In this episode I talked to Daniel about some of the arguments I’ve seen from non-leftists or non-anarchist leftists. We also talk a little bit about some of the great work that local organizers in my city and where Daniel is, are doing. Daniel is a great resource for information about anarchism and organizing and if you want to learn more you should definitely head over to his channel and subscribe. You can find Daniel’s content and other stuff here https://www.youtube.com/c/anark https://twitt...
Apr 21, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 118
In this episode Justin talks to us about the book This Life by Martin Hagglund. We discuss heaven versus the finitude of life, secularism, and how it all ties in with socialism and the socialist project. You can get a copy of This Life from Penguin/Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/248368/this-life-by-martin-hagglund/9781101873731 Check out Justin's links and follow him https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 117
In this interview I talked to Ali Horriyat, founder of Compassiviste. Ali left the lucrative, profit-driven world of finance in 2016 to devote himself to his vision of a society where compassion, empathy, and social impact are at the heart of our actions. In 2020, he launched Compassiviste to spread this vision. Born in Dubai, he attended schools in the UAE, France and Switzerland before pursuing his higher education in Canada. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, political ...
Mar 31, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 116
In this episode Justin talks to us about the book Marxism in the United States by Paul Buhle and some of the history of socialism and some of the socialists that were active in the United States. Here’s a hint though for those conservatives that might come across this, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden aren’t on the list. We on the left don’t like them either. You can get the book from Penguin Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/232492/marxism-in-the-united-states-by-paul-buhle/9781781...
Mar 24, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 115
In this episode Justin and I talk about the book Road to Nowhere by Paris Marx. We go through some of the failures of big tech to solve the big problems of society including climate change and how the car culture that was developed in the name of profits ultimately isolated people and made us all less connected to our communities. Make sure to check out Paris’ website https://parismarx.com/ Get your copy of Road to Nowhere https://roadtonowherebook.com/ https://www.versobooks.com/products/2795-r...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 114
In this episode of Red Reviews Justin takes me through the book American Crusade by Andrew Seidel. We talk about the right wing take over of the Supreme Court of the United States and how corrupt they are and some of their bad decisions. You can get a copy through Andrew’s website https://andrewlseidel.com/american-crusade/# Check out Andrew’s full website and check out the FFRF https://andrewlseidel.com/ https://ffrf.org/ For fun check out the Five to Four podcast about how the supreme court su...
Feb 25, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 113
In this interview I talked to Nikki EatKS who is a podcaster in the music scene and who has worked in radio and has many contacts within the music scene. We talked about some of the toxicity that comes when men act as gatekeepers and become apologists for sexual harassment and assault because they like a particular artist. We also talked about some general social justice issues and the Me Too movement. Check out the links below for information on some of our topics. (sorry I couldn’t find any ar...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 112
In this episode Justin talks to us about the book Reform or Revolution and other writings by Rosa Luxemburg. Between the history, the theory, and the debates between Luxemburg and other socialists this was a great look at one of the greatest socialist minds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If you can’t afford to buy the book we covered which is available here - https://www.amazon.ca/Reform-Revolution-Other-Writings-Luxemburg/dp/0486447766 (I really tried to find a non-Amazon link but h...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 111
In this episode Justin takes us through the book, The People’s Republic of Walmart , and the concept of a planned economy as well as planning in other areas of society as well. The People’s Republic of Walmart was written by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski and uses Walmart as an example of how despite the rhetoric of pure unplanned free markets capitalism is actually very planned and society could plan for socialist reasons as well. You can get the book here https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 110
In this extra long episode Justin and I talk about the book Revolutionary Affinities by Michael Löwy and Olivier Besancenot and translated by David Campbell. This book takes us through the history of Marxism and Anarchism when they agreed and when they didn't and helps us come to the conclusion that we have deep affinities with each other despite our differences and it can help us to make the world better when we remember that. You can get a copy of your own from PM Press https://pmpress.org/ind...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 109
*CW - discussion of sexual harassment and assault* In this episode I talked to Eiynah Nicemangos, host of the podcast Polite Conversations. Eiynah has been podcasting for a long time and does high quality work around the far right and the so-called intellectual dark web. Her series debunking and calling out Sam Harris for his bigotry is some of my favorite content covering Sam and the people like him. In this chat we talk about some stuff that happened adjacent to my old online community, the at...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 108
In this interview episode I talked to Nora Loreto, Nora is a well known podcaster, writer, and journalist who has done amazing work covering politics from a left perspective. She did work on Covid that was truly instrumental to understanding the impact of the pandemic on Canadian long term care homes. She often doesn't get the credit she deserves but her books and her writing have been a huge help for people like me to get a good analysis of what's happening in Canadian politics. I'm a big fan a...
Dec 06, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 107
In this episode Justin and I talk about the book, Health Communism . We talk about how American culture in particular is designed to leave people desperate and on the verge of bankruptcy so that there’s always a surplus of workers. We also talk about how this works with the dignity in dying movement. It’s a big topic and we barely touch on the surface so if you want more then check out the book or listen to the Death Panel podcast https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2801-health-communism...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 106
In this episode Justin and I talk about the book Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow and as an extension we discuss some of the ways that capitalism and the drive for profit limits artists and can actually harm the creative process. We also spend some time thinking about Michael Brooks and the impact he had and how his absence has impacted the left over the last 3 years. Some links to go with the video https://www.justinclark.org/blog/michael-brooks-against-the-web https://...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In this episode I talked to the amazing Margaret Killjoy, anarchist author and podcaster. We talked about how she got into podcasting, how long she's been doing it, and why as well as what anarchism means to her and whether Kropotkin was wrong about World War One or not. It was a wonderful discussion and I hope you enjoy it. Check out all of Margaret's stuff at her linktree https://linktr.ee/margaretkilljoy You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.c...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 104
This episode Justin and I talked about the book The S Word by John Nichols. It’s supposed to be a book about the history of American socialism but rather it seems to be a book about democratic socialism of the more reformist type. In this video Justin is very comfortable discussing American history and some of the figures discussed in the book. I think most of the names and information was new to me. I certainly didn’t know that there were radical socialists on the side of the union and that Lin...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 103
This time around I talked to Zoe Baker aka Anarchopac about her recent book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States . I tried to be very professional so that I could be deserving of such a brilliant guest but I'll let you be the judge of whether I succeeded or not. All of Zoe’s links are here https://linktr.ee/zoebaker All of my links are here https://linktr.ee/skepticalcory You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website -...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 102
In this episode of Red Reviews Justin talks to me about Bertrand Russell’s non-Marxist view of socialism and the value of a socialist society. You can read it here from libcom https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Praise%20of%20Idleness.pdf Check out the website for the quotes used in the episode https://www.skepticalleftist.com/ (give me a little bit of time to finish the notes before heading over there for the quotes) Check out Justin’s writing and stuff https://www.just...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 101
So I got a message a few weeks ago from Stafford telling me about a book he's writing about the Transendence Movement and anarchism and it sounded great so I got him to go through my process and book an interview. The day that it came to talk to him I was a bit sick but I toughed it out and we made it through, had a great conversation, and happily promoted his book (which isn't quite finished but will be soon). I hope you enjoy this chat. In the intro I talk about the recent policy by the Saskat...
Aug 29, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 100
In this episode of Red Reviews Justin and I talk Star Trek! More specifically we talk about the economics of Star Trek and the book Trekonomics by Manu Saadia. Before we got started we talked about Mike Rinder's cancer diagnosis and how people can go to his blog mikerindersblog.com to donate. You can get a copy of Trekonomics here https://www.amazon.com/Trekonomics-Economics-Star-Manu-Saadia/dp/1941758754 You can check out Justin's blog about Star Trek here https://www.justinclark.org/blog/the-h...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Hi and welcome to the next installment of Red Reviews. In this one Justin and I talked about Erich Fromm’s book, Marx’s Concept of Man which is a book that discusses the humanism of Marx and how the philosophy of socialism has been co-opted by anti-humanist tendencies as well as exploring the humanism of Marx. Erich Fromm was a psychologist, a psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition, while also reinterpreting Freud and psychoanalysis to be more humanistic and less orthodox. He had an interest in...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 98
In this episode of the podcast we talk about God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens and Reason, Faith, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton. The conversation takes us through some criticisms of Hitchens and the New Atheist Movement which Justin and I were both part of and then we talk about the value of faith and spirituality and how these things fit into a materialist Marxist worldview. You can get a copy of these books here https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/god-is-not-great-how/97807710...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 97
In this episode of Red Reviews we talk Humanism and Marxism in a discussion of the book, Towards a Marxist Humanism . You can check out a free copy of this book on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/towardmarxisthum00koak/page/n9/mode/2up Justin's Links https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph https://www.in.gov/history/ https://blog.history.in.gov/ https://newspapers.library.in.gov/ You can check out the full shown...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 96
I had a friendly discussion with Physicist Chris about whether crypto is a con or not. Some argue that it's just for the rich, while others see it as a good long term investment. What's your take? #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #skeptical Here are some links for Chris' content https://twitter.com/PhysicistChris https://cbirkinbine.info/series/adashofscience/ https://www.twitch.tv/physicistchris Links for crypto criticism https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/160_everyone_hates_vcs_after_the_svb_collapse...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 95
In this episode Justin and Cory talk about the book Respectful Atheism by Thomas Sheridan Check out Justin's writing and other work https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon....
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 94
In this episode I talked to Jeff Thomas Black about the gig economy, the oppression of workers, and AI. Jeff it very knowledgable on this subject and is writing a book, a blog, and doing his own podcast about it over on his substack. Jeff’s links https://jeffthomasblack.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@JeffThomasBlack https://jeffthomasblack.beehiiv.com/p/full-dashclosure-audiobook-podcast-newsletter https://medium.com/@jblack501c3 https://www.patreon.com/JeffThomasBlack You can check out t...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 93
In this episode Cory and Justin talk about a collection of works by a variety of people called Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red. Get yourself a copy from PM Press https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=858 Check out Justin's website https://www.justinclark.org/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-177975...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 92
In this episode I talked to Sally from the Youtube channel AnRel. It was less of an interview and more of just a nice conversation. Sally is a very cool and smart person and makes great videos that you should check out Here are a couple links for her stuff https://www.youtube.com/@AnRel https://twitter.com/Sallysm https://twitter.com/AnarchoRelating You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podc...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 91
In this episode Justin and Cory talk about a variety of topics related to a book that just isn't very good, The New Class War by Michael Lind. If you want to get a copy then you can get one here - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-new-class-war-michael-lind/1130879842 Check out Justin's website - https://www.justinclark.org/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 90
In this episode I talked to Budrino from Budrino Politics. We talked about the Canadian working class, dealing with people we disagree with politically, and the state of Canadian politics. Follow Budrino here https://twitter.com/Budrino https://twitter.com/BudrinoPolitics Sign up for Patreon for an extra 15 minutes of content patreon.com/skepticalleftist You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 89
