An Honest Conversation with a Marxist - Aaron Bastani

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Aaron Bastani is a British journalist and writer. He co-founded the left-wing media organisation Novara Media in 2011, and has hosted and co-hosted many of its podcasts and videos. He has written for The Guardian, London Review of Books, UnHerd and Vice, and is the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism (2019) the title for which is a term coined by Bastani which refers to a post-capitalist society in which automation greatly reduces the amount of labour humans need to do.

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Yeah, I do think we have a particular view and people say the 1% I mean, I'd probably call it the 0.0 1%
0:05.9	And that isn't just, you know, tech CEO bad guys
0:09.1	It can also be people like it was a day, Madison Rose, you know, the CEO of net west
0:13.8	This is really daft. You're talking about how inclusive you are because you've debanks and not like your forage
0:18.2	You can't even pay men and women the same. Are you excited about a starmer premiership?
0:23.2	No, I think we need a political revolution in this country and I don't I don't mean like get out the bandets and get everyone
0:28.8	I think we need a profound shift in power
0:32.2	Economic, political cultural away from London away from Westminster towards ordinary people. I saw Chavis come to power
0:39.6	And I saw everyone on the left
0:42.4	Venerate Chavis
0:44.4	Venerate Socialism including Corbin including people saying this is an example of socialism working
0:50.3	And now everybody's moved on and they've moved on to the next project and I guess my question is to you
0:56.8	Seeing countries like Venezuela, seeing countries like the Soviet Union
1:01.4	How can you identify with socialism when it's never worked?
1:16.7	Hello and welcome to Trigonon Madrid. I'm Fraun's Disposter. I'm Constantincus and this is a show for you
1:22.9	If you want honest conversations with fascinating people our brilliant guest today is an author journalist and the founder of Navarro media
1:30.2	Aaron Bostani welcome to Trigonon tree my pleasure to be here
1:33.1	Yeah, we've been trying to get you on for a long time
1:35.4	Whenever anyone wants to accuse us of being right wing what they say is why haven't you had Aaron Bostani on?
1:41.1	Please tell them it's not our fault. We're trying to have you on for ages. It's your fault. You're now officially left wing
1:46.4	Yeah
1:48.4	The home of the left exactly and we prefer the term cuck saree
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