In this special #qldvotes2017 episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) engage in all the froth and illusion of electoral politics. We chat about the broader situation in Queensland and the impact of the slowdown of capital accumulation and the rise in state debt and the general degeneration of all the major parties. What is the ALP government all about and why is it so boring? What is left of the LNP and what kind of reactionary mindblowingness is One Nation engaged in now? Why are power bills rising and why are the mainstream solutions so shit?
We end the podcast with a chat about the revitalised and radical campaign of the Greens. Can this contribute to radically changing society? What are its promises and what are its limitations? Can elections play any role in anti-capitalist strategy? If so what? Is this a new way forward or old-school recuperation?
Some of the stuff we mention is:
Policing Newman’s Crisis: Law and order, hegemony and the State
Roads to Nowhere – Capital’s Plan A
Thwaites Report
Grattan Institute on Energy
Refusing Survival: What Happens If We Don’t Save the World From Climate Change?
by Nicholas Beuret
Living The Dream After the End of the Albanese Hegemony
Shameless Plug
Living The Dream After White Australia Episode 4: The White Possessive
Living The Dream whilst Leaving 2021
Living The Dream with Anarchy and its Allies
Living The Dream After White Australia EP3: White Nation
Living The Dream After White Australia Ep2: A New Britannia
Living The Dream After White Australia Part 1
Living The Dream with Full Employment
Living The Dream with a Climate Emergency, COVID-19 and The Australian State
Living The Dream with a Workers’ Plan To Survive Covid-19 Crisis
Living The Dream in the time of COVID-19
Living The Dream with COVID-19 and a Recession
Living The Dream against anti-Chinese Racism
Living The Dream with a Green New Deal
Living the Dream with ScoMo
Living The Dream during #Ausvotes2019
Living The Dream with Acid Communism and/or Acid Corbynism
Living the Dream at Deebing Creek
Living the Dream with the Struggle to Decriminalise Sex Work
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