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Nordic Economic Model A.K.A Welfare State Capitalism: https://bit.ly/1KKjLFg

 

The Principles Of Communism: https://bit.ly/1PwDfz6

 

The Communist Manifesto: https://bit.ly/1gPDLW4

 

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HOW CONSPIRACY THEORIES OPERATE TO DISINFORM AND DISTRACT

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UNLOCKED BONUS ON CONSERVATIVE TROPES, REACTION IN VENEZUELA, AND PROPAGANDA

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The ELL gang talks about the U.S university and college education systems, cultural mythology of The American Dream, the profit motive, and how higher learning has been made in the image of the market.

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 Listen to us yak about stimulus checks, neoliberal bureaucracy, and Capitalism's insidious, Lovecraftian tendrils of cultural influence in this Patreon exclusive bonus episode.

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The ELL gang talks about liberal academia, the cultural manufacturing of performative politics, and their contradictions. Radical Academics for the Status Quo: https://bit.ly/2KQg749

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The ELL gang talks about the new Netflix documentary called "The Social Dilemma" to break down the bullshit.

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The ELL gang talks to friend of the show, PhD student - Management and Sustainability, Luiza Brabo Catala about Energy Democracy, Fuel Poverty, and the union struggle for decentralizing energy systems.

 

Strategies of Energy Democracy - James Angel: https://bit.ly/3ei8MFx

 

Resist, Reclaim, Restructure; Unions: https://bit.ly/2TKssII

 

Political Power & Renewable Energy Futures: https://bit.ly/3212vco

 

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01:40: What is Capitalist Realism and why is it relevant today?

05:00: How does capitalist realism perform anti-capitalism for us?

15:00: How has capitalist ideology led us to accept that everything should run as a business?

 

24:00: What is liberal communism and how do we see it playing out today?

 

36:00: How do we understand increased bureaucracy under capitalism?

 

47:15: How does Fisher link these concepts to mental health and education?

 

54:30: How does capitalist realism shift capitalism’s failure from individuals to government?

 

60:00: How does the left move on from a romantic attachment to politics of failure?

 

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08:08: What are the differences between police abolition and reform?

 

10:00: Concepts of reform vs abolition for policing https://bit.ly/2Z9HMBO

 

22:00: Can toxic law enforcement culture be resolved by simple reform?

 

30:00: Why are concepts of class and race inseparable in the U.S context?

 

37:35: What were the differences between Luxembourg and Bernstein’s positions?

 

41:00: What are our ideas on reform vs. revolution?

 

52:16: Are we witnessing a revolutionary moment right now?

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In this episode, we invite our friend Ian Hinson of Los Angeles CA on the show to report back about protests, riots, and looting. 

 

 

 

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1:10: Why do we work in the first place?

 

13:40: Right to work laws defund and disempower unions.

 

19:00: Bourgeois law formalizes the elevation of business over human life.

 

25:30: The American economy is built on fairy tales and lies.

 

28:45: The business owner-operator as a vector of neoliberal ideology

 

30:30: Economies of scale and the decline of small business https://bit.ly/35fcIlC

 

31:10: What is company culture and what are the limitations imposed by capital?

 

32:20: Samsung chairman gets 18 months for union busting https://tcrn.ch/3bQHq75

 

33:20: A third of employees have been employed by a gig service. https://bit.ly/3bQaE66

 

38:05: What are some common gripes about applying for jobs?

 

39:00: Gender, sex, and racial disparities in the hiring process https://pewrsr.ch/2YjinGa

 

42:30: Capitalism incentivizes discrimination and ableism in the hiring process.

 

56:40: Work doesn’t necessarily stop when you clock out. 

 

57:30: How does your identity intersect with the workplace?

 

1:04:30: You’re more likely to be depressed without a job https://bit.ly/2VOQdRK

 

 

 

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Recorded 4/3/2020:

Our friend and guest Ian comes on to talk with us about Bernie, DNC incompetence, contradictions within capitalism, and political economy in the age of the Covid-19 Pandemic. 

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Mat's friend and our special guest Kelcey Duggan comes on to talk with us about her work as a policy analyst, abolitionist, & researcher focused on community safety and justice.

