Living the Dream
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Brisbane Anticapitalist Smash Hit Podcast http://thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com
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Living The Dream with a Green New Deal
October 23, 2019 03:56 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) catch up with Tash Heenan (@tashellenheenan) and Jeremy Poxon (@JeremyPoxon) to discuss the Green New Deal. Jon, Tash and Jeremy are partisans of the Green New Deal, seeing it as a way of addressing immediate concerns and opening pathways to more radical transformations whilst Dave remains something of a half-reformed ultra-left curmudgeon who can do nothing more than yell ‘but the value-form’ at worried passer...
Living the Dream with ScoMo
July 19, 2019 06:19 - 1 hour - 104 MBNow that the hot-takes have gone cold and are stale as bricks @JonPiccini and @withsobersenses take out their artisanal slow-cooker take on the recent Australian Federal election. Why did we get it so wrong? Why did #changetherules suck? What will a Morrison Coalition government look like and what does it mean for our strategy? CW: This show contains a discussion of misogyny and domestic violence. Stuff we mention includes: Elizabeth Humphrys – We Live in Anti-Political Times Amy Thomas...
Living The Dream during #Ausvotes2019
May 15, 2019 03:29 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn this episode Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) try to work out if we have anything useful to say about an election that is all hype but actually a snoozefest. What does it tell us about the state of Australian society, what can anticapitalists draw from it? Are we about the #Changetherules or will Clive Palmer be leading us into a Kangaroo Reich? What happens the morning after? We also address some criticisms we have received and try to muddle through some blind-spots in our ...
Living The Dream with Acid Communism and/or Acid Corbynism
April 26, 2019 04:55 - 1 hour - 139 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn ). Keir is from Leeds and has been an anti-state communist for a respectable amount of time (and an all round good egg). Previously a member of Class War and the Leeds May Day Group/ The Free Association he is now part of Plan C. Recently he has been trying to think through how anti-capitalists can related to the rise of Corbyn and the return of social democracy. We talk through the arguments and deal with some of ...
Living the Dream at Deebing Creek
March 11, 2019 12:28 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Feargal and Bill report from the campsite out at Deebing Creek. They have a chat with Shale and James about what is going on, the nature of the struggle, the relationships of solidarity that are being built and what they think will happen next. Follow the struggle at Deebing Creek here: Yuggera Ugarapul Tribal Elders Save Deebing Creek Mission Sign the petition for a Commission of Inquiry Music by A.B. Original (feat. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu)
Living the Dream with the Struggle to Decriminalise Sex Work
March 03, 2019 12:43 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Elena Jeffreys (@ElenaJeffrys) from the sex worker organisation Respect Inc. Elena talks about the history of sex worker self-organisation, the conditions of sex workers in Australia today and the importance of the struggle to decriminalise sex work to improving the working conditions and lives of sex workers. Elena digs into the what is wrong with the ‘Swedish Model’, the negative and violent impact it has had on peoples’ lives, and the rol...
Living The Dream with the Anti-Nuclear Movement in Japan
February 17, 2019 12:02 - 1 hour - 155 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with excellent comrade Alexander Brown about the anti-nuclear movement in Japan. Alexander talks about the role nuclear power plays in Japanese society, the pre-Fukushima influence of the New Left, the freeter movement and alter-globalisation struggles, the impact the Fukushima disaster had, the tactics and strategy of the movement, its links with the global wave of ‘squares’ and ‘Occupys’, what’s happening now and the increasingly importance of ...
Living The Dream reads On Fairness by Sally McManus
February 10, 2019 12:31 - 58 minutes - 81 MBIn this episode Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) review ACTU Secretary Sally McManus’ book On Fairness.We try to dig in to how McManus fails to understand the actual dynamics of capitalism – rather blaming bad people and bad ideas for the problems we face. This means the book points us in the wrong direction. Rather we need to address the core dynamics in our society if we want to fight exploitation and oppression today and struggle for and create a society where we can live liv...
Living The Dream whilst abolishing prisons
January 14, 2019 04:39 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBIn this episode Dave talks with Bridget Harilaou about the recent Imagining Abolition Conference organised by Sisters Inside. Bridget discusses the ideas that were discussed there, their implications for struggles and the kind of future abolishing prisons points to. She digs into how prisons quilt together histories of colonialism, the operation of patriarchy and the oppression of Indigenous people and thus why the struggle against them is so important. Bridget’s work can be found in many p...
Living The Dream in 2019!
