Name: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ @LineGoesDown by Pod Damn America
Duration: 1 h 52 min 55 s
Description: Jorge from Everybody Loves Communism comes on for another jaw dropping reading series. Imperialism. What is it? In what ways is it like the enemies from the Final Fantasy franchise?

A real salient point for anyone who has read Anthem by that dumb bitch Ayn Rand. Capital is the party trying to suppress progressive new technologies, not collectivists.

Vaush is one of the worst fake "left-wing" online debate bros currently active. He actively miseducates people by accepting the reactionary premise that liberalism and socialism are compatible, which leads to absurd oxymoronic formulations like "anarcho-Bidenism", appropriating an ultraleft label as cover for right-opportunism. No Marxist organizer should take him or his like-minded associates seriously.

The German socdems' betrayals of 1914 and 1919 are case in point for why DSA cannot be trusted in a revolutionary situation. The real Marxists currently in that organization will jump ship eventually just as the Bolsheviks left the 2nd International behind.

Not incidentally, the Federal Reserve banking system in the US, as we know it today, was formed in 1914.

I somewhat disagree with the characterization of early 20th-century imperialism as "neoliberalism"; neoliberalism is specifically associated with the backlash against mid-century Keynesian and social-democratic policies in the 1970s-1980s. At the time Lenin was writing, the dominant strain of economic liberalism was still "classical liberalism", although the economics at that point was "neoclassical" (i.e., when "physics envy" started kicking in, mathematical models suddenly became important, and labor theory of value was tossed out in favor of marginalist and subjective utility-based valuation).

"Export of capital" refers to foreign direct investment by a wealthy, capital-rich country into economic development into a capital-poor (and usually natural-resource-rich) country, with the goal of reaping most of the surplus from the borrowing country's production and thereby expanding the lender's economic sphere of influence and potential future profits. This type of lending applies to specific multinational corporations (Coca-Cola, Chiquita, etc.), but also on the macro scale to lending institutions like the World Bank, the IMF, and even China's BRI.

Investigative reporter Matthew Cole comes on to discuss Seal Team 6 from his new book Code Over Country

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"Investigative journalism." It’s a term that conjures imagery of committed, industrious newsrooms like those in the Oscar-winning films All the President’s Men or Spotlight, filled with intrepid reporters dutifully scouring documents, scrutinizing photographs and taking secretive yet explosive phone calls at all hours of the night. It’s a rallying cry for TED Talkers and Brookings Institute essayists, many of whom extol the virtues of scrappy and scrupulous reportage that succeeds in taking down a crooked politician, exposing a company’s abusive policy, or otherwise changing the course of history.

It’s common to think of investigative journalism as an honorable line of work - after all, investigative reports have exposed powerful misdeeds, labor abuses, air and water pollution, and racism in healthcare. But this isn’t the only form of investigative reporting in the United States. Too often, stories characterized as well-meaning investigative reports - local news pieces alerting viewers to the “dangers” of bail reform, or New York Times scoops on government “leaks” demanding billions more for military spending--end up reinforcing the very power structures they’re supposed to be challenging.

While the title of “investigative journalist” is so often used as a catch-all term for a noble tireless, truth-seeking, deep-digging reporter who, like a determined fictional detective, follows a twisted trail of breadcrumbs to their blockbuster end, why should we assign valor to what can often merely be the lazy practice of government and corporate stenography? Or laundering intelligence or pro-police propaganda?

On this episode, we discuss the ways in which investigative journalism is portrayed as an inherent good even when it serves powerful interests, how professional norms in the journalism industry seek to remove power dynamics in deciding what leaks are important and who is leaking them, and why investigative reporting without politics isn’t an inherently subversive or moral enterprise.

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This week we touch on a really strange article about cancel culture in The Atlantic. It doesn't go down well. Also, this episode contains discussion of sexual violence, blackout drinking, and consent. Listener discretion advised.

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Jorge from Everybody Loves Communism comes on for another jaw dropping reading series. Imperialism. What is it? In what ways is it like the enemies from the Final Fantasy franchise?

Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ @LineGoesDown

This week we take a look at the hottest new publication to hit the streets since at least Martin Luther's 95 Theses. That's right, we're talking about Compact Magazine, ostensibly a collaboration between some guys with ideas. They're some bad hombres, in other words.

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Episode 243: A Couple of Bad Hombres

Jake and Anders talk about Amazon Labor Union's recent historic win on Staten Island, Starbucks CEO Howard Schulz's brain, and bowling.

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In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a moral and more just vision for the world.

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Episode 244: The Digital Broadform Deed

Anders talks to Jake about the Kony 2012 guy and the movie Black Hawk Down and Africa all sorts of wild shit.

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