during the lockdown i was blown away by these 2 dialogues/ lectures online .
firstly the indian mp shashi tharoor discussing the british colonisation of indian and its many impacts and implications .
the second is the economist mallance bart-williams who is of sierra leonean and german descent giving some facts about the european (and general world) abuse of the resources of the african continent .
we are in very interesting times , hope there is some grace in the ethers to help our species step up and evolve .

its the ONLY fair COP (reparations ARE owed)

episod psihotic

Episod Psihotic ft. Elvisey

Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO to talk about his new book - co-authored with Alex Williams -  Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). 

In part one of our three part conversation we talked about Antonio Gramsci's notion of Hegemony and how, in the view of Jeremy and Alex, we live in an era in which an alliance between big tech and finance structures the global economy and whose values suffuse the cultural field. We talked about why tech and finance play the leading role in the global economy, in a way that does not characterise the energy sector or other extractive industries. We also discussed why - in contrast to tech and finance - neither the New Left of the 1960s, nor the New Right associated with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations got the world they wanted by the century's end, even if they achieved certain partial victories. We also talk about why Jeremy and Alex argue that the left should appeal to people on the basis of shared collective interests, rather than on the basis of moral values.

Politics Theory Other

Hegemony Now (part one) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert

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من النهر إلى البحر

are you watching
there is nowhere left to go 
would i matter if i looked like someone you know 
all your money and good deeds 
will not return my blood to me
from the river to the sea 
please do not forget me

#freepalestine

من النهر

REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM (VII)
We invite you to join our series of conferences at tranzit.ro/Cluj partnered by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.
www.facebook.com/events/7269824883054656

The seventh meeting is chaired by Siyaves Azeri
tranzit. ro/Cluj, 16 Napoca str., Cluj-Napoca
March 28, 2024, 19:00

Una Blagojević
„Post-War ‘Crisis of Marxism’: Insights from Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists”

"In my talk, I discuss the ‘crisis of Marxism’ and ‘crisis of socialism’ by looking at the example of Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists. Their discourses of crisis encompassed debates on the crisis of epistemology, the crisis of subjectivity, and the crisis of philosophy taking place in Western European intellectual circles. The disorientation and atomization of the human being—phenomena they adopted and adjusted from the analysis of Western technological societies—inevitably led to a disintegration of Yugoslav society, alongside the latent growth of ethnonational affirmations in the early 1970s. I point out how their conceptual framework of crisis facilitated the adoption of integral ethnonationalist philosophical and political positions."

Această lucrare a fost susținută de proiectul "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis " finanțat de Uniunea Europeană - NextgenerationEU și Guvernul României, în cadrul Planului Național de Redresare și Reziliență pentru România, contract nr. 760044//23.05.2023, cod PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022, prin Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării, în cadrul Componentei 9, Investiția I8.

Partenerul principal al tranzit.ro este ERSTE Stiftung.

RSS7: Post-War ‘Crisis of Marxism’ - Insights from Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists [Una Blagojevic]

Since October 7th Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's supporters have mobilised feminist narratives in defence of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza and sought to portray Palestinian resistance to Israel as suffused with religiously inspired misogyny. In a recent article in Salvage, Sophie Lewis wrote about the way in which Zionist feminists have worked to defend the settler colonial project and how it places them in a long lineage of self-described feminists who have been enthusiastic supporters and participants in imperial conquest. In our conversation we talked about that history, and whether we're seeing a decline in Zionist feminism that parallels the broader crisis of liberal Zionism. 

Book your spot at the first PTO Live! event on May 16th in London here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disaster-nationalism-politics-theory-other-podcast-live-tickets-883198700087

Israel and the history of imperial feminism w/ Sophie Lewis

Midnight

Perverts

drums and additional guitars by matthew tomasi

v1:

each time that i think of you
i push another through
and recall how the bullet flew
each time that i think of you
i barricade the room
one more wound


v2: 

i was an angel, though plummeting
i watched it get dark
i’m playing it tough
the worst that could happen
is happening to me
another round of shots
for the boys on tv
i was an angel, but they made me leave
with stars in my eyes
crying as i wheel 
as i hit the lake
i prayed it’d be green
it’s all that i need
i deserve it, i think

i loved an angel, and it made me weak

refrain:

i am punished by love
i am punished by love
i am punished by love
i am punished by love

outtro: 

i loved an angel, and it made me weak
i loved an angel, and it made me weak

punish (demo II)

Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach.

Or, we could define it differently, as "the real movement that abolishes the present state of things". That's how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described it in The German Ideology.

Jasper Bernes is the author of The Future of Revolution, a book that aims both to clarify our ideas and to reignite our determination to make a fundamentally new kind of society.

He spoke to Richard Hames about the red thread of history, from the Paris Commune to Black Lives Matter, and on into the communist future.

Episod Psihotic ft. Elvisey

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