Podcast appearances and mentions of doug lain

On this episode of SPS, Pamela N. and Platypus member Adrienne F. interview Nadine Strossen, an American legal scholar and civil liberties activist. Strossen served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1991 to 2008; she is currently a senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education Expression (FIRE); and is the author of Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023). We discuss her history on the Left, her relationship to the antiwar movement, the Students for a Democratic Society, and radical & progressive positions today. We also take up the recent illiberal turn in society, and what if any effect it has had on the ACLU, as well as her proposed solutions. Finally, we take a critical look at demands by the Left to reform the Supreme Court. If you live in the East Coast, Platypus is hosting its annual East Coast Conference in Boston on Oct 11-13. There will be a variety of panels, teach-ins and social gatherings. Panels include, "The American Revolution and Communism" held at Boston College on 10.12 and "The Role of Theory in Defeat," at Harvard University on 10.13. More information will be available at: https://www.facebook.com/platypusbc | https://x.com/BcPlatypus | https://www.instagram.com/platypusbc/ The French chapter of Platypus is holding a virtual panel, on "Popular Front Politics Today," held in French on Sat Sept 28 via Zoom. The panel will feature, Gilles Candar, Aymeric Monville, and a member of the Spartacist League. More information will be available at: https://www.instagram.com/platypusfrance LINKS - Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-speech-9780197699652 - Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018) https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Nadine-Strossen/dp/0190859121 - Strossen, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (1995, new ed. 2024) https://nyupress.org/9781479830763/defending-pornography/ - Nogales, “The Cancel Wars: The Legacy of the Cultural Turn in the Age of Trump” in Platypus Review 131 (November 2020) https://platypus1917.org/2020/11/01/the-cancel-wars-the-legacy-of-the-cultural-turn-in-the-age-of-trump/ - ACLU Case Selection Guidelines (2017) https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu_case_selection_guidelines.pdf - Strossen, “The First Amendment Doesn't Protect White Supremacists Behind Violent Charlottesville Rallies,” LA Progressive Newsletter, Dec. 7, 2021 - Strossen, “Charlottesville Three Years Later: The First Amendment Confronts Hate and Violence,” Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug. 10, 2020 - Strossen, “The Interdependence of Racial Justice and Free Speech for Racists,” 1 Journal of Free Speech Law 51-70 (2021) - Moyn, “Socialists Have Long Fought to Disempower the Supreme Court. That's More Urgent Than Ever Now,” Jacobin (2020) https://jacobin.com/2020/09/supreme-court-socialists-ruth-bader-ginsburg-death - Cotlin, “Mayor Eric Adams, DSA agree: expand the court” City & State New York (2023) https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2023/02/mayor-eric-adams-dsa-agree-expand-court/383006/ - Lazare, “A central driver” in the Weekly Worker (2021) https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1337/a-central-driver/ - Strossen on SCOTUS term limits, in “Forum: What's the Matter With the Supreme Court? And what can be done to fix it?” in The Nation (2018) https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/forum-whats-the-matter-with-the-supreme-court/ - Sublation Media with Doug Lain, “Nadine Strossen Talks to Marxists” (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gd5-KoOosA - “The Politics of Free Speech,” (04/06/24) Platypus International Convention 2024 panel, Chicago, IL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anorBcUZ-uE - "Free Speech and the Left," Platypus virtual panel (05/02/24), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xc0IIKUz8

Welcome to the show! Today, we have a fascinating discussion lined up with Doug Lain, the founder of Sublation Magazine, who recently embarked on a unique journey to the Republican National Convention. Known for his incisive commentary and thought-provoking analysis, Doug offers a distinctive perspective that challenges conventional narratives.   Tonight, we'll delve into Doug's experiences at the convention, exploring the atmosphere, the conversations, and the ideological currents shaping the Republican Party today. As a critical observer, Doug provides an outsider's view into the heart of a political gathering that is seen by many in left spaces in enemy territory. What was it like for Doug behind enemy lines?    We'll explore what Doug witnessed at the convention, from the rhetoric on the main stage to the dynamics in the corridors. How is the GOP positioning itself for the upcoming elections? What are the key issues and messages resonating with its base? And how does the convention reflect broader trends in American politics? Is there a GOP candidate beyond Donald Trump that can take the party back to the party of Lincoln?   Join us as we dive into Doug's insights and reflections on the Republican National Convention, shedding light on the evolving landscape of American politics and the forces driving change within the GOP. Please welcome Doug Lain to the show!   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

Last month Douglas Lain (of Sublation Media) hosted a conversation between myself and Spencer Leonard. We reviewed Mikhail Bakunin's work "Statism and Anarchy" and contrasted Bakunin's thinking with Proudhon and Marx. After some initial confusion, Doug was kind enough to give me the full episode for public release! Enjoy :) Originally distributed by  @sublationmedia   DON'T FORGET TO LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND SHARE! Become a Patreon Patron: https://www.patreon.com/cyberdandySupport the Show.

Doug Lain has been podcasting for 15 years. We talk about the early days of podcasting and how the scene has changed. As always happens when Doug and I get to talking, the conversation goes all over the place.

On US campus protest, the brutalisation of Gaza, and whether this is an age of war.   Join us: patreon.com/bungacast   Bunga boys Alex, George and Phil debate the matter of the day. We ask: Is the police repression and associated censorship (the anti-semitism bill) a reflection of the fact the content of the protest unsettles the establishment? Why? Why is the Left breaking with Biden and the Dems over this and not before? How do these student protests compare to BLM? And how do they compare to those of the late 60s and Vietnam? What should those in Western countries do in response to Israel's war? Is the Palestinian struggle dead? What are the risks of regional war? And does Israel's assault on Gaza presage a new era of warfare?   Links: The Triumph of American Idealism, Alex Hochuli, Damage Like it or not, the politics of war is upon us, David Jamieson, Conter Express Train to Nowhere: Class and the Crisis of the Modern Jewish Soul, Samuel Biagetti, American Affairs (pdf attached) Is this How We Can STOP Genocide Joe?, Doug Lain interviews Dr. Elektra Kostopoulos & Dave Fox, Sublation Media The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War, Benjamin Studebaker, Sublation Media Meet the new Left, who think Hamas are good and that Swastikas are woke, Ryan Zickgraf, Telegraph Their Fight, Not Ours, Alex Gourevitch, The Northern Star

KMO inspired Doug Lain to get into podcasting 15 years ago. To mark the anniversary, Doug conducted a 15-hour YouTube livestream. KMO was the first guest of the day.

