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Frank interviews archeologist Adam Green on his article Killing the Priest-King: Egalitarianism in the Indus Valley Civilization. He explains both his arguments for why the Indus Valley Civilization was (probably) an egalitarian mass urban commercial society that operated in a bottom-up fashion and had really nice houses/sanitation. Also included are tangents on the history of archeological frameworks and categorization, noisy and hidden elites, and questions of information processing and signification.

For the second installment of 2021, we spoke with a passionate thinker and activist whose approach to political philosophy is both charming and challenging. Join as we dissect our guest’s unique perspective on egoism, spirituality, anarchist tactics, and more.

Alex McHugh is the new Coordinator at the Center For A Stateless Society. He’s an anarchist and activist based in Philadelphia, who’s interested in community building, mutual aid, the importance of civic institutions, and mysticism.

Marxist, teacher, and professional podcast guest, C. Derick Varn comes on the show to have a sprawling conversation about various societies, 21st-century politics, the history of American political movements, the impact of technology on politics and culture, the legacy of the Cold War, emergent dynamics, philosophy of science, string theory, anthropology, New Atheism, free will and more.

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-Neoreaction (for dummies), Nick Land https://web.archive.org/web/20170720102354/http://www.xenosystems.net/neoreaction-for-dummies/

-The Density Divide, Will Wilkson

-What share of people are online?, Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/internet#what-share-of-people-are-online

-Could an iPhone fly me to the moon?, Graham Kendall https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/apollo-11-moon-landing-mobile-phones-smartphone-iphone-a8988351.html

-Helen Viola Jackson, last known Civil War widow, dead at 101, Elizabeth Elizalde https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101/

-The End of History, Francis Fukuyama

-Francis Fukuyama interview: "Socialism ought to come back", George Eaton https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2018/10/francis-fukuyama-interview-socialism-ought-come-back

We Stand on Guard, Brian K. Vaughn https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard

Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America, Secular Survey https://www.secularsurvey.org/

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

Terror Management Theory, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism, Matt McManus https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-24682-2

Reactionary Modernism, Jeffery Herf

Self-domestication: In Humans, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication#In_humans

Frans de Waal, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal

Humans, not climate, have rapidly driven rising mammal extinction rate, Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm

Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5

Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_Societies

-Mortal Science Podcast https://soundcloud.com/mortalscience

-In the Enemy Camp, Swampside Chats https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats/sets/in-the-enemy-camp

Pop the Left YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFad02vA5AOH8vV8rUp6mwkACCa77u2UM

C. Derick Varn reads five poems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnteApw_4DU

For the first installment of 2021, we spoke with a prolific writer and activist whose ideas are as eclectic as they are thought-provoking. Today we’ll be highlighting a few of her interests, including Agorism, Environmentalism, problems with the ”justice system”, and how we might go about building a better one. We also talk about the intentional queer community she’s building, the exciting event she’s planning, and the unfortunate legal situation she currently finds herself in.

Logan Marie Glitterbomb is a writer, Breadtuber, and podcaster under the branding of Green Market Agorist. She’s a Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society, an agorist, and an anarchist-without-adjectives. She’s also a gun-rights activist, hardcore police and prison abolitionist, a longtime member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a co-founder of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Libertarian Party. She has lived collectively for a number of years, making a living as an agorist and freelancer, while dedicating her free time towards community organizing.

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Follow Logan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MakhnoTits

Logan’s C4SS Writings: https://c4ss.org/content/author/logan-glitterbomb

Green Market Agorist: https://greenmarketagorist.wordpress.com/

Logan’s Legal Fund: https://gogetfunding.com/legal-defense-for-logan-glitterbomb/

Coup De Gras 2: Electric Luau: https://agorafest.wordpress.com/

Join us for the 7th installment of All Power To The Imagination as Frank explores Francis Fukuyama's infamous 1992 book, The End of History. After the defeat of fascism and communism, are we destined to become liberal last men without chests or is there something else in the cards?

The End of History? (1989 essay) - https://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm

The End of History and The Last Man - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-...

Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea (Francis Fukuyama) - https://www.au.dk/fukuyama/boger/essay/

Our Posthuman Future - https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/our-p...

Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea? (Nick Bostrom) - https://nickbostrom.com/papers/danger...

Matrix Ending Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq5Uh...

Complexity Rising - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkzse...

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When first hearing about anarchy and its aspirations, many people dismiss it as utopian, dangerous, or impossible. If you're an anarchist, you've probably come across this knee-jerk reaction lots of folks seem to have when initially coming into contact with the ideas. It’s in these moments I’m reminded of a quote attributed to Mikhail Bakunin: “By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward”. It’s important to remember that our understanding of ‘the possible’ is embedded in a cultural context that often attempts to cage our ambitions and silence our desires. We who have the audacity to defy these psychological borders and strive for a social reality beyond domination have challenging terrains to navigate. How do we go about expanding cooperation in a world obsessed with coercion? And what led humans to adopt these destructive ways of relating to one another, to begin with? There is much to be learned and unlearned and, in this episode, we discuss how states originally formed and how we can move beyond them.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist, activist, and writer whose work has come to be known by many as foundational anarchist literature and essential canon for anarchist thought. The titles of his books are Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation, The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy, Anarchy Works, and How Nonviolence Protects The State.

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2020 has been a wild ride, and at the moment things don’t seem to be cooling down. In this episode, we focus on a topic the presidential debates did not cover, gun control, and firearm freedom. With a looming threat of a right-wing coup, or of a presidential administration who will inevitably be hostile to firearm freedom, this conversation is especially timely. We also discuss censorship, free speech, and how social media is reacting to the chaotic climate we find ourselves in today.

Kelly Wright is an activist, public speaker, and writer who focuses on a host of topics ranging from anarchism, queer and trans rights, and privacy. She graduated from Ohio University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics. She currently lives and works in New York City with her cat Grimes.

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Crisis of Democracy wikipedia page:

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Complexity and the Limits of Revolution

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Opening and closing audio is Francis Fukuyama in this clip:

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Cory Massimino studies philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is a Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. His research focuses on virtue ethics, market process economics, and anarchist political theory. His writings have appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, The Independent, and Playboy.

Cory began his political journey on the libertarian right. His political philosophy is now more closely associated with what some might call left libertarianism. The libertarian left in America has many tendencies that separate itself from or are sometimes even hostile to thinkers such as Ayn Rand or Murray Rothbard. However, my guest today challenges us to not throw out the baby with the bathwater and feels that it’s entirely possible to reject and to criticize the reactionary shortcomings of some of these thinkers, while also highlighting the contributions they made to a kind of libertarianism that may be worth taking inspiration from.

In this interview, we discuss a variety of topics ranging from immigration to egalitarianism, to free market- anti capitalism, and more

https://c4ss.org/content/author/cory-massimino

https://www.borderangels.org

Frank interviews Enspiral co-founder Richard Bartlett on decentralized organizing, the primacy of experience, metamodernism, the failings of postmodernism, and radical alternatives.

Organizing beyond organizations: Good news stories from Spain and Taiwan - https://c4ss.org/content/50824

Rethinking Humanity, Rethinkx - https://www.rethinkx.com/humanity

The Culture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cul...

The Listening Society - https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Soci...

Lumio - https://www.loomio.org/

Scuttlebutt - https://planetary.social/

Walkaway, Cory Doctorow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkawa...)

How to change the Course of Human History, David Graeber and David Wengrow - https://www.eurozine.com/change-cours...

Enspiral network - https://enspiral.com/

OODA loop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

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