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Adam Turl and Tish Turl are both activists and artists who co-founded the Born-Again Labor Museum ( https://www.bornagainlabor.com/ ) . Tish is a poet and writer and Adam is an artist and writer. Both are also members of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective.

You can read more about BALM here:
https://thesouthern.com/news/local/born-again-labor-museum-in-carbondale-showcases-stories-struggles-of-working-class/article_887e1acc-456b-5213-934b-75168e3c5991.html

https://therealnews.com/at-the-born-again-labor-museum-art-is-a-weapon-for-the-working-class

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
 


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Matt Lech is a producer for @Majority Report and a co-host of @Left Reckoning.  He currently lives in New York but is originally from North Dakota.  We talk about socialist strategy, progressivism in the far west, and rural politics.


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
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Alexander Prähauser is an artist and mathematician living in Austria.  We discuss the usefulness of mathematics and category theory in developing scientific thought from and contributing to Hegelian Dialectics.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
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Chris Wright is a historian and socialist,  the author of “Worker Cooperatives and Revolution” and "Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression." We discuss the myth of American moderation and also how identitarian movements are often framed in an exclusivist way to actually promote that myth while also seeming radical.


Links mentioned:
Race Reductionism Threatens to Doom the Left
Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of Revolution


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
 
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Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory.  He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum.   We discuss workers' inquiry, economic analysis and its difficulties, theories of interpretation, and the purpose of Casper Forum.


Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
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Today we are talking to Cyber Dandy,  who blogs at Cyber Dandy and vlogs on Cyber Dandy Youtube on existentialism, leftism, anarchism, and the post-Biden left milieu.  We talk about anti-communism and anti-radicalism in the US from in 1940s-1970s.

Crew:
Host: C. Derick Varn
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )
Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn
Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.
Intro Videos Design: Jason Myles, Dejene Balajan
Support the show