Douglas (Doug) Lain of Sublation Media was here before there was an online theory scene to speak of, much less one that was considered "Left." Dave and Nance bring him on to talk about the Left, what he means by this term, his time in the scene, and his vision for a way forward. This includes a critical defense of anti-establishment (or "populist") liberals like Russel Brand, Matt Tiabbi, and Glenn Greenwald. (Something Dave and Nance appreciate Doug for to no end!)   ABOUT / CREDITS / LINKS Become a monthly TU Tier Subscriber to access to the TU HUB, which includes past, ongoing, and upcoming courses, special events, office hours, clubs, and critical feedback that will help you evolve your comprehension capacities and critical faculties, via the website here: https://theoryunderground.com/product/tu-subscription-tiers/ (Whatever tier you subscribe to in the month of March 2024 will be promoted to the privileges of the next one up (e.g. Tier 1 will have Tier 2 privileges, etc.!).)   Don't have time for that but want to help anyway? Consider supporting the patreon here: Welcome to Theory Underground. https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground   Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications   Theory Underground is a lecture, research, and publishing platform by and for working class intellectuals, autodidacts, and academics who want to do more than they are able to within the confines of academia.   Think of Theory Underground like a Jiu Jitsu gym for your brain. Or like a post-political theory church. It doesn't matter. None of the analogies will do it justice. We're post-identity anyway. Just see if the vibe is right for you. We hope you get something out of it!   If you want to help me get setup sooner/faster in a totally gratuitous way, or support me but you don't care about the subscription or want to bother with the monthly stuff, here is a way to buy me something concrete and immediately useful, then you can buy me important equipment for my office on this list (these items will be automatically shipped to my address if you use the list here) https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58?   Buy me some coffee: https://www.venmo.com/u/Theorypleeb https://paypal.me/theorypleeb   If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI See Theory Underground memes here: https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground/ https://tiktok.com/@theory_underground   Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand. https://theoryunderground.com/courses   MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk            

Exclusive to subscribers, the SECOND HALF of James's debate with Doug Lain on the contempt with which some on the left have shown towards pro-Palestinian activism. Click through to Sublation Media's YouTube channel for the first part of James's defence of the pro-Gaza protest movement.

Djene Bajalan discusses with Doug Lain why the left should care about what's going on with Russell Brand allegations and state sponsored censorship.  About TIR   Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on   Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MarcusHereMeow   Get Jason's Book here: https://everyday-analysis.sellfy.store/p/i-was-a-teenage-anarchist-by-jason-myles-print-and-digital-issue-pre-order/

Alex and Benjamin bring on Doug Lain to talk about free speech in the 21st century. Doug offers his take on why free speech matters, and we discuss the political economy of speech and the role the state and civil society play in shaping public discussion. They also discuss his critique of Noam Chomsky and his interest in the work of Guy Debord.

Voice Of GO(r)D is honored to speak with one of the founders of Sublation Media, writer, political commentator, and man of the Left, Mr Doug Lain. Doug joins us to discuss the Twitter Files, state interference in free speech, Freedom Convoy, worker's rights, Marxism, Marcuse, and what it all means under the neoliberal/globalist deep state regime of 2023. You can find Doug's writings at https://www.sublationmedia.com/, his Sci-Fi novel Bash Bash Revolution at https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781597809160/bash-bash-revolution/ and many of his discussions on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/douglain You can find me at https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/ and can contact the show via gordilocks@protonmail.com

The idea that there is a government conspiracy to cover up the existence of aliens has long been a cornerstone of American popular culture. However, in recent weeks, the Congressional testimony of David Grusch – a former intelligence officer – regarding the existence of aliens has brought the issue, once again, to public attention. To discuss aliens and more, we are joined by friend of show, Doug Lain, who recently published a Critical Cuts video essay entitled   “What Will UFO Disclosure Reveal?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1KWtzpbAg&t=777s   About TIR Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MarcusHereMeow   Read Jason: https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Pascal: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving...

In part 1 of a two-part recap of Season 3 so far, we discuss our interview with Doug Lain of Sublation Media and the Diet Soap podcast. The original interview covered Lain's trajectory, his views on the theory of neo-feudalism, and the problem of increasing online censorship. As we unpack our conversation with Lain, we spend time on Lain's discomfort with the term "neofeudal" and his preference for "society of control" as a description of the current state of capitalism. We evaluate the tension between the approval of economic concentration/centralization for the advancement of future socialism and the disapproval of the use of corporate power via government pressures to inhibit some speech. We also talk about the tension between Lain's Marxism and our own views on industrial vs. regional/local agricultural production.

In part 1 of a two-part recap of Season 3 so far, we discuss our interview with Doug Lain of Sublation Media and the Diet Soap podcast. The original interview covered Lain's trajectory, his views on the theory of neo-feudalism, and the problem of increasing online censorship. As we unpack our conversation with Lain, we spend time on Lain's discomfort with the term "neofeudal" and his preference for "society of control" as a description of the current state of capitalism. We evaluate the tension between the approval of economic concentration/centralization for the advancement of future socialism and the disapproval of the use of corporate power via government pressures to inhibit some speech. We also talk about the tension between Lain's Marxism and our own views on industrial vs. regional/local agricultural production.