 

5:25: Why do leftists consider police to be “class traitors?”

 

10:00: Oakland mothers evicted https://bit.ly/33phD2J

 

12:30: How are typical labor unions different from police unions?

 

14:40: Chicago police academy approved https://bit.ly/2WtsYwW

 

18:00: Police unions hold asymmetrical power over the working class

 

35:00: Kelcey’s Community Resource Hub https://bit.ly/3ddMuDZ

 

36:30: Massachusetts Bail Fund https://bit.ly/3b86mGH

 

37:05: Kelcey’s paper on ending cash bail https://bit.ly/3d4y9tg

 

39:30: Seattle PD sues to fight oversight https://bit.ly/390aEyn

 

42:10: Police unions shield officers from accountability https://reut.rs/3b75YIa

 

47:15: Which cities are leading the charge on criminal justice reform?

 

51:50: Has U.S culture imposed the idea that police are above the law?

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18:45: The Democratic Party Devours Itself https://nyti.ms/3avIyMi

 

19:30: David Brooks wrong on Bernie https://bit.ly/3awErjs

 

20:15: Washington Post’s disguised civility politic https://wapo.st/38pfwg6

 

22:00: Bernie was right about Cuba https://cnn.it/2x3gRft

 

36:00: Democratic Party Leaders willing to sabotage party to beat Bernie https://nyti.ms/2IjpzZt

 

38:45: Mayo Pete on Twitter https://bit.ly/2Tma2yr

 

39:00: Florida Dems suing to get Bernie off ballot https://politi.co/3arC3dC

 

41:00: Billionaire rapist Harvey Weinstein donates most to Hillary https://bit.ly/2xbXaSW

 

43:00: Hillary Clinton set to make her own podcast https://politi.co/2wt6P79

45:30: Bernie can still win. Here’s the math: https://nyti.ms/2ww9EEm

 

 

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1:00: How has inequality in America impacted the education system?

 

8:55: A Nation At Risk https://bit.ly/2PvX8eG

 

11:40: How has the U.S education policy been shaped by neoliberal capitalism?

 

15:30: Learning to Labor by Paul Willis https://bit.ly/32y0mUt

 

21:00: ITT Tech, Everest University, and the commodification of education

 

26:50: How does a focus on test-taking affect critical thinking skills?

 

30:00: Schooling In Capitalist America by Bowles & Gintis https://rb.gy/1s0s8k

 

36:00: How does an unequal education system create market opportunities?

 

46:00: What are the differences between public, private, and charter schools?

 

1:04:50: How does the U.S education system reinforce bourgeois ideology?

 

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08:15: Medicare for All cost-benefit analysis: https://bit.ly/2vX3FZ0

 

13:15: CNN refraining from airing the Iowa results: https://bit.ly/3bsuLr8

 

17:25: Popular vote fan Pete loses to guy with more votes https://bit.ly/38egzAh

 

21:30: Shadow App,  ACRONYM, and Pete’s transparent corruption https://bit.ly/37ch64g

 

24:00: NYT reporting gross inaccuracies in Iowa: https://nyti.ms/3bswkW2

25:30: U.S involvement in Bolivian coup https://bit.ly/2H8xOXV

 

 

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2:32: What do we mean by manufactured consent?

 

3:10: The five filters of editorial bias https://bit.ly/2SesBCU

 

7:00: 90% of media controlled by 6 companies https://to.pbs.org/3755bFC

 

10:00: Corporate journalism is an oxymoron.

 

10:40: Peter Thiel’s fight with Gawker https://bit.ly/2GSLK88

 

11:30: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media https://bit.ly/3beIkdF

 

17:00: Matt Taibii on Noam Chomsky https://bit.ly/2Sn5lTr

 

25:00 The media framing of Soleimani https://wapo.st/2umBHp7

 

30:00 Juan Guaido bankrolled by the CIA https://bit.ly/2uaWhcf

 

32:00 CIA coup against Iran’s Mossadegh https://n.pr/3bhzbBt

 

35:25: Lieberman’s Cursed Liberal Opinion https://on.wsj.com/396gJJW

 

46:30: Samuel Sinyangwe’s cursed take https://bit.ly/2SnoyEg

 

