The Austerity Apparatus w/ J-Moufawad Paul
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | Today we have on Joshua Mufawid Paul to talk about his book, Osterity Apparatus. |
| 0:14.5 | I love JMP, we've had him on many times, we're going to continue to have him on, he's |
| 0:17.6 | one of my favorite political philosophers that are working today, everything he writes |
| 0:21.3 | is absolutely fire to me, so it's always a pleasure and an honor to have him on and I know |
| 0:25.8 | our listeners love every time JMP comes on. |
| 0:29.0 | So before we get into that, if you like what we do here at Revolutionary Left Radio, |
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| 1:20.6 | And with that said, let's jump into this wonderful discussion with JMP on his work, austerity |
| 1:25.2 | apparatus. |
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