Tomorrow in LA!
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No episode tonight, sorry! Still traveling and in any case don't like making the crew work on Memorial Day. But here's an article! I'm in Sublation magazine today responding to Jodi Dean's response to me on "neofeudalism."
If you want to go all the way down this rabbit hole, here's the original article of mine she was responding to:
unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-mar…
....here's Dean's response to that:
www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies…
...and, bringing us up to date, here's my article today responding to Dean:
www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-s…
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(Online) Capital Class Update:
We just finished Vol. 1, and we're in the middle of a two-week break now while I travel, but as of now, the plan is that we're going to spend the first four Sundays in June reading Marx's "Results of the Immediate Process of Production" (included as an appendix to Vol. 1 if you've got the Penguin edition), take another one-week break while I'm at my brother-in-law's wedding, and then start up on Vol. 2 on the first Sunday in July. If you've already read Vol. 1 and fancy the idea of digging your teeth into Vol. 2, now would be a perfect time to join the class, but also, anyone who enrolls at any time gets immediate access to all 33 of the Vol. 1 class recordings (as well as of course each new week of the "Results.." and then Vol. 2).
You can join by signing up at the Capital class tier here:
patreon.com/Benburgis/join
...and if you happen to live in Los Angeles, the free in-person version meets on Wednesday evenings at 7 PM at Cafe Mak in Koreatown. We're obviously also on break from that while I travel, but we're going to be reading Vol. 1 Ch. 9 the Wednesday after next.
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No episode tonight, sorry! Facing a book deadline and I really have to spend all day writing. Good news is that both of the guests I was going to have on tonight (Matthew McManus & Michael O'Neill Burns) can reschedule for June.
BTW, while we obviously don't quite have a complete manuscript yet (we really are getting very close!), Verso already does have a cover, which is very cool:
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Ben is at a conference right now, so can’t do a live episode. We thought we’d have a prerecorded video we could use but that alas is also not to be. Many apologies for the missed episode! We’ll be back next Monday and meanwhile if you’re looking for some light reading to do this evening when you’d normally be watching GTAA, there’s always this:
benburgis.substack.com/p/walter-block-and-the-pris…
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I had a fun conversation with padawan podcaster 1Dime about the election, Rogan, AOC, the culture war, my second book, and a lot of other stuff I don't remember all of now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQi_T...
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Just a quick heads up for UK-based subscribers:
If you're going to be in London tomorrow afternoon, Ben Burgis and Matt McManus will be doing a joint talk on "Socialism in the 21st Century" at Goldsmiths, University London at 1:30 PM.
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Just a quick heads up that there's no episode tonight.
Have to finish moving everything out of the old apartment.
But we'll back by Thursday for sure!
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Ended up having to reschedule today's stream with Heidi Matthews on the ICJ ruling. Should be happening very soon, though, and we'll have a clip tonight like usual!
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No clip tonight but I did just post my audio-only crossover mini-episode about Henry Kissinger with Danny Bessner of the American Prestige podcast for GTAA patrons:
www.patreon.com/posts/93920177
(I believe American Prestige patrons got it a couple days ago.)
It's short but we cover a lot of ground--why Kissinger came to be so reviled (he definitely earned it!), whether his particular sort of vileness was actually that unique (honestly not as much as we'd like), comparisons between him and his current successor Anthony Blinken & more.
If you want my longer form thoughts about the old monster, I wrote an "obituary" for the Daily Beast:
www.thedailybeast.com/henry-kissinger-was-one-of-t…
...and on Thursday night I went on News Nation to debate a Kissinger defender from the American Conservative. We'll be playing and breaking down the full 10-minute segment on Monday's show before my conversation with Slavoj Zizek. Which, by the way, was great! Always love talking to him and this one honestly may be my favorite of his GTAA appearances. Had to prerecord as usual since the Los Angeles to Ljubljana time difference is extreme so I can tell you we covered topics ranging from what kinds of freedom matter politically to one- or two-state solutions in Israel/Palestine to Argentina to quantum physics to anti-Semitism to a friendly debate about free will and determinism. It's a packed hour and a half or so.
Looking forward to being able to share it!
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GTAA host Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor, a columnist for Jacobin magazine, and the author of a few books--starting with one with the same name as the podcast. He's debated right-wingers ranging from Charlie Kirk to Walter Block, appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, and been called a "glib c*nt" by Gavin McInnes. Past GTAA guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Ana Kasparian, Richard Wolff, Glenn Greenwald, Sam Seder, Emma Vigeland, Jesse Singal, Norman Finkelstein, Thaddeus Russell, Bhaskar Sunkara, Nathan Robinson, David Pizarro, Tamler Sommers, Matt Christman, Amber Frost, and Touré Reed.
The regular show is at 8 PM EST on Mondays, with a postgame for GTAA patrons starting at 10. There are debate breakdowns at 8 EST every Thursday.
patreon.com/benburgis