Anders talks to author Malcolm Harris about his new book "What's Left? Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis." But first, Jake tells us about his trip to the Ren Fair and Anders talks about this weekend's massive Zohran rally in NYC.

Malcolm's book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/whats-left/9780316577434/

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This week we put on our thinking caps and read some theory with our pals AP Andy from The Antifada and Alex Collyard from comedy.

ANDY GITTLITZ

@baseprole

@The_Antifada

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Alex Collyard

@alexcollyard

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Drew Grant AKA Video Drew joins Jake to check in on the state of television in the year 2025. They discuss Black Mirror (season 7), Andor, Severance, and for reasons that will become apparent, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. MILD SPOILERS for Black Mirror s7e1 and Severance s2, and I guess Frankenstein.

VIDEO DREW

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We discuss the history of the Food and Drug Administration, snout to tail. Plus, why it is now being used to lower your precious sperm count. Also Jean-Luc Mélenchon!

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&y & &ers smoke a joint and read Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History

Read along:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm

Song: Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

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Marc William Palen, author of Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World joins us to discuss his book!

MARC PALEN

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica?srsltid=AfmBOore-3IIb5YfVJszYhF4NMa1Witm7u3YS53bVsRlfpmJ8wxRBQv0

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Anders' Vanquished co-host Freddy G joins the show to discuss resistance hero Cory Booker's past as a "reformer" of the Newark school system when he was Mayor; a sordid history of austerity and privatization he now tries not to talk about.

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Unfortunately this week we have to talk about politics and Bernie Sanders and AOC and stuff but it's the only way to get to what this episode is really about, which is who the hell is posting "let him cook" from the White House twitter account. Influencers, AI, tech freaks, campaigns, and getting the cops called on your drunk ass: This week we talk about an ominous tech startup that for some reason is called Urban Legend.

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It's another theory ep! If you don't like that, too bad! This week we talk about Peter Kropotkin, his book The Conquest of Bread, and anarcho communism in general. Gentleman, lets conquest that bread etc. Also tariffs, aesexuals, JK Rowling, Elon, facebook, trucks, needing trucks, etc.

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We are joined by Eric King, author of A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, to talk about how he ended up in ADX, America's highest level supermax prison, and how he survived and eventually got free.

ERIC KING

@supportericking

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