Symptomatic Redness

Derick and Amogh draw lessons for the contemporary left from the economic history of the USSR, and analyze the major theoretical errors of social-democratic and communist Marxism. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns. We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.

Jacob Feygin continues an economic history of the Soviet Union, from after World War II through its collapse in 1991. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns. We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.

Jacob Feygin walks us through an economic history of the Soviet Union, covering from the immediate post-revolutionary period up through World War II. Part 2, to be released within the next month, will pick up from the post-WWII period through the end of the USSR. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns. We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.

Derick bores Amogh with the conceptual development of the left's theory of knowledge, from its post-Marxist roots in the New Left to its recuperation in contemporary identity politics. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns. We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We talk to Ashley Frawley about the ideological role of 'happiness studies' in British politics and reimagining a Marxian philosophy of science. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns.  We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We talk to Leo Panitch about the functioning of state actors in the global capitalist system. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns.  We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We talk to Steve Shaviro on Accelerationism. We would like to thank our producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns.   We would also like to thank our patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We talk to Steve Keen on Marxology. We would like to thank our new producer Maxx Bartko for taking the reigns.   We would also like to thank our new patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We release our discussion on Neoliberalism with Philip Mirowski with much better audio editing.   We would like to think our new producer Maxx Barkto.  We will be releasing twice a month now.  We would also like to think our new patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We discuss the state of contemporary China with Sasha Day.  We would like to think our new producer Maxx Barkto for taking the reigns.  We should be having a more consistent production schedule now.  We would also like to think our new patreon supporters.    You can find our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

Arya and C. Derick discuss fascist class analysis, economics, and what it might mean for the future.

Today we interview Nick Srnicek  on Accelerationism, Folk Politics, and counter-hegemonic strategy with digressions into the nature of relationship between science and techology. The following articles and talks are referenced in the interview: The Accelerationist Manifesto The Speed of Thought Accelerate Europe   Our new patreon account is here: https://www.patreon.com/symptomaticredness

We talk to Steve Keene about the general trends in the economy right now: starting with Australia and working through Canada, the EU, and the UK.

Antagonism discussion on Fascist Aesthetics and contrasting with Soviet Aesthetics.

We talk to Luigi of the Recomposition Blog editorial collective about the IWW, the blog itself, trade unions and thier limitaitons, and the intersections of syndicalism, Left communism, and autonomia.   You can read Recomposition Blog here: http://recomposition.info./  or on libcom. We apologize for the daily on this episode.  I have been sick for the last few weeks and busy with work.  We are stablizing on a bi-monthly release with antagonism coming out monthly as well.  

Amogh and Derick discuss their prior interview with Mirowski.

Antagonism is a monthly supplement to Symptomatic Redness, a discussion on the historical development of modern politics with Arya Moghadam and C. Derick Varn.  This month we discuss the development and definition of fascism in what is likely to be a long running series.

Today with interview NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald on the consequences of secularity and modernity, the left's attitude to understanding the religion, the relationship to ideologies like primitivism and post-humanism as well as new trends like accelerationism. he theme is "Industrial Drum and Base" by Antuan Graftio.

Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame. He is author of, among others, Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science? (2004), More Heat than Light (1989), Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013), and ScienceMart: privatizing American science (2011). He is editor of Agreement on Demand (2006) and The Road from Mont Pèlerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective (2009), and Building Chicago Economics (2011) among other works. Outside of ongoing research on the history and analysis of the commercialization of science, he is also working on a computational complexity approach to the crisis, and a new book on the history of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics, sometimes called the Nobel. He was awarded the Ludwig Fleck Prize from 4S in 2006, and has been visiting professor at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Duke, Paris, the University of Technology-Sydney and the University of A

This is an interview with Tom O'Brien, the host of the From Alpha to Omega Podcast, on post-Keynesianism, Marxism, complexity theory, and the history of the current movement. This was originally intended for Amogh Sahu's podcast but is being released as a percursor to Symptomatic Redness's interview series.  The theme is "Industrial Drum and Base" by Antuan Graftio.