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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Financial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El Salvador
Pub date: 2021-09-26

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This week, Alina Utrata is joined by Mallika Balakrishnan to talk about the protests over the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador. What exactly is bitcoin (and what's the difference between Bitcoin and other digital currencies)? Why has President Nayib Bukele implemented it as legal tender in El Salvador? And, most importantly, how will this impact the people in El Salvador? All your questions on the blockchain answered by the Anti-Dystopians! 

All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata, and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4

Articles mentioned in this podcast

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is a Farce

For Latin American politicians, Bitcoin is a PR goldmine

Jorge E. Cuéllar, Bitcoin Sanctuaries — Sidecar (New Left Review)

USAID, Bitcoin and the Long Fight over El Salvador’s Sovereignty -- Daniel Alvarenga -- El Faro

Left Out of Bukele’s Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality

There Is No Democratic Tradition in El Salvador 

In Central America, Rule of Law Is Under Attack. El Salvador Is the Latest Victim.

In El Salvador, Broken Promises Have Forced the Establishment Out

CISPES https://www.cispes.org/ 

Books mentioned in this podcast

Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang

Blockchain Democracy by William Magnuson

 

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: "The Swedish Model," Social Democracy and the Imperialist World System with Torkil Lauesen
Pub date: 2021-09-25

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In this episode we inter view Torkil Lauesen. Lauesen is a long-time anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989 he was a full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means. In connection with support work, he has traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Philippines, and Mexico. In the 1990’s, during his political imprisonment, he was involved in prison activism and received a Masters degree in political science.

He is also the author of multiple books, including The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance and The Principal Contradiction. He is currently a member of International Forum, an anti-imperialist organization based in Denmark.

Today we talk to him about his latest book Riding The Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System. Which is a thorough investigation into the development of the so-called “Swedish Model” considered by many to be the pinnacle of social democracy. Many US based social democrats, have even gone so far as to describe it this model as a form of “socialism.” Torkil explains the relationship of this economic model to colonialism and imperialism, arguing that the accomplishments of the Social Democratic Party, and trade union movement, would not be possible if one took imperialism out of the equation.

We hope you enjoy this conversation, and definitely recommend Lauesen’s new book Riding The Wave, which is not only a great history of the conditions that produced the “Swedish Model,” but deals with many other global phenomena at some length, including how neoliberalism restructured the capitalist world system.

A reminder that we are still slowly working our way toward 1,000 patrons for the show, which is our current goal. You can become a patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. Our next episode will be a set of reflections between Josh and I on four years of doing Millennials Are Killing Capitalism as we’re a little more than a week away from our 4 year anniversary.

Leftwingbooks.net, is having a 20% sale the rest of September on books on its “Against War and Empire” category. Use the code: AGAINSTEMPIRE all one word, all caps at checkout to get that discount. 

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven
Pub date: 2021-09-21

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Writer Max Haiven on his book "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts" from Pluto Press.

http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340562/revenge-capitalism/

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Podcast: Rethinking Development Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 51. Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Pub date: 2021-09-20

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Referring to Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's article "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", Safa and Noaman discuss  the overuse and misuse of the term “decolonization” in the development sector and how Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral can be role models for development workers.

Links we mention:

Intro to Political Economy Podcast with Noaman Ali

Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rethinkingdevelopment)

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Podcast: GND Media (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: "We can't rely on climate catastrophe to start the revolution" interview with Kai Heron
Pub date: 2021-09-20

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This week on the show we are joined by Kai Heron (@KaiHeron). Kai is a lecturer in  Politics at Manchester University, writing on political economy with a focus on land struggles and climate change.  We discuss why Land use and public ownership of land is a key plank of a meaningful GND, How a GND could be jumping off point for our socialist utopias and if theological frameworks are necessary to build lasting social movements.

Links

GasLand : Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvz_m5uPV4s

Corbyn era Land policy document- Land for the Many
https://landforthemany.uk/

Brecht poem: A worker reads history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_8aoyWMMA

Anthropology of Marxism by Cedric Robinson
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339818/an-anthropology-of-marxism/

Out of the Woods collective: Hope against hope Disaster Communism
https://www.commonnotions.org/hope-against-hope


Shout outs
Land in our names 
https://www.instagram.com/landinournames/

Happy Birthday Producer Andrew!
@Glassyeti

Sean Benstead Labour GND legend.
@SigmaAuto420


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Podcast: Postcapitalism Podcast
Episode: David Matthews on capitalism, disability and how to reshape the welfare state
Pub date: 2021-08-31

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In this episode, we’ll be talking about how capitalism shapes our conception of disability, its impact on our mental health, and how we can rethink the welfare state. My guest is David Matthews, a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. We’ll discuss how capitalism co-opts progressive politics, the monotony of work, and why it’s okay to enjoy watching wrestling. 

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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 179: The Problems w/ Post Marxists and the Rick James Paradox w/ Lillian Cicherchia and Greg Tate
Pub date: 2021-09-08

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We'll be talking with Lillian Cicerchia about the limitations of post Marxism, and then we're going to be discussing the Black Music and the culture industry with Greg Tate

 

About Lillian Cicerchia:

Lillian is a post-doc at the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of specialization are political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and critical theory. Her research is about capitalism, structural injustice, and the intersection of the two, especially the ways in which capitalism influences experiences of social group oppression. Her work also asks how contexts of structural injustice frame the way that we think about our normative criteria for justice in terms of democratic rights and participation.

 

What's Left of Philosophy Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuwLXhuSvi3NRGbSmcRS3ig

 

About Greg Tate:

Tate was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. When he was 13 years old, his family moved to Washington, D.C.[1][2] He credits Amiri Baraka's Black Music and Rolling Stone, which he first read when he was 14, with stimulating his interest in collecting and writing about music.[3] As a teenager, Tate taught himself how to play guitar. He attended Howard University, where he studied journalism and film.

 

In 1982, Tate moved to New York City, where he developed friendships with other musicians, including James "Blood" Ulmer and Vernon Reid. In 1985 he co-founded the Black Rock Coalition with some of the African-American musicians he knew who shared a common interest in playing rock music.

 

Tate became a staff writer for The Village Voice in 1987, a position he held until 2005. His 1986 essay "Cult-Nats Meet Freaky Deke" for the Voice Literary Supplement is widely regarded as a milestone in black cultural criticism; in the essay, he juxtaposes the "somewhat stultified stereotype of the black intellectual as one who operates from a narrow-minded, essentialized notion of black culture" (cultural nationalists, or Cult-Nats) with the freaky "many vibrant colors and dynamics of African American life and art", trying to find a middle ground in order to break down "that bastion of white supremacist thinking, the Western art [and literary world" His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, Down Beat, Essence, JazzTimes, Rolling Stone, and VIBE. The Source described Tate as one of "the Godfathers of hip-hop journalism".

 

In 1999, Tate established Burnt Sugar, an improvisational ensemble that varies in size between 13 and 35 musicians. Tate described the band in 2004 as "a band I wanted to hear but could not find".

 

Tate has been a visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University and the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies. In 2010, he was awarded a United States Artists fellowship.

 

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