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#63 Acid Communism, Labour, and the counterculture w/ Jeremy Gilbert

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jeremy Gilbert joins me to discuss the concepts of Acid Communism and Acid Corbynism and why transforming human subjectivity through practices of collective joy derived from the 1960s counterculture is so important to building a successful left project. Sound Recording: @JAPinto

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Okay, so yeah, should we do acid-corbitism, man?

0:03.0

Yeah, hang on. I've got a kid trying to talk to me.

0:05.1

What is you, Eilandah?

0:06.3

No, you can't, sweetie. It's a grown-up podcast.

0:12.4

Sweetie, you've got to be good. You promise to be good.

0:14.9

Okay. All right.

0:17.2

The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for airplay success.

0:21.6

The men beat on their drums. I'm. I'm

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. Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

1:07.4

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Jeremy Gilbert.

1:12.8

We spoke about the concepts of acid carbonism and acid communism and why transforming human subjectivity through practices of collective

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joy derived from the 1960s counterculture is so important to building a successful left project.

1:25.8

Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books, which

1:31.3

has a great many left-wing titles that might be of interest to listeners.

1:34.8

One that you might like to check out is After Geoengineering by Holly Buck.

1:39.3

The window for action on climate change is closing rapidly.

1:42.5

Climate restoration will require not just innovative

1:45.1

technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere, but social and economic transformation. Rejecting the

1:50.9

idea that technological solutions are some kind of easy workaround, after geoengineering

1:56.0

outlines the kind of social transformation that will be necessary to repair our relationship to the

2:00.9

earth if we are to continue living here.

2:03.7

Visit versopbooks.com for more information.

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