50:50: Literal king of the week: Mike Prysner of PSL https://bit.ly/2Upxz2r

 

54:45: Washington Post having a normal one https://wapo.st/2S1DZmS

 

1:05:30: Friends of the pod, Communist Killer Dolphins https://bit.ly/31q7rG4

 

 

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1:30:  Communist elected to city council of Ashland, WI https://bit.ly/2ZewLOl

2:55: Wahsayah talks about his journey through leftist politics

8:55: Wahsayah talks to us about the specifics of his experience with his tribe

14:30: The electoral journey for city councilman and Wahsayah’s platform

18:15: Restrictive minimum wage laws in Ashland, WI

22:00: Wahsayah’s political platform for city councilman 

24:00: The effect of the affordable housing crisis in WI

30:00: The organization process for election

39:00: Wahsayah dunks on anti-gun comments from Republicans

49:00: Are electoral politics sufficient to enact socialism?

52:00: Wahsayah’s thoughts on the Epstein case

57:00: White supremacist killings: Mental illness or ideology?

1:06:00: Wahsayah recommends reading Lenin https://bit.ly/2ZiCGSd

1:07:00: The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman https://bit.ly/35QFAQD

1:10:00: The Communist Current: https://bit.ly/34KyYSB

1:11:00: Wahsayah For City Council: https://bit.ly/2EMu3WG

 

 

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00:35: What role does marketing play in capitalist society?

 

00:45: The 4 “P’s” of marketing https://bit.ly/2O8xc8G

 

09:00: The deceitfulness of branding and the illusion of choice

 

18:40: 10 companies control the food industry https://bit.ly/2KJrpoa

 

20:20: Soy farming threatens indigenous people and the Amazon https://bit.ly/2O6uzUW

 

26:40: Patents and the myth that innovation can only happen under capitalism

 

29:30: The vast majority of risk involved in innovation is financed by public money

 

38:00: How does marketing reinforce the status quo of bourgeois state power?

 

41:00: Woke brands and product placement as a form of psychological coercion

 

43:00: The ineptitude of reactionaries brand boycotting and voting with your wallet

 

44:00: Corporations model their expression of ethics based on profitability of culture

 

45:00: The ELL gang goes off on a drunken tangent

 

49:00: How corporations sell your nostalgia back to you for profit

 

53:00: Leftists buying Che Guevara shirts off Amazon: A Moral Predicament 

 

54:00: Woke meta twitter politics: brands roasting other brands on Twitter

 

55:00: Arby’s Curly Fry Caucus of the DSA

 

 

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1:16: What is a “Social Justice Warrior?”

 

12:27: What is political correctness and how has the right wing weaponized it?

 

33:00: Representation without economic justice is not a coherent political platform!

 

34:30: What are identity politics? 

 

40:21: What is call-out or cancel culture?

 

42:30: Our commentary on the Contrapoints scandal 

 

44:00: The toxicity of cancel culture and punitive forms of justice

 

46:15: DSA convention liberal idpol antics

 

50:00: Restorative vs. punitive forms of justice

 

57:40: ¡Listener questions!

 

Anthony asks: Did you have an event that radicalized you as an anti-capitalist?

 

Jessica asks: How should the left build unity and solidarity in the coming years?

 

Luiza asks: How have identity movements been co-opted?

 

 

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In this episode, we welcome Sam Bowden, PhD candidate and adjunct professor at Rutgers University to the show to talk about feminism, capitalism, and socialism! See her Rutger's profile here: https://bit.ly/2kkDgPr

 

1:55: What is feminism both generally and personally? Why is feminism important?

 

3:30: “Feminism Is For Everybody” by Bell Hooks https://bit.ly/1NSE4jx

 

8:11: What does every feminist need to know about capitalism? 

 

14:50: How should we define intersectionality or intersectional feminism?

 

17:45: The Combahee River Collective https://bit.ly/2oUY6nP

 

22:30: What is “third wave” feminism?

 

26:50: Louise Kneeland on feminism and socialism https://bit.ly/2kkEjPo

 

28:00: What does a more socialist form of feminism look like?

35:20: How should the left deal with “woke” appeals to inclusion & diversity?

