Frankie Gaffney is the guest this week, and he’s the author of the novel Dublin Seven and a writer for the Irish Times, the Dublin Inquirer, Broadsheet and many other publications. In May this year, he wrote a piece for the Irish Times entitled Identity Politics is Utterly Ineffective at Anything Other than Dividing People which drew ire online and even inspired a hashtag and an open letter of condemnation.
Aaron Leonard is the author of the Zero Books title "Heavy Radicals" and the historian who recently released newly acquired documents on the subject of the FBI's involvement in the assassination of the Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in 1969. In this interview, Aaron will discuss the new security state, the significance of COINTELPRO for socialists today, and the truth about both domestic and foreign intelligence agencies' involvement in radical grassroots organizing.
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Heavy Radicals by Aaron Leonard
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Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical atheism, advocating a disrespectful, opportunist squandering of obedience. By replacing hope and faith with adventure, The Last Night of our lives might finally become the first morning of an autonomous future.
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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Ben Burgis, author of the Give them an Argument: Logic for the Left, compares the sorts of solutions socialists and libertarians have on offer for the problem of police brutality. And responds to an editorial in the Washington Post entitled, "White people can compartmentalize police brutality. Black people don’t have the luxury."
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Book
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/give-them-an-argument-ben-burgis/1131185232
Essays
White people can compartmentalize police brutality. Black people don’t have the luxury.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/heres-why-we-dont-see-protests-when-police-unjustly-kill-white-people/
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
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This Zero Books video considers Rick and Morty as a post-realist sitcom or as a cartoon version of critical theory exploring the concept of instrumental reason. Books mentioned in this video include In the Dust of this Planet and Capitalist Realism.
Capitalist Realism
http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism
In the Dust of This Planet
http://www.zero-books.net/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4KSOpcQMu0
Ben Burgis explains the fallacy known as "begging the question" by referencing the recent debate between Gene Epstein and Richard Wolff. Begging the question doesn't mean "raising the question" but rather it means "assuming your conclusion" and it turns out that libertarians beg the question frequently.
Epstein vs. Wolff Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQSuUZdcV4
Relevant Book
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
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To commemorate the 87th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we are joined by historian Evan Smith to discuss his history of No Platform, a tactic central to the history of British antifascism, the history of the Marxist Left in the UK, and the ongoing debates round media and the limits of free speech today. We discuss the origins of No Platforming as one of a plurality of antifascist tactics, we dispel the mythologies around critiques of the tactic taken up by elements of the British Media, and we confront the history of contrarian free speech absolutism on the Left: the story of the Revolutionary Communist Party and its reactionary reinvention as the Spiked/LM Network.
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The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
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Buddies Without Organs
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Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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This is a video summary of a chapter from Alfie Bown's book Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism. Out from Zero Books in December of 2015.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/enjoying-it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bGXdTwC2g
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When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult.
"I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead."
WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the city’s famous cathedral spire.
Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that “posh people are taking our children”.
Blending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John The Conqueror identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the political monsters of the present.
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECSfBCu9SI
Post-modern conservatism emerged as a reaction to hyper-real capitalist conditions in the 21st century. Post-modern conservatives have tried to react against cultural transformations by appealing to the resentment of groups who have been disaffected by capitalism, and who primarily came together online..
Book featured:
What is Post-Modern Conservatism by Matthew McManus
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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