January 08, 2019 05:12 - 1 hour - 115 MB2019! Wooooo! In this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) take off the party-hats, pick the streamers from their shoulders of their tuxedo jackets, set aside the Champagne flutes and have a chat about what 2018 was all about what we think is going to happen in 2019. Climate Change, fascism, #libspill, disaster communism, power prices, radical social democracy, #changetherules, #metoo, book recommendations and angry clowns air boxing whilst riding unicycl...
Living The Dream with the Anti-Poverty Network Queensland
October 09, 2018 05:49 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Andrew(@fernandre3000) and Feargal(@feargal89) from the Anti-Poverty Network Qld. We talk about what they have been up to, what their strategy is and how this has gone. APN Qld are one of the most exciting developments going on in Queensland right now with friends and comrades leaving old and stale forms of activism behind to experiment with organising based on where people are at and in ways that directly speak to lived conditions. It is ex...
Living The Dream with a UBI whilst fighting against racism and for public housing
September 26, 2018 12:47 - 54 minutes - 75 MBIn this episode Dave(@withsobersenses) chats again with Michael. We talk about a recent article he wrote on Universal Basic Income and the debates it sparked with proponents of a Jobs Guarantee, his attendance at and thoughts on Tim Soutphommasane’s recent Whitlam Institute speech on combating racism, and Michael’s participation in recent struggles for increased Public Housing. Stuff we mention includes: Michael Thorn – Is There Room for Universal Basic Income in Australia Tim Soutph...
Living the Dream after the Plebiscite and amongst the Alt-Right
September 17, 2018 03:04 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) catch up with Simon Copland (@SimonCopland) again. We talk about how despite the plebiscite being a fantastic victory the Left (for lack of a better term) seems determined to see it as a defeat and what the impact of this is. Simon also talks about going to, live tweeting from and then writing about a recent Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux talk and his thoughts about how the struggle against reaction can be renovated. Thing...
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Ep 2
September 05, 2018 05:28 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with friend of the show Michael. Michael talks about how the NDIS has changed the experience of those that work in care and community services, how it has impacted work conditions and how it has undermined the kind of care that those on the NDIS receive. We also talk about what does this mean for struggle around these issues? What are the unions doing? What are the workers doing? How does this impact with a larger question about the struggle agai...
Living The Dream with the Communist Party of Australia and Indigenous Struggles in the 1920s and 30s
August 21, 2018 06:32 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this episode Dave(@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) chat with Padraic Gibson (@paddygibson) about his research into the Communist Party of Australia and its early, or lack there of, engagement with Indigenous struggles in the 1920s and 30s. Not only is the history fascinating but Paddy also really digs into what was wrong with socialist and communist thought at the time, and the inheritance of Marx and Engel’s work, that made it hard for the CPA to connect with these struggles. How ...
Living The Dream with The Maritime Defence Committee during the 1998 Wharf Dispute
June 27, 2018 05:56 - 1 hour - 112 MBIt has been twenty years since the Wharf Dispute between Patrick Stevedores and the Coalition Government on one side and the Maritime Union of Australia, the Trade Unions and supporters on the other. This was (so far) the last set piece national confrontation between Capital and Labour over a specific industrial dispute to happen in Australia. In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Nick Southall about the Maritime Defence Committee. The latter was formed by comrades outside of th...
Living the Dream whilst the Global Order fractures
June 21, 2018 22:53 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBWhat the hell is going on globally? In this (short) episode Dave (@withsobersenses) tries to think through the fracturing of the global order: the split in the G7, the end of QE by the US Federal Reserve and the ECB and the looming possibility of more US tariffs on Chinese imports. How do we understanding these phenomena? Why are they happening and what does it all mean? This is our 50th Episode! Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ECB winds down QE despite slowdown, risking '2011' policy error Cent...
Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 2
June 17, 2018 02:01 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBThis is Part 2 of our 2-part show with Tanya Serisier about #metoo, feminism and the struggle against gendered and sexual violence. This show fleshes out the problems of the notion of consent as a solution to gendered and sexual violence, the continuing importance of the lessons of 70s feminism, including much-maligned lesbian separatism, how feminism has forced a rethink of what politics and power is and we finish with Tanya’s reflections on the recent UCU strike and what it shows us about ...
Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 1
June 02, 2018 03:34 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBThis episode is part one of a two-part interview with feminist scholar and activist Tanya Serisier. Tanya and Dave(@withsobersenses) discuss how #metoo can be understood in the history of feminist struggle against, and thought about, gendered sexual violence. Tanya discusses how complex these issues are: they evade easy answers and they bring up difficult questions about where such violence comes from and how struggle and speech against them sometimes breaks from the broader patterns of powe...
Living The Dream in Ipswich
May 21, 2018 11:13 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream (@withsobersenses) chats with Aaron and Michelle at Bad Habit Recordsabout what’s happening in Ipswich. The council is engulfed in a corruption scandal (complete with bashings in the forest), the centre of the town is in dire straits caught between neglect and a development project, the local economy is suffering except for a massive real estate venture in Springfield and the plan for a new, and hotly contested, super dump in New Chum. In the face of all t...
Living The Dream with Marx's Theories of Crisis
May 20, 2018 03:46 - 58 minutes - 80 MBThis episode is a recording from Marx200 Brisbane of Dave's (@withsobersenses) presentation on Marx's Theories of Crisis . Music by Stereolab
Living The Dream at Labour Day 2018
May 07, 2018 12:18 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) grabs a recorder and heads to the Labour Day rally. He interviews friends and comrades about the rally, what they think the impact of #ChangeTheRules has been, and if there is any opportunity to broaden and open up struggle? Due to a moments hestitation he didn't try to interview Sally McManus as she walked past. Music by Alistair Hulet
Living The Dream during Trump's Trade War
April 14, 2018 10:53 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) tries to start an analysis of the Trump administration’s trade and tariff policy. Why has the Australian Left been so paralysed over this question? What sense can we make of it? How do we understand the policies of the state in the broader dynamics of world capitalism? Stuff mentioned includes: U.S. Admits That Politics Was Behind Steel Tariffs(not a Brazilian paper but a US paper reporting on US representatives talking to Brazi...
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
April 08, 2018 11:39 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Vanamali Hermans (@VChristabel) about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Whilst billed as ‘the most significant economic and social reform since the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s’ Vanamali shows how the NDIS often means the reduction in services for those with disabilities and bureaucratic hellishness. We discuss why this is so, the compounding issue of inequality in regional health delivery and the struggles and strate...
Living The Dream in the feminist moment
March 22, 2018 04:01 - 1 hour - 117 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) chat with Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) about if we are living in a feminist moment and what that means. We focus our conversation on two of her articles from Meanjin. We discuss why it is that so much of contemporary feminism focuses on representations in popular culture – what does that tell us about both feminism and popular culture? From here we talk about the complex history of 2nd Wave feminism, the limi...
Living The Dream antipolitically
February 19, 2018 12:34 - 1 hour - 129 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk with Tad Tietze (@Dr_Tad) about the idea of antipolitics he developed with Elizabeth Humphrys(@liz_beths). We talk about what politics is and how it relates to capitalism and the state. Tad argues that politics is increasingly detached from society and what this means and how communism as ‘the real movement’ can and should related to politics. Tad argues that this analysis has serious and devastating impli...
Living The Dream in 2018
January 31, 2018 06:23 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBWelcome to 2018! In this episode Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) look into the swirling mists of the crystal ball of class struggle and try to work out what’s going on in 2018 and what happened in 2017. It’s a wide ranging chat about race, class, Invasion Day, strikes that didn’t happen and plebiscites. Will the experiments in radical social democracy continue to gain traction? What’s #changetherules all about? What plans do thinkers for capital have if any at all? Is capital a...
Living The Dream in Global Union Federations
December 04, 2017 04:50 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBWorkers of the world unite, right? Okay, but how? This is a special episode where Shane Reside, an organiser with the International Transport Workers Federation, interviews Jamie K McCallum (@jamiekmccallum) author of Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing about a new kind of labour internationalism: the global union federation. What are they? Where did they come from? Are they any good? Do they challenge the inequalities between workers in the North an...
Living The Dream Whilst #qldvotes2017
November 20, 2017 14:14 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBIn this special #qldvotes2017 episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) engage in all the froth and illusion of electoral politics. We chat about the broader situation in Queensland and the impact of the slowdown of capital accumulation and the rise in state debt and the general degeneration of all the major parties. What is the ALP government all about and why is it so boring? What is left of the LNP and what kind of reactionary mindblowingness is One Nation ...
Living The Dream Amidst A Non-Binding Postal Survey On Same-Sex Marriage
October 07, 2017 10:11 - 1 hour - 125 MBAustralia is currently in the midst of a non-binding postal survey on same-sex marriage and it seems likely that the ‘Yes’ vote will win by a massive majority. Yet the ‘Left’ and supporters of same-sex marriage seem miserable and downcast about this. In this episode Simon Copland (@SimonCopland) helps Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) make sense of it all. We talk about the role that homophobia and sexuality plays in capitalism, the histories of Queer struggles within neoli...