 

38:45: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism by Jasbir Puar https://tinyurl.com/y46emgsb

 

39:39: How should the left understand identity as it intersects with social class?

 

46:30: What is leftist intersectionality vs. liberal, postmodern intersectionality?

 

53:20: How should the left respond to identity politics?

 

Suggested reading:

 

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis https://bit.ly/2EgOtaU

Women and Socialism, Class, Race, and Capital by Sharon Smith

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Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson https://bit.ly/2lXszCM

 

 

 

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1:05: What are “civility politics?”

 

2:00: ICG definition of civility in government https://bit.ly/2PeCkX1

 

7:25: Trump attacks Elijah Cummings https://bit.ly/2LdBKrZ

 

10:40: How are civility politics employed to pacify the working class?

 

11:05: Assata Shakur’s quote https://bit.ly/2ZtJcIx

 

21:00: Have American politics become too polarized?

 

32:40: What are the goals of civility as a political program?

 

34:45: Majority of violent terrorism linked to right wing ideology https://bit.ly/2S6yrYT

 

45:00 Puerto Rico protests https://abcn.ws/2MJkEW2

 

50:00: How did Obama’s presidency outline the hypocrisy of civility? 

 

56:00: How does civility and centrism reinforce neoliberal capitalist ideology?

 

 

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1:00: What is a private prison? When and why did they appear in America?

 

2:41: What policies mark the development of the modern prison system?

 

10:35: What is the prison industrial complex?

 

19:30: Who are the major entities responsible for the private prison system?

 

28:05 What are the priorities of private prisons?

 

31:30: What are some arguments in favor of private prisons?

 

42:10: What are some arguments against private prisons?

 

43:00: G4S https://bit.ly/1hJm3IO

 

43:30: CoreCivic https://bit.ly/2ST6lhZ

 

44:00: GeoGroup https://bit.ly/2K7rMJf

 

49:30: How has the profit motive of private prisons affected the working class?

 

52:00: Wayfair Walkout protest https://cnb.cx/2LPZFPZ

 

53:00: R.A.I.C.E.S  https://bit.ly/2AMfvHA

 

58:50: 5 Links article by Hannah K. Gold https://bit.ly/2YffBTf

 

59:00: The New Jim Crow https://bit.ly/1wDCBHj

 

59:03: For Profit Imprisonment article by Andrea Jones https://bit.ly/2Yz0wXY

 

 

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01:10: What are some historical examples of classical policing?

 

05:11: What are some of the changes associated with modern policing?

 

07:30: Colquhoun’s rationale for private policing https://bit.ly/2JOUbTc

 

 

09:16: What social roles have police institutions played historically?

 

 

16:45: Althusser’s state apparatuses https://bit.ly/2YWgyw2

 

 

19:00: How do liberals view police institutions vs leftists?

 

 

28:30: What are some examples of police authority used against public interest?

 

 

29:00: Haymarket Square Incident https://bit.ly/2x7fQjO

 

 

32:40: Cops protecting Neo-Nazis at pride https://bit.ly/2xM9Ix9

 

 

45:05: Texas woman gets 5 years in prison for voting https://lat.ms/2SgHRyN

 

 

46:00: Why does the left say “All Cops Are Bastards?”

 

 

50:20: “The Bad Kind of Unionism” by Shawn Gude https://bit.ly/1wEXFx5

 

 

51:30: Why should the left not support police unions?

 

 

58:45: As unionism decreases, inequality increases https://bit.ly/2Fr3CJs

 

 

59:45: What is wrong with the “Blue Lives Matter” movement?

 

 

1:00:03: Black professor profiled by police https://bit.ly/2XQHYat

 

 

1:06:00: Muhammad Noor’s case https://cnn.it/2QWjtlu

 

 

1:08:00: Betty Shelby’s case https://wapo.st/2LmXNib

 

 

1:10:00: Albert Wilson’s case https://bit.ly/2XQjyc7

 

 

1:11:00: What might an alternative to militarized policing look like?

 

1:16:20: How does colonialism and uneven development intersect? 

 

1:17:15: PoC comprised 38.5% of the population, but 51.5% of YLL 

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1:19: What is white supremacy?

 

 

3:05: 2018 domestic terrorists were mostly right wing https://bit.ly/2B8OCeJ

 

 

6:03: What are some examples of white supremacist movements?