Hello Fully Automated listeners! This is a rebroadcast of Episode 7 of Class Unity: Transmissions, as posted here. Transmissions is the official podcast of Class Unity, and I want to thank them for their permission to use this episode. You can find out more about Class Unity over at https://classunity.org/ For those curious, there will be more independent ‘Fully Automated' content coming soon. But I will continue to repost those ‘Transmissions' episodes in which I am involved, as I think they will be of interest to listeners of this show, too. Welcome to Episode 7 of Class Unity “Transmissions.” In this episode we are joined by Doug Lain, Commissioning Editor at Sublation Media. Lain is a real veteran of the left podcast scene. From his old philosophy podcast "Diet Soap,” which ran from 2009 through 2014, to his work as host of the Zero Books podcast, Zero Squared, Lain's impact as a formative voice on the contemporary socialist left cannot be understated. In this show we cover a wide range of topics, including Lain's recent ban from Elon Musk's newly “pro-free speech” Twitter (for a joke about RFK Jnr). However, the real purpose of the interview is to revisit an old Tweet of his, from April this year. On April 15, Lain posted three priorities that, he said, “an independent left” should be focused on right now: Ending the conflict in Ukraine by opposing the very dangerous continuing escalation; Protecting the working class from the consequences from the continuing financial and fiscal crisis that has been expressed through inflation and the banking crisis; Opposing the war on disinformation and the expansion of the security state into the “whole of society.” In recent months, Lain has been particularly strident on the first and the third of these priorities. However, his arguments have not been especially well received (his recent encounter with the Majority Report's Matt Binder offers a fairly representative example of the disdain many progressives have for Lain's views). Noting the vehemence of this response, we were curious. And so we decided to invite Lain for a chat. We start by asking Lain what he means by the phrase “an independent left”? We then move onto the first of his priorities, the war in Ukraine. The US left has been strangely quiet on this conflict. Where it has addressed the issue, it has usually been in handwaving fashion, arguing that it is a case of “imperialism on both sides.” We put it to Lain that this is kind of an inversion of Trump's infamous “very fine people on both sides” comment. Perhaps the imperialism on both sides argument had some empirical application in the lead up to World War I. But Russia has a GDP close to that of Italy. Equally, US foreign policy insiders like Former Ambassador to USSR Jack Matlock, George Kennan, William Burns have warned DC policymakers for decades about eastwards NATO expansion, saying in no uncertain terms that Ukraine would be the hardest of red lines for Russia. Moreover, now, as Lev Golonkin reports in The Nation in June, the US is openly funding and arming the Ukrainian military despite the presence in its ranks of openly fascist regiments. It seems clear therefore not only who started this war, and why, but that its moral costs and risks for future catastrophe are unacceptable. So why is the left so adamant in its avoidance of this topic? Lain's second priority is protecting the working class from the continuing financial and fiscal crisis. Lain argues “there was never any chance to transform the democratic party into a vehicle for socialism.” But where does that now leave us, on the question of socialist strategy? Does he think the Bernie wave is over, and the left is now basically done with parliamentary politics for another couple of generations? As he surveys the landscape of the contemporary left, what hope does he see for a revolutionary politics? The third topic for Lain essentially stems from his commitment t...

Welcome to Episode 7 of Class Unity “Transmissions.” In this episode we are joined by Doug Lain, Commissioning Editor at Sublation Media. Lain is a real veteran of the left podcast scene. From his old philosophy podcast “Diet Soap,” which ran from 2009 through 2014, to his work as host of the Zero Books podcast, […]

TIR speaks to Doug Lain about his defense of free speech. https://compactmag.com/.../the-betrayal-of-the-media... https://cosmonautmag.com/.../letter-ufos-russiagate-and.../ https://www.sublationmag.com/.../beyond-manufacturing...   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/cha.../UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg/join   About TIR Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on   Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also, follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MadamToussaint @MarcusHereMeow @quinnqk   Read Jason's column in Sublation Magazine here:https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles

A taster of the full Patreon subscribers' episode! Founder and editor of Sublation Media and ex-Zer0 Books editor Doug Lain joins for a monster discussion of the recent history of Left media, its failures on COVID and state collusion in social media companies, the weird turn of the Democratic Party in Biden's challengers RFK jnr. and Marianne Williamson, and looking back on Kill All Normies. 

In a special episode of Philosophy for the People I'm joined by Doug Lain to discuss what principles of speech, communication, safety and other related issues that the left should take up About TIR Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also, follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MadamToussaint @MarcusHereMeow   Read Jason's Column in Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles

Do the twitter files matter? TIR discusses with Sublation Media supremo Doug Lain.   About TIR Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also, follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MadamToussaint @MarcusHereMeow

KMO does not have strong opinions about the Twitter files, but Doug Lain sure does, and he's naming names and calling out cowards on the mainstream left. He thinks that elements of the federal government have colluded with Big Tech to censor and marginalize voices both from the Right and from the Marxist Left.

TIR speaks to Sublation Media generalissimo Doug Lain about his recent video essay series on Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle". Check out the series on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/playlist...   Give Them a Revolution Live Show New York Sun, Jan 22, 2023: 6:00 PM (Doors 7:00 PM) Cutting Room: 44 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016   Tickets https://www.ticketweb.com/event/give-them-a-revolution-cutting-room-tickets/12706315?/   About TIR Thank you for supporting the show! Remember to like and subscribe on YouTube. Also, consider supporting us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Check out our official merch store at https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   Also follow us on... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../this-is.../id1524576360 www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Follow the TIR Crüe on Twitter: @TIRShowOakland @djenebajalan @DrKuba2 @probert06 @StefanBertramL @MadamToussaint @MarcusHereMeow        

