Ep 215 What is a Social Theory, Why Have One
Episode 215 of RevolutionZ discusses the role and components o social theories and how to assess their value. Support the show
Episode 215 of RevolutionZ discusses the role and components o social theories and how to assess their value. Support the show
Episode 214 of RevolutionZ addresses current antipathy to science and proclivity for story telling and even outright lying by way of visiting a past event and its fallout. Support the show
Episode 213 of RevolutionZ is a ruminations entry, with Alexandria Shaner, that addresses the controversy around Nepo babies a bit, and that then explores various issues around the DeGrowth movement, more substantially. Support the show
Episode 212 of RevolutionZ offers 20 Theses on Liberation, a set of observations/claims meant to provide a draft basis to be considered, debated, and refined, as a potential start toward a shared perspective on attaining a better society. Support the show
Episode 211 of RevolutionZ discusses alternative media policies including editorial, fund raising, and solidarity, on the one hand, and movement organization and structure on the other. With asides on all manner of sidebar matters... Support the show
Episode4 210 discusses race, sex, and class in their interactions and in particular offers an unfamiliar explanation for what has sometimes been called declining attention to class... Support the show
Episode 209 of RevolutionZ addresses issues of media and politics in the global South. Support the show
Episode 208 of RevolutionZ is me interviewing me - thus the tile, Hounding Myself. As interviewer I can be a bit more aggressive with myself than other interviewers tend to be. It may not be everyone's delight, but I had assembled some questions I would like to be asked and I decided, well, okay, why not ask myself. Some of it is familiar ground for regular listeners, some not. And I have to apologize. Hours ago, when I was editing it, I discovered that somehow there appears an intermittent...
Episode 207 of RevolutionZ is a revealing discussion of the dynamics of electoral campaigns and office with Eva Putzova. Support the show
Episode 206 of RevolutionZ discusses various writings as well as lessons bearing on the task of writing to abet change...and writing in general. Support the show
Episode 205 of RevolutionZ deals with our current times and how we mentally and emotionally might usefully endure and address them. It includes an open letter to young people, and an entreaty to all... Support the show
Episode 204 is a deep dive into the impact of social media among other modern conveniences on our lives. Not for the squeamish... Support the show
Episode 203 of RevolutionZ discusses intellectual pursuits the participatory economic vision might/ought to inspire. Support the show
Episode 202 of RevolutionZ ruminates while reading aloud lyrics of various songs. Emotional for me, I hope entertaining or edifying or inspiring for you... Support the show
Episode 201 of RevolutionZ has Nathan Robinson as guest to discuss responding to the right, publishing, and more... Support the show
Episode 200 of the podcast titled RevolutionZ answers questions about how participatory economics emerged, its history, and what prospects it has in coming years. Support the show
Episode 199 of Revolution has a a guest Joseph Ramsey to discuss imprisonment and judicial movements and activism. Support the show
Chess scandal, basketball scandal, physics scandal, Kurt Vonnegut and our tumultuous times. Support the show
Episode 197 of the podcast titled RevolutionZ is the next to last presenting the book No Bosses and addresses Winning a New Economy. Support the show
Episode 196 of RevolutionZ discusses the interface between participatory economics and visions for kinship, polity, community, and ecology. Support the show
Episode 195 of RevolutionZ Is the third and last on participatory planning covering issues of allocation and income, externalities, collective consumption and some other matters. Support the show
Episode 194 of RevolutionZ Ruminates on one quotation each from Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X diversely addressing issues of social change and revolutionary practice. Support the show
Episode 193 of RevolutionZ continues the process of presenting the book No Bosses, this time pursuing further takes on what is participatory planning. Support the show
Episode 192 of RevolutionZ is another in the series of Rumination episodes. This time, however, we have two ruminators - not just Michael Albert but also Alexandria Shaner.Lots of ground is covered, all bearing on winning social change. Support the show
Episode 191 of RevolutionZ is the first of three episodes that will present and comment on the post capitalist allocation system called Participatory Planning. Support the show
Episode 190 of Revolution Z considers Markets and Central Planning as possible modes of allocation for post capitalism, that is for the No Bosses vision called participatory economics. It rejects both and in doing so paves the way for presenting participatory planning in coming episodes. Support the show
Episode 189 of RevolutionZ is the twelfth in the series called Ruminations which takes up whatever issues, thoughts, concerns popup in the course of the session. Unscripted, this goes where spontaneous thoughts lead... Support the show
Episode 188 of RevolutionZ discusses income in a post capitalist economy called participatory economics or, if you prefer, participatory socialism. Support the show
Episode 187 of RevolutionZ Continues the sequence presenting the book No Bosses, this time discussing division of labor and class relations. Support the show
Episode 186 of RevolutionZ features Catherine Liu talking about the PMC, professional managerial class, now and in history. Support the show