From Alpha To Omega

 This week we tackle Chapter 6 - ‘ The Social Production Process in General’ and Chapter 7: ‘The Communist Production’. 

This is part three of our detailed discussion with Michael Alberts about Parecon and its planning system.

This week, we continue our discussion with Michael Albert, where we take a deep dive in the Parecon planning model.

This week, we talk with Michael Albert about Parecon and his new book No Bosses. This is the first of three episodes with Michael, where we ease into the topic and then we jump off and have great fun as we get into an extremely detailed debate on the planning aspects of Parecon.

This week we jump headlong into Chapter 2 : ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’. The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharing Panelists: Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia Kyle - General Intellect Unit  Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

This is part two of our discussion with Prof Andrew Kliman, where we debate my current love affair with ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by Jan Appel and the Group of International Communists.

This week we welcome back Prof. Andrew Kliman to the show. We get deep into some more value theory, specifically discussing the difference between concrete and abstract labour, simple and complex labour, and do slaves create value.... The really excellent Patrick Murray value form debate episodes mentioned in the episode: https://soundcloud.com/mhi-120639128/rfh-murray-interview-ep-1 https://sound...

This week the GIC take aim at the left communists and anarchists for their political economy errors

We finish reading chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’. The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing Panelists: Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia Kyle - General Intellect Unit Tiberius - Jumpsuit...

We read and discuss Chapter 4 - ‘Progress in the formulation of the problem”.

This week we read Chapter 3 - ‘The Unit of Account in Communism’

We continue our discussion of chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’.  The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing Panelists: Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia Kyle - General Intellect Unit Tiberi...

Patron Chris and I discuss the excellent article ‘Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism’ - by David Adam. https://libcom.org/library/marx%E2%80%99s-critique-socialist-labor-money-schemes-myth-council-communism%E2%80%99s-proudhonism

We tackle section (e) of  Chapter 2 - ‘Wage Labour and State Communism’

We continue on our way through chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’ - and begin to tackle the work of Max Weber. Panelists: Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia Kyle - General Intellect Unit Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation...

Part 2 of our discussion with Zoe Baker AKA Anarchopac on all things anarchist and marxist.

This is part 2 of our discussion with Ben Lewis on the history of the SPD and it’s fragments. Ben's translation patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marxismtranslated Ben's twitter handle: https://twitter.com/Bibliotaff

This week we talk with Ben Lewis, Germanist, Historian, and the man behind Marxism Translated. We discuss the insanely complex history of the SPD, how WW1 detonated the contradictions in the party, and the history of the shattered remnants as they got hit again with the impact of the Russian Revolution. Ben's translation patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marxismtranslated Ben's twitter handle: http...

This week we take on the first half of Chapter 2, this time without the recording gremlins that plagued the first episode

Today we leave the introduction in the dust and move on to beginning Chapter 1. Panelists: Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia Kyle - General Intellect Unit The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing

Part 2 of our discussion with Zoe Baker AKA Anarchopac on all things anarchist and marxist.

This week I’m delighted to welcome the anarchist youtuber extraordinaire, Zoe Baker AKA Anarchopac to the show. In this two-parter, we discuss the many similarities and differences between Marxism and anarchism and discuss the chances for a possible synthesis. You can find Zoe's excellent youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/anarchopac And her twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/a...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of our ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by the Group of International Communists reading group series! This is the first of probably a 20 part series. Get yourself a copy of the book!

Our new love has arrived. The Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing

Precious returns for the second part of our discussion with Precious about the racial politics of the 2009 Sci-fi Blockbuster Avatar