https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqq68-f10200 This is a sample. For full access, go to patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Todd McGowan's Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution - an introduction to, defence and radical re-interpretation of Hegel emphasising the importance of contradiction to…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqn25-f03404 Internationalism used to be a defining characteristic of the Left. Globalism is a defining characteristic of neoliberal capitalism. Both seem to be characteristic of Islamist jihadism. How did Islamist reaction become globalised? How far does Islamist globalism connect to…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fqu3r-f02111 On the Covid election. Trump has made himself deeply unpopular while the Democrats have tried to demobilise the electorate. What, if anything, are the two parties selling? Are they coherent entities? And what is likely to happen? Plus: we…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8qceg-f01ee4 Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing the beheading of a French teacher for having shown his pupils the Mohammed cartoons in a class on free speech. Then we discuss your points, questions…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f4fv9-efd53b Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On the Covid election. Trump has made himself deeply unpopular while the Democrats have tried to demobilise the electorate. What, if anything, are the two parties selling? Are they coherent…
Read More Excerpt: /154/ A Reasonably Important Election ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-85qqb-ef253d On the country of the future. Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Worse, it's a country without a Left. How did the populist right come to triumph? What is the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-89rg4-ee5393 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On why anti-fascism is a problem. The Trump presidency and the current protests in the US have led many to argue this is just like the 1930s. The implication is that…
Read More Excerpt: /152/ I Can’t Believe It’s Not Weimar ft. David Broder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h8r8f-ee24e8 On class. Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking people together through common experiences of victimhood and inequality, rather than along…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y8fkt-edffc0 Episode for patrons $10+. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Polish economist Michal Kalecki's landmark essay, "The Political Consequences of Full Employment". This follows on from our recent free episode, 'It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism' (ep 149) focusing…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7z4qr-ed741b On Iran at the End of History. When the US assassinated Iran's 'shadow commander', Qassem Soleimani, everyone thought WW3 would break out. What happened instead? We talk to the author of a new book on Soleimani about the "local…
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