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redness podcast.  Amogh and I ran a show on the problems and developments of Marxism from 1213-2019-first under our own aegis and then as a supplement for Doug Lain's tenure at Zero books.   This is the second of two episodes and hopefully many future appearances.   Amogh and I talk about the legacy of Lukacs and the problems of a codified "Marxism" as a belief set.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redness podcast.  Amogh and I ran a show on the problems and developments of Marxism from 1213-2019-first under our own aegis and then as a supplement for Doug Lain's tenure at Zero books.   This is the first of two episodes and hopefully many future appearances.   Amogh and I talk about our podcast history and the goals of the o.g. show here.  In the next episodes, we will get into the problems of Lukacs. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show

The gang celebrates one year of streaming on the TIR channel and discuss A Clockwork Orange with Ben Burgis, C. Derick Varn, and Doug Lain just to name a few!   About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube! THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Pascal Robert in Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384   Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/rodney-king-the-la-riots-and-the-perils-of-police-reform   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music featured on the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/   Follow Djene Bajalan @djenebajalan Follow Kuba Wrzesniewski @DrKuba2  

TMBS 56 aired on September 11th, 2018. Episode summary: Michael talks about the shameful history of drone strikes in the US. Shoutout to indigenous groups and environmental activists in Canada for their work fighting pipeline expansion in Canada. Michael gives us an update on the situation in Brazil. Doug Lain (@Zer0books) publisher of Zero Books calls in to talk Marx and the political imagination. We throw ghoul John Bolton into the gulag. Lech Regulates lazy human Boris Epshteyn and drops an LBJ track. During the Griscom Economic Minute David breaks down Trump's boasting about the economy, the structural history of the financial crisis, and how we should understand Obama's economic legacy. Michael talks about the shameful history of drone strikes in the US. Shoutout to indigenous groups and environmental activists in Canada for their work fighting pipeline expansion in Canada. Michael gives us an update on the situation in Brazil. Doug Lain (@Zer0books) publisher of Zero Books calls in to talk Marx and the political imagination. We throw ghoul John Bolton into the gulag. Lech Regulates lazy human Boris Epshteyn and drops an LBJ track. During the Griscom Economic Minute David breaks down Trump's boasting about the economy, the structural history of the financial crisis, and how we should understand Obama's economic legacy. TMBS ReAirs come out every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts and on The Michael Brooks Show YouTube Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

Click through to hear the full interview! Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes join us ON OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL to discuss the 2022 French legislative elections, the over-performance of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left coalition and how his model of left populism differs from that of Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn. We wanted to let our podcast audience know that we are launching our own new YouTube channel, and we'd love to have you as the first free subscribers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IxivPUqcYO9AEAw_GS7hQ TPS will continue with our regular podcasts and Patreon.com/ThePopularPod interviews, as well as our weekly slot on Doug Lain's Sublation Media YouTube channel. But we want another place to post video more spontaneously, and to allow us to become more reactive to news events as they occur. This will also be a space for us to return to our roots as a livestream, on special occasions. A new YouTube channel relies on getting to 1000 subscribers relatively quickly. So any groupchats etc you can drop the link into, would be really appreciated!

This week we discuss Hal Draper's critique of sectarian organization and his alternative approach to promoting socialist ideas, the "political center", and reflect on the Jacobin/DSA strategy in light of this critique. - Hal Draper's "Anatomy of the Micro-Sect": https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm - Hal Draper's "Toward a New Beginning – On Another Road: The Alternative to the Micro_Sect": https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1971/alt/alt.htm - Bhaskar Sunkara's interview with Doug Lain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQTRkEGj2Q - Panel discussion with Sunkara, Mike Macnair, and Seth Ackerman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJobDfA5-9Q - Ackerman's "A Blueprint for a New Party": https://jacobin.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democratic-labor-party-ackerman - Monty Johnstone's "Marx and Engels and the Concept of the Party": https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnstone/1967/xx/me-party.htm Join us streaming live every Tuesday night at 5pm Eastern on the Sublation Media Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/sublationmedia You can support Sublation Media and Socialist Legacy on Patreon: Sublation Media: https://www.patreon.com/dietsoap Socialist Legacy: https://www.patreon.com/socialistlegacy These recordings are also available as a podcast: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:151083608/sounds.rss My interview on the Sublation Magazine Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uk2zR5H1p0&t=1760s Interview with Derick Varn (premiering on July 1 at 7pm ET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHnnveJXNUY

The week when George W. Bush said 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine', World Health Organisation members met to debate taking pandemic policy yet further from democratic scrutiny, and the Economist Magazine predicts global famine if the war in Ukraine drags on. Why power today is 'audacious' and what 'this one-thingism' is doing to our politics. This episode also appears in video form at Doug Lain's Sublation Media YouTube channel. Support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod or http://paypal.me/ThePopularShow

"We Accept The Reality Of The World With Which We're Presented. It's As Simple As That." -Ed Harris in “The Truman Show” (1998)   In the 1998 film the Truman Show, Jim Carrey plays the title character Truman Burbank (true man) who lives an idyllic life in a quaint coastal town that is a cliche of Americana in the 1950's. A perfect town free of crime, traffic, or unhappy people. Unbeknownst to Truman the town in the largest movie set in the world where his entire life is filmed and broadcasted 24 hours a day as “The Truman Show”. From the womb to adulthood people have followed the adventures of Truman Burbank. From first steps to first kisses, his parents, wife, and friends are all actors. Every experience, every mundane interaction is curated and sold for public consumption by the svengali of this simulated paradise, the director of the show Christof.   Are we now at a point in neoliberal capitalism where unlike Truman we ARE aware that we are indeed the brand to be sold. All our interactions are transactions to be bought and sold. Our only value is a market value. The curated experience isn't a nightmare, it's the goal.   About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube!   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Pascal Robert in Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving...   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music featured on the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/   Follow Djene Bajalan @djenebajalan Follow Kuba Wrzesniewski @DrKuba2  

This public episode is the first part of a new collaboration with Sublation/Diet Soap Media, a new platform founded by Doug Lain, former editor of Zer0 Books. Published both on our own podcast feed and as a video version on the Sublation/Diet Soap Media YouTube channel, this will be our main weekly show, incorporating segments from the bigger interviews reserved just for Patrons. This episode takes the second defeat of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French Presidential election as an opportunity to reflect on the end of the 'left populist' electoral experiments of the past decade with Survation's Carl Shoben, before turning to the US Republican Party's wave of anti-LGBT legislation with River Page - a writer with American Affairs, Twink Revolution, and Compact Magazine. The patrons-only full interview with Carl is TPS71, and the discussion with River continues as TPS73. Please consider supporting us at this exciting time by joining our Patreon community. 

We're taking a break from WWIII to talk philosophy with Doug Lain. Doug was the editor of Zero Books for years and is now launching a new press, Sublation Media. He's also the author of several books most recently “Bash Bash Revolution.” Today he says he wants to talk about Hegel and Guy Debord. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

TMBS 35 aired on April 10th, 2018. Episode summary: We talk about the deep state coup in Brazil with journalist and host of Aufhebunga Bunga podcast (@AufhebungaBunga) Alex Hochuli (@alex_1789). Shoutout to Cardi B for demonstrating more political knowledge than most political pundits. Michael talks with Douglas Lain (@douglain) about his new book Bash Bash Revolution. Sam Harris is thrown in the pyramid for hawking racist pseudo-science, hopefully for the last time. Djene Bajalan (@DjeneBajalan) joins us in studio to talk about the cynical ways the new atheists use critiques of Islam to justify attacks on people of Middle Eastern descent, the recent state violence in Gaza, and the smears of Jeremy Corbyn. TMBS ReAirs come out every Tuesday here on your podcast app and on The Michael Brooks Show YouTube Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

On the left outflanked.   We continue our discussion with Douglas Lain, formerly of Zer0 Books and now of Diet Soap Media. Has the left been overtaken by events - yet again? And we propose a typology of a left divided between progressives, populists and Marxists – progressives who are authoritarian, populists who are opportunists, and Marxists who are lonely.   Hey listener - why not tell us how you see Bunga and the world? Fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NN6SPD9   Links: Diet Soap Media: Patreon | YouTube OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations This is an excerpt. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast.

Doug Lain returns to the show! Here to tell his side of the story of what happened to Zero Books and the reviving of Diet Soap Media as a podcast/youtube channel/publishing house. Hear all the hot goss about what went down with the purchase of Zero Books, what's coming next, and what Doug _really_ thinks about Dune. - Diet Soap on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/douglain - Diet Soap Media: https://www.dietsoap.net/ Support the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dietsoap/ - Help us make the show! Supporters of our Patreon heard this episode in its entirety early! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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 History, revisit No Logo and the anti-branding stance, and compare Gen X and Millennial lefts - is it just a continual story of decline? Links: Diet Soap Media: Patreon | YouTube OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations

Cyberpunk and Cyberdystopia w/ RU Siris and Doug Lain There was once a time where information and communications technology were seen as having an emancipatory potential. To some in the 1980s and 1990s, we were on the verge of a techno-utopia. However, in recent years, this dream has turned to dust with the rise of big tech capitalism, algorithmic data collection, mass surveillance, and social media disinformation. What happen to the dream of a better tomorrow? Do we live in a cyber dystopia? And what are the prospects for emancipation from this freaky machine? RU Sirius & Doug Lain RU Sirius, futurist, cyberpunk, and former editor of Mondo 2000 joins with Douglas Lain, formerly associated with Zer0 Books, to talk about today's Cyber Dystopia and his upcoming book The Freaks in the Machine. About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube! THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland  Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/ Readings Freaks in the Machine https://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/10/from-freaks-in-the-machine-mondo-2000-in-20th-century-tech-culture/

Doug Lain of Zero Books will swing by and talk to us about the past, present and possible futures of the Left.

Jake Flores from Pod Damn America joins Doug Lain to set him straight after he was ratioed on Twitter. They discuss what up and coming comedians REALLY think about "cancel culture," Dave Chappelle's controversial comedy special "The Closer" and how the Generation X cohort is becoming synonymous with Boomers.

All institutions in America post COVID seem to draw nothing but disdain and distrust from the public. Has America come to a point where belief in these formerly trusted institutions are passe? In the wake of the pandemic and the recent Afghanistan debacle, has the American ruling class lost the capacity to secure the faith of the American people? What does this mean for the contemporary left.   About Doug Lain: Douglas Lain is the publisher of Zero Books. Based in Portland, Oregon he is also a writer whose books include the science fiction novel Bash Bash Revolution from Night Shade Books and the magical realist novel Billy Moon from Tor Books. He is currently writing a book for Zero Books on the need for a new understanding of Marx. Lain was the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap" from 2009 through 2014 and is now the host of Zero Squared for Zero Books and the YouTuber behind the Zero Books Youtube channel.   You can follow Doug on his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZeroBooksTheoryChannel/featured   You Can Hear Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal Podcast Here: https://www.protonicreversal.com/   Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/.../coronavirus..https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions

Andy and Forrest are joined by Zer0 Books Publisher Doug Lain to talk about the 1983 Bill Forsyth movie "Local Hero"

Adam goes on Zero Squared Podcast, hosted by Doug Lain, to lay out his case for why Bernie Sanders was important to support and they end up talking a lot about some dusty, nerdy shit -- from Marx to the Second International to the New Deal and beyond. Support Zero Book Podcast here: www.patreon.com/zerobooks Become a supporter of DPS on patreon here: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits

Hello friends! Its been a while. Sorry about that. Its been a busy semester, teaching an overload class, and wrapping up some publishing projects (here and here). But we are back, and we have a ton of new shows coming your way this summer! Coming up in the next weeks, we have another episode with our Columbus OH friends, “Chairman Moe's Magic Contradiction” on Adam Curtis's new documentary, ”Can't Get You Out of My Head.” We also have panels coming up, on Clyde Barrow's new book on the Lumpenproletariat, Phil Cunliffe's The New Twenty Years' Crisis, and an interview with Christine Louis-Dit-Sully.  For this 31st episode of Fully Automated, and to help us break the dry spell, our guest is none other than legendary podcast figure “KMO”! KMO is the host and producer of the C-Realm Podcast, a cartoonist and author of the book ‘Conversations on Collapse.' On KMO's bio, there's a great quote from Doug Lain, creator of the Diet Soap podcast and now the Zero Books podcast (and previous guest of this show!): KMO was once a winner in the capitalist game. He had high tech dreams and plenty of ambition, but somewhere along the line KMO dropped out, spent what he had, and started over in a simpler way. No longer rich and no longer so enamored with the technocratic fantasies of the prevailing order, he squeaks by in this world while seeking another. More than anything KMO is a broadcaster and interviewer who has a gentle and amiable way of challenging and inspiring interesting conversations with authors, artists, psychedelic gurus, sociologists, NASA scientists, economists, and more on his weekly podcast called the C-Realm. Now, to be sure, KMO is not exactly what you might call a ‘typical guest' for this podcast. Yet, as you'll hear, he is a widely read reader on all things to do with the politics of technology, and science fiction. I first met KMO a few weeks ago, in the Politics and Science Fiction room, on Clubhouse that I started earlier this year, with Giuseppe Porcaro, Jamie Chipperfield, Sarah Shoker, and Nicholas Barrett. It became clear we had some overlapping interests on the topics under discussion, so we stayed in touch and found out that we have a lot of mutual friends in the leftwing podcast universe. KMO recently invited me on his show, the C-Realm, for a discussion of science fiction and the politics of technological change. And this episode of Fully Automated is kind of a Part 2 of that show, where KMO responds to my arguments. In this episode, you'll hear us discuss a wide range of topics: Clubhouse as a phenomena; recent remarks by the pop star Grimes on whether communists should be interested in Fully Automated Communism; the rise of PMC ideology, and why its so hard to discuss the topic of class on the left anymore; Thomas Frank's recent claims about Wuhan lab leak theory, and its significance for the already tarnished reputation of mainstream media; and, finally, we chat about politics and science fiction — you'll hear KMO talk about why and how science fiction is (and isn't!) for him political! For those interested, here are the links to the couple of items KMO mentioned in the show: His written response to my views on FALC, as I expressed them during my appearance on C-Realm (see my brief rejoinder below). The book he mentions is Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change, by David Holmgren (2009-04-14). Rejoinder: Reading KMO's published remarks on Patreon, he offers what I find to be a rather wild and somewhat bad faith interpretation of my views on Walmart and FALC: "You invoked WalMart as an example of a very complicated system of production and supply chain management and then suggested that it needn't be labor-intensive. You could just set it up and let it run for long periods and just check in on it from time to time. That's not how WalMart works.

Paul Mattick's essay "The Lenin Legend" was published in 1935. Mattick's essay begins with these lines: "The yellower and more leathery the skin of the mummified Lenin grows, and the higher the statistically determined number of visitors to the Lenin Mausoleum climbs, the less are people concerned about the real Lenin and his historical significance." In this video Djene Rhys Bajalan and Kuba Wrzesniewski join Doug Lain to discuss the essay and whether Mattick's polemic holds up today.

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Matt McManus discusses the division within conservatism, why a socialist should understand these intellectual divisions.  We different conservative movements in the US, particularly the rise of post-liberal conservatism.  Matt McManus is a visiting professor of politics at Whitman College. He is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and Myth and the coauthor of Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson.  He is a regular columnist for Jacobin.  He is a co-host of Plastic Pills.This is episode still has the Q and A. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.  We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network.  C. Derick Varn is the author, poet, educator, and editor. He is also the host of Theorizing with a Hammer (for Zero Books) on youtube, the co-host of Mortal Science (w/Ezri of Emancipation Network) and co-host of Pop the Left (with Doug Lain), and a reader for Zero books and literary editor for the Former People literary journal.Crew:  Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media: twitter: @skepoet FacebookYou can find the original stream on Youtube  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog)

Our anon homie Gaye Step Dad comes on the show finally! We talk about the tendency that Step Dad calls "anarchoid neoliberalism," the deliberate incoherence of prison abolitionists, Zero Books publisher Doug Lain's terrible take down video of the Marxist anti-left critique (Aimee, Benedict Cryptofash and otherwise), the new issue of E-flux which is published by transgender "Marxist-feminist" academic McKenzie Wark and the erosion of intellectual thought in America, and we end on an interesting discussion about the ideological contradictions and inconsistencies amongst the people that have been labeled "post-left." In short, the post-left is comprised of both ortho marxists/left coms (like Adam and Step Dad) and paleconservative social democrats (like Ben). Can these disparities be reconciled to remain a political force? Can we all remain the best of friends? Ya goddamn right we can! Stepdad on twitter: https://twitter.com/GayeStepdad Image: still from Luchino Visconti's 'The Damned' LINKS: Doug Lain "takes down" the anti-left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPX21fRqhKY McKenzie Wark 'The Cis Gaze and its Other': https://www.e-flux.com/journal/117/387134/the-cis-gaze-and-its-others-for-shola/ Debord on Bakunin and anarchism: https://radicalarchives.org/2010/06/13/guy-debord-on-anarchism/

Douglas Lain, author and publisher at Zer0 Books, joins me to discuss his recent (maybe) "shadowban". Music: "Starseed Junglist Anthem" by DJ Umberto Ecco 2k

Zero Books editor Doug Lain joins Ben to talk about tech censorship, free speech, the media's stance during the Trump years, and more. For the full episode and every other Thursday episode for patrons, support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis​. Patrons also get access to the Discord and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats.Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis​Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA​Visit benburgis.com

Ben plays a sadly evergreen Michael Brooks clip about U.S. aggression toward Iran. Krystal Ball comes on to get into Biden's uninspiring firs two weeks in office. Ben and Forrest do a deep dive on Biden's terrible record. David Griscom talks George Jones. There's a preview of Ben's conversation with Doug Lain about free speech and tech censorship.Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis​. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats.Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis​Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA​Visit benburgis.comSHOW LESS

Doug Lain of Zer0 Books  joins us to pitch his youtube channel which has community strikes against it, and I twist his arm into making it about big tech censorship. he's not a fascist or glenn greenwald so you're not allowed to get mad about it.

