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3 ай бұрын

Today we talk about some of the work of Murray Bookchin. We talk about anarchism as a historical trend in human thought that keeps recurring. Then we talk about the superficiality of typical approaches to being environmentally conscious. We talk about Futurism and the hope of colonizing other planets. We talk about Artificial Intelligence and why people sometimes don't feel like celebrating its arrival.
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@marcher.arrant 3 ай бұрын

Man, I can't thank you enough for what you do. You do it exceptionally well. I want to thank you greatly for these episodes on Anarchism. Nobody addresses it. When people do address it they don't look at historical or classical Anarchism but look at "Anarcho Capitalism" which is not traditional Anarchism and really isn't anarchism at all. You did a great job on these episodes.

@danielhailemariam6014 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the work that you do! This episodes reminds me of what was said by Slavonic Zizech, on a documentary- 'Examined Life'. He says, 'Shit Disappears... but trash does not'. He goes on to explain who the current system produces trash at an alarming rate and how this the system ignores the rational prediction of scientists of an impending ecological disaster. Learning so much from your episodes. Thank you again!

@cabaretVoltaire 3 ай бұрын

Wickedly Optimistic after that episode

@Simte 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this. These episodes are truly important to understand Anarchism in a great historical context. I think we all need a little bit of it in our lives.

@DjamelBenFirst 3 ай бұрын

You truly do this in an exceptional way You should maybe do it more often as your episodes are too far away from each other. Not a critic just wants to see more from you more often you are so good at it and certainly bring value and meaning into peoples lives. Just wanted to say Your content is wanted and desired and valuable.

@jerrypeters1157 3 ай бұрын

i admire your ability to articulate philosophical clarity for real world problems. Exceptional work. Thank you for making philosophy more than a distraction.

@ridesapalehorse1562 3 ай бұрын

then as now; now as then. perhaps, to change the then and to change the now we need to change our selves first

@matthewmelson1780 3 ай бұрын

Just here to say I've listened to every episode. ❤

@curtissjamesd 3 ай бұрын

Each part of this discussion has been amazing, I am subbed and look forward to watching the rest of your work.

@austinrhoads 3 ай бұрын

Been listening to you since episode 26. I love this i wish i could contribute and i will someday! I have been dying waiting for the 3rd episode in this series! Thank you so much for this content. It really means the world to me

@asmanic8727 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff, I think Bookchin is the best for people just starting to understand anarchism.

@arturw5556 3 ай бұрын

So what is it?

@maverick-rs 2 ай бұрын

Just wonderful! It would be awesome to hear Max Stirner discussed, or the growing post-left anarchist movement! Thanks for your content!

@MichaelALoberg 3 ай бұрын

Perfect.. a great gift for a Tuesday evening. I did note however that your last episode asked if we should "overthrow the government tomorrow", and I was disappointed that that particular tomorrow came and went, and we still have a government. Perhaps that was hypothetical...

@TennesseeJed 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Professor West!

@dandilion62 3 ай бұрын

Great show!!! I learned about Murray in high school (1973). My first girlfriend's Dad was good friend's with Murray.

@billyranger2627 Ай бұрын

Keep it up. More power to you

@nikimehta720 2 ай бұрын

Thank you men for this one more awesome series

@UniMatrix_1 3 ай бұрын

In light of all of the large technological, political, and social changes that we're seeing, I love the direction that this channel has taken. My favorite of your videos is the Byung Chul Han and Arednt videos, very poinient stuff.

@sonicjihad7 3 ай бұрын

I’d love to hear how it would tend to approach the tragedy of the commons on a global scale, ie overfishing or really any of the global coordination problems we’re facing.

@joshtheegotist 3 ай бұрын

I have been an anarchist for 12 years, went through an anarcho capitalist phase before settling on anarcho-syndicalism. I think you do a great job framing us. Thank you. Part three just dropped and I will watch it next.

@caiolmoraes 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your work. You are a great inspiration 😃

@joshtheegotist 3 ай бұрын

7:00 Love it!

@thiswontbetaken 3 ай бұрын

Your podcasts are my favorite, keep going man!

@safili 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Stephen. I have been listening to your educational episodes for the past 4-5 years, and I come out enriched and enlightened each time. What a treat for the mind. More interestingly, the choice of the recent topics is not lost on me as witness a slow erosion of free and critical thinking in the media and social landscape. We are also experiencing an ideological starvation and bankruptcy by the political class on both sides of the aisle. The series on Anarchism as a theory and perspective comes at an opportune time. In a different arena, may I also suggest a podcast from award-winning independent journalist Glenn Greenwald - who originally exposed the Edward Snowden revelations - who has been regularly citing Noam Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' work in his analysis of the media and political landscape today.

@maryjanemccarthy2907 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant.

@user-pr3in1wd2m 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! A priori is at grassroots.

