No Easy Answers

In this monologue episode, Jules talks about the ways a secular society relocates the sacred to objects of liberal worship. Along the way, he speaks to the volatility of spirituality, in that vague senses of spirituality can lead one into other thoughts that are useful for inchoate fascism. Ultimately, he argues we must take seriously the ways in which spirituality can lend itself to fascism, as there are actual fascists in the world who would leverage spirituality to spread their ideology. 

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Books!

· Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola by Paul Furlong

· The Case Against The Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought by Daniel Schwindt

· War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers by Benjamin Teitelbaum

· Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicolas Goodrick-Clark

· Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

· The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Robert Tobin

· Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt

· Contemporary Esotericism by Egil Asprem and Kenneth Granholm

Articles…

· Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists by Jason Horowitz in the New York Times

· The Religion of the Heart: “Spirituality” In Late Modernity by Galen Watts

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The fabulous Laura Jedeed joins Jules for a conversation about the alt-right. In an effort to decode the alt-right, and examine their psychological workings, Jules and Laura flex their empathy muscles (but not too much) - because these fuckers aren't deserving of too much sympathy beyond that required of gaining an understanding of their motives and how they operate.

About our guest…

Laura Jedeed's website, Twitter

*Laura should be coming back to Twitter around 4/20/21

Laura Jedeed's YouTube channel

"How I Got Here" by Laura Jedeed

"Making Monsters: Right-Wing Creation of the Liberal Enemy" a thesis by Laura Dedeed

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"Why Milkshaking Works" by Matt Ford in The New Republic

"This Milkshake Spring isn't Political Violence - it's Political Theatre" by Aditya Chakrabortty

Outro Music: "Control" by Mary Hood

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Jules speaks with Roderic Day about his article "The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz". This interview is preceded by a monologue about the Afghan Trap Doctrine.

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"The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz" by Roderic Day

Alberta Advantage - Corporate welfare bums 

"Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies" by Magnus Rasmussen and Carl Knutsen

Canada Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation 

Wilfred Chan's ties to the White House

A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military

"Flight from History? The Communist Movement Between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt" by Domenico Losurdo

Outro Music: "Ground" by SPCZ

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Jules speaks with Dr. Asatar Bair about the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China. Dr. Bair is a professor of economics and statistics at Riverside City College.

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Follow Dr. Asatar Bair on Twitter and YouTube

Prison Labor in the United States: An Economic Analysis by Dr. Asatar Bair

Six Basic Problems with the Uyghur Genocide Narrative by Dr. Asatar Bair

Image of US Military Bases in the Pacific 

Who are the Uyghurs?

China's Belt and Road Initiative 

Who is Adrian Zenz? 

There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year

U.S., allies announce sanctions on China over Uyghur ‘genocide’

China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing

Daughter of a late senator goes off on anti-Asian screed 

Outro Music: "Godking" by Welcome Home Morning Star

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Jules speaks with Comrade Gomer about 'baby leftists' and how to best guide and direct new revolutionaries in their radical development. This episode is preceded by a monologue about capitalist spiritualism and the internalization of the contradictions of capitalism.

Links for Comrade Gomer…

Comrade Gomer's YouTube Channel, Twitch Channel, Twitter

Radical Reparations 

The Communist Org 

Recommended reading from Comrade Gomer…

Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels

State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

Blood In My Eye by George L. Jackson

Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis

Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Things mentioned by Jules…

Napoleon Hill, the All American Huckster by Matt Novak

Marianne Williamson's tweet

This Non-Violent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Defying the Tomb by Kevin Rashid Johnson

Outro Music: "Americana" by Nickel and Rose

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Jules joins Pearson on Coffee with Comrades to reflect on one year’s time living in the age of COVID-19.  Along the way, they discuss how the coronavirus has impacted society, emerging conspiracy theories, and the way capitalism has exacerbated the crisis.  This is a heavy discussion that leaves space to mourn and grieve, not just for those we have lost, but for our ways of making our way in the world that have been stripped from us.

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Things mentioned by Jules during this conversation...

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Jules speaks with cult deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross about destructive cults, and their methods of indoctrinating their members. This interview is preceded by a monologue about destructive cults, and their links to capitalist spiritualism.

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Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out  by Rick Alan Ross

Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from EST to Exile by Steven Pressman

Seduced: Inside the NXVIM Cult | True-Crime Documentary 

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Cult Education Institute, founded by Rick Alan Ross

Outro Music, "Need that Rush" by Cult Fantastic

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Jules speaks with an anonymous therapist about QAnon, and how to reach out to people in our lives who are (to varying degrees) believers in conspiracy theories.

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Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator.

Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website

Art by Kristen

Performances by Kristen

Other stories by Kristen

Things we mentioned during the conversation

Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World'

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Dr. Furr is the author of several books and articles on Soviet History, specifically the Stalin era of 1930 to 1953. I wanted to talk with him because every single one of his publications stands in contradiction to the generally accepted narratives of Soviet History.

If you ask a random person who Joseph Stalin is, they'll probably tell you something like Stalin was a brutal dictator and he killed millions of people. Books by historians Steven Kotkin and Robert Conquest affirm these accusations of crimes and atrocities, and so people generally believe that standard line about Stalin. Of course, all of this works in service of framing the USSR as totalitarian, and more broadly permits the positing of the false notion of horseshoe theory.

As you'll hear in our conversation, Dr. Furr has spent years combing through the footnotes of the authors like Kotkin and Conquest. He's not only refuting their accusations, but he's publishing books showing why their accusations are false with primary source evidence. His work is remarkable when you begin to think of the ways 20th-century world history would change if we had to fundamentally rethink the history of Soviet Russia.

It really was an honor and a privilege to speak with Dr. Furr about his research, and his latest publication, Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy. So here's my conversation, with Dr. Grover Furr.

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Some of Grover Furr's books mentioned or discussed during this episode

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