Best C Derick Varn Podcasts (2023)

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The Antifada

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Diving into the Wreckage 8.1: Shadow of China 2 w/ C. Derick Varn 1:02:52

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For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada C. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? …

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Varn Vlog

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Unraveling Marxism and Psychoanalysis: Philip Rieff's Legacy, Freud and the Marxism with Daniel Tutt 1:59:34

2h ago1:59:34

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What happens when we explore the tension between Marxism and psychoanalysis through the lens of Phillip Reiff and Christopher Lasch's work and its relation to Henry Miller and John Updike? Join us in this thought-provoking conversation with our guest Daniel Tutt, a renowned scholar of Marxism and psychoanalysis. We'll discuss the Frankfurt School, …

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Macro N Cheese

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Putting BRICS into Perspective with Yan Liang 1:10:16

2h ago1:10:16

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Dr. Yan Liang joins Steve to talk about China’s role in the global economy and the concept of “de-dollarization.” It’s refreshing to hear a discussion of these issues without hyperbole, but you know that already; that’s why you come to Macro N Cheese. Countries of the global south have suffered chronic debt and financial crises due to the neolibera…

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Varn Vlog

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Amani Wells-Onyioha on Organizing for Change 1:08:46

5d ago1:08:46

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Amani Wells-Onyioha is a political expert, civil rights advocate, and thought leader. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Amani found her passion for politics during her time at the University of North Texas. After the murder of Trayvon Martin, Amani understoo…

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The Antifada

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Ep 215 - Tool-Organ Time w/ Søren Mau 50:14

7d ago50:14

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Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism. Support us on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/theantifada William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review Jasper Bernes…

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Macro N Cheese

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China and the Labor of Reinvention with Lin Zhang 56:59

2h ago56:59

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Dr. Lin Zhang talks with Steve about her book "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy." Her book includes stories of individuals who transformed themselves and their lives to take advantage of this new global economy. She tells of Min, a former prisoner... “I think Min's story in a way captures the sort of imp…

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1Dime Radio

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Socialism in Yugoslavia with Yugopnik 1:18:35

2h ago1:18:35

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Get access to bonus episodes on Patreon at patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, I am joined by my friend Yugopnik, Balkan video essayist and cohost of The Deprogram podcast, to discuss the Yugoslav socialist experiment and the lessons we can learn from it. This includes the pros and cons of "market socialism", the legacy of Tito, decentralization, …

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Varn Vlog

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Josiah Rector on Unions and Environmental Justice 1:46:19

11d ago1:46:19

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Josiah Rector is an urban historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. urban environmental history, the history of the environmental justice movement, and labor history. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University, and his dissertation received…

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Varn Vlog

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The Subset of Theoretical Practice Collective On The Unity of Theory and Practice 1:57:02

14d ago1:57:02

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. The Subset of Theoretical Practice is a collective research project and a political collective, bringing together researchers interested in investigating contemporary politics, with a special focus on developing new tools for political organization. While th…

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The Antifada

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Ep 214 - 100 Strikes 53:23

16h ago53:23

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STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada APOLOGIES for the e…

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Macro N Cheese

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European Union and the Post Pandemic Economy with Dirk Ehnts 55:54

19d ago55:54

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**Check out the section of “Extras,” where you will find resources for further information about topics touched on in this episode. Transcripts are available for this and every episode. https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ It’s been almost two years since we’ve had German economist Dirk Ehnts on the podcast. This episode can be seen…

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Varn Vlog

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Colin Drumm on Misconceptions about Medieval Society and Modern Money 2:07:44

18d ago2:07:44

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Colin Drumm has a Ph.D. History of Consciousness. He writes and teaches on monetary history, medieval political economy, and the relationship between political economy and philosophy. He is an organizer of the Mimbres School. We discuss misconceptions of the…

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The Antifada

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Ep 213 - Refusal of Turk w/ Djene Bajalan 1:02:21

4h ago1:02:21

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At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for su…

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Varn Vlog

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No Royal Road - Neo-Feudalism, Or The Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism, part 3 1:50:13

22d ago1:50:13

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While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed. This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here: i.e. what is the social and c…

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Macro N Cheese

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Messaging For Mainstream with Bijou Smith 57:49

4d ago57:49

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New Zealander Bijou Smith is a longtime friend of Steve and the podcast. His story, in brief: “I was a physicist. I love physics, theoretical physics, but when I learned a bit about economics—I was always interested in economics from a sort of dynamical systems analysis perspective. It's kind of interesting mathematics. Even the neoclassical stuff …

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Varn Vlog

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Ralph Leonard on Misunderstanding Stalingrad, Internationalism, and Decolonization 1:36:35

25d ago1:36:35

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer who writes on international politics, religion, culture, and humanism. We discuss the following articles: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/stalingrad https://unherd.com/2021/03/the-demise-of-political-blackness/ ht…

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The Antifada

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Ep 212 - Gross Authentic Product w/ David A. Banks 1:03:50

