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frandroidDavid Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Beyond Reorganization of Production. September 22, 2022.
In a previous episode, Harvey called our current form of capitalism “too big to fail”, and he circles back on that. He looks at the Scandinavian model, he looks at the Argentinian factories where workers have literally seized the means of production, and comments that they still have to work within the market system. He looks at Apple and the chip manufacturers (Intel, Samsung, TSMC), and posits that if we were to keep producing computers under some sort of worker control, other than redistributing the profits, we probably wouldn’t change the system very much because it’s very well optimized as it is, and there are few examples of state-controlled corporations doing better than the private sector that way. So he asks the questions about how we go about this. He doesn’t have answers, obviously, but it’s an interesting discussion. Marx also saw the problem but did not have to face the complexity of social organization that capitalism undergirds today.
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur - The Meng Wanzhou Victory Lap. September 29, 2021
This episode circles back on the Meng Wenzhou saga in Canada… One thing I hadn’t heard anywhere else is an in-depth recap of how illegitimate her detention by the Canadian government was, what lies were told to the court and to the media to justify keeping her here. I have little sympathy for Huawei as a tool of Chinese foreign overreach but this was such an unnecessary action by the Canadian government, which could have achieved almost nothing even if the Chinese hadn’t kidnapped two of our own citizens to get her back.
The Backbench - The Catastrophe Commissioner. July 26, 2022
“In this episode, Jerry DeMarco, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, delves into the Canadian federal response to climate change, and why our response is still insufficient. DeMarco unpacks 30 years of failed climate progress and offers an analysis of our government’s actions and inactions to deal with our seemingly impending doom.” We’re so fucked and we keep on making things worse.
From Embers - Surrealism and Anarchy. May 30, 2018
“An interview with anarchist and surrealist author Ron Sakolsky.
We discuss his life, free jazz, academia, the intersections of surrealism and anarchy, mutual acquiescence, maroon communities, and his day to day life on Denman Island, BC.
Ron's latest book "In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland" is available from Little Black Cart.” A nice gem of a meandering interview.
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In a previous episode, Harvey called our current form of capitalism “too big to fail”, and he circles back on that. He looks at the Scandinavian model, he looks at the Argentinian factories where workers have literally seized the means of production, and comments that they still have to work within the market system. He looks at Apple and the chip manufacturers (Intel, Samsung, TSMC), and posits that if we were to keep producing computers under some sort of worker control, other than redistributing the profits, we probably wouldn’t change the system very much because it’s very well optimized as it is, and there are few examples of state-controlled corporations doing better than the private sector that way. So he asks the questions about how we go about this. He doesn’t have answers, obviously, but it’s an interesting discussion. Marx also saw the problem but did not have to face the complexity of social organization that capitalism undergirds today.
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur - The Meng Wanzhou Victory Lap. September 29, 2021
This episode circles back on the Meng Wenzhou saga in Canada… One thing I hadn’t heard anywhere else is an in-depth recap of how illegitimate her detention by the Canadian government was, what lies were told to the court and to the media to justify keeping her here. I have little sympathy for Huawei as a tool of Chinese foreign overreach but this was such an unnecessary action by the Canadian government, which could have achieved almost nothing even if the Chinese hadn’t kidnapped two of our own citizens to get her back.
The Backbench - The Catastrophe Commissioner. July 26, 2022
“In this episode, Jerry DeMarco, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, delves into the Canadian federal response to climate change, and why our response is still insufficient. DeMarco unpacks 30 years of failed climate progress and offers an analysis of our government’s actions and inactions to deal with our seemingly impending doom.” We’re so fucked and we keep on making things worse.
From Embers - Surrealism and Anarchy. May 30, 2018
“An interview with anarchist and surrealist author Ron Sakolsky.
We discuss his life, free jazz, academia, the intersections of surrealism and anarchy, mutual acquiescence, maroon communities, and his day to day life on Denman Island, BC.
Ron's latest book "In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland" is available from Little Black Cart.” A nice gem of a meandering interview.
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#PodcastFriday is a tag where people recommend a particularly good episode from a podcast. The point of this tag is NOT to recommend entire podcasts--there are too many podcasts out there, and our queues are already too long, so don't do that. Let's just recommend the cream of the crop, the episodes that made you *brainsplode* or laugh like crazy. Copy this footer so people don't start recommending whole podcasts. :P
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Date: 2022-11-26 12:43 am (UTC)