@gitarrojoe 3 ай бұрын

thanks a lot for all your work, these episodes on anarchism are very interesting, easy to digest and informative. wish i had known about some of these ideas before... bookchins social ecology for example.. anyways im kinda curious about how anarchism would try to solve problems that do not directly relate to either material ressources or democratic values. what about hierarchy based on education or similar abilities to navigate the world, especialy since a lot of these abilities are emphasized by society today. we cannot really start as blank slates in a anarchist community. people would still search for influences, role models, there would be a hierarchy of ideas. if there is ever a problem that asks for urgency, people would maybe gladly give up power to a "benevolent dictator". and who says that if problems persist that they would ever ask to take the power back?

@szegedyzs 3 ай бұрын

As I understand anarchism, it's not about rejecting all types of hierarchy but those unjustified. So hierarchy based on skills or knowledge is acceptable because it's justified. (fx. I am not going to argue with the electrician about how to connect the cables). Also this knowledge or skill is to be shared in an ideal world, so more people can be involved, without the need to depend on just one person.

@gitarrojoe 3 ай бұрын

@@szegedyzs makes sense, thats how i would understand it aswell. i guess what im more curious about is how these "justified hierarchies" wont build into unjustified ones

@szegedyzs 3 ай бұрын

@@gitarrojoe It's the hardest part, it requires constant work to dismantle informal hierarchies, by being aware and facilitating those less in power to step up, and those taking more space to step down.

@christinemartin63 3 ай бұрын

This was definitely thinking about a whole lot more. Loved it. (Scarcity by design was a strategy used by North Korea post-WW2, then copied to devastating effect by Ceausescu in Romania in the 60s and 70s.)

@stephanscharf5524 2 ай бұрын

The way this channel discusses essential topics is exceptionally interesting. I wish there would be a way to translate this into german language because I would like to give people who wrestle with these topics here in Austria which are not able to listen in English to learn from this excellent made podcast. With the help of AI it would be possible to easily produce versions in different languages. If you need someone to help making this translations I would love to help you out here.

@lucasblauw4394 3 ай бұрын

Could you perhaps do an episode on franz Kafka? I know that he's not technically a philosopher, but his writing is so full with human themes that it becomes philosophically relevant

@rayvonteese 3 ай бұрын

Here before it gets taken down or silenced lol

@standowner6979 2 ай бұрын

Not bad. Better than last episode

@michaelschuetz8890 3 ай бұрын

Great episode, as always! I would recommend an episode on Whitehead influenced philosophers and scientists, like I. McGilchrist. To me there seems to be a revolution in organicist (non-reductionist) thinking, which is in line with the anarchists. Cheers!

@Vladimir-Struja 3 ай бұрын

Any fans here? Which book would you recommend as entry to Bookchin?

@jacobprescott8369 3 ай бұрын

Huge fan of the show. I know you've covered Arendt in the past, but I wonder if her conclusion in "On Revolution" could be relevant to this discussion. In it, Arendt argues that revolutions throughout history organize themselves organically into federated councils. She examines too the ways in which the founding fathers (Jefferson in particular) were highly aware of how, by creating a unique political enterprise designed to exist perpetually into the future, they therefore restricted future generations from politically mobilizing in the same way that they had. She concludes that the "Social question" (providing for the populace) has obscured the "Political question" (enabling individuals in a society to be politically active) and wonders about how a decentralized, federated, council-based system could allow for perpetual political development within a single polity.

@zuz-ve4ro 3 ай бұрын

youtuber "Anark" gives at length answer to that from social anarchist perspective in series modern anarchism if you're interested

@juspassinby5773 3 ай бұрын

Dear Stephen. I’ve tried to look for your literature reference list, but can’t seem to find any on neither your website nor in the podcast info. Where, if so, do you list your knowledge sources for each episode? I haven’t yet listened to a full podcast episode, so forgive me in advance if you reference your sources verbally in the podcast. Regards

@funkbungus137 3 ай бұрын

you've got your... so beautiful you could cry! CNT-FAI, those Chiapas papas, those Rojavan wahmen..... you got your Wobblies probablies,... and Hailing from Ukraine, the Carriage you dont wanna disparage, with a machine gun badonka: Mahkno's Tachanka.... um... Who could've known, my man Proudhon, and the artist formerly titled prince, conquerer of loafs, Kropotkin... ok... this is sufficiently embarrassing now.

@robertbentley3589 3 ай бұрын

Chiapas papas? What do you mean?

@renkar9814 3 ай бұрын

@@robertbentley3589 He means Chiapas and the Zapatistas that kicked out the Mexican government when NAFTA kicked in under Clinton. They have been autonomous and organized around Anarchist principles and are a good example of a current and functioning anarchist community within the capitalist hellscape that is the 21st century.

@zuz-ve4ro 3 ай бұрын

@@renkar9814they reformed recently into even more anarchist form of organisation btw. and they're example of bookchins point about the tendency for anarchism, Zapatistas developed anarchist like ideology far before anarchists themselves

@amandaelizabeth7943 3 ай бұрын

We are all hyper aware of the bs. New change.

@SovietAssault69 3 ай бұрын

Algorithm go brrrr

@user-st3te3iu4j 3 ай бұрын

Jeff Bezos is talking about living in space now. I think Elon Musk is trying to explore options on Mars. That's on point. Maybe we are trying to leave Earth because lots of years religion taught that Earth isn't the final destination 🤔