7d ago1:03:50

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David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida; For the full episode where we talk about upstate cults like Nxium suppor…

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Varn Vlog

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Stefan Bertram Lee on Contemporary Capitalist Stagnation in Society and Geopolitics 1:31:34

29d ago1:31:34

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This is Revolution Podcast. We discuss a lot of things, but the theme of branding as politics runs throughout. We also look at Myles's recent articles for Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/pos…

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Macro N Cheese

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RP Live with Clara Mattei 1:23:25

11d ago1:23:25

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If you’re one of the lucky ones who attended our webinar, RP Live with Clara E. Mattei, then you’ve already heard this episode. Or you may have watched the video of that event. This podcast episode is the audio version, but we’re asking you to play it anyway. It never hurts to hear information a few times, and by playing it, you’re also helping us …

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Varn Vlog

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Ben Burgis on the Legacy of G.A. Cohen 1:37:46

1M ago1:37:46

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ben Burgis is an adjunct philosophy professor at Morehouse College, a columnist for Jacobin Magazine, and the author of several books, most recently "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters." We talk about the leg…

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The Antifada

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Ep 211 - The Union Makes us Sean w/ Alex Press 1:01:05

24d ago1:01:05

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For full episode: http://patreon.com/theantifada We check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexi…

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Macro N Cheese

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Taiwan: Manufacturing Consent with Carl Zha 57:25

18d ago57:25

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Carl Zha brings us his knowledge of China, the US, and global political economic relations. He also brings his exquisite sense of the absurd. Exactly one year ago, Carl and Steve recorded their marathon discussion of Chinese history, resulting in three episodes about Mao. This time, they have Taiwan in their sights. Just like Joe Biden. Official US…

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Varn Vlog

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Max Alvarez on Working Class People During the Pandemic 1:36:05

1M ago1:36:05

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This episode is a co-production with Strange Matters Magazine. Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network in Baltimore and the host of Working People. We discuss his recently released book, "The Work of Living: Working People Talk Ab…

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The Antifada

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Ep 210 - Hoover Damn America w/ Malcolm Harris 1:11:49

22d ago1:11:49

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Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover. Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/ Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Song: Radiohead - Palo Alto

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Varn Vlog

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Jason Myles on Politics as Branding 2:15:39

1M ago2:15:39

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This is Revolution Podcast. We discuss a lot of things, but the theme of branding as politics runs throughout. We also look at Myles's recent articles for Sublation Magazine: https://www.sublationmag.com/pos…

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Macro N Cheese

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Left of Boom with Bill Black 1:02:23

25d ago1:02:23

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**Every episode of Macro N Cheese is accompanied by a full transcript and an “Extras” section with links to further resources. Check them out at realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast It’s been two years since Bill Black was last on with Steve. We’ve invited several guests to talk about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, so it only makes sen…

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Varn Vlog

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Adnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 2 1:34:28

2M ago1:34:28

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is part 2 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditi…

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Varn Vlog

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Adnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 1 1:32:50

2M ago1:32:50

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is part 1 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditi…

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The Antifada

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Ep 209 - How to Smoke Up A Pipeline 1:01:49

1M ago1:01:49

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A NEWS EP so timely we decided to release early. We talk about the strikes and riots in France, A DNA Mist that reveals forced labor in the supply chain, And Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, Subscribe to the show on Patreon and you'll hear the full episode, with: thoughts on raving, Taibbi Derangement Syndrome, ChatGPT's solutions for su…

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Macro N Cheese

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Nicaragua with Dan Kovalik 56:50

1M ago56:50

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Author Dan Kovalik talks to Steve about his recent book, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance. His perspective includes his own experiences in Nicaragua and the personal connections he made there. From the 1910 occupation and eventual ouster of US Marines, through the dictatorships of several members of the Samosa family, the cond…

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The Antifada

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PROLETKULT 12 - End of the UFO era w/ Wu Ming 1 48:40

2M ago48:40

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Welcome to Proletkult! The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal and the parapolitical. Today we’ll be talking to Wu Ming 1, of the Italian writing collective Wu Ming about their origins in the Italian revolutionary milieu, the Satanic Panic pranks played by their associates the Luther Blisset Project in the 90s, their novel Q, and their theory…

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Varn Vlog

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Jeremy Gross on the Use and Abuse of Cybernetic Theory 2:30:55

2M ago2:30:55

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Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jeremy Gross is a cybernetic tikkun olamunist living north of Boston, Massachusetts. He is interested in collaborative workspaces that incorporate peer-to-peer and empathetic practices to subsume alienated labor. We chat about his paper on Stafford Beer. But…

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Macro N Cheese

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Beware! the Counter-Revolution with C. Derick Varn 1:16:57

1M ago1:16:57

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C. Derick Varn is a poet, teacher, and “arm-chair theorist” (his words, not ours), but Steve called on him for his deep knowledge of history, specifically the history of revolutions. Varn takes a realistic and nuanced look at some of the popular myths about the brutality of key figures, like Stalin and Mao. He suggests placing them in the context o…

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