for this weeks episode, for those who don’t have the book handy. Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak
This week we determinedly continue our microscopic reading of Andrew Kliman’ s ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’ and pick up where we left off in Chapter 7. The Panel this week consisted of: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Emanuel - from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak
This week we continue our close reading of Andrew Klimans ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’ and go for broke on Chapter 7. Interview Date: 13th Oct 2018 The panel this week consists of: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Derick - https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness
This week we continue our close reading of Andrew Klimans ‘Reclaiming Marx’s Capital’ and parse as best as we can Chapter 6. Interview Date: 6th Oct 2018 The panel this week consists of: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Derick - https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-... Emanuel - from Emmanuel from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Pouya - the mashed-up Marx Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega
We continue our close reading of Andrew Klimans 'Reclaiming Marx's Capital' and stumble through chapter 5. Interview Date: 22nd Sep 2018 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega To Donate Click Here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... The panel this week consists of: Lexi - https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats Amogh - https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-... Emanual - from Emmanuel from https://soundcloud.com/enforloradsak Alex - from down under...
This week we welcome a new guest Jamie Merchant to the show, to talk about his recent essays critiquing Market Socialism in one country recently published in the Brooklyn Rail journal. You can find his articles here: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/07/field-notes/Dreams-of-National-Capital-Market-Socialism-Past-and-Present https://brooklynrail.org/2018/02/field-notes/Fantasies-of-Secession-A-Critique-of-Left-Economic-Nationalism You can become a patreon for the show here: https://www.patreon.com/F...
We continue our close reading of Andrew Klimans 'Reclaiming Marx's Capital' and eat chapter 4 alive Interview Date: 15th Sep 2018 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega To Donate Click Here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... The panel this week consists of: Lexi & Rosa from https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats C Derick Varn from https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/
