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CRASS co-founder Penny Rimbaud on anarchy in the UK music scene, the politics of punk music, and why the love is the fundamental condition of anarchism.

Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith on capitalism's domination over our time, the rise of malemployment, and their book "Work, Want, Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism" from Zed Books.

https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/work-want-work/

PLUS: Chuck on locking ourselves away, and this week in Rotten History...

Writers Shiri Pasternak and Hayden King on dispossession of indigenous land and power, and their paper "Land Back" for the Yellowhead Institute. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells the tale of a whale.

https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/

Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic on Joe Biden's five decade career of rightwing politics within the Democratic party, what a Biden / Trump election means for America, and his new book "Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden" from Verso and Jacobin.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/store/product/67

Writer Nicole Aschoff on the ways smartphones have transformed our relationship with capital and ourselves, and her new book “The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age” from Beacon Press.

http://www.beacon.org/The-Smartphone-Society-P1551.aspx

PLUS: Chuck isn’t going anywhere soon, and the Question From Hell!

Scientist Abby Kinchy on the politics of science in institutions and society, and her book “Scientist by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge" co-written with Aya H Kimura for Rutgers University Press.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/science-by-the-people/9780813595078

PLUS: Chuck on who chose Biden, and this week in Rotten History.

Writer Austin Bryniarski on waste and inequality in the American food system, and his article "The war on food waste is a waste of time" for The Outline, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wins one for the Rosas.

Media studies scholar Elana Levine on gender and politics through mass media, and her book "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" from Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/her-stories

Economist Rob Larson on tech’s platform capitalism, network effect monopolization and his book “Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley” from Haymarket Books.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1381-bit-tyrants

PLUS: Chuck talks about what won't get talked about in primary coverage, and this week's Question From Hell!

Writer Asad Haider on seeing radical possibilities beyond the depoliticized frame, building a revolutionary movement beyond the limits of the Sanders campaign, and his essay “On Depoliticization” for Viewpoint.

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/

PLUS: Chuck gambles on Biden 2020, and this week in Rotten History…