This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from 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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. McCarraher, Eugene....
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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. T he Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitol-building-riot-business-trump?fbclid=IwAR0G-TkRfpMVUZdLE86-Qky0SWUyBxtGuv7Up_J0lYZkMHBCrtxOVWq2f_A We Should Be Very Worried About Jo...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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. T he Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitol-building-riot-business-trump?fbclid=IwAR0G-TkRfpMVUZdLE86-Qky0SWUyBxtGuv7Up_J0lYZkMHBCrtxOVWq2f_A We Should Be Very Worried About Joe ...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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. On the Current Conjuncture https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4954-on...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodnes...
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the question of the party form. Join us as we solve the party problem. Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show...
Jan 07, 2021•13 min
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 https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodnes...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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. We sat down to talk about how it is dumb and bad. How to pronounce sc...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the fine distinctions between genres of Tankie. Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show...
Dec 24, 2020•5 min
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. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act u...
Dec 21, 2020•33 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist fram...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our fifth instal...
Dec 07, 2020•2 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We read Richard Seymour's Article from Salvage Quarterly about Disaster Nationalism and talked about it. Tune in to hear about the Chad Nationalism’ of ‘sexy’, ‘dangerous’, gym-hitting boys, zaddy fascism, and listen while we parse rightisms and talk about how Trump and the GOP (still) aren't fascists. https://salvage.zone/articles/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/ Click through to join our Patreon for $2 a month to hear the rest of the discussion. Send us a message (sorry we can't re...
Nov 27, 2020•5 min
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6sG1nw0m_w Lecture on the Zizek chapter below. https://youtu.be/gk0A12NYKS8 1. The Hegel Variations by Frederic Jameson - The c...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Hey everyone, we turned two! You guys keep listening to us for some reason and we are happy about it. For our birthday party we sat down to talk about highlights, lowlights, and what we hope to do in the future. Please enjoy the very last episode of year two before we kick off what we hope will be an exciting and fruitful year three! Music: Modern Life is War- Night Shift at the Potato Factory Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 32
We recorded an episode, about something else, but in the process we talked about the election for 45 minutes. Here it is! Keep in mind this episode was recorded as results were coming in on the day after the election. Music: Bad Religion- Fuck Armageddon Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show...
Nov 10, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. For our second Patron roundtable the crew had a well rounded discussion that included making fun of dumb conspiracies, talking about the myriad of actual conspiracies, and finally what makes conspiratorial logic so appealing to the right and left alike . Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discu...
Oct 22, 2020•9 min
Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about why the Supreme Court is a regressive, reactionary, and profoundly undemocratic institution that needs to be abolished. Waiting for SCOTUS https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/waiting-for-scotus?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJo Amy Coney Barrett Worked on Bush v. Gore https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-bush-gore-election-trump?fbclid=IwAR1xku0mvqk2RbgGEm3enLD6O7hkrP_Gl4Mj8fA7rYf6lCkXthU...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from 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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our fourth insta...
Oct 11, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 29
For all of our claims to be historical materialists, there is nothing that the left loves more than a great leader to guide us to victory. If we are to make history, but not in circumstances of our own choosing, what role do we actually have to play as individuals? What role does the extraordinary person play in making history? “History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host ...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 28
No. Woke Capitalism Is Not Your Friend https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/brands-corporate-publicity-racial-justice Where Are the Woke Capitalists Now? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/01/where-are-all-woke-capitalists-now Woke Capitalists Can Save America https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/05/how-the-woke-capitalists-can-save-america/#13af4c0671ed The Rise of Woke Capital https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-activism.html Why Corporations Can No Lon...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week we have unlocked the second half of our discussion with Phd Candidate Chris Manno. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers have moved through these three in stages culminating in the mercenary use of instrumental reason for the justification of the status quo. Modern philosophy has focused on the latter forms of reason to the point of rejecting any objective understanding on the world, a situation that is tailor made for ...
Aug 31, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 26
We read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of the contemporary social unrest that is currently gripping the United States. Does every movement for social change eventually get recuperated? Yes. Is it still worth engaging in social movements? Also yes. To hear the full episode, join our Patreon for $2 a month. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show...
Aug 27, 2020•6 min
This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library, we even had a brief appearance by Kevin. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment tha...
Aug 17, 2020•2 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week we are joined by Swedish podcaster, activist, social worker, and Christian communist, Mir Bal to talk about Christianity and Marxism. We continue with our unending project of reuniting the cold and the warm streams of Marxism, by talking about the draw of Christians to the liberatory message of Marxism and what Marxists may be able to take away for the liberatory message of radical Christianity. Horn. Western European liberation theology : the first wave (1924-1959 . Oxford New York: O...
Aug 09, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear part two of our conversation with Chris! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show
Aug 04, 2020•8 min
This week we are joined once again by Adam from Red Library, but also by fellow Red Librarian Don, who was kind enough to edit the podcast. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world wi...
Jul 27, 2020•2 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 23
We had philosophy Phd Candidate Chris Manno join us for a discussion on Marxism and Reason. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers have moved through these three in stages culminating in the mercenary use of instrumental reason for the justification of the status quo. Modern philosophy has focused on the latter forms of reason to the point of rejecting any objective understanding on the world, a situation that is tailor made for e...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week we are joined by Adam from the Red Library podcast, who was nice enough to record and edit the episode for us. We start our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes, much like Max Weber, that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world, but unlike Weber, he believes that Capitalism then became a religion itself. He argues that capitalism is full of reli...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Lacanian psychoanalysis has left an indelible mark on the left, with prominent philosophers like Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou keeping a Marxist Lacanianism relevant... and we don't really know anything about it. As the only non Lacanian podcast on the Lost Horizons network, we had to look to our network comrade Neil to get a little bit of an understanding. Turin Theory of the Subject of the School http://www.amp-nls.org/page/gb/60/the-turin-theory-of-the-subject-of-the-school Music: ROME- We wh...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 20
