/246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
On class & material self-interest. We talk to Vivek Chibber about his new book, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn, which seeks to answer why capitalism has proven remarkably stab...
8 Mar 20221h 3min
Excerpt: /245/ Reading Club: Emergency Politics II - Agamben
On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception (2005). How did a darling of the left during the War on Terror become a resource for the right during Covid? Is Agamben right to blur the boundary between fasc...
7 Mar 202210min
/244/ Bunga NYC: Live Debate ft. Adam Tooze
On The End of the End of History On 22 February 2022, at The People's Forum in Manhattan, Alex Hochuli and Adam Tooze were in conversation on the themes of the Bunga book and what comes next. The even...
1 Mar 20221h 26min
/236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch (UNLOCKED)
On the German Greens' shady history. Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany. Th...
1 Mar 20221h 9min
/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
On class wars, new and old. Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, joins us to talk about what it might take to restore working class power in Western s...
22 Feb 20221h 3min
Excerpt: /241/ Three Articles: Peace & Social War in North America
On dovish conservatives, Trumpist coup-mongers and Canadian truckers. - - - Live debate/book launch in NYC, Feb 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-debate-book-launch-the-end-of-the-end-of-histor...
15 Feb 20226min
/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune
The first in an occasional series on new initiatives. We speak to Malcolm Kyeyune of Sweden's Örebro Party about its origins, analysis and goals. Is a new working class politics to be found in direct...
8 Feb 20221h 35min
/239/ Against Justice ft. Ross Wolfe
On the critique of egalitarian ideology. We talk to writer Ross Wolfe about his essay "Marxism Contra Justice". Given that struggles for justice have been central to all sorts of radical movements, wh...
1 Feb 20221h 22min
