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We're a 2000s Podcast: Mike Duncan joined us to look at HBO’s ROME--which was the most expensive TV show ever made, at the time. Mike’s expert take on how it portrays Roman life, and how the politics of Roman Decline don’t always match up with our desire to compare to American decline, politically.

The reason I’m posting this is not just because it talks about the state of labor organizing and unions and strikes right now, which is important to keep up with.

But also because Alex makes a great point about the residual effects of the Bernie Sanders campaign leading to increased labor organizing, union activity, and union support from the public.

For all of those of us who have a hard time seeing the positive results that came from the “failed” Sanders campaign: These are the type of results that come from many leftist organizing campaigns but are often invisible to those who engaged in the leftist activism. So you have to learn how to see the successes that come out of organizing that don’t result in total communist revolution. This is an important lesson for leftists to learn.

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We are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire stack for these systems.

••• Follow Meredith: https://twitter.com/mer__edith

••• Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control | Meredith Whittaker https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

••• Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI | David Gray Widder, Meredith Whittaker, Sarah Myers West https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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We are joined by Quinn Slobodian — author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy — to discuss the libertarian extremism that forms the intellectual foundation for right-wing movements. We can see how the fringe beliefs of anarcho-capitalists — like Murray Rothbard (neo-confederate secessionist) and David Friedman (medieval LARPer) — are gaining broader influence, even becoming mainstream. On one hand, they are raving lunatics, ideological zealots, and explicit racists. On the other hand, the utopias they desire can be found manifested in the zones and policies — like gated communities and gutted education systems — that have been surging for decades.

••• Quinn’s book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalism

••• Quinn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/zeithistoriker

Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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Bea and Jules speak with Naomi Klein about left melancholy, coping with and working against years of disastrous pandemic response, and her new book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.

Find Doppelganger here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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Season 7 premiere of the official pod of hexbear.net

If so, how was it? Would you recommend listening to it? I know Mike has some liberal brainworms that come out at times but from what I’ve listened to, I feel like he mostly sticks with the facts. I liked his series that came before this one (English Civil War, French Revolution, Haiti, etc).

the article they cover at the end is harrowing

Technically, there's a Kingdex feed for it but it's never seeded.

Just wanted to see if there was another one out there.

Free book PDF for people of un-wealth

My trough is empty and I need more slop

In this episode we discuss Alice Malone's essay entitled “Concessions” which contains a well sourced and foundational explanation regarding 20th century history that every socialist should be aware of!

Alice illustrates how the gains and progressive feats won by workers of the Soviet Union challenged capitalist elites in the West to concede social reforms in their own countries. Reforms such as desegregation, home ownership, investment in education, public health care and more! We cover some of these concessions as well as how they have been noticeably negatively impacted by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Alice's article: https://redsails.org/concessions/

Alice's app on word frequency's in Marxist texts: https://alicirce.shinyapps.io/mlds/

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Interesting stuff.

Thoughts?

#27. The Stargate Conspiracy pt1. ”The Arioheroic Backdrop” 2023-09-04

Embarking on a new investigation with Reid @seriations and Colin @archaeo_concern in to the Star Gate Conspiracy. First EP will be an introduction to the alt-history backdrop of the SS-Ahnenerbe. We will compare old with new and look at suspicious connections to find out what they're selling.

Books :

Radikalare än Hitler – Göran Dahl

The Master Plan – Heather Pringle

Vom Werfenstein zur Wewelsburg – Jost Hermand

The Stargate Conspiracy – Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince

The Edda

Das Geheimnis der Runen – Guido Von List

[I will extend this list when I get back to the office]

Music:

Ofdrykkja – HårgalåtenErnst Busch - Der heimliche Aufmarsch

Ebanisteria Musicale C.M. Ferrari – Tagelharpa, Herr Mannelig

Mozart –“Lacrimosal”

Kolhoosi 13 - A White Sea

This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren