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The Antifada

Ep 215 - Tool-Organ Time w/ Søren Mau

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism.

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William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review

Jasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdf

Song: Royksopp - Compulsion

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, shall I start the show?

0:07.7

Do we want to start with an icebreaker

0:10.7

about me talking about the really awkward conversation I had in there.

0:13.7

It's my show, I don't know about that, it's our show.

0:17.1

I'm not sure that our friend Soren in Copenhagen needs to hear my weird coffee shop stories, but maybe you do

0:24.8

We have weird coffee shops over there in Copenhagen.

0:26.8

Soren, do you have weird coffee shops in Copenhagen?

0:29.4

Yeah, we have lots of coffee shops.

0:31.8

I bet. Way too many too many okay. Yeah, that's a bit weird in itself I think it is yeah there's a mass proliferation of weird coffee shops all around the hipster world

0:41.8

The things I've actually talked with my friends about recently is that I think people sit extremely closely in coffee shops in Copenhagen.

0:51.0

So it's completely impossible to have a private

0:54.0

conversations and for that reason I don't really like going to I don't like

0:58.8

breaking my coffee in the coffee shops because I feel like everyone is listening to all conversations.

1:05.4

Oh, there's just like they're like spies everywhere.

1:07.8

They're trying to get in on the spicy communist theory you're talking with your

1:10.9

buddies at the coffee shop. They're trying to steal

1:13.4

your theses. This morning I went to the coffee shop and one of the many

1:19.5

struggles I have as like a Gen Xer trailing into being a boomer as I get older and

1:24.8

older is all the proliferation not just of coffee shops but of different types of

1:30.0

milks so there's various times when I've gone into a place and said whole milk and they

1:35.2

understood me as saying oat milk. So I went in and I ordered my coffee and I made sure that

1:40.2

it was regular whole milk and got into this weird little conversation with the guy

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