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: Climate, Capitalism & Crisis
January 12, 2016 06:13 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBIn this episode Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) chat with Jackson who has been an organiser with AYCC and for the Peoples Climate March in Brisbane . We talk about the opposition to the Adani mine project, the PCM, some of the experiences and developments within the climate justice movement, the role NGOs play and how this fits together with a broader understanding of capitalism and our struggles for lives of dignity and justice Some of the material referred directly, indirect...
New Year's Thoughts - Prospects, Predictions, Postulations
January 07, 2016 09:18 - 43 minutes - 60 MBIn this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) take some time to reflect on 2015 and go through the entrails to make some predictions about 2016. What happened in 2015 and what does it tell us about capitalism and the struggle against it? And how do we even try to make sense of it all? Articles and writers mentioned are: A panel on the work of Lisa Vogel’s Marxism and The Oppression of Women Prabhat Patnaik on Capitalism and Its Current Crisis Dave’s previous writing on #...
#qldworkersparadise : Sunny times for the working class in Qld under Labor?
November 10, 2015 10:22 - 29 minutes - 40 MBOn this show Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about what is going on in Queensland under the ALP. We look at the attempt to fund social reproduction and stimulate capital accumulation in the conditions of the end of the mining boom - all whilst trying to manufacture social peace. Special attention is given to the Advance Queensland initiative.
From Liberation to Human Rights - changes in the language of critique
October 26, 2015 03:55 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBToday Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be talking about two recent articles by Jon that trace the changes in key concepts in the languages of activism and the Left (for lack of better terms) and the reasons for and the potential costs of these changes. The articles discussed are: Human Rights and the Left and Damned Whores and God’s Police, liberation and the power of activist language: A guest post by Jon Piccini
Everything You Know Is Wrong -Conspiracy Theory
October 13, 2015 02:56 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBAfter months of silence Living the Dream podcasts are back. Here we look at the prominence of conspiracy theories, what it is about contemporary capitalism that gives rise to them and what this means for anti-capitalist politics. Music from Chumbawamba, Total Control, Voight-Kampff, Belgrado, Grey Places and Downtown Boys
Queensland: beautiful one day, workers’ paradise the next?
February 19, 2015 09:04 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this episode of Living the Dream we look at the recent Qld election and try to grapple with what it all means, what the new ALP government is planning to do, what the challenges facing capital accumulation are and where the lines of antagonism may be. Music from The Saints and Tina Harris Articles referred include: Don't Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts Of Lessons For The Left Economic and Fiscal Challenges: Interim Results of Medium Term Modelling From the Subprime to the Sovereign C...
Stranger Choices: Getting ready for the hangover
January 30, 2015 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn part four of our three part series on the Qld election we talk about what can we expect after the votes have been counted and what does this mean for emancipatory politics, where can we draw our hope and power from and what do we mean by ‘we’ anyway? Music by Razar
Stranger Choices: Qld Uncut - Lessons for tomorrow's struggle
January 25, 2015 11:55 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBHere in part 3 of our #livingthedream election special Rob reflects on the experience of Qld Uncut and the lessons that can be learnt for social struggles for dignity and emancipation whoever wins the upcoming election. First track from http://rokumusic.com
Stranger Choices: Pig City! Anti-Politics, Law & Order and Populism
January 15, 2015 22:57 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIn part two of Stranger Choices we look at the concepts of anti-politics and depoliticisation and how they might help us understand the elections in Queensland. We examine the role law and order plays, the populism of the Palmer United Party and the contradictions, the promise and the problems of a very exceptional Greens candidate Jonathan Sri. The articles discussed in this podcast are Anti-politics: Elephant in the room Policing Newman’s Crisis: Law And Order, Hegemony And The State
Stranger Choices Queensland Election #1: elections, Joh, debt and emancipatory politics
January 12, 2015 08:32 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBHere is part one of a three part ( hopefully) series about the Queensland election. In this episode Dave and Jon talk about elections and their role in capitalism, the limitation of Left understandings of the Newman government, the link between the global crisis and debt and privatisation in Queensland and more! And we did all of this on our lunchbreak in a noisy café! Sound quality gets better in the 2nd half….
'...from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again': "Really Existing Socialism", Liberalism and Violence
December 30, 2014 08:33 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis is part 1 of an attempt to examine the nature and history of "really existing socialism" and the impact this has on attempting to imagine and enact emancipatory politics today. Here I deal with how the very real violence of the party-states is used to ideologically mask the violence of the liberal order.
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #2 No Shelter
September 11, 2014 06:48 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBNo Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence We talk with Rascal a participant in No Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence about the struggle against the closure of services for survivors of domestic violence, the transformations in the provision of welfare, the role that gender and the home play in contemporary capitalism and more! Rascal has written about these issues here as part of the new blog Full Prole Science
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #1 UOW Uncut
September 08, 2014 01:23 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBHey comrades, today we talk with Alexander about the struggle around the budget arising from UOW campus, the limitations and challanges they face, friendship, new potentials and some of the lessons from Japan . This podcast complements an article written by Alexander here
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 2
July 12, 2014 09:12 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBHi Comrades Today we are talking with Andrew a comrade who is a teacher in NSW about what's going on for teachers, the union and attempts to struggle and organise. Down with Empire, Up with Spring!
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 1
May 19, 2014 07:46 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThis is part one of our investigation into our days at work, experiences of work, the various forms of worker self-activity and the positives and negatives of our experiences with unions. We are talking to Michael who works for Qld Rail. You will hear Renee, Tom, Dave & Rob ( and Arlo in the background). #HooHaLTD
HooHa - Living the Dream Intro
May 19, 2014 07:31 - 1 minute - 567 KBWelcome to Living the Dream of the podcast of the HooHaGroup http://thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com #HooHa LTD