The Austerity Apparatus w/ J-Moufawad Paul
🕑 Added 2019-09-03 20:33:38 +0000 UTC
J-Moufawad Paul returns to Rev Left Radio, this time to discuss his book "Austerity Apparatus". Topics include: Fascism as capitalism-in-crisis, accelerationism and its misconceptions about contradictions, bourgeois philosophers John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hobbes, the Vanguard Party as a partisan war machine, the inevitable next recession, and much more!
Learn about and find JMP's work here: http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/
Here is JMP's article on the theories of sovereign power, which is referenced during the discussion: http://www.abstraktdergi.net/the-transplanting-of-heaven-to-earth-below/
Here are previous episodes of Rev Left that JMP has been on:
- "This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists - Marxism as Science"
- "Continuity & Rupture: Maoism and the Science of Revolutionary Communism"
- "Methods Devour Themselves: Science Fiction & Political Philosophy"
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/politreks-colab
Outro Music: "Day One" by Bambu
Check out his music here: https://bambubeatrock.bandcamp.com
Comments
Revolutionary Left Radio
Oh yea, we did an episode on that text a while back!!
Terrence Major
i really like JMP's book Methods Devour Themselves also. short read and half is fiction from a mind bending writer. please read!
Thomas Sankara
Great convo, just ordered his book. It’s nice that we have all these rising polemicists on the left. I like his use of “metro-poles” instead of the “west” or “imperial core”...it’s a fresh take on things. Maybe JMP will be the Michael Parenti of our generation..