https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zsj88-11bceae On the German Greens' shady history. Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany. The 68ers attempted to combat authoritarianism…
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/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yrmqi-11b2dba On class wars, new and old. Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, joins us to talk about what it might take to restore working class power in Western states. He explains…
Excerpt: /241/ Three Articles: Peace & Social War in North America
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jes4m-11a95d4 On dovish conservatives, Trumpist coup-mongers and Canadian truckers. - - - Live debate/book launch in NYC, Feb 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-debate-book-launch-the-end-of-the-end-of-history-tickets-261000468427 - - - We examine what arguments 'pro-worker conservatives' are making in an aim to rid the GOP of warmongers…
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/240/ Populist Interventions: Örebro Party ft. Malcolm Kyeyune
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e4bny-119e8fc The first in an occasional series on new initiatives. We speak to Malcolm Kyeyune of Sweden's Örebro Party about its origins, analysis and goals. Is a new working class politics to be found in direct opposition to the PMC…
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/239/ Against Justice ft. Ross Wolfe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fzq3t-1194308 On the critique of egalitarian ideology. We talk to writer Ross Wolfe about his essay "Marxism Contra Justice". Given that struggles for justice have been central to all sorts of radical movements, why is it important to cleave Marxist…
/238/ Reading Club: Emergency Politics I (Extended Excerpt)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wn7a6-118fea0 On Carl Schmitt's Political Theology (1922). We ask why people are scared of sovereignty – as opposed to state power per se, and analyse what is significant about the way in which Schmitt defines sovereignty. And what is the…
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Excerpt: /237/ Three Articles: Italy, Ukraine, Matrix
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u4e4b-118a74f We take on Italy's election of a new president and what that tells us about permanent crisis, the EU and the curtailing of democracy; we ask how serious the risk of war in Ukraine actually is; and review a…
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Excerpt: /236/ Green Nazi Paedos ft. Lily Lynch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yfqwf-11803cf On the German Greens' shady history. Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany. The 68ers attempted to combat…
/235/ Political Ritalin ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t4z5n-11769e3 On our current attention-deficit and hyperpolitical disorder. In our book, The End of the End of History, we discuss the move from post-politics to anti-politics; from consensus to rejection; from apathy to anger. In a new article,…
Grand Reset
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2yhp5-116fc59 Bungacast is back for 2022, refreshed and reloaded. We've got a completely revamped Reading Club, arranged along three themes: Emergency Politics & Control; Cynical Ideology; and Techno-Feudalism. And there will be plenty of deep dives on national…
Aufhebunga Bunga 