From Alpha To Omega

This week my friend Brendan and I recount some tales from our days in an Irish Catholic boarding school. Recorded over a few beers on St Patrick’s day in Brendan's house, beside a nice turf fire, with the sound of the crows in the background.

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Today we read the second part of Chapter 14: ‘The Control of Operational Life’ and Chapter 15 ‘The Introduction of Communism in Agriculture’.

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https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Donal and myself make a major announcement.

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We start Chapter 3 - ‘Metatheoretical Foundations of Charles Tilly’s Durable Inequality’.

The Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RVTrPWEPEJlItgHSjf9dVQoKxRXx3rCGgPx13rZCugY/edit?usp=sharing

Panellists:
Derick - Mortal Science, Varn Vlog
Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia
Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

We continue our discussion with Prof. Robin Hahnel on the ins and outs of the planning procedures of Participatory Economy.

We welcome Prof. Robin Hahnel to the show. Prof. Hahnel and previous guest Michael Albert are the people who came up with Participatory Economy, or Parecon, a vision of a de-centrally planned socialist economy. We discuss Parecon Planning and Allocation in great detail!

Today we read Chapter 14: ‘The Control of Operational Life’.

This week we read Chapter 13: ‘The Expansion of Production’.

We pick back up where we left off in our discussion with Xur about what can be salvaged from the wreck of the blockchain and crypto scene for our future communist society.

We welcome Xur to the show, to talk about all things blockchain and cryptography. In this first part 1 we dig deep into the technical problems associated with the current crypto scene. In part 2 we pick the corpse of the blockchain to salvage what we can for our future communist society.