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Listen to Podcasting is Praxis's Independence Day episode before checking out this one, and subscribe to their pod while you're at it.  In Part 2 of our ALE pod crossover, we break down Roland Emmerich's deep understanding of gravity, Burt Hemsworth's very real appeal, and ask "how gay you can be in a blockbuster movie?" as we peel back the layers of unanswerable questions (most of them just "why?!") in Independence Day: Resurgence.  

 

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Yes it's late, yes it's completely out of date, no I can't be bothered to write a proper description, you'll download it and you'll enjoy it!  

 

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Thread following the recent arrests of anti-monarchists  

 

Students and staff sign petition backing Carnegie Mellon professor after controversial Queen tweets: ‘We express our solidarity’  

 

Shamrock Rovers fans sing a jaunty tune  

 

"Chileans rejected the new constitution, but they still want progressive reforms This article is more than 1 month old" by Ariel Dorfman

 

"The Fight for a New Chile Goes On" by Melany Cruz  

 

"Bellicose and Underinformed" by James Butler  

 

Prime Minister Liz Truss’s statement: 6 September 2022  

 

Civil liberties groups criticise police over arrests of anti-monarchy protesters  

 

Symon Hill on being arrested  

 

"For Anyone That has Ever Worked Retail, These Rants are For You"

A much delayed episode which is now very much out of date.  Oh well!  On this episode of Comradio we're covering the theatre of the absurd that is Labour and Tory politics. Join us for a three act production featuring Tarry's troubles, Starmer's shenanigans, and Truss's threats.  

 

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Remember the Forde Report?  We know no one talks about it now but it definitely happened, we spend our time becoming increasingly angry at it and what it should mean for Labour, we then discuss the bin fire that is the Tory Leadership contest, before finishing off with the Hot Strike Summer (XXX).  Join us after our sabbatical as we continue to realise things can only get worse.

 

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The Forde Report Has Exposed the Rotten Foundations of Keir Starmer’s Leadership  

 

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PraxisChat 2 - Barrister Strike with Hannah Webb

Long ago, in the heights of May, James aka @anarchonbury, albeit only one candle in the wind, was tasked with the reclaiming of mythology. Hear how obstacles will be overcome, the dragon slain, and the fascists defeated. (The left must triumph eventually, after all.) With maybe some practical thoughts about living on the left in the 2020s. 

From the Council of Nicea to fast food empires, we sharpen our swords and talk stories. Right now on Comradio.

Plus, an update on some of the newer socialist electoral parties.

 

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27 - Mythology, Part I: I'd Still Myth You, Babe

 

29 - Mythology, Part II: And I Don't Want to Myth a Thing feat. Sarah Stein Lubrano

 

See also 85 - Political Orgone-ising

 

Max Weber on Modernity at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

The Later Wittgenstein at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Lacan on Otherness at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Podcasting is Praxis | Episode 49 - A Very Special Mockumentary, by Curtis Adams

 

'The Red Book': A Window Into Jung's Dreams - Karen Michel for NPR (2009)

 

Take a look at pages from The Red Book by Carl Jung - The Guardian (2009)

 

The ability of odours to serve as state-dependent cues for real-world memories: can Viking smells aid the recall of Viking experiences? - J P Aggleton et al (1999)

 

Mythologies by Roland Barthes at Hive

 

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl at Hive

 

Vulgaria: The Re-Enchantment of Suburbia, Paul Knox (2005)

 

McDonaldization: Definition and Overview of the Concept by Ashley Crossman at ThoughtCo

 

The Re-Enchantment of the World by Joshua Landy (ed) at World of Books

 

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These days you can get arrested just for being Hitler. 

We put recent media "gaffes" promoting the far right into historical context. Newspaper coverage of Mussolini and Hitler in the 1930s on both sides of the Atlantic - including a spotlight on the Daily Mirror's pro-Fascist and pro-Hitler content, Nazi collaboration by Associated Press, the American press and the KKK in the 1920s, reporting of the milkshaking of Andy Ngo, and more.

Plus, how being hit as a child didn't do Wes Streeting any harm.

 

NATO shares image of Ukrainian soldier wearing Nazi insignia; deletes it later - Opindia (2022)

 

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Donald Trump retweets far-right group's anti-Muslim videos - BBC News (2017)

 

How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media - EJ Dickson for Rolling Stone (2019)

 

Where the New York Times article on an American Nazi went wrong - Ezra Klein for Vox (2017)

 

How media ‘fluff’ helped Hitler rise to power - Charlotte Hsu, University of Buffalo News (2015)

 

Interview with Dr Felix Harcourt. The media and the Ku Klux Klan: a debate that began in the 1920s - Lois Beckett and Jesse Brenneman in The Guardian (2018)

 

Podcast: Face the Racist Nation - WNYC Studios (2018)

 

Gary Younge interviews Richard Spencer - Guardian channel (YouTube)

 

Wes Streeting on smacking

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Our April film club episode is a discussion of the beautiful and nuanced film that was the catalyst for the launch of Studio Ghibli. 

We talk about the film's influence and the influences upon it, including a real life environmental disaster arising from Japanese post-War policy;  how three major religions (and their political history in Japan) feed into the specifics of the environmental message; the atom bomb; the individual vs the collective; why there are no telephones in Nausicaä's world; and more.

 

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There are two Boris Johnsons at the entrance to Downing Street. One always lies and the other always lies. How does Dawn Butler get an apology? Tory fines, the object permanence of journalists, Michael Fabricant as a first responder (fuelling fires and insulting public sector workers), Ian Dunt's deportation date to Rwanda, P&O failing safety checks, increasing fat cat profits, student loan repayment rises, the possible return of Balls, and Labour Against Climate Action. 

 

Plus, Chris Smalls and Amazon.

 

 

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Ian Dunt's Rwanda tweet

 

The Labour Party's anti-protest tweet

This week on Comradio, we discuss the history of a controversial concept, Base and Superstructure. From Marx to Gramsci to Political Marxism to the anti-colonial perspectives of Fanon and others, with several other stops between.

 

Plus, Palestine Action.

 

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The German Ideology - Karl Marx (1845)

 

The Wretched of The Earth - Frantz Fanon (1963)

 

Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory - Raymond Williams (1973)

 

Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx (1859)

 

Engels letter to J.Bloch in Konigsberg (1890)

 

The Concepts of Ideology, Hegemony, and Organic Intellectuals in Gramsci’s Marxism - Valeriano Ramos, Jr. (1982)

 

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics - J.V. Stalin (1950)

 

Louis Althusser and Base & Superstructure

 

Democracy against capitalism - E.M.Wood (1995)

 

The Brenner Debate

 

Base and Superstructure: A Reply to Hugh Collins - G. A. Cohen (1989)

 

If You Want to Understand Marxism, Read G. A. Cohen - Ben Burgis in Jacobin (2022)

 

Colonial Lives of Property : Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar (2018) at Hive

 

Whiteness as Property - Cheryl I. Harris (1993)

 

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Sean Coulthard (2014) at Hive

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The Coen Brothers are very much consciously postmodern filmmakers who try to avoid making films with an obvious message, that address social issues directly. How does this play out in a film which sets the Odyssey in the American Deep South of the 1930s? We examine the allegorical, the moral, and the political in O Brother Where Art Thou?

 

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