 

 

11:45: What motivates white supremacy?

 

21:45: How should the left respond to the legacy of white supremacy?

 

 

23:20: Alyssa Milano getting dunked on by Left Twitter https://bit.ly/2JfXNgz

 

 

30:52: Racial biases in economic and social interactions https://bit.ly/2xbU0M7

 

35:15: Crenshaw’s district carves urban core of Houston https://bit.ly/2KO5zRY

 

 

36:15: Lee Atwater and the GOP’s racist strategy: https://bit.ly/2LsqFFa

 

 

38:00: The cost of Japanese internment during WW2 https://bit.ly/2FIF4cy

 

 

42:30: Abe Lincoln on deporting free slaves https://bit.ly/2XjlBKa

 

 

44:45: How do liberals view the intersection of capital & white supremacy?

 

 

52:05: What is white privilege and how is it embedded in Western society?

 

59:30: How does the dilemma of “free speech” enable white supremacy?

 

1:05:50: Christchurch murders fueled by right wing ideas https://bit.ly/2KQskF0

 

 

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1:05: What are the essential processes of an economy?

 

2:15: What is essential to production in an economy?

 

4:23: What are 3 types of values associated with economic production?

 

10:23: What is Marx’s law of value or the labor theory of value?

 

18:55: What is “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall?”

 

25:15: What is a labor union?

 

28:45: Delta Airlines’ anti-Union propaganda https://lat.ms/2KpqXfy

 

29:50: Unionized workers tend to make more money https://cnnmon.ie/2MtBUiN

 

33:00: What is the purpose of a labor union?

33:26: What is a strike?

 

36:29: The UPS strike of 1997 https://bit.ly/2HTwEAI

 

37:00: What is a scab?

 

38:30: How do scabs undermine labor organizing?

 

41:55: What are the strengths and weaknesses of unions?

 

55:15: What were some major victories for labor in the 19th century?

 

56:50: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 https://bit.ly/2xkInUp

 

1:05:00 What role has the left played in labor organizing in the U.S?

 

1:06:50: The Taft-Hartley Act https://bit.ly/2wDgiWe

 

1:10:30: Organizing a union in your workplace: https://bit.ly/2taxsZH

 

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0:00: Clip: A Blueprint for building wealth

 

1:19: What is capital accumulation?

 

2:27: What types of capital can be accumulated?

 

3:45: Socialism means Jar-Jar Binks Lollipops for all https://bit.ly/2HuKl92

 

12:40: What factors contribute to growth in a capitalist economy?

 

18:18 What are the crises associated with over-accumulation of capital?

 

21:08: Why did Marx believe that capital tends to accumulate in few hands?

 

27:25: What are some characteristics of capitalism in decline?

 

37:39: According to Marx, what are the origins of capital accumulation?

 

39:51: Origin of the Family, Private Property & State https://bit.ly/2PT0oOJ

 

41:20: Margie Thatcher’s Housing Act of 1980 https://bit.ly/2WjqBxc

 

43:33: How does uneven development intersect with capital accumulation?

 

1:00:00: What is new urbanism?

 

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01:25 What is uneven development? https://bit.ly/2aDmqkh

 

03:00: "Uneven development” via Rostow’s Stages https://bit.ly/2gC2hjP

 

07:36: How is uneven development related to imperialism and colonialism?

 

11:40: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney https://bit.ly/2JhgzWB

 

16:32: What are the scopes and causes of uneven development?

 

18:27: Redlining, denial of mortgage loans, and disinvestment in Chicago https://bit.ly/2DSqsXk

 

20:25: What is the legacy of uneven development today?

 

20:35: Case studies of uneven development in Zambia and Tanzania https://bit.ly/2H2PxR4

 

22:15: Structural Adjustments of the IMF or World Bank cause poverty https://bit.ly/1qfKSOl

 

26:10: Thomas Sankara on foreign aid https://bit.ly/2VSv9u6

 

29:30: Therapy is less effective for people in poverty https://bit.ly/2JypKmD

 

30:00: Socioeconomic status correlating with social outcomes https://bit.ly/2J3jVgw

 

31:45: How does capitalism enable market attitudes that trend toward uneven development?

