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From Alpha To Omega

What is happening to our economy and our politics? Are we stuck forever in this corporate dystopia? What can we learn from the failures of radical politics over the last 100 years? Commandante Alpha talks in depth to experts from the fields of Political Economy, Politics, Science, Philosophy, Complexity, Mathematics, Music, and the Environment.

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Episode 258: #174 Participatory Planning w/ Prof...

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/03/07

We welcome Prof. Robin Hahnel to the show. Prof. Hahnel and previous guest Michael Albert are the people who came up with Participatory Economy, or Parecon, a vision of a de-centrally planned socialist economy. We discuss Parecon Planning and Allocation in great detail!

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67:13

Episode 14: #014 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/02/28

Today we read Chapter 14: ‘The Control of Operational Life’.

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67:43

Episode 13: #013 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/02/16

This week we read Chapter 13: ‘The Expansion of Production’.

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5:04

Episode 175: #173 Blockchain Fail Bros Part 2 w/ Xur...

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/02/10

We pick back up where we left off in our discussion with Xur about what can be salvaged from the wreck of the blockchain and crypto scene for our future communist society.

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40:08

Episode 174: #172 Blockchain Fail Bros Part 1 w/ Xur

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/02/09

We welcome Xur to the show, to talk about all things blockchain and cryptography. In this first part 1 we dig deep into the technical problems associated with the current crypto scene. In part 2 we pick the corpse of the blockchain to salvage what we can for our future communist society.

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48:03

Episode 173: #009 Understanding Class Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/01/30

We continue with our reading of Chapter 2 - ‘Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.This episode was editing by the Jordan. Thanks so much, Jordan!The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Varn VlogEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect UnitTiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

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Episode 172: #171 Reform or Revolution w/ Helen Scott

From Alpha To Omega ·

2022/01/20

After a post covid lull, we welcome to the show Prof Helen Scott, editor of the Haymarket books version of the Rosa Luxemburg classics ‘Reform or Revolution’ and ‘The Mass Strike’. In this episode we discuss ‘Reform of Revolution’, Rosa’s text which critiqued ‘Evolutionary Socialism’, the seminal revisionist work of the dark lord of reform within the SPD, Eduard Bernstein.Helen is currently working on Volume 5 of the complete works of Rosa Luxemburg, which is due to be released in the

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3:20

Episode 171: #012 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/12/31

Today we read Chapter 12: ‘The Abolition of the Market’.

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62:34

Episode 170: #170 The Breakdown of Henryk Grossmans...

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/12/10

We welcome back Andrew Kliman to the show, to talk about a paper he recently published about the Breakdown Model of Henryk Grossman.The paper, which contains the link to the Spanish translation:https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economics/henryk-grossmanns-breakdown-model-on-the-real-cause-of-the-fictitious-breakdown-tendency.html

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55:14

Episode 174: #008 Understanding Class Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/12/02

We return to where we left off last time, in Chapter 2 - ‘Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.Many thanks to Jordan for editing this and the next episode in the series.The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a HammerEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect UnitTiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

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Episode 173: #011 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/11/24

We finish our reading of Chapter 10: ‘The General Social Work’, and plough through Chapter 11: ‘The Accounting as an Ideational Summary of the Production and Distribution Process’.

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63:23

Episode 172: #010 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/11/17

We read Chapter 10: ‘The General Social Work’, and get deep into the bowels of the GIC 'proposal'.The critique is over..... for now.

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41:55

Episode 171: #007 Understanding Class Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/11/05

This week we continue on our journey through Chapter 2 : ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a HammerEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect UnitTiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

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66:46

Episode 170: #009 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/10/21

We read Chapter 9: ‘The Social Average: Working Hour as the’, and read Chapter 8: ‘ The Social Average Working Hour as the Basis of Consumption’

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Episode 169: #169 Procurement & Capitalist Price...

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/10/16

We talk with the Swedish Procurement Guru Emanuel all about capitalist procurement theory, the flaws of standard economic demand and supply theory, and what allocation, or the lack of, in capitalism can teach us about planning a communist society.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraljic_matrix

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Episode 170: #008 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/10/12

We finish Chapter 7: ‘The Communist Production’, and read Chapter 8: ‘ The Socially Average Working Hour as the Basis of Production’.

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88:37

Episode 169: #007 Fundamental Principles Series

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/10/04

This week we tackle Chapter 6 - ‘ The Social Production Process in General’ and Chapter 7: ‘The Communist Production’.

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3:03

Episode 168: #168 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 3...

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/09/28

This is part three of our detailed discussion with Michael Alberts about Parecon and its planning system.

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Episode 167: #167 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 2

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/09/28

This week, we continue our discussion with Michael Albert, where we take a deep dive in the Parecon planning model.

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Episode 166: #166 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 1

From Alpha To Omega ·

2021/09/23

This week, we talk with Michael Albert about Parecon and his new book No Bosses.This is the first of three episodes with Michael, where we ease into the topic and then we jump off and have great fun as we get into an extremely detailed debate on the planning aspects of Parecon.

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