This episode goes into the concept of class, specifically how both Karl Marx and Max Weber conceptualize it, and the differences/similarities between their conceptions. Next episode will be Marx vs Weber on the subject of swag. 

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What is Class? Marx vs Weber

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EPISODE 238: Thick With Weasels

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This episode features Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students in conversation with retired CIA officer Ray McGovern. The discussion ranges across Ray’s experiences as a CIA officer from the Kennedy administration to first George Bush administration—as well as his post-CIA work as a peace activist weighing in on Iraq WMD, CIA torture, Julian Assange, and the Russiagate hoax.

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Episode 11: The CIA and the Deep State w/Ray McGovern

Here is a link to the article I was reacting to https://jacobin.com/2022/06/karl-marx-labor-theory-of-value-ga-cohen-economics

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A Critique of Ben Burgis' "Karl Marx Was Right"

The USA has rapidly become the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), tied with Qatar. Europe replaced Asia as the top market for US LNG in 2022, after pledging to boycott Russian energy over the proxy war in Ukraine.

Europe is now paying significantly more for expensive US LNG than it had been for Russian pipeline gas. As of 2022, Europe had the highest energy prices on the planet, fueling an inflation crisis.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QDdmbPni6BI

Sources and more information here: https://multipolarista.com/2023/01/04/us-lng-exporter-europe-russia-gas

Europe angry that US profits from Ukraine proxy war while destroying EU economy: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/28/europe-us-profits-ukraine-war-economy

Who sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines? US boasts ‘tremendous opportunity’ to weaken Russia. CIA knew: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/06/sabotage-nord-stream-pipelines-us-russia-cia

US now world's top LNG exporter, as Europe boycotts cheaper Russian gas

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest horror author Emma Berquist discuss trashy, late-90s post-SCREAM teen horror/slashers with a double feature of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) + URBAN LEGEND (1998). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Paul Schrader's MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)and David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH (1991), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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283 - I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) + URBAN LEGEND (1998) ft. Emma Berquist

We look into a new startup – Inflection AI – that has raised $1.5 billion, was co-founded by tech elites, and just released an AI chatbot, Pi, that is meant to be your ultra friendly, personal companion, coach, creative partner and more. We place our bet that this won’t be the last time we hear about Inflection AI. Everything about this company — its funding partners, founders’ pedigrees, AI product, and public mission – points to Inflection AI becoming even bigger and unavoidable. 

Stuff we reference:
••• AI Funding Explosion: Inflection AI Nabs $1.3B, Runway and Typeface Also Raise Big https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/funding-explosion-venture-generative-ai-unicorn/
••• Inflection AI https://inflection.ai/ 

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266. Your Own Personal Intelligence

We start with a visit to that smart city we all love, New Orleans, and see how the police department’s facial recognition surveillance is going. Then we revisit China, this time to lay out the broader conditions of its zombie economy and attempts by the state to reassert its power over capital by enforcing discipline on the tech and real estate sector, and giving them strong guidance about how they can work to better serve the state’s interest. We discuss this further in the context of China’s antitrust crackdown on tech companies—we might be envious of the means, but we should be wary of the goals.

Stuff we reference
••• NOPD use of facial recognition leads to zero arrests in nine months https://veritenews.org/2023/07/26/nopd-use-of-facial-recognition-leads-to-zero-arrests-in-nine-months/ 
••• Zombie Economy https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy
••• Why Is China’s Economy Stumbling? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/opinion/china-economy-decline.html 
••• What Comes Next as China’s Tech Crackdown Winds Down https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/what-s-next-as-china-s-tech-crackdown-winds-down#xj4y7vzkg 
 
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276. China’s Zombie Economy and Capital Crackdown

[We are unlocking the intro episode for the new book club. The first taste is free, find the rest on the premium feed.]

We kick off the TMK book club with the excellent new book – Mute Compulsion by Søren Mau – which offers a foundational analysis of power, value, capital, and social reproduction. Mau’s book is written with a real analytical clarity that advances our critical, theoretical understanding of the relations and operations of those things in society and our lives. We set the context for the book and our approach before discussing the Introduction chapter, which established the book’s motivating questions and overarching argument about the need to pay special attention to the economic power of capital.

••• Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Søren Mau https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2759-mute-compulsion 
••• Communism is Freedom – Søren Mau https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/communism-is-freedom 

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*Unlocked* – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction

We are joined by Tamara Nopper and Eve Zelickson —— from the Data & Society Research Institute —— to discuss their excellent primer on Wellness Capitalism. This is the pure ideal of TMK crossovers as we lay out how an intricate tangle of things —— the organization of social reproduction by capital, the power dynamics of labor-boss relations, the cultures of personal responsibility and behavioral choices, the technocratic authority of baroque administrative systems, the actuarial governance regime of risk management —— all come together to control access to, and degrade the quality of, essential services for human life and society.

••• Wellness Capitalism: Employee Health, the Benefits Maze, and Worker Control | Tamara Nopper, Eve Zelickson https://datasociety.net/library/wellness-capitalism-employee-health-the-benefits-maze-and-worker-control/
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••• Follow Eve: https://twitter.com/zel_eve 

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279. The Power of Wellness Capitalism (ft. Tamara Nopper, Eve Zelickson)

We react to Iran's attack on Israel, Jake talks "Civil War" and Coachella, then Anders tries to re-cancel Jose Andres in the wake of the IDF's crazed bombing of World Central Kitchen.

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Unlocked – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction

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