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Green Politics After The AI Boom with James of Prole Kult
Season 2 Episode 99
Welcome back to VarnVlog. Today, we are joined by James of Prole Kult for an extensive, two-hour interrogation of eco-socialist strategy, environment…
15 hours ago
Trade Wars As Social Wars with Benjamin Studebaker
Season 2 Episode 98
Welcome back to the vlog. Today, we are staging an exhaustive, macro-analytical conversation with political theorist and author Benjamin Studebaker t…
3 days, 15 hours ago
Maoism Without The Myths with Black Red Guard
Season 2 Episode 97
Welcome back to the blog. Today, we are staging an uncommon but necessary conversation to slice through the amateurishness of internet leftist subcul…
3 days, 15 hours ago
Education, Literacy, and the Limits of Reform with Freddie deBoer
Season 2 Episode 96
Five years after their initial discussion, we are back with Freddie DeBoer—author of The Cult of Smart and the upcoming book All in Your Head—to revi…
1 week ago
Policing American Slavery: How the Slave Power Weaponized Society and the State with Gautham Rao
Season 2 Episode 95
How did the legal machinery of early America enforce human bondage? Dr. Gautham Rao joins the channel to discuss his book Policing American Slavery a…
1 week, 3 days ago
Rewriting Columbus From The Taino View with Andrew Rowen
Season 2 Episode 94
Why does mainstream history completely erase the stories of the Indigenous leaders who actively fought back against European conquest? How did the fl…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Geopolitics of the Data Economy: Tech Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Resource Wars with ProleKult
Season 2 Episode 93
Why are tech monopolies quietly building massive, "war-eating" data centers in global deserts? How does the infrastructure of artificial intelligence…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Brandon Lightly on the Mass LIne and New Democracy, Part 2
Season 2 Episode 92
In part two of our deep dive into China (and part four of our socialist organization series), we break down how Mao attempted to dialectically sublat…
4 weeks ago
Writing and Revolution: Cultural Production vs. Neoliberal Aesthetics with Sudip Bhattacharya
Season 2 Episode 91
How does ruling-class hegemony quietly dictate the boundaries of our creative imagination? Can art still serve as a weapon for genuine political tran…
1 month ago
The Cultural Marxism Myth with A.J.A. Woods
Season 2 Episode 90
Where did the "Cultural Marxism" talking point actually originate? How did obscure 20th-century sectarian group battles evolve into the foundation of…
1 month ago