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Pop the Left is a biweekly livestream with Douglas Lain, author of "Bash Bash Revolution" and publishing manager for Zero Books, and C Derick Varn, author of Apocalyptics and slush pile reader for Zero Books. This episode will cover the fast decline of the Bernie Sanders campaign, the Covid-19 global pandemic, and the future of the left and of liberal modernity.

We are mirroring this podcast from the Emancipation Network/Alpha to Omega podcast. "A very special Emancipation Network all-star panel with Ben Burgis of Zero Books discuss the recent poor showing by Bernie Sanders in the US primaries. What does it mean for politics? What does is mean for socialist/communist politics? Is Jake actually a meme?"

In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the background to the Communist Manifesto: What circles were Marx and Engels moving in during the 1840s? What were their demands? What did “socialism” and “communism” mean to them, and what was their relationship to republicanism? Stay tuned for part two! This is part two of the conversation. There remains about 20 minutes of chat that I will release for patreon supporters.

Aubrey De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2016 I interviewed him for the book "Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey." here is the second part of the audio recording of that interview. It’s Sunday, March 1st, 2020 and I’m Douglas Lain the publisher of Zero Books and the host of this podcast. If you enjoy our podcasts support us on Patreon. Our Patreon supporters usually get access to two podcasts a week, audio versions of our youtube videos, as well as occasional Pop the Left specials. Zero Books book club members get access to Zero Books titles each month as well as a chance to join in a discussion with Zero Books authors.

In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the background to the Communist Manifesto: What circles were Marx and Engels moving in during the 1840s? What were their demands? What did “socialism” and “communism” mean to them, and what was their relationship to republicanism? Stay tuned for part two!

Aubrey De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2016 Douglas Lain interviewed him for the book "Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey." The first part of the audio recording of that interview is available now for our Patreon supporters.

Doug and Derick continue their discussion on the revolutions of 1848 and how the contemporary left is perhaps faced by issues and problems more analogous to the nineteenth century’s than those of the twentieth. In order to listen to the entirety of this episode support us on Patreon.

In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the contradictions in premodern Europe that led to the revolutions of 1848 and give a rundown of the major events of that year. Stay tuned for part 2 for a more in-depth investigation of 1848 and its repercussions.

Matt Cavagrotti is the host of a new Zero Books series with the straight forward title "The History of the American Left." The first episode features a conversation with Postdoctoral Fellow James Vaughn. Vaughn taught at the University of Texas at Austin and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. His first book, The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III (Yale, 2019), provides a revisionist account of British imperial expansion and politics during the eighteenth century. Another book, The East India Company and the English Revolution, c. 1640–1714 (Primus), will be out next year.

Sandy Baldwin is the author of “The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature,” and was a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology until a newspaper reported that he’d been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor based on the WEST VIRGINIA COMPUTER CRIME AND ABUSE ACT, a law regarding harassing and threatening communications by computer, cell phones and electronic communication devices. This charge was a downgrade offered by prosecutors after Baldwin had been arrested for a felony charge of soliciting a minor via computer. Baldwin is the guest on this podcast in order to discuss what our social responsibility is regarding platforming people after such an event and the degree to which the decisions of the courts should lead social attitudes and consequences for those accused and convicted. If you enjoy listening to the Zero Books podcast you should support us on Patreon. Our patrons will be getting access to this entire conversation while only a teaser will be released on the main feed. Supporting us on Patreon keeps our digital content coming.

Albena Azmanova teaches at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and her book Capitalism on Edge is out now from Columbia University Press. Our Patreon get access to every podcast we produce including audio versions of our youtube videos as well as our the reboot of Pop the Left. If you enjoy this podcast support us on Patreon. Capitalism on Edge Link http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-on-edge/9780231195379

The editors of the German Marxist Journal "Krisis" are the guest this week. The discussion ranges from the death of traditional Marxism to the negation of the concept of the "revolutionary subject." The journal "Krisis" is published in German but some essays in English are available on their website. https://krisis.eu/marx-from-the-margins/ This week's podcast is availbale in full. Our Patreon supporters usually get access to two podcasts a week, audio versions of our youtube videos, and when the History of Communism video series starts up again in February they will get early access to that as well. Zero Books book club members get access to Zero Books titles each month as well as a chance to join in a discussion with Zero Books authors.

Tom Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness and the author of Science Fiction - The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future. In this episode, we discuss cosmic consciousness, social change and science fiction. This week’s podcast is available in full for everyone.

In the third part of the final series of Symptomatic Redness, Derick and Amogh discuss the history of the left podcast scene, leading them to a discussion of the upcoming presidential election and the DSA’s role in it, and the question of how much has really changed since 2004, or even 1968. After Symptomatic Redness’s final run, its place in your feed will be filled by the new and improved Pop The Left with C. Derick Varn and Douglas Lain.

In this episode Zero Books reader and author of the book "The Semiotics of Happiness" interviews the Zero Books author Luke Gittos about his book "Human Rights-Illusory Freedom." Luke Gittos is a lawyer, writer and is legal editor for Spiked, online-only UK current-affairs magazine. He regularly contributes across broadcast media on issues relating to law and politics, as well as participating in television and radio legal debates, and the Battle of Ideas festival. Gittos recently set up the City of London Appeals Clinic, and he presides over the London Legal Salon. His book Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans was published in 2015.