Marx’s Textbook Ep.2: The basic dynamics of capitalism
September 21, 2017 03:50 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBIn episode 2 of Marx’s Textbook Dave (@withsobersenses) looks at two very different ways of understanding the broad dynamics of capitalism. Mainstream economics asks us to think of capitalism as simply a system of wealth creation and consider questions of what is or isn’t an efficient use of resources and when or if the state should intervene; whilst Marx argues that capitalism is primarily compelled by the drive to make profits and accumulate capital, the source of which is the exploitation...
Marx’s Textbook Ep.1: An Introduction to the Critique of Capitalism & of Economics
August 30, 2017 12:12 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBMarx’s Textbook Ep.1: An Introduction to the Critique of Capitalism & of Economics This is the first episode of a new Living The Dream series entitled Marx’s Textbook. In each episode Dave(@withsobersenses) takes a chapter of a basic macroeconomics textbooks – in this case Littleboy (2013) – summarises the content and then presents how Marx can help us think about these issues and challenge the dominant assumptions. What we find is that Marx doesn’t just provide different answers rather...
Living The Dream with Free Money #UBI
July 26, 2017 13:14 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk with all-round good egg Troy Henderson (@TroyCHenderson) about the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Troy provides us with an intellectual history and we discuss if it is a techbro attempt to sure up capitalism, a radical social democratic attempt to fix capitalism or if it contains radical elements that point in an anti-capitalist direction? We also talk about why a Jobs Guarantee is horrid and shit. ...
Living The Dream after the UK General Election
June 16, 2017 12:30 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) talks with Craig Gent from Novara Media. We talk about the recent UK General Election and the surprisingly good result Labour under Jeremy Corbyn received. Craig tells us about how Novara have chosen to orientate to Corybn and elections, the contradictions of social democracy and what the election may or may not mean for larger anticapitalist practice. These contradictions are represented artistically by starting the show with a...
Living The Dream under The Accord
June 02, 2017 12:46 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) are joined by Liz Humphrys (@liz_beths) who torpedos the hagiography of the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Whilst the talking heads of the ALP like Van Badham and Wayne Swan argue over if the Hawke-Keating government was mainly excellent with a few flaws or really excellent with none, Liz’s ground breaking work on the Accord shows how the latter was the central plank of the implementation of neo-liberalism in Au...
Living The Dream in the Trade Union movement
April 02, 2017 04:11 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Godfrey Moase (@gemoase) the General Branch Assistant Secretary of the National Union of Workers. Godfrey had a number of criticisms of our last show . We talk about these and Godfrey also addresses the broader strategic and tactical possibilities for anticapitalist struggle and how they relate to trade unions. You can find some of Godfrey’s writings here: Maintain the wage rage (with Carina Garland) Defending Austr...
Living The Dream after your #penaltyrates got cut
March 23, 2017 10:59 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBIn this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the recent cuts to penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission . We dismiss the idea that this attack is actual just a product of ‘the Right’; rather it is a continuation of the 100+ year tradition of arbitration supported by the ALP and the mainstream of the ACTU in the context of the real contradictions of capital accumulation. We discuss the movement against penalty rate cut as well as the Big Steps walk off of early c...
Living the Dream whilst fighting for your #righttothecity
February 17, 2017 07:42 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBIn a special episode of Living The Dream, Max and Natalie (@DrNatOsborne) join Jon (@JonPiccini) to discuss radical happenings in Brisbane of late. We talk about the election of Jonathon Sri in the Brisbane City Council elections of last year, why Brisbane is experiencing such a strong wave of ‘right to the city’ activism and how these two interconnect. Musings on the interconnections between social movements and elections, the global and the local and culture and politics abound. South Bri...
Living the Dream drops the #Bernardibomb
February 08, 2017 10:29 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) have a very quick chat about Cory Bernardi quitting the Liberal party. We discuss how this is more evidence of the breakdown of politics/the rise of antipolitics; the attempts by the RBA to keep capital accumulation going through monetary policy whilst everything crumbles around them and what this means for radical strategy and tactics. Stuff we mention includes: Leftflank National Press Club: Malcolm Turnbu...
Living the Dream in 2017
January 27, 2017 11:16 - 1 hour - 108 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini ) and Dave (@withsobersenses) go through the entrails with an inverted periscope to try to see what we should expect for 2017. We chat about Invasion Day and the rising tide of Indigenous struggles, the Centrelink debacle, anti-Road protests and more. We are pretty optimistic about the year ahead and look forward to hearing your thoughts. Articles, people and groups we mentioned or are relevant: Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance –WA...
