/229/ Repetition Compulsion ft. Doug Lain, pt. 1
On branding and the left. Douglas Lain, until recently publisher of Zer0 Books and now of Diet Soap Media, joins us to talk about what happened with Zer0. Mainly, we discuss the left at the End of Hi...
7 Dec 202156min
/228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe
On people power on three continents. We discuss Chile's landmark elections, the first after the uprising of 2019-20, which see a face-off between left and far-right; Modi's repeal of controversial law...
30 Nov 20211h 5min
Excerpt: /227/ Reading Club: All That Is Solid
On modernity's contradictions. In this month's Reading Club, we discuss the introduction to Marshall Berman's marvellous All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. This is an excerpt. For the full episod...
29 Nov 202111min
Excerpt: /226/ Science Says: No Woke
On the Jacobin & YouGov survey of the US working class. A study (pdf) carried out by YouGov on behalf of Jacobin magazine and the Center for Working-Class Politics has learned that "working-class ...
23 Nov 20216min
/225/ Wokeistan & Lebanonworld ft. Karl Sharro
On sectarianism & identitarianism. Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) is back on Bunga to talk to us about his essay "The Retreat from Universalism in the Middle East and the World". Lebanon has been used as...
16 Nov 20211h 12min
Excerpt: /224/ Three Articles: Labour Revolts?
On rising wages after the pandemic. Workers are quitting their jobs and not going back. Restricted supply is seeing wages go up. Does this signal a new militancy, or are workers just deciding to mak...
9 Nov 20216min
/222/ Nukes 4 Kids ft. Emmet Penney, pt. 1
On the global energy crisis. Nuclear energy advocate Emmet Penney (@nukebarbarian) joins us to discuss the growing energy crunch in Europe, the US and beyond. Nuclear power is opposed by an unhol...
2 Nov 202153min
Excerpt: /221/ Reading Club: Truth About Class
This month we discuss GM Tamas' essay "Telling the Truth About Class" published in the Socialist Register. Is Tamas' division between Marxist and Rousseauian socialism useful? Does it help us to under...
28 Okt 20213min
