BRUCE LERRO—New Agers are greatly drawn to altered states of consciousness, either through mystical experience of through the use of hallucinogens. How will this go over with socialists? Not well. The leaders might think taking mind-altering drugs is a distraction from doing political work. Socialists will roll their eyes at New Age interest in ESP, clairvoyance, and telepathy and claim that a century’s worth of research has not found anything significant. They see this as more New Age escapism. Working-class recruits will find this interesting and would probably enjoy TV shows like The X-files. Some New Agers claim to believe in reincarnation. Some say individuals are working out karma based on past lives. What will this do to socialist organizing?
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It’s hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That’s not its job, children. That’s not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the world’s most powerful nation. That’s all it cares about doing.
The Democratic Party doesn’t care about winning elections. The Democratic Party doesn’t care about promoting popular policies. The Democratic Party doesn’t care about passing legislation. The Democratic Party only cares about doing things like this:
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Each episode of the series will discuss one important topic of Marxist political economy. This video discusses the first class society: and the slave mode of production.
The video covers the following topics: -Rise of slavery -Rise of the state (and armies) -Rise of classes (slaves vs owners + peasants, handicraftsmen, lumpen) -Separation of cities and countryside -Division of labor: –Separation of handicraft from agriculture –Separation of banking and merchants from producers -Rise of science, philosophy etc. -Fall of the slave-owning mode of production
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The co-host of the Convo Couch, Fiorella Isabel, herself of Peruvian roots, explains what the situation really is in Peru at this turning point in its history. A wide-ranging conversation clarifying what’s really going on in Peru at this crucial time.
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GABRIEL ROCKHILL—It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized minutia, or floating in the abstruse clouds of high-minded theory, intellectuals are frequently portrayed as not only cut off from political reality but as incapable of having any meaningful impact on it. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks otherwise.
