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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. 


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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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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.

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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.


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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.

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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. 

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Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast  and co-author of the "End of the End of History."  We discuss the situation in Brazil, anglophone left narratives about it, and why we should be happy Lula won but temper our expectations.



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Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-host of Death Panel podcast and the co-author of Health Communism. We talk about the limits of current left thinking around health and disability, the problems of illness and socialism, and how Marxian analysis in health care leads to some surprising conclusions.   

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Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and an Adjunct Professor of philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and elsewhere. He is the host of Jouissance Vampires.

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This episode is part of a partnership between Varn Vlog and Strange Matters Magazine.

Tim DiMuzio  is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Critical Politcial Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. .  Previous to this role he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.  He has taught at a number of Universities including Oxford, York University, Trent University, and the University of Western Ontario.

His recent article on Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation? at Strange Matters is referenced in this episode. 



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