Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It
Juliet Jacques
Edward Said had it right.
Tag: communism
What Communism Actually Is
Richard Hames meets Jasper Bernes
The riddle of history, solved.
Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments
Juliet Jacques
Should Lenin be thrown into a river, too?
Negri in England: Remembering One of Communism’s Great Optimists
Craig Gent
The Italian Marxist has died aged 90.
The Truth About the GDR | Aaron Meets Katja Hoyer
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the experiment of communist East Germany drew to an end. Yet for a time it was a successful project, raising living standards against massive odds and providing stability for the first time in half a century. So is it time to re-assess Europe’s most wealthy, and advanced […]
Italy’s Far Right Is About to Win Big As Unelected Government Falls
Matteo Tiratelli
Meanwhile, the left is MIA.
Trip 21: Unity and Difference
Do we need to agree in order to win? The #ACFM gang consider the possibility of a united movement.
For David Graeber, Theory and Action Were Inseparable
Thomas Swann
He acted as if he was already free.
Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of
Aaron Bastani
Is the musician a fully automated luxury communist?
Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?
Aaron Bastani
Not entirely, but it's virtually the only country to have made any progress.
#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Jeremy Gilbert tunes into the politics of folk music, from communist troubadours to pastoral psychedelia.
When Will China Be the World’s Most Powerful Country? Interview With Martin Jacques
Will the 2020s be the decade when power decisively shifts from the United States to China? How important is the country’s rise in broader historic context – and is that why we are seeing an emerging Cold War between Washington and Beijing? And do appeals to a ‘civilisation-state’ undermine the power of universal values and […]
Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
Ten Years of #NovaraFM
This year makes it a decade that Novara has been on the air in some form. Join James Butler for a head-spinning trip into the FM archives.
After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
What if the automation theorists are wrong? How might we build utopia without them? Aaron Benanav joins James Butler to gaze into the future.
Nightmarch: The Inner World of the Naxalites
Alpa Shah spent seven nights on a secret march with communist guerrillas in India. She joins James Butler to tell their story.
