On political capitalism and social justice.
We continue our interview with Dylan Riley, discussing the limitations of ‘social justice’. Both woke and social-democratic demands today hinge...
2023-01-10 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In honour of the publication of the Italian edition of The End of the End of History, Alex Hochuli will be in conversation with the book's translator, Mattia Salvia (2023-01-04 19:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post
On 'degrowth communism'.
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Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly ...
2023-01-03 12:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
On atomisation and association.
Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing atomisation – have only worsened. E...
2022-12-20 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On the global left after the Cold War.
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Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and New Lefts of the 20th century, or shou...
2022-12-13 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On your questions & criticisms.
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We debate what kind of work 'shared-labour socialism' would involve in a complex society, and what role 'dispossession' or 'expro...
2022-12-06 14:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for the 2022 Bungacast listener survey. We want to know what you thought about the world in 2022 - and about...
2022-12-06 12:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post
On "techno-feudalism".
In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality ...
2022-11-29 13:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe next Reading Club in the Techno-Feudalism section will be recorded this Wednesday, 30 November. We will be discussing 2022-11-28 10:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
On imperial rivalry in the Sahel.
[Patreon Exclusive]
The interview with Yvan Guichaou continues, discussing naturalisation of forever war in the West, and the long-term legacy of Frenc...
2022-11-22 07:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On Mali and the Sahel.
French president Emmanuel Macron declared the end of Opération Barkhane on 9 November 2022, bringing to an end to nearly 10 years of French military intervention in Ma...
2022-11-22 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
Previously released in 2021 only to subscribers, we're now re-releasing the series as a single-episode megamix. (P...
On your questions & criticisms.
[Patreon Exclusive]
The weakness of anti-EU forces; the implications of defending Ukrainian sovereignty; what should we call the new far-right and wh...
2022-11-08 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
On nuclear exterminism.
To commemorate our 300th episode, we discuss how the world is closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the Cold War. After decades of inconsequential 'perm...
2022-11-02 19:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
On reclaiming populism.
With only a couple of days to go until the decisive runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro, we continue our Bungazão 2022 series by talking to political scientist
2022-10-28 16:07:43 +0000 UTC
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On shared-labour socialism.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We continue our discussion, looking at what is behind "bullshit jobs" in the global North and the absence of jobs in the global South; de...
2022-10-25 17:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
On shared-labour socialism.
Political theorist Alex Gourevitch talks to us about his critique of post-work thought, and how it presupposes the very labour it seeks to free us from. We start o...
2022-10-25 17:26:42 +0000 UTC View Post
On corruption & anti-corruption.
When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to...
2022-10-20 21:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostOn Friday 28 October, we'll be recording the first episode of the third and final section of this year's Reading Club.
We'll be discussing Joel Kotkin's 2022-10-19 16:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post
On Trussonomics.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Having stumbled upon a successful recipe under Boris Johnson which would see greater state intervention, Britain's Tories then pivoted to a much mor...
2022-10-18 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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On who is responsible for prolonging the Ukraine War + your questions & criticisms
We start off by discussing whether the Zelensky tail is wagging the NATO dog, ...
2022-10-11 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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On the meaning of Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gorbachev continues to be lauded in Western circles for overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union without much bloodshed. But ...
2022-10-04 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
On Brazil's containment of the crisis.
We talk to members of the Unbridled Possibility Collective (2022-09-29 16:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
On the Brothers of Italy
We talk to Mattia Salvia, former Rolling Stone Italia politics editor and author of 2022-09-28 23:28:07 +0000 UTC
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On La Macronie, or Macronistan
Is France in perma-crisis? We talk to Nathan Sperber, independent researcher on political economy based in Paris and the author of a recent piece on Ma...
2022-09-27 16:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
[Patreon Exclusive]
On your questions and criticisms.
We discuss the Chinese Dream, speculation and horizontal politics, foreign fighters and spies, Dune, and killing Phil.<...
[Patreon Exclusive]
On the death of Queen Elizabeth, a 20th century figure
To our own surprise, we are doing an episode on the Queen of England. How will her death impact the UK when sh...
2022-09-13 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On the history of inequality.
In the second part of this episode, we continue our chat with Branko Milanovic. We discuss how inflation is likely to impact inequality, ask Branko what he mean...
On Communism's historic role.
We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedica...
2022-09-06 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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On the probability of a coup in Brazil.
Our guest, lawyer and podcaster Alcysio Canette, and Alex, look at Bolsonaro's claims that he will refuse to leave office. Wh...
2022-09-05 18:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post