Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jonny Meade is a former congressional candidate, SPA member, and socialist. He has become concerned about the influence of Lydon LaRouche on a fringe of the "socialist" left and traces its influence on ideas like "MAGA Communism." Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro V...
Feb 09, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Vivak Soni is a post-doctoral fellow in population genetics at ASU and a Marxist. Here is the paper I mention to be linked: Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles , Deje...
Feb 07, 2023•2 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 155
While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed . This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here: i.e. what is the social and class history of the past. In this episode, we discuss Evgeny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Please support our patreon. For early and ...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio . You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry, and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism. We talk about the various contradictions the left deals with in dealing with the Russia - Ukraine war. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: ...
Feb 02, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Adam Turl and Tish Turl are both activists and artists who co-founded the Born-Again Labor Museum ( https://www.bornagainlabor.com/ ) . Tish is a poet and writer and Adam is an artist and writer. Both are also members of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective. You can read more about BALM here: https://thesouthern.com/news/local/born-again-labor-museum-in-carbondale-showcases-stories-struggles-of-working-...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 153
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Matt Lech is a producer for @Majority Report and a co-host of @Left Reckoning. He currently lives in New York but is originally from North Dakota. We talk about socialist strategy, progressivism in the far west, and rural politics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro ...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Alexander Prähauser is an artist and mathematician living in Austria. We discuss the usefulness of mathematics and category theory in developing scientific thought from and contributing to Hegelian Dialectics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason M...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 151
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Chris Wright is a historian and socialist, the author of “Worker Cooperatives and Revolution” and "Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression." We discuss the myth of American moderation and also how identitarian movements are often framed in an exclusivist way to actually promote that myth while also seeming radical. Links mentioned: Race Reductionism Threatens to Doom t...
Jan 16, 2023•2 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 150
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory. He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum. We discuss workers' inquiry, economic analysis and its difficulties, theories of interpretation, and the purpose of Casper Forum. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Des...
Jan 12, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Today we are talking to Cyber Dandy, who blogs at Cyber Dandy and vlogs on Cyber Dandy Youtube on existentialism, leftism, anarchism, and the post-Biden left milieu. We talk about anti-communism and anti-radicalism in the US from in 1940s-1970s. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitte...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 148
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Gabriel Winant is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His writing about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America has appeared in The Nation, the New Republic, Dissent, and n+1. We discuss the legacy of Barbara Ehrenreich, the development of her concept of the PMC, uses and abuses of the concept, critiques of its relevance, and the specific ways class relationships cha...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Spencer returns to the show to begin the first of our series on the history and issues of the left in India. He brings two fellow scholars from South Asia, Dwaipayan Sen, and Atiya Singh. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles , Dejene Balajan ...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is Strange Matters and Varn Vlog collaboration. Zhala Taghi-Zada is a Clinical Research Coordinator based in Toronto. We discuss her recent article on " The Complex Stigma of Schizophrenia" and the implications of mental health in the Canadian (and US) legal system. Support Strange Matters. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajala...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Mike Gouldhawke is a Métis & Cree writer, whose family is from kistahpinanihk (City of Prince Albert) and nêwo-nâkîwin (Mont Nebo) in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan. He is also an amateur Marxologist and has written for publications like Briarpatch, New Inquiry, and Redwire on both indigenous and Marxist issues and their overlap. Today we talk primarily about his article in Brairpatch, "Land as a ...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Chris is a friend of the show and co-host of Regrettable Century and No Royal Road (with me and his brother Jason). Chris is also a doctoral student studying Weimar Germany and we discuss the German conservative revolutions. This will likely be a series. There are some points where the connection gets spotty. We apologize for that. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenk...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Andrei Migunov ( @FelixCowsdorff ) teaches computer science at Drake University. We discuss the various meanings of complexity and system theory, the left reaction to science, logic, math, computational limitations, scientific theory, and much more. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by B...
Dec 12, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. M.C. Toussaint is a producer for This Is Revolution and has worked with Jacobin and Majority Report. We talk about her journey into socialism through environmentalism and ecology. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles , Dejene Balajan Send us ...
Dec 08, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast and co-author of the " End of the End of History ." We discuss the situation in Brazil, anglophone left narratives about it, and why we should be happy Lula won but temper our expectations. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Vi...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-host of Death Panel podcast and the co-author of Health Communism . We talk about the limits of current left thinking around health and disability, the problems of illness and socialism, and how Marxian analysis in health care leads to some surprising conclusions. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajala...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and an Adjunct Professor of philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and elsewhere. He is the host of Jouis...
Nov 28, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This episode is part of a partnership between Varn Vlog and Strange Matters Magazine. Tim DiMuzio is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Critical Politcial Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. . Previous to this role he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has taught at a number ...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Conan Neutron (@conanneutron) of Protonic Reversal podcast, Movie Night Extravaganza , and the band, Conan Neutron and His Secret Friends returns. We talk about his tour; we talk about his new ep; we talk comics; we talk post covid politics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter La...
Nov 17, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. We discuss an article by Jason Myles on the legacy of Woodstock. Jason Myles is the primary host of This Is Revolution and a musician with Bitterlake. We discuss rock and roll and politics but veer off to talk about Jason's new show on TIR about pop culture, film, and music as well as the way politics and media culture have subordinated each other. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel S...
Nov 14, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Colin Dodds is a writer with several books to his name, including Ms. Never and Windfall. He grew up in Massachusetts and lived in California briefly, before finishing his education in New York City. Since then, he’s made his living as a journalist, editor, copywriter, and video producer. His work has appeared in Gothamist, The Washington Post, and more than three hundred other publications, and has been ...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and an Adjunct Professor of philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and elsewhere. He is the host of Jouis...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ralf Ruckus is the author of Communist Road to Capitalism (PM Press) .Ralf Ruckus has been involved in squatting, militant inquiries, labor struggles, and cross-border solidarity for decades, mainly in Western and Eastern Europe, East and Southeast Asia, and North America. China has been Ralf’s main focus since the early 2000s, especially regarding social struggles, migration, gender relations, and the co...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher who writes on socialism and Marxism. We discuss Emmanuel Wallerstein and the World Systems Analysis. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles , Dejene Balajan Send us a text Musis by Bitte...
Oct 31, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. CAROLYN J. EICHNER teaches in the Departments of History and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her books include Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune, The Paris Commune: A Brief History, and Feminism's Empire. We discuss the legacy of women in the Paris Commune, the context of the commune, the under-reported and under-studied nature of socialist femi...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Elijah Emery is a Cornell student researching Christopher Lasch. We discuss the applications and limitations of Lasch. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles , Dejene Balajan Send us a text Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights ...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Djene Bajalan is a historian of the Middle East specializing in the rise of nationalism and the evolution of the Kurdish question. He is an associate professor at Missouri State University, the co-host of This is Revolution and a co-host of Gaming Materialists. He also sometimes writes for Jacobin. He discusses the Kurdish perspective on recent protests in Iran. We also mention his article at Jacobin here...
Oct 22, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 127