 

36:00: Capitalist market logic applied to West Virginia https://bit.ly/2H51khO

 

36:02: Richard Ojeda, milquetoast orange-man-bad liberal https://bit.ly/2VNWcXx

 

43:10: How are social relations relevant to examples of uneven development?

 

49:05: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein https://bit.ly/2WEcI9y

 

51:20: New Urbanism: https://bit.ly/2gGaaq0

 

56:50: Boyle Heights gentrification protests https://bit.ly/2H5Pt21

 

59:30: Betsy DeVos privatizing education https://bit.ly/2J34x3D

 

1:00:30: How does uneven development foster nationalistic, reactionary tendencies?

 

1:03:00: Local examples: White flight, displacement, gentrification https://bit.ly/2VRt3uD

 

 

1:06:00: Eagle’s Landing in Atlanta, GA https://bit.ly/2V7wnxa

 

1:09:50: Low investment in neighborhoods equals low public school funding

 

 

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00:20: Former CIA Director admits U.S meddles in foreign elections. https://bit.ly/2XzoqTe

 

01:23: What is Imperialism?

 

05:58: Why is Imperialism still a relevant topic for leftist discussion?

 

08:03: Elliott Abrams, imperialist chore boy extraordinaire. https://bit.ly/2DCo5ry

 

09:46: Kant’s racism influenced Western academia for centuries. https://bit.ly/2GqU8Ll

 

11:39: Herbert Spencer’s Social Darwinism: A culture of race realism. https://bit.ly/2IOtq23

 

13:25: What are some historical examples of imperialism?

 

16:54: How is imperialism different from colonialism in concept?

 

20:22: Edward Said: Orientalism https://bit.ly/2XFI401

 

21:11: What are contemporary examples of imperialism?

 

22:43: Soft power and hard power. https://bit.ly/2UzbPgW

 

23:15: The U.S has hundreds of foreign military bases. https://bit.ly/2VW2LUY

 

28:40: Rubio tweets about Gaddafi’s brutalization to provoke Maduro. https://hrld.us/2UMrNcq

 

30:45: Gassing Kurds? U.S sleeps. Saddam invades Kuwait: Real shit? https://bit.ly/2JYBf23

 

31:33:  Observers confirm legitimacy of elections in Venezuela. https://bit.ly/2Vnzgy4

 

33:15: Max Blumenthal debunks imperialist propaganda in Venezuela. https://bit.ly/2Tdlk8S

35:01: Pro-capitalist opposition protestors in support of Guaido burn aid. https://bit.ly/2Hbymhy

 

36:26: U.S doing the same to Venezuela as done to Mosaddegh in Iran. https://bit.ly/1snDH2Q

 

36:32: U.S did the same thing in El Salvador with Allende. https://bit.ly/23R15Lk

 

37:00: Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. https://bit.ly/2IC31VT

 

37:45: General Smedley Butler, actual economic hitman.https://bit.ly/1QLdBbl

 

38:28: Coca Cola hired hired death squads in Columbia. https://bit.ly/2IRjPYn

 

39:00: How does capitalism ultimately produce neo-imperial regimes?

 

40:05: Recession of the 1890’s. https://bit.ly/2StkIra

 

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02:07: George Orwell on contemporary Fascism https://bit.ly/1eFboGp

 

03:26: What are definitions of Fascism past and present?

 

09:37: What are some specific characteristics of Fascism as an ideology?

 

10:33: Cranks in academia; Gregor, The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics 

 

18:42: Robert Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism https://bit.ly/1M4CTbS

 

22:49: Productive & Parasitic Capitalism: How did fascists view capitalism?

 

31:25: Are fascist conceptions of Marxism accurate?

 

35:00: Just how “fascist” is Donald Trump? https://wapo.st/2Im1nXv

 

41:00: Good faith and bad faith arguments

 

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01:25: Global Warming & Climate Change https://goo.gl/eRWggv

 

03:34: “There is no ethical consumption under late capitalism.”

 

05:38: 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of emissions https://goo.gl/qo5e7D

 

06:45: Environmentalists should be decidedly anti-capitalist.

 

07:20: How should leftists consider the environment?

