Varn Vlog

Kim Panagos is a doctoral candidate finishing his dissertation on the concept of the "Fog of War" and Graete is a streamer and political theorist interested in building a more pragmatic and successful left.  We talk about the uses and misuses of military strategy, understanding emergent system dynamics, the limitations of left-wing political trends and thinking, and building a more resil...

Sam Kangarloo is an MMT Subject Matter Expert, Future Systems Designer, and Program/Project Management Consultant based in Massachusetts.  We discuss MMT as spelled by Warren Mosler, various theories of inflation, and its affects on politics. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter...

Mir Bal is a social worker and leftist in Sweden.  He was a co-host of "For a Lost Cause," a Swedish Marxist podcast.    We discuss the history of the Swedish Social Democrats, the actual politics of the Sweden Democrats,  and many misconceptions North Americans may have about Nordic countries in general and Sweden in particular. Corrections: There is an error when we talk about economic...

Greg Belvedere is a writer and sometimes YouTuber who is very interested in the problems of ecology and net-energy expenditure. We discuss how much more technology, co-ops, and other ways for the working class to express their own power and autonomy. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason My...

Parker and I will discuss the situation in the DSA after the Bowman affair and the loss of nearly 1/5 of the membership since the DSA convention. We may debate the implications of the second international strategy for the DSA, and why people may or may not want to join in. Note: This is from early February 2022.  We don't discuss recent controversies in the DSA such as the BSD committee scand...

Dwayne Monroe is the author of Computational Impacts and a technologist living in Europe.  We talk about the materialist understanding of technology, and its impacts on world affairs. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Med...

John Michael Colon and Steve Mann are editors of Strange Matters magazine .  We discuss the limits of the popular versions of Modern Monetary Theory, the deep history of money, and the theories of FOREX, which adds to address some blindspots in contemporary MMT. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and O...

Daniel is the host of "What Is Politics"    and we discuss the categorizations of hunter-gathers, conditions of agricultural adjustment,  and the purpose of what we do. This is part 2 of a limited series. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: J...

Daniel is the host of "What Is Politics"    and we discuss the ideas of David Graeber, David Wrengrow, the Limitations of Occupy Wall-street, and using anthropology, game theory, and other disciplines to build more robust materialism to aid with political action. This is part 1 of a limited series. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul...

Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC.  He is also a leftist man-about-town. He is also a Ukrainian-American from a Russian speaking family who left after the fall of the Soviet Union.  We speak about the complications of internationalism, the complex history Ukraine, and appeals made to overly simple politics. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.    Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Au...

Roxy Hall is a writer and activist living in Australia. We discuss Ten Theses on the Gender Question and the complications of left views of Gender. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Video Design: Jason Myles Links and Social Media: twitter: @skepoet Facebook You can find the original stream on Youtube Send...

Dr. Kuba returns to talk about darker things.   While I have avoided talking directly about the conflict as I have personal friends on both sides from when I lived outside of the states, we will be doing a short series of episodes to put the Ukraine crisis in context. Things are happening fast, so know this was recorded on Wednesday, March 2 2022. . You may want to listen to the following episodes...

Dr. Harun Yilmaz is Central Asia Research Forum Series academic editor at Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. He is a regional expert on history, national identities, and political propaganda. His academic and popular publications cover Central Asia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus. He received his Master's and Ph. D. from Oxford University. Dr. Yilmaz was a research fellow at Harvard University...

The Death Star Middle Manager Returns!  We talk about the necessity of a realist view of states in left geopolitical analysis.  (There was some audio complications with episode) Kuba Wrzesneiwski is an independent foreign policy consultant and regular guest on This is Revolution . We speak on the realities of the US foreign policy elites and their primary concerns. We also talk about leftist misun...

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and the Regrettable Century podcast feed .   This is a long-running series we are doing on understanding social technologies, relationships of production, and how we get here:  i.e. what is the social and class history of the past.    In this episode,...

1Dime is the host of 1Dime and 1Dime Radio where he discusses and attempts to popularize leftist political and economic theories.   You can support 1Dime's work here .  We discuss the intersection and tensions between MMT, the changes in Canadian politics, and classed theories of the state. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon a...

Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of t he Measures Taken. We discuss Alexander Bogdanov, various incarnations of Proletkult, the political-economic assumptions of the Frankfurt school, the origins of workers' aesthetics,  the cultural turn, and the need for aesthetic theory after the Second international. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-o...

Max Seijo is currently working on his doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara.  He is a co-host of Money on the Left and Superstructure podcast .  While have debated each other in the past and on Twitter, despite the fact I don't "do" debates. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Crew: Host...

R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi-autodidactic scholar of existentialism and psychoanalysis, we spoke about the legacy of Wilfred Bion and the uses of his work for political thinking.  Sartre also comes up. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Pr...

Anton Jäger is a scholar of populism and intellectual history living in Brussels, Belgium. He is also a freelance writer on the left and European politics for outlets like Jacobin.  We discuss the Americanization of European politics, and yet how this made it harder, not easier, for both sides of the Atlantic to understand each other. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, m...

Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast and co-author of the "End of the End of History."   We discuss the left's covid response, the situation of world politics from Sao Paolo, the issues around the Lula election, the effects of Federal Reserve policy on South America, and much more. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Aband...

Timothy Schatz, a graduate student at Boston College and former intern at Zero Books, comes on to talk about the complicated legacy of Martin Heidegger and the academic left. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Intro an...

Friend of the show and prior stream guest, J.G. Michaels, comes on to talk about the current state of politics. J.G. is the host of Parallax Views .  J.G. is a long time collaborator with your host and a student of media in geo-politics.  J.G. comes on to analyze the disconnect of the social media discourse, the press, and the realities of geo-politics. Please support our patreon.   For early and...

Bradly Tuck is the editor and founder of Exploding Appendix , we talk about art, culture, politics, and the tensions between the various subjects.  The difficulty of political art and of avant-garde art also is a major subject of discussion. Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Crew: Host: C. Derick Va...

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 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and elsewhere. He is the host of...