Michael Brooks is the host of The Michael Brooks Show, the co-host of the Majority Report, and an author for Zero Books. His book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Socialist Answer to the IDW & the New Right will be coming out around November of this year, but in this episode of the Zero Books podcast we discuss meditation, psychedelics, intuition, and Steven Crowders recent demonetization.
This week’s podcast is available in full for everyone. Our Patreon supporters get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Further, our Patreon only video series Disco Communism was released today.

I want to ask listeners a question. Would you like to hear the audio tracks of our youtube videos as podcasts? Our videos are mostly video essays about left theory and left politics. The visual content is a big component of our videos, but some have expressed interest in hearing the essays as podcasts and I thought I’d see what people who listen regularly think. Let me know by tweeting to @Zer0Books.

In this episode of Symptomatic Redness Derick Varn and Lexi Kay of Swampside chats grill the former president of the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Chris Cutrone took on a variety of relatively hostile questions for a few hours and this is second part of the conversation. It is available in full for Patrons only.

Full Disclosure: Derick Varn is a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Cian Prendiville is an activist in Limerick, a member of the Socialist Party and the Limerick Soviet Centenary Committee. He is currently producing a 5-part documentary podcast ‘Bottom Dog – The Story of the Limerick Soviet, and he is the guest on this week’s podcast.

Listen to Cian’s podcast here:
http://limericksoviet.ie/

This week’s podcast is available in full for everyone. Our Patreon supporters get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. The Patreon only video series Disco Communism will be coming in the next week and the audio from that first episode of that series will be made available on this feed as well.

In this episode of Symptomatic Redness Derick Varn and Lexi Kay of Swampside chats. Chris Cutrone took on a variety of relatively hostile questions for a few hours. This is part one and is available for everyone. Derick Varn is a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Can Cutrone hold his ground when facing hostile questions? Find out.

Knowledge Fight podcast host Dan Friesen rejoins Derick Varn to discuss the political and cultural significance of Alex Jones. Dan's podcast, "The Knowledge Fight" explores how Alex Jones "intentionally misleads his listeners for fun and profit." The podcast explores "the art of the con" and "breaks down scam artists from the worlds of politics, religion, and of course, outer space. "

Part Two of this podcast is available for patreon supporters only.

The Serfs are internet comedians who turn their biting wit against the true enemies of the working class: i.e. Joe Rogan, Pewdiepie, and Liam Neeson. Their names are Lance and Dave and they put out a podcast and youtube videos every week.
This week’s podcast is available in full for everyone. Our Patreon supporters get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. At the moment we have 594 patrons, but we did reach 600 patrons last month. Therefore, we’ll introduce the new series of patron only videos tentatively entitled Communism 101 by the end of May and I expect that we’ll be able to get over 600 again and continue on with the series in the months to come.

Knowledge Fight podcast host Dan Friesen joins Derick Varn to discuss the political and cultural significance of Alex Jones. The Knowledge Fight explores how Alex Jones "intentionally misleads his listeners for fun and profit." The podcast explores "the art of the con" and "breaks down scam artists from the worlds of politics, religion, and of course, outer space. "

This podcast is available for everyone.

Derick Varn continues his conversation with Zero Books author and media star Ben Burgis. They pivot to more arcane topics, beginning with Trotsky and Trot organizations. What are the ideological differences between the ISO and the Spartacus League?

They start by recollecting how small the Marxist tendency was in the 90s as opposed to its relative popularity today, but quickly move on to the difference between dialectical logic and Aristotelian logic.

This week’s podcast is available in full for our patreon supporters. Our Patreon supporters get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. At the moment we have 594 patrons but we reached 600 patrons last month and we’ll introduce a new series of patron only videos tentatively entitled Communism 101 this month.

Terry Tapp is the artist and author behind the Lungfish project. "The Lungfish Project" is a three-part graphic novel series and Kickstarter project bringing picto-philosophy to the masses. He is the Zero Books author of “A Serf’s Journal,” and a returning guest to this podcast.

Check out his project on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1132611188/the-lungfish-project

This week’s podcast is available in full for everyone. Our Patreon supporters get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. At the moment we have 594 patrons, but we did reach 600 patrons last month. Therefore, we’ll introduce the new series of patron only videos tentatively entitled Communism 101 by the end of May and I expect that we’ll be able to get over 600 again and continue on with the series in the months to come.

Amogh Sahu returns for a conversation about escaping from identity politics, Marxism's "liberal" roots, and whether pessimism is justified?

Is Marxism an optimistic approach to politics. Is Douglas Lain too focussed on Marx's theory of value. Is Marx's theory of credit money to be taken as separate from his idea of money as a commodity?

What is political determinism and what is economism? And so on and so on...

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