 

12:20: Kevin P. Martyn, Ph.D. candidate in Geography at USF https://goo.gl/xCs5Tz

 

13:25: What do environmentalists need to know about capitalism?

 

18:25: Are individual lifestyle changes sufficient to avoid climate change?

 

22:00: Is capitalism compatible with environmentalism?

 

22:30: Green Capitalism: The God that Failed by Richard Smith https://goo.gl/JhLCKv

 

24:00: “Green-washing” the status quo https://goo.gl/xirVLr

 

27:35: Whither Socialism by Joseph Stiglitz https://goo.gl/yAogqA

 

33:30: Can language about environmentalism become “gentrified?”

 

35:35: Frank Luntz and the “Death Tax” https://goo.gl/hfwvDN

 

38:10: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism https://goo.gl/PtDUSH

 

40:53: David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth https://goo.gl/roxUmC

 

43:50: The Green New Deal politic: The particulars do matter

 

49:27: Are there direct consequences of climate change if not addressed now?

 

49:50: IPCC Timeline of Climate Change impact https://goo.gl/5gxsoL

 

56:10: Are there any candidates for 2020 that can address climate change nationally?

 

1:02:44: How can people get involved and help address climate change politically?

 

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00:25: What is “neoliberalism?” https://goo.gl/cKPmqk

02:30: What is laissez faire as an economic principle? https://goo.gl/vHtdLw

 

04:05: A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey ISBN-10: 0199283273

05:04: What is typical capitalism vs. the neoliberal project? https://goo.gl/ruZH7p

 

07:10: What is “austerity?” https://goo.gl/qGjKDD

 

08:30: Is GDP vs. debt a comprehensive and accurate analysis for social progress?

 

10:22: What cultural ethics or attitudes arise from neoliberal economic policies?

 

17:40: The cultural mythos of trickle down economic policy.

 

20:46: Inequality increases as union membership decreases. https://goo.gl/Q7R81q

 

20:50: Labor share of profit decreases as corporate share rises. https://goo.gl/qquB9W

 

23:25: Wage stagnation in 9 charts: https://goo.gl/P9N6mr

 

24:00: How did neoliberal economic ideology intersect with the 2008 housing crash?

31:21: The neoliberal project in stark contrast to previous conceptions of capitalism

 

37:30: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

 

41:00: What is “creative destruction” under Neoliberalism as David Harvey explains?

 

46:00: The legacy of the Neoliberal project in Venezuela

 

50:10: What are the differences between Neoliberalism in theory vs. in practice?

 

01:01:17: The 1973 Oil Crisis, 1979 Oil Crisis & OAPEC: https://goo.gl/xXLtT8

 

01:02:20: The use of state power to discipline local and foreign economies

 

01:16:30: Alan Greenspan admits neoliberal capitalism didn’t work: https://goo.gl/AWL5fF

 

01:17:00: The Neoconservative response to Neoliberal economic policies.

 

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01:27: Beyond Rawls: An Analysis of the Concept of Political Liberalism by SP Young, ISBN-10: 0761822410

 

03:00: “Understanding liberals vs the left” by Elizabeth Bruenig: https://goo.gl/ffhCBx

 

04:23: “The Difference Between Liberalism and Leftism” by Nathan J. Robinson, Editor in Chief of Current Affairs: https://goo.gl/DtckCC

 

06:00: Classical Liberal roots and how it relates to our modern parties

 

07:40: Morals vs. Manners and superficial vs. systemic changes

 

07:50: Liberalism in Theory and Practice by Jacobin Magazine: https://goo.gl/1Mfm99

 

11:00: What it Means to Be on the Left by Peter Frase, Jacobin Magazine: https://goo.gl/SHKDFR

 

11:45: Can liberalism realize its own ideals?

 

21:26: Why is the liberal welfare state not sufficient?

 

28:10: How would leftists address social issues as compared to liberals?

 

37:15: Is liberalism equipped to deal with the rise of Trump and the far right?

 

38:00: “Why People Vote For Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests” Lecture by Mark Blyth: https://goo.gl/Cb6Ni2

 

42:25: Obama to Trump Swing Voters: https://goo.gl/1bG2mr

 

 

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