Diving into the Wreckage 6.3 w/ C Derick Varn
Added 2022-10-12 10:00:00 +0000 UTCPart three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the post-fascist turn be able to overcome the crisis? Could the dying center left do any better? All this and many sidebars/parentheses within!
Song: Lou Reed - The Debt I Owe (Woody Guthrie cover)
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It's prior industrialization was based on empire to gets its raw materials, an empire it no longer controls.
Derick Varn
2023-02-16 02:54:14 +0000 UTCBlessed Is The Flame
Ashley Finch
2023-01-31 07:51:22 +0000 UTCBtiF?
Jory
2023-01-31 06:29:43 +0000 UTCThank’s for responding and thanks for the info. I will definitely check out the archives.
Jonny Mac
2022-10-17 20:40:16 +0000 UTCgabe winant is his name. check our archive, we had a great ep with him last year
The Antifada
2022-10-17 19:00:29 +0000 UTCYa they got owned so bad
dillards dept.
2022-10-16 20:19:02 +0000 UTCCan anyone please tell me the name of the person who wrote a book about Pittsburgh’s transition from a steel manufacturing economy to a for-profit healthcare centered economy present day? It’s Gabe (something). Thank you.
Jonny Mac
2022-10-15 22:47:27 +0000 UTCbless your heart <3
The Antifada
2022-10-15 21:00:02 +0000 UTCAnd a crippled Nazi empathizer https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/06/aque-s06.htm
5k Race Warrior
2022-10-15 01:59:12 +0000 UTCI'd say that isn't a fair summary of Christman's view, but it's kind of funny. I'd consider becoming a Big Boy Fedayeen if he could stop talking over normies so much and maybe get some of that inspring MLK flutter in his voice on his Twitch streams.
5k Race Warrior
2022-10-15 01:35:53 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite series too. Really appreciate your frank honesty about the difficult position we find ourselves in. Can't wait until the next episode. The historical perspective you referenced at the end is the best way to stay sane in a bleak world.
Anthony Reiner
2022-10-14 19:49:00 +0000 UTCJust to offer a bit of context since I lived in Quebec for seven years, though he speaks French fairly well, Pierre Poilievre isn’t actually a native francophone and isn’t from Quebec (in fact I remember during the Harper years when he would get mad at people for pronouncing his last name the French way) but he’s been calling himself a Franco-Albertan since he started aspiring for the federal Conservative leadership. I don’t think he’ll appeal much in Quebec because his politics are so very Alberta. It’s interesting because since four years ago the right (in the form of a fairly new party called the CAQ) holds hegemonic power on the provincial level in Quebec, but that hasn’t helped the federal Conservatives there much. Quebec has an abundance of hydroelectricity, whereas the federal Conservatives are mostly based in oil producing regions, so the Quebec right and the Alberta right often feud with each other over pipelines and oil infrastructure. Because of the importance of Hydro-Quebec to Quebec’s national identity a lot of francophone Québécois are actually anti-oil on nationalistic grounds. Federal Conservatives have thus far been unable to come up with a narrative that resolves this contradiction (and they have tried). Poilievre very much represents the federal Conservative base in Western Canada, so he may not end up appealing much in Quebec except in the few specific regions where the Tories already have seats (in fact one Conservative MP from Quebec actually left the party when Poilievre became leader). Poilievre is also associated with the convoy movement, which didn’t get off the ground in Quebec unlike elsewhere in Canada. The real question that’ll decide the next election is whether Poilievre can appeal in seat-rich suburban Ontario which the Liberals have dominated under Trudeau. Currently polls put the Tories ahead in Ontario with numbers that would give them a minority government, but that could just be a normal post-leadership election polling bump and could change before the next election, especially if Trudeau hands off the Liberal leadership to someone compelling to suburban swing voters. So in other words, a toss up until we’re closer to the date of the election (which isn’t scheduled until 2025 anyway, though it could be sooner).
John Hadzipetros
2022-10-13 23:26:13 +0000 UTCFor the life of me I couldn’t hear the first reason Britain can’t re-industrialize.
Thomas Leposa
2022-10-13 22:45:46 +0000 UTCI'm interested to see where this goes because the last few episodes have been asymptotically approaching the same views of anarcho-nihilist texts like Desert or BitF: the world is not on a curve towards anything we'd think of as 'socialism', any plan for a grand humane transition out of capitalism is laughable based on the timeline of climate change and by the time any political tendency becomes a 'mass movement' the problems will be far beyond its ability to fix them. I can't wait to see how you approach a hopeless situation because most of the other socialists who come to this conclusion just kinda hit a brick wall. It's fitting that a guy with the name Matthew Christman becomes an accidental Christian eschatologist whenever he reaches this point - "We all need to submit ourselves to a cause greater than ourselves, engage in struggle against Babylon, and through this there might be some great Unveiling that brings the kingdom of heaven to earth" - and I'd like to see a coherent view of how you deal with this world to contrast with the anarcho-nihilist "approach of pure negation" philosophy.
Ashley Finch
2022-10-13 13:29:41 +0000 UTCThis makes me happy every time a new one comes out. And it’s funny to me they talk about having different audiences, as I subscribe to only these two patreons
Adam
2022-10-13 10:17:29 +0000 UTCJon Stewart is also a union buster 🤬
Andrew Miller
2022-10-12 17:09:06 +0000 UTCKwasi Kwarteng is the Minster of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The IMF told him to stop doing the tax cut, lol. A true believer and a scary guy.
Sam Zeng
2022-10-12 15:05:02 +0000 UTCIn Canada they are lifting restrictions on how many hours international students can work which was 20hr, its a pretty large pool of 500k people. On top of holding up our post secondary education system by paying exorbitant tuition fees they now can also off set our labour shortage, aren't we nice people. Immigration was always about off setting demographic decline and improving labor conditions for capital. The conservatives are wrong because they do not have a alternative, Canada desperately need a high flow of immigrants, there is no alternative.
Sam Zeng
2022-10-12 15:01:29 +0000 UTCMy favorite series
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