Varn Vlog

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This week to Ted Reese about the importance of Henryk Grossman. Reese is the author of Socialism or Extinction and forthcoming The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books).  Reese elaborates on profitability and its limits to the kinds of innovation that is developed in response to c...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Colin Drumm (@drumm_colin) is PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, whose interests include the history of money and its power relationships in the middle ages as well as understanding German idealism.  Drumm wants to understand that we should not trust Kant.  Abandon all hope ye who...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Arnold Schroder is the host of Fight Like an Animal. We briefly discuss the essay " The Human Species and the Earth's Crust " by Amadeo Bordiga, but quickly move on to discuss infrastructure, human temperament, social psychology, and adjusting your political theory to your audience beyond s...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. John Michael Colon is a writer and libertarian socialist in New York.  He and I speak about the shifting of the media landscape.  This is the first of a two-part series.   You can find John Michael Colon's work at the Point , Jacobin, etc. He is at @red_dilettante Abandon all hope ye who subscribe he...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. I talk to James and Craig of the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast about the legacy of Gene Wolfe and what it is like to engage with his works. Check out their work.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel S...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. J. Andrew World is a comic and sketch artist who does work for podcasts such as Give Them An Argument and publishers like Zero Books, and is also the co-host of two podcasts, Bad Takes and Movie Night Extravaganza . This is a free-ranging conversation on pop art, 'zines, politics, and economics of ar...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is the first of a Patreon series of streams: we are making it free as a bonus. Nicolas Villareal and C. Derick Varn debate Althusser all the time on Twitter and messages.   While Varn has had Nico on before to talk about Econophysics and Structural Marxism,  Varn and Nico often talk about this antago...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Mike and Bori from Red Star Over Asia podcast talk about the left in South Korea and Asia, and the historical and political context and difficulties of left organizing in the Republic of Korea.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Deric...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nia Cola is a heterodox economist and proponent of MMT. She has debated with me before on Give Them An Argument on the International use of MMT.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @auf...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Natalie Smith is a co-host of the Superstructure podcast .  We discuss the appeal of MMT humanities and the political situation in Chile.  We also discuss some of the tensions between Marxists and MMTers and the limits of methodological nationalism.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affili...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Cordelia is many things but one of them is a writer and another is the co-host of Reel Abstractions .  We talk about value theory, scientific realism and anti-realism, the scholars of Michael Heinrich, and more.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Cr...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Camilo Gomez is freelance writer and podcast host based in Lima, Peru.  His podcast is History and Politics.   We discuss the ongoing election in Peru, US coverage of the election, and Peruvian cultural and political history that complicates the American left's understanding of the situation.  Abando...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Bessner discusses liberal imperialism, imperialist realism, and the international order with us.  Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with th...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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.  Abandon all ho...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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&ap...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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 hai...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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.  Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn A...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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. Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Host: C. De...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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.   Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   We are affiliated with the Emancipation Network. Crew: Ho...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Freddie deBoer is the author of T he 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...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. 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 camp...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. P.H. Higgins is an editor at Former People , a co-host of the podcast of the same name, and a co-host of Radical Thoughts podcast.   We discuss the legacy of Operaismo and Autonomia in the context of Italian socialism and communism.  We focus on the legacy of Mario Tronti and Antonio Negri in particular. ...

Please support our patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Andres Bernal (@andresintheory) is Associate Editor of Money on the Left , Policy Advisor to Dianne Morales, and former policy advisor for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,  professor of critical-heterodox policy studies at  The New School.  We discuss the development of Left MMT, getting MMT policy beyond nation...