E297: Malcolm in the Meltdown w/ Malcolm Harris

Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, th...

30 Joulu 20201h 30min

Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars ab...

23 Joulu 20201h 19min

In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's e...

16 Joulu 20201h 23min

A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more. Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: htt...

9 Joulu 20201h 12min

Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements an...

4 Joulu 20209min

Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "Automation and the Future of Work." While automation theorists predic...

2 Joulu 20201h

Our series about Latin America returns with an episode on Brazil with Amauri Gonzo of Brasil Wire, Ponte.org, and the Afita podcast. We cover a wide range of topics including riots against the murder ...

27 Marras 20205min

Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #heinrichtwitter and co-hosts of the Reel Abstractions podcast to discuss Karl (Heinrich) Marx's 18...

25 Marras 20201h 7min