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This episode comes in two parts. At the beginning of this year the PAS published its second installment of the Platypus Review Reader. This volume, in addition to Marxism in the Age of Trump and Chris Cutrone's recent publication The Death of the Millennial Left, are a curated selection of articles in our monthly publication spanning between 2013 and 2017. In the first segment, we present a roundtable with Platypus members involved in the curation, publication and digestion of the Platypus Review Reader 2, opening up a discussion about the long history of the Platypus Review, the denouement of the Millennial Left, and how we make this history meaningful as the Zoomer Left enters the mid-2020s. In the second segment, Pam N. sits down for an interview led by our German members, Kat and Lara, to discuss the teach-in she gave in November 2023, after the October 7th attacks, and take up the horizons of possibility of the Millennial Left, the new forms of politicization and depoliticization, and the task of political education by Platypus today. --- Platypus Review Reader 2 Roundtable links: "The Platypus Review Reader" 1 and 2 and "Marxism in the Age of Trump" are available at https://platypus1917.org/publishing/ Full table of contents for the PRR2 available at https://platypus-publishing.square.site/product/pr-reader-ii-soft-/4?si=true "Editorial Statement" for the Platypus Review: https://platypus1917.org/platypus-review/editorial-statement/ Some key articles mentioned: "Program and Utopia" Platypus Panel (July 2013) https://platypus1917.org/2013/07/01/program-and-utopia/ "What is a Political Party for the Left?" Platypus panel (2015) https://platypus1917.org/2015/08/30/political-party-left-3/ Teo Velissaris., "Ghosts of national sovereignty: SYRIZA and the Left in the current situation" (September 2015) https://platypus1917.org/2015/09/01/ghosts-national-sovereignty-syriza-left-current-situation/ "1917-2017" Platypus Panel (September 2017) https://platypus1917.org/2017/08/29/1917-2017/ --- Nogales Interview links: Pamela C. Nogales C., “Helplessness without history: Political education after the Millennial Left” in the Platypus Review 170 (October 2024) https://platypus1917.org/2024/10/01/helplessness-without-history-political-education-after-the-millennial-left/ Pamela C. Nogales C., “Ohnmacht ohne Geschichte: Politische Bildung nach der Millenial Linken” Die Platypus Review 33 (September/Oktober 2024) https://platypus1917.org/2024/10/01/nogales_ohnmacht_ohne_geschichte/ SPS #67 Interviews with encampment participants https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/ep67 “Beyond Left and Right,” Platypus public panel, London, (July 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pD9iyQmr0&t=84s Benjamin M. Studebaker, “Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos” in the Platypus Review 166 (May 2024) https://platypus1917.org/2024/05/01/beyond-bonapartism-breaking-statephobic-thought-taboos/ Pamela C. Nogales C., “Platypus at #Occupy: Lessons learned from the death of the Millennial Left” in the Platypus Review 137 (June 2021) https://platypus1917.org/2021/06/01/platypus-at-occupy/ Efraim Carlebach, “The unchanging core of Marxism: An interview with Ian Birchall” in the Platypus Review 102 (December 2017 – January 2018) https://platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/unchanging-core-marxism-interview-ian-birchall/ James Heartfield “The anti-political party, Book Review: Ian Birchall. Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time. London: Bookmarks, 2011” in the Platypus Review 55 (April 2013) https://platypus1917.org/2013/04/01/the-anti-political-party/ Erin Hagood, “Have we unlearned how to learn? 1968 and today” in the Platypus Review 168 (July - August 2024) https://platypus1917.org/2024/07/01/have-we-unlearned-how-to-learn-1968-and-today/ 50 Years of 1968, Platypus public panel series (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYuijyS19Q&list=PLNc4xGUuaRwmXgnewb_tYfhp8_YTn_c9F&pp=iAQB

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Anthony Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most-referenced author of books in the humanities. He has academic appointments in approximately twenty different universities throughout the world and has received numerous honorary degrees. Four notable stages can be identified in his academic life. The first one involved outlining a new vision of what sociology is, presenting a theoretical and methodological understanding of that field based on a critical reinterpretation of the classics. His major publications of that era include Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971) and The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies (1973). In the second stage, Giddens developed the theory of structuration, an analysis of agency and structure in which primacy is granted to neither. His works of that period, such as New Rules of Sociological Method (1976), Central Problems in Social Theory (1979) and The Constitution of Society (1984), brought him international fame on the sociological arena. The third stage of Giddens's academic work was concerned with modernity, globalization and politics, especially the impact of modernity on social and personal life. This stage is reflected by his critique of postmodernity and discussions of a new "utopian-realist" Third Way in politics which is visible in The Consequences of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right (1994) and The Third Way (1998). Giddens' ambition was both to recast social theory and to re-examine our understanding of the development and trajectory of modernity. In the most recent stage, Giddens has turned his attention to a more concrete range of problems relevant to the evolution of world society, namely environmental issues, focusing especially upon debates about climate change, analyzed in successive editions of his book The Politics of Climate Change (2009); the role and nature of the European Union in Turbulent and Mighty Continent (2014); and in a series of lectures and speeches also the nature and consequences of the Digital Revolution. Giddens served as Director of the London School of Economics from 1997 to 2003, where he is now Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology. He is a life fellow of King's College, Cambridge. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Giddens is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for sociology courses. Original video ⁠here⁠⁠ Full Wikipedia entry ⁠here⁠ Anthony Giddens' books ⁠here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

Nurses Out Loud with Jodi O'Malley MSN, RN – Join me for a thought-provoking interview with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, an independent candidate running for POTUS. Dr. Ayyadurai will shed light on his unique perspective and delve into the inner workings of the Swarm, a concept he passionately explains in a captivating 15-minute video. In this interview, we explore how the elites operate and their efforts to divide us beyond the...

Nurses Out Loud with Jodi O'Malley MSN, RN – Join me for a thought-provoking interview with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, an independent candidate running for POTUS. Dr. Ayyadurai will shed light on his unique perspective and delve into the inner workings of the Swarm, a concept he passionately explains in a captivating 15-minute video. In this interview, we explore how the elites operate and their efforts to divide us beyond the...

Does pluralism result in discrimination? Must one choose a political side, either on the Left or the Right? And how can an ordinary life be an exceptional one? These are all questions involving dichotomies that are commonly presented to us in our culture. But Tish Harrison Warren, an ordained Anglican priest and columnist for the New York Times, sees such dichotomies as false, and has spent her own life's work breaking them down in whatever ways she can. In this episode, Tish discusses her experience as a campus minister in the midst of controversy at Vanderbilt University, what it's like holding convictions while under fire from both sides of the political spectrum, and her award-winning book Liturgy of the Ordinary. Show Notes: Similar episodes  Kristin Du Mez Sits with David French Dorothy Day: Traditional, Radical, Christian “What Could Possibly Produce Someone with a Soul That Shallow?”: Stanley Hauerwas Resources mentioned this episode Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren Tish's website Tish's New York Times column PDF of Lee's Interview Notes Transcription Link Subscribe to episodes: Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Stitcher | Google | YouTube Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter  Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Become a Member: Virtual Only | Standard | Premium See Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy  Shop No Small Endeavor Merch: Scandalous Witness Course | Scandalous Witness Book |  Joy & the Good Life Course  Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: Tokens Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this discussion, Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, Inventor of Email, explains how only the Truth Freedom Health® System, a Bottoms Up Movement build on the principles of Systems Science, provides the infrastructure needed to liberate ourselves from the forces of Power Profit Control by inspiring YOU to take accountability for your future, Beyond Left & Right.

In this discussion, Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the Inventor of Email poses the observation that anyone of ANY COLOR who gets instinctively uncomfortable with the VERY THOUGHT that a brown immigrant kid in Newark, NJ INVENTED EMAIL is a WHITE SUPREMACIST. Based on this Dr. SHIVA discusses WHAT is White Supremacy and shares his journey to inventing email in Newark, NJ and the abusive reaction by those who REACTED just at the MERE THOUGHT that a brown immigrant kid in Newark, NJ invented email.

Lincoln in his Second Inaugural pointed out that even amidst the horror of civil war, Americans of both sides still "read the same Bible and prayed to the same God." Today, Americans can no longer agree on such basic questions as what a woman is; the traditional political distinctions of "left" and "right" no longer fully explain our reality. Matthew explains how Republicans can leverage the tools they already possess to help their constituents live a more human way of life and further outlines steps each individual can take to protect themselves and their families from institutional corruption.    Show Notes:   https://guide.newfounding.com/   Socialist Investment Advisors - American Mind https://americanmind.org/salvo/socialist-investment-advisors/   Principal Investments  https://www.principalinv.com/   RETURN https://return.life/   The College President Who Won't Raise Tuition - The Atlantic  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/mitch-daniels-purdue/606772/

Join Dr.SHIVA and other #TruthFreedomHealth Warrior-Scholars for a public dialog to have a conversation on Pro-Life and Pro-Choice to reveal the real issues - Beyond Left & Right.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva reveals the 4 Buckets that the Ruling Class needs YOU in so you do not get educated and being to think Beyond Left & Right to Build a Movement that Unifies working people to identify real problems and innovate real solutions.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva provides a preview to the upcoming Saturday June 4, 2022 11AM EST #TruthFreedomHealth Summit that will discuss "GUN VIOLENCE: The Root Cause & Real Solution. Beyond Left & Right." The Summit is Open to All #TruthFreedomHealth Warrior-Scholars. Anyone who wants to learn more about the #TruthFreedomHealth Warrior-Scholar program, you may attend the Open House Orientation and register at vashiva.com/orientation.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva provides a market systems analysis to reveal the REAL Reason for the shortage of Baby Formula. And, guess what this will happen more and more unless we solve the real problem, Beyond Left & Right.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva honors the life of Malcolm X whose birthday was yesterday May 19th. He provides an analysis leading to the assassination of Malcom X and why Malcom X was ultimately a systems scientist.

In this discussion, Dr. Shiva asks a potent question as to whether you are a "blind sheep" meaning do you see things as they are or as you want them to be. Are you being manipulated to fight among each other and not to see the situation as it truly is. He shares the importance to learn the Science of Systems to go Beyond Left & Right in order to identify the REAL PROBLEM and REAL SOLUTION in a situation.

Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai shares EchoMail's recently completed audit of Ballot Images from 2020 Presidential Race in Maricopa County. The project history, the analysis, and conclusions are compelling, offering an opportunity for all Americans, Beyond Left and Right, to unite to advance real issues on election systems integrity. We live in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Electronic voting systems are using such AI, and lawmakers are completely oblivious to the fact that private corporations are not disclosing the methods used to determine vote counts. Legislatures must pass legislation that direct private companies to adhere to transparent standards and specifications on how votes are to be tabulated and flagged for adjudication by these A.I. systems.

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A weird phenomenon can be observed throughout the West: while the Left and the Right disagree less and less about the fundamentals (such as the expanding role of the state or the willingness to regulate the market), the tensions and the toxicity in the public sphere are at a peak. The culture wars are the field where political passions explode, and the result is a suffocating atmosphere, while the actual problems at hand remain unresolved. In this lecture, Yaron delves into the ideologies of the Left and Right, and shows why moving beyond is the only way to a better future.

Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the Inventor of Email, Engineer, Scientist, Educator is pleased to announce he will now be re-starting his regular broadcasts. It's time go : Beyond Left and Right. Beyond Black and White. Truth Freedom Health. Workers Unite..

Third Wayism Chase Davis, pastor of The Well in Boulder CO, works out to Ars Politica, drives a Taco. Definitions “Radical centrism”  “Progressive center-left” (Russell Moore, Tim Keller, David French, etc) https://twitter.com/PerfInjust/status/1386095631719141383 (Wolfe on twitter): Left/Right Moral Equivalence –> Third-Wayism Andrew Walker on twitter: Third-wayism in politics is a form of political Gnosticism as it assumes that there is a platonic ideal to politics that does not require engaging the kingdoms of the world as what they fundamentally are: worldly, temporal, & creational ordinances designed for proximate justice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/458626.stm (BBC Article): “[S]omething different and distinct from liberal capitalism with its unswerving belief in the merits of the free market and democratic socialism with its demand management and obsession with the state. The Third Way is in favour of growth, entrepreneurship, enterprise and wealth creation but it is also in favour of greater social justice and it sees the state playing a major role in bringing this about.” Origins/Causes Third-Wayism as a neo-liberal reaction to the breakdown of 20th c. Left/Right politics. Neo-libs wanted a “new kind of socialism”. Instead of hard state economic socialism that wants to eradicate capitalism and institute hard equality, they preach social justice, individual worth, and accept some capitalist features. Basically, use other means to achieve the old ends. Promote egalitarianism to distribute goods indirectly as people rise in employment, instead of hard wealth distribution.  Anthony Giddens' works such as Consequences of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right (1994) and The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998) Repair damaged solidarities. Recognise the centrality of life politics. Accept that active trust implies generative politics. Embrace dialogic democracy. Rethink the welfare state. Confront violence. It advocates ethical socialism, reformism and gradualism that includes advocating the humanisation of capitalism, a mixed economy, political pluralism and liberal democracy. Alan Carlson's Third Ways Evangelical Examples Tim Keller https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1385951866660474886 (https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1385951866660474886)  https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1317646996342177793?s=20 (https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1317646996342177793?s=20)  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html) Political Media Bias Graph https://photos.app.goo.gl/LN4PzvaTFKo6BnuJ6

Dr. SHIVA BROADCAST: Was TRUMP the Swamp? Only YOU Can Decide. Build the Movement. Beyond Left & Right. TruthFreedomHealth.com

You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com​ I speak to Angela about rootlessness as the price of empire, woke NGOs as the enforcers of global capital, hyperreal online spaces and the people that populate them, boring local politics vs. the dopamine rush of the 24/7 kaleidoscope of U.S. politics, having skin in the game of politics and what happens if you don't, the machinations of power at a global level, and the fertility crisis. Angela Nagle is the author of "Kill All Normies" and a writer for American Affairs and Unherd. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aksubversive/message

The Brexit disruptors - beyond left and right --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shacast/support

Dr. SHIVA LIVE: Why Working People Must Lead. Beyond Left & RIght. #TruthFreedomHealth Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD in Biological Engineering, Scientist, Engineer, Educator shares a historical SYSTEMS analysis of WHY #WorkingPeopleUnite is the SLOGAN of o..

Dr. SHIVA LIVE: Beyond Left & Right. Interview w Tom Roten on iHeart Radio Get Educated or Be Enslaved VASHIVA.COM/JOIN

This week I tackle the thorny problem of the left/right divide. I dive into political history from the Magna Carta and French Revolution to the World Wars and the subsequent total war which has made the left/right distinction obsolete. Even though these are concepts whose time was really the 19th century, we are still bogged down in left, right, socialist, capitalist; in reality, the coordinates of political struggle are quite different. Dive in as I begin an analysis on the Left/Right distinction, where it came from, and what we need to do to get around it.

We explore the various ideologies that are prevalent in the post-modern era. We attempt to explore the extremes of these ideologies and propose why they run contrary to Catholic Teaching.

Dr. SHIVA LIVE; October 3rd Working People Unite! Beyond "Left" & "Right". Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the Inventor of Email, Scientist, Innovator, US Senate Candidate (MA) discusses the politics of division sowed by the #DeepState to divide working peo..

Discussions about covid-19 mortality in particular break down around left/ right lines. How can new information from sero-surveys help us think independently about mortality - even if it means being on the same side as Trump supporters?

Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Great Barrington, MA. Where AC power was pioneered. Beyond Left & Right! Happy Birthday #Email! #Shiva4Senate #TruthFreedomHealth *Sound is harder on this video due to the private setting we were in. Twitter version is a little better -- ..

Dr.SHIVA LIVE: What IS Revolution? Beyond Left & Right: Kattabommanon, Marx, Che, Paine, Locke. Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the Inventor of Email, Scientist, Innovator, Entrepreneur, US Senate Candidate (R-MA) shares an objective scientific analysis to..

Our Fight for #TruthFreedomHealth. Beyond Left & Right. Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai for U.S. Senate. If our America is going to change, we must FIGHT for #TruthFreedomHealth, Beyond Left & Right! Massachusetts: Vote for Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD on September 1..

Beyond Left and Right with Marshall Fritz. This was originally recorded in 1988 by the Advocates for Self-Government in one of their training sessions for libertarians. The tape is long out of circulation and we preserve it here out of reverence for the immense impact Marshall Fritz had on the libertarian movement. Copyright 1988, Advocates for Self-Government. Permission is granted to make gift copies of the work so long as this copyright message and attribution remain intact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If our America is going to change, we must FIGHT for #TruthFreedomHealth, Beyond Left & Right! Massachusetts: Vote for Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD on September 1st. Find out more at https://Shiva4Senate.com. We don't have the time to wait any longer. We..

Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Beyond Left & Right. Racism to #CoronaVirus. Interview w Elijah Christian TV in St.Lucia Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the Inventor of Email, Scientist, Innovator, US Senate Candidate (R-MA) discusses how WE THE PEOPLE get the REAL SOLUTIO..

Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD in Biological Engineering, the Inventor of Email, Scientist, Innovator, U.S. Senate Candidate (R-MA). In this discussion, Dr. SHIVA provides a powerful SYSTEMS framework to understand the VAXX & Anti-VAXX discourse from a Syst..

Is regulating tech beyond left-right politics with Svetoslav Malinov by Martens Centre

Maite Lameris is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business and has been working on research on new ways to see how a person’s political values correspond with how happy they are and how they vote. Lameris and her fellow researchers have also developed four new dimensions for measuring political identity to go beyond the limitations of leftwing versus rightwing.

Reading excerpts from thinker and philosopher Eugene Thacker's latest work, "Infinite Resignation." Thacker is a professor at the New School in NYC, and in his essay "On Pessimism" is composed of aphorisms / fragments which explore the concept. You can purchase the book here: https://tinyurl.com/y6d6k2wz I also share some thoughts about how the perspective of pessimism relates to Beyond Left & Right (BLR) philosophy. Intro/Outro song is my own composition, except for the drum track, which comes from https://www.drumdrops.com/. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/becomeother

Host Alex Paterson is joined by Tim Dixon, co-founder of More in Common at the Global Progress conference in Montreal. Tim worked for years in U.K. and Australian politics before turning his attention to helping the world better understand what drives political polarization. Through this initiative, and years of research, Tim hopes to bring to light new narratives around what unites us vs. what divides us.

Part two of a two-part interview with Aslı Bâli on the Syrian civil war and the larger geopolitical conflicts that shape the Middle East — with an emphasis on the role played the United States. During part one, which you should definitely listen to first, Bâli discussed the various powers sacrificing the lives of Syrian people in the pursuit of their perceived geopolitical and sectarian interests. In this installment, Bâli discusses the restrictive frames that dominates the American discussion over Syria, and then assesses the lack of a coherent heterodox left-wing foreign policy in the United States — something that we desperately need as the possibility of the Left taking power becomes newly plausible. Read: "Remember Syria?" by Bâli and Aziz Rana bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-bali-aziz-rana-trump-putin-syria and "The U.S. Debt to Syria" bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-u-bali-aziz-rana-us-debt-syria. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe versobooks.com/books/2748-for-a-left-populism. Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig!

[note: this is being re-posted because the original post was accidentally deleted. So if you have already listened, no need to listen again!] Aslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their own geopolitical ends; meanwhile, huge numbers of Syrian refugees languish in neighboring countries, and the much smaller number who have made their way to Europe and the United States have been utilized by a resurgent far-right to blame ordinary Syrians for violence rooted in the colonial operations of those very same countries that now insist on keeping the refugees out. Read: Remember Syria? by Bâli and Aziz Rana bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-bali-aziz-rana-trump-putin-syria and The U.S. Debt to Syria bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-u-bali-aziz-rana-us-debt-syria Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about Thanks to Verso Books. Check out New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age And Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis versobooks.com/books/2759-prisoners-of-the-american-dream Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig

That right-wing people in the US and Europe have made George Soros the answer to so many troubling questions is not very surprising: he's a billionaire, he's Jewish and, unlike most of his cohort, he is an intellectual who spends much of his money on substantively progressive causes. Daniel Bessner's essay on him in n+1, however, not only sketches out the Right's obsessions but also offers a detailed analysis of Soros as a thinker and philanthropist — coming to the conclusion that Soros's hope for an open and pluralistic society will be forever doomed if we continue to live under the very capitalist system that made him so spectacularly rich. Here's Soros's response in the Guardian. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about! Thanks to Verso Books. Check out eThe Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love by Andy Merrifield versobooks.com/books/2765-the-amateur. Support this podcast with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig to receive our weekly newsletter!  

Sorry to Bother You is a hilarious film about the dead-serious shittiness of life under neoliberalism's flexibilized and precarious labor regime, a system teetering upon a thin line between free labor exploitation and a form of expropriation reminiscent of full-on slave labor — all at the mercy of the thinly veiled barbarity of Palo Alto-style techno-utopianism. It's about how capitalist society divides and conquers friends and family to claim not only our obedience but also our very souls, and about how the task of left organizing is to see through that game and fight together. Dan's guest today is Boots Riley, who wrote and directed the film and also fronts the left-wing hip-hop group The Coup. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about! Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot versobooks.com/books/2732-out-of-the-wreckage And October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville versobooks.com/books/2731-october. Support this podcast with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig to receive our weekly newsletter  

If Kerri Evelyn Harris wins in Delaware, she will have knocked out an incumbent US Senator. And that would be a really big deal. Harris, a left candidate backed by Justice Democrats, is Dan's guest today. She is the latest candidate putting forward the bold proposition that in a democracy, ordinary people should govern themselves — particularly since well-credentialed incumbents like her opponent, Senator Tom Carper, so often do the bidding of corporate interests. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about! Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield versobooks.com/books/2742-radical-technologies. And support this podcast with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig to receive our weekly newsletter!  

The SESTA/FOSTA law purportedly aims to curb sex trafficking. But as my guest Melissa Gira Grant explains, it actually denies sex workers access to online platforms to more safely conduct their business. It received just two "no" votes in the Senate: from Rand Paul and Ron Wyden. It's a problem of hegemony: prohibition has long been plain common sense. So, it's our job to change that. The first step is to make it clear that there is dissent, and that prohibition is self-evidently neither good policy nor good politics. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-identity and The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love by Andy Merrifield versobooks.com/books/2765-the-amateur. Support this podcast with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig to receive our weekly newsletter!  

Kaniela Ing (kanielaing.com) is a DSA member running in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, calling for an end to imperialism and rule by the wealthy, and for housing rights, a green New Deal, Medicare for All, and free college. And he's Dan’s guest. Ocasio-Cortez became an overnight celebrity when she defeated Joe Crowley. But what's most important is that you know who these candidates are before election day — because that's when they most need your help. Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield versobooks.com/books/2742-radical-technologies. Support this podcast with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig to receive our weekly newsletter!  

Janus was an entirely expected and atrocious decision. The conservative business interests that successfully obliterated private sector unions hope it will do the same to their public sector counterparts. Chris Maisano, a contributing editor at Jacobin, argues that labor has no choice but to return to its militant roots if it hopes to survive. In other words, to survive, labor has to fight for a lot more than mere survival. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-identity and The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love by Andy Merrifield versobooks.com/books/2765-the-amateur. Live Dig show in NYC on 8/17! Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century: facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about. Support this podcast with your $ and receive our weekly newsletter and lefty books at patreon.com/TheDig!

I think my generation has been nurtured in linear logic and in great loyalty only on something that proves to be demonstrable. Through my own experience, I have seen how restrictive this is for our horizons, for our quality of life and understanding. At the same time, because I think most of the information we receive is controlled, I can see that this trend is not accidental. This is of immense importance as the way we perceive our worldview directly affects every aspect of life! As a Token of Appreciation, you can download for Free my AudioBook How to Get Closer to Your Real Self: Entering a Path of Fulfilment and Long-Lasting Enthusiasm Made by You: wp.me/P9pUyQ-52

Economic issues are often moral issues. If you know where a person stands on the left-right spectrum, you can easily predict their preference for economic approaches like austerity or stimulus. One’s moral compass tends to dictate their response to even ‘factual’ matters like whether or not raising the minimum wage increases unemployment. What we believe influences what we perceive far more than we would like to admit to. Renowned social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that most of us stick unswervingly to one of two persuasive stories about capitalism - with predictable consequences. He believes we must push ourselves beyond these entrenched narratives and develop a ‘third story’ – one that incorporates some of the objective truths of both, and abandons the gut-level assumptions on either side.

Beyond Left & Right Series

Beyond Left & Right Series

Beyond Left & Right Series

Beyond Left & Right Series

Beyond Left & Right Series

Beyond Left & Right Series