#WTF2016 ? Living The Dream takes the down bound Trump Train out of here
December 22, 2016 10:59 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the weird as hell political environment of the Age of Trump. Was 2016 the worst year ever? Are we caught in the midst of a rising reactionary wave? And why do the failures of the liberal establishment feel to so many people to be failures of the Left? (And what is the Left? Are we the Left?) What’s with the amateur sociology about voting demographics that is everywhere now? Do we really have to...
Living the Dream whilst Organising in Your Workplace
December 11, 2016 12:24 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream, Dave (@withsobersenses ) chats with Carmen about the Workplace Organising 101 training she recently provided in Brisbane. Carmen talks about the purpose and structure of this training, its relationship to anarcho-syndicalism and reflects critically on the contribution it can play to developing our collective power and overcoming capitalism. Organisations mentioned include: Brisbane IWW Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU) Music by Dolly Pa...
Living the Dream has an #altright time in Melbourne
December 07, 2016 09:48 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Kieran (@Kieran Bennett) about a recent Melbourne counter-rally to a Trump celebration rally ostensibly organised by #altright types and attended by local fascists and neo-Nazis. From here Kieran lets us know who is who in the fascist zoo in Australia, the social phenomena behind the far-right and we discuss what a relevant anti-capitalist practice might be that can defeat the fascists and offer a genuine emancipatory al...
Do We Need To Talk About Donald? Living the Dream on the US Election
November 02, 2016 19:54 - 1 hour - 100 MBIn this episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about the US Election and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. We aren’t interest so much is speculations about what is going on in the US but rather what the different ways Trump and Clinton are talked about in Australia tells us about what is going on in Australia. Articles we refer to include: Debating Deplorables: How the Left Can (and Cannot) Win Trump Voters Sympathy for the Devil? These...
Queer Kids for Full Communism: Living the Dream with the Queer Liberation Front
September 20, 2016 10:48 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Angus from the Queer Liberation Front. Angus lets us know what the QLF are all about, what they have been doing and what they are up to. Angus talks about the QLF's praxis and how this collective of young queer people are attempting to generate a radical anticapitalist politics, how hegemony and aesthetics fit together and how this all relates to the current "Brisbane Moment' that is going on. And then we finish it all off...
On dissolving the people: Living the Dream on #ausvotes2016
July 14, 2016 12:55 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBIn this episode of LivingThe Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) have a chat aboutthe recent election. It isn’t a chat about if the result is ‘good’ or ‘bad’but rather how does it fit into, and what does it tell us, about the current momentin capitalism in Australia and class struggle?We also try to work out therelationship between the electoral return of Pauline Hanson and the deepcurrent of racism in Australia. These articles are some we either mention or are on topic ...
#SandersofSthBrisbane ? Council elections, social movements & the #RighttotheCity
June 16, 2016 11:05 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini ) andDave (@withsobersenses) chat with Anna – all-round good egg and comrade pivotalto Radio Reversal and Brisbane Free University –about the successful Brisbane City Council election campaign of Jonathan Sri , the opposition to the WestVillage development and the emergence of struggles around the Right to theCity. What’s going on, how do all these pieces fit together and what do theytell us about struggles within-against-and-beyond capit...
Living the Dream - Last Drinks in (the workers) Paradise?
March 15, 2016 04:02 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave( @withsobersenses) talk about the meltdown of politics in Queensland and the failure of the ALP government to carry out a coherent plan to address the decline in capital accumulation and facilitate social reproduction. Rob Pyne resigning from Labor(#corbynofcairns ?), candidates sending dicks pics and the shared anti-political language of both sides of the referendum campaign show a political class in freefall and deeply out of...
Living The Dream 'Dominant Society Needs A Slap in the Face': Sovereignty Solidarity & Decolonisation
February 09, 2016 11:44 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Camilla and Eliza from Sovereignty Solidarity. Sovereignty Solidarity describes their Facebook page as follows: ‘We aim to support First Nations(FN) initiatives for self determination, sovereignty, treaties, and moving forward. We take action based on our understanding of these perspectives and aim to concretely support FN initiatives. We are a non-FN specific page because we believe non-FN peoples have specific de-co...
Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds
January 24, 2016 11:24 - 1 hour - 100 MBLiving the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Rob talk about how the provision of welfare and social services are changing. We chat about the concept of social reproduction, the welfare state and its evolution and critically investigate new developments. As the mining boom ends, the world teeters on a the edge of another economic meltdown and states struggle with increasing amounts of debt we ask what’s going on with w...