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Ben Burgis is a regular contributor to Jacobin and other publications, a former philosophy professor, and the author of Give Them An Argument and Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns (both from Zero Books).  He is also the host of Give Them An Argument and a colleague and friend of mine.  We discuss how canceling is by no means a left-wing only development in capitalism and other developments on the left in the US. 

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Zara and Sher are from the Facing Autonomy podcast.  Zara and Sher discuss the limits of our imagining of the collective worker and how autonomism and accepting decentralization in the immediate future may be key for a revitalized left. 

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Jason Myles is a musician in Bitter Lake and podcaster out of Oakland.   Pascal Robert is a  Haitian American Lawyer regular contributor to  Black Agenda Report.   Together they host This is Revolution. We discuss the history of black leadership in the US from Harold Cruse to Barack Obama. 

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Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC.  He is also a leftist man-about-town.  We discuss and review Catherine Lieu's Virtue Hoarders and the discussions around the PMC.   I do make a mistake about where Lieu teaches, so please take that into advisement.  We also mention Mike MacNair's critique of Lieu. This episode was recorded in May so it may already be dated. 

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This is podcast regulars and former Former People squad, Shalon Van Tine, P. H. Higgins, and C. Derick Varn talking about films of memory.   Former People may no longer be with us, but we still produce shows on art for Patrons and sometimes here for the many podcast.  This is a bonus to make up for my haitus. 

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Nicole and Hugh of the Run with Us podcast talk about starting a commune, the nature of anarchism in the US and Canada, the differences between US and Canadian leftism, and dinner food. 

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John and Madison host the Fresh Kill's podcast: a socialist podcast with New York/New Jersey charasticistics.  We discuss the failures of the post-Bernie left, but not particularly seriously.

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Alex Grant is the editor of Editor at Fightback, http://marxist.ca, and a member of the IMT.  We talk about the history of the IMT, the future of Trotskyism in US, UK,  and Canada, and Leftism in Canada.  

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Freddie deBoer is the author of The Cult of Smart and maintains a substack.     We discuss the limits of education research, the relatively limited movement in education,and the overuse of schooling where larger social issues should be addressed.   Note, I give a stat on Ivy League income ratios that I could not verify and was quoting from memory.   If you can confirm or disprove this stat, please inform me. I tried to find the study I thought I remembered and could not.

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Chris and Jason are two of the four hosts of the Regrettable Century Podcast.  This is the first hour on the topic. There are bonus episodes of two hours on Patreon expanding on the topic.  We discuss "revolutionary pessimism," the toxicity of Twitter, and getting beyond the Bernie Sanders campaign.

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Crew:
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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