Zero Books publishing manager Doug Lain talks to us about getting censored by the Youtube algorithm bot and how we grapple with free speech as leftists on the internet. We go on to talk about how this plays into the overall ideological movement of socialism, the end of history/end of ideology, and then someone brings up a twitter account that it is illegal to type out loud and we start yappin' about free speech and comics and crap. Enjoy DOUG LAIN/ZERO BOOKS https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoQK-mZXr2ws4C0nXGCH1w https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/why-did-youtube-censor-us https://youtu.be/2c5_hVUHp5o https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON Patreon.com/PODDAMNAMERICA

Doug Lain of Zero Books stopped by to talk about the pandemic, about the presidential race, and everything you can imagine. follow us: twitter.com/lowsocietypod | support us: patreon.com/lowsocietypod

Doug Lain, host of Zero Squared podcast, joins us for the B-Side to talk about a long-standing debate: political economy or culture? Materialism or idealism? We pick a side (and we think you should too). This turned into a really productive chat. We think you'll enjoy it. *** Join the Society today to hear the full episode and to receive access to the entire back catalog of B-Sides: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** Find all of our podcasts, videos, and articles here: http://www.deadpundits.com ------------------------------- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deadpunditssociety YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg

On Peterson vs Zizek. Did the 'debate of the century' live up to its billing? More importantly, what explains Peterson's appeal - and Zizek's? Why did the debate have such an odd, out of time feel?  References: The Fool and the Madman, Jacobin critique of the debate Evaluating the Peterson-Zizek Debate, Doug Lain, Zero Books Enjoy what we do? Chip in to our patreon: patreon.com/BUNGACAST

On this edition of Parallax Views returning guest Doug Lain, author of the sci-fi novel Bash Bash Revolution and publisher at Zero Books, discusses Zero Books severed ties with author Nicolas Hausdorf after finding out that he had began writing for the "post-political" (reactionary) magazine Jacobite. You can hear Doug discuss this issues with the author in question on Zero Squared #171: Pssst... Socialist Oppose Reaction.During the course of the conversation we discuss a number of topics ranging from how leftists activists end up going down the reactionary rabbit hole, free speech, the anti-SJW industry, Neoreaction (NRx) and its idea of The Cathedral, Doug's memories of the occult-flavored synchromystic subsculture of the 00's and how it may tie into these matters, whether "politics is downstream from culture", Moishe Postone's essay "History and Hopelessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism" and unrefined manifestations of anti-imperialism on the Left, Adorno and the Frankfurt School's views on culture, alienation in political activists and the youth, Angela Nagle's critique of transgressive or "edgelord" culture, psychedelic and New Age reactionarism, socialism as "The Loyal Opposition", Jordan Peterson and the IDW vs. the reactionaries of the alt right and NRx, and more.And yes, Doug does speak about the recent kerfuffle around the recent Angela Nagle vs. Sargon of Akkad debate in this conversation.

SPS tackles the legacy of the late Moishe Postone, the feud between Killer Mike and March for Our Lives organizers, and the reboot of (Trump-supporting) Roseanne. From the Platypus Review archives: https://platypus1917.org/2008/03/01/marx-after-marxism-an-interview-with-moishe-postone/ Clip of Moishe Postone from Doug Lain's podcast, "Zero Squared" #108: The Subject of Capitalism with Moishe Postone: http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-squared-108-the-subject-of-capitalism/

Douglas Lain from Zero Books returns! Comrade Communicator from the Intergalactic Workers League contacts us remotely about 1:14:00 in. -- Help us make the show! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ -- Show notes: http://goo.gl/5ZEtPe. -- Check out Barkles The Dog the Game: GOTY edition : : http://barkles.dog/game -- _Bash Bash Revolution_ from Douglas Lain : : http://goo.gl/Gdfj7i -- Check out our last episode with Doug Lain: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/douglas-lain-from-zero-books-on-kill-all-normies-zizek-and-posadists-fixed

A UK Election Special with regulars C. Derick Varn and Doug Lain, where two yanks slate the election for not ushering in a communist revolution, and one exiled paddy gets all in a fluster for Jeremy, his meme army, and the possibilities for an alien invasion led communist revolution. Enjoy!

In a first for the podcast, we do a live hangout with Doug Lain and C. Derick Varn to talk about todays Donald Trump election victory. We discuss race, gender, geo-politics, the falling rate of profit, economic stimulus, and manage to disagree and agree on absolutely everything. Enjoy!

This week I am delighted to welcome back Derick Varn to the show. After listening to the previous show about Cultural Marxism with Doug Lain, Derick sent me an email saying he’d like to come on the show and give his two cents. What followed was a wide ranging discussion on ideology, value theory, and the historical emergence of capitalism. We also discussed the possibility of a revolutionary movement based on a system without abstract value, Marx’s critique of the Gotha Program, and Star Trek as a Marxist Tract. And top of all that, the possible productivity of a communist state, game theory and alternative histories, and the Spanish revolution. You can find Derick’s blog here: https://symptomaticcommentary.wordpress.com/ You can find Derick’s and Amogh’s Podcast here: http://sympthomaticredness.libsyn.com/ The music on this episode was: 'The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters' by Sun Ra and his Arkestra 'If Not For Money' - The Wytches

This week I am delighted to welcome Doug Lain back to show, for a discussion about cultural marxism, an argument about worker controlled workplaces, and some thoughts on what we can learn from the Inca’s. Doug is the host of the Zero Squared podcast, previously the Diet Soap Podcast, and is the publisher of Zero Books. He is also a sci-fi author, and has been nominated this year for the Phillip K. Dick Award for his latest novel, After the Saucers Landed. You can buy his book here: http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/641-9781597808231-after-the-saucers-landed You can find out everything Doug related here: http://douglaslain.com/ And all about Zero Books here: http://www.zero-books.net/ The music on this episode was: 'All You Need Is Hate', by The Delgados 'Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get' by The Dramatics 'All About Us' by Teen

In this episode James talks with Doug Lain, publisher of Zero Books and the host of Zero Squared Podcast. The discussion ranges from what it means to be a radical book publisher in the 21st century, to taking Karl Marx seriously, the legacies of the Frankfurt School, as well as speculating about the aspirations and […]

August 11, 2015. Interviewed by author Doug Lain for his podcast Zero Squared. We mostly talked about what it’s like to have a career as a writer, with some mentions of my recent Journals 1990-2014. An edited version of the interview appeared as part of an episode on Lain’s podcast Zero Squared, with better sound […]

This week I am delighted to welcome back to the show Doug Lain, host of what was once called the Diet Soap podcast, but which is now the Zero Squared podcast. We talk about why Doug’s new job as publisher of Zero Books doesn't make him a capitalist, what econophysics has to do with Marx, capitalism as objective reality, base vs superstructure, radical politics and the current balance of forces, how Woody Allen has lost his way, the latest book Doug’s working on, and how cool and communist Star Trek is. You can find the shows new Stitcher presence here: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/from-alpha-to-omega You can find the Zero Squared podcast and all of Doug's other stuff here: DouglasLain.com Here is Zero Books: http://www.zero-books.net/ The music on this show was: ‘The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters’ by Sun Ra and his Arkestra ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ by Scott Joplin ‘Si tu vois ma mère’ by Sidney Bechet ‘For The Love Of Money’ by O’Jays ‘Ain't Misbehavin’ by Django Reinhardt

This week we are joined again by C. Derick Varn. Derick is a poet, teacher, and theorist. He blogs for the (Dis)Loyal Opposition to Modernity, Symptomatic Commentary, and is one of the chief editors of the on-line socialist magazine, the North Star. He also co-hosts the ‘Pop The Left’ podcast with Doug Lain, and has just started a new on-line literary magazine, Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers, which seeks to look again at modernism and it’s relevance to politics. We discuss the historical tensions between Marxists and anarchists, how Occupy stunned the vanguard, the problems with democracy and the flaws of Leninism, Chomsky on Marx, the interaction of the base and superstructure, and how capitalism is killing the dinosaurs again.... http://skepoet.wordpress.com/ http://symptomaticcommentary.wordpress.com/ http://douglaslain.net/pop-left-8-dual-power/ http://formerpeople.wordpress.com/ http://www.thenorthstar.info/ Enjoy!

This week, Doug Lain, the host of the excellent Dietsoap podcast, has returned to the show to tell us about his novel ‘Billy Moon’, that is due out from his publishers, Tor, on the 27th of August. Using Doug’s novel for the basis of the conversation, we meander through an array of topics including the May 1968 aborted revolution in France, the interaction of ideology, architecture, and space, the rationality of socialism, the Situationists and the Occupy movement, how we need to dream and escape the dream, the structure of a new revolutionary strategy, the need for bastards, feminist literary critique, and his upcoming Think The Impossible book and podcast tour to San Francisco, Chicago, and NYC. Oh yes, and no conversation between myself and Doug would be complete without a rant about our dear friend, Karl Marx...... You can check out Doug's Dietsoap podcast and writings here: DouglasLain.com You can read an excerpt of his book over here on his publishers site: http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/07/billy-moon-excerpt And you can order a copy over here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Billy-Moon-Douglas-Lain/dp/0765321726 Enjoy!

This weeks guest is Doug Lain. Doug is a fiction writer, blogger, pop philosopher and political radical. He is also the host of the most excellent ‘Dietsoap’ podcast. We talk of philosophy and Hegel, reality tunnels and ideology, Slavoj Zizek and the surreal, Winnie the Pooh and the Labyrinth. Doug’s novel ‘Billy Moon: 1968’ is due out from Tor Books in 2013. He also has a new monthly podcast coming out in September with Derick C. Varn called ‘Pop The Left’ where they hope to give a critical analysis of the left, from a leftists perspective. If you know what's good for you, you should check out the Dietsoap podcast and Doug's writing on his interweb site: www.douglaslain.com You can also find his books for purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Lain/e/B004Z9W0QO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1347673703&sr=8-1 Enjoy!

This week: Men find a new reason to annoy women, Space Elevators!, The art of Jesus, Toddler Fight Club!, Blatent bribery, Don't roof-rack me bro!, Israeli courts are asshats, RIP Jerry 'Count Bon Count' Nelson, and Doug Lain's love-affair with Zizek continues. Personnel –   Nicholas Pell, Douglas Lain, and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Links Science: Men get PMS - Link Space Elevator by 2020 - Link botched art restoration of Jesus goes viral - Link Toddler Fight-Club - Link Corporate bribery on display at conventions - Link Israeli court wrongs Rachel Corrie? - Link RIP Jerry ‘Count Von Count’ Nelson - Link Slavoj Zizek sequel hits the Film Festival circuit - Link Interludes Hits from Rappy McRapperson's 'Live at the Amway Arena'

We welcome Doug Lain, prolific author and big wheel at Zero Books to talk about his newest novel, his experience with older senses of technology, apocalypse, utopia, and communism!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.