We are joined by everyone's favorite tweet thread boi, @yungneocon, to talk about whether Soviet-style central planning is any more or less capable of addressing ecological crises than capitalism. We also discuss our favorite leftist policy guy, Matty B.
Thread on forced settlement: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1120483025593282561
Thread on energy & ecology: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1094707171361767424
Big buncha free books: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1118335036246364161
Sources mentioned by yungneocon:
Against the Grain - James C. Scott (Ryan also highly recommends this one)
Farm to Factory - Robert C. Allen
A New Welfare Theory - Albert & Hahnel
The Mirage of an Economics of Knowledge - Philip Mirowski
What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism - Magdoff & Foster
The Origins of Fossil Capital - Malm
Protocol - Alexander Galloway
Soviet Faiths & Lost Alternatives
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak
The Entrepreneurial State
Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
Magnetic Mountain
403: Going to Whole Foods to Buy Some Blood
402: John Sbarro Really Wants You To Pay More Taxes
401: Pigpen Creates the First Diabetes Plantation
311: "The Gang Tries to Learn LTV"
310: If you're by yourself is it called a "onesome"?
309: Chipotle's Special Sauce
308: The Secret to Immortality
307: 300,000 Tons of Candy
306: How to Own Large Boats and Be Friends with Shipping Magnates
305b: Buying Shares of a Colony, pt. 2
305a: