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Very interesting discussion about austrian economics.

Before you throw tomatoes, it goes over that initial thrust of austrian argument "not making new stuff" is stronger than "you can't calculate this shit" (which also applies to neoclassical economics). You can in fact calculate this shit, especially now, but if your plan is static, it doesn't adapt to the new industries demand, it cant even perceive it if you dont build feedback mechanisms

Have you considered that if you remove the t, citation becomes cia-ion

Mit einen Gast aus der Gruppen Gegen Kapital und Nation

Ich fand die Folge richtig empfehlenswert und hat mMn mehr Einsichten angeboten als 90% der üblichen Kritik gegen diese Partei.

You know how capitalist rags talk about Communism as an infectious ideology that can subvert the mushy minds of marginalized people, rather than being a natural response by thinking people to the material conditions they're subjected to? This episode is about that

In this installment, Dan and Jordan enjoy an episode where Alex seems to be begging to be allowed to quit, before moving on to interview a weird self-help fellow and a young fool preaching MAGA communism.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-keep-hurting-their-own-pr

evangelicals build robot god, have orgies in front of it to grow its brain, news at 10

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I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best rule Japan, and was the preferred translator and lifelong friend of aesthetic GLADIO agent Mishima Yukio—all at the same damn time. On this outing we begin to deal with his parents: I promise you’ll never guess what they did for a living.

Part 1 preview here https://podbay.fm/p/the-kingless-generation/e/1676165665

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In this ongoing series, we savor the weebery of the greatest weebs of history, pondering the roles they play in various regimes of class struggle including whiteness, patriarchy, capital, and data counterinsurgency. This time, the President of the United States joins me from the Minyan to explore the life of Ivan Morris, a Swedish-Jewish man who grew up in rural France and New York City, attended the most elite of British boarding schools, joined American naval intelligence, and proceeded to act the proper British gentleman from his perch atop the crown jewel of American Japanology, the department at Columbia. He is most famous for his work on Heian court literature, as well as his promotion of anti-Communist liberals like Maruyama Masao, but in fact he was also the preferred translator and close companion of Japan Romantic aesthete and fascist paramilitary leader Mishima Yukio. In what became his final book, and a classic among the Japan Panic–era Anglo-American business class, Morris gave an interpretation of Mishima’s spectacular death by outlining a series of tragic heroes in Japanese history, from which he derives a Japanese national character that is chivalric and militant enough to achieve honorary whiteness but ultimately docile, clumsy, and non-threatening. Meanwhile, at the core of Morris’ most important chapter here lies an interpretation of medieval Japanese political economy that seems utterly alien to the subject at hand but which bears striking resemblances to the PR logic of GLADIO and the strategy of tension. Sadly no further explanation was forthcoming from Morris himself, as he was mysteriously found dead in a cheap hotel in Bologna shortly thereafter and only a few years before the Bologna train station bombing...

Our beloved Large Adult Son went on the Age of Napoleon podcast and gave his thoughts about Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, which I saw somewhere that Matt said it was his favorite book.

It’s a pretty great rundown of the book; I especially enjoyed the insight he had into Marx’s “sack of potatoes” comment.

Happy Eighteenth Brumaire, comrades!

I've been really digging The East is a Podcast for this. Definitely been the best pod to help me feel sane lately, their Tankie Group Therapy eps with the Electric Intifada peeps haven't necessarily been informative but just hearing a bunch of reasonable people talk about this stuff while everyone else in the imperial core is completely deranged has been helpful, and the ep from a few days ago with the International Coordinator of Samidoun was really interesting

The Citations Needed live shows have also been really great, having Adam's crystal clear focus on beating down lib talking points like a decorated Twitter veteran is cleansing to the soul.

RWN has been doing some Hamas deep dives but I haven't checked in since their first few breaking news eps.

I thought the Chapo ep with Mohammad Alsaafin was good, but I don't really listen to the show so I don't know if they've done much since then.

text they're talking about: Between the Sea and the Security Fence

In each case, the abstract works to optimize and rationalize all of the violence that relentlessly circulates, to classify life so as to better calculate and complete its destruction, to give form to a war and peace that only promise to annihilate you at different speeds.

(Best eps of TEIAP are the ones without the host lol)

Maz Ajl is a cool guy, but barely spoke 100 words in this interview. He just set up Kates to open up a firehouse. The talk was super interesting, specifically focusing on the history and effect of terror lists and NGOs constricting the scope of liberatory support for Palestine.

I've heard of NGOization and thought I understood it but her walking through the process so clearly was really illuminating.

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