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Chris Wright is a historian and socialist,  the author of “Worker Cooperatives and Revolution” and "Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression." We discuss the myth of American moderation and also how identitarian movements are often framed in an exclusivist way to actually promote that myth while also seeming radical.


Links mentioned:
Race Reductionism Threatens to Doom the Left
Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of Revolution


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Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory.  He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum.   We discuss workers' inquiry, economic analysis and its difficulties, theories of interpretation, and the purpose of Casper Forum.


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

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Today we are talking to Cyber Dandy,  who blogs at Cyber Dandy and vlogs on Cyber Dandy Youtube on existentialism, leftism, anarchism, and the post-Biden left milieu.  We talk about anti-communism and anti-radicalism in the US from in 1940s-1970s.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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Gabriel Winant is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His writing about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America has appeared in The Nation, the New Republic, Dissent, and n+1.  We discuss the legacy of Barbara Ehrenreich, the development of her concept of the PMC, uses and abuses of the concept, critiques of its relevance, and the specific ways class relationships changed.

We reference the following articles:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292192
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-barbara-ehrenreich/
https://www.promarket.org/2021/12/05/amnerican-manufacturing-decline-healthcare-working-class-deindustrialization/

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
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Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

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Spencer returns to the show to begin the first of our series on the history and issues of the left in India.   He brings two fellow scholars from South Asia, Dwaipayan Sen, and Atiya Singh. 


Crew:
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Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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This is Strange Matters and Varn Vlog collaboration.

Zhala Taghi-Zada is a Clinical Research Coordinator based in Toronto.  We discuss her recent article on "The Complex Stigma of Schizophrenia" and the implications of mental health in the Canadian (and US) legal system.   

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Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
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Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @varnvlog
blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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Mike Gouldhawke is a Métis & Cree writer, whose family is from kistahpinanihk (City of Prince Albert) and nêwo-nâkîwin (Mont Nebo) in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan.  He is also an amateur Marxologist and has written for publications like Briarpatch, New Inquiry, and Redwire on both indigenous and Marxist issues and their overlap.   Today we talk primarily about his article in Brairpatch, "Land as a Social Relationship."  but also the weaving of Marxism in the indigenous rights and first nations movements in Canada.   We also talk about some of the perils and virtues of Marxology and why it may be important.   You can find his writings on his blog and links to his other work here.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
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Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
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blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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Chris is a friend of the show and co-host of Regrettable Century and No Royal Road (with me and his brother Jason).  Chris is also a doctoral student studying Weimar Germany and we discuss the German conservative revolutions.  This will likely be a series. 

There are some points where the connection gets spotty.  We apologize for that.


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @varnvlog
blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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Andrei Migunov ( @FelixCowsdorff ) teaches computer science at Drake University. We discuss the various meanings of complexity and system theory, the left reaction to science, logic, math, computational limitations, scientific theory, and much more.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
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Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan

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Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to Bitterlake

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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Video Design: Jason Myles
Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @varnvlog
blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon

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M.C. Toussaint is a producer for This Is Revolution and has worked with Jacobin and Majority Report.  We talk about her journey into socialism through environmentalism and ecology. 

Crew:
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Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
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Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
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Art Design: Corn and C. Derick Varn

Links and Social Media:
twitter: @varnvlog
blue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.social
You can find the additional streams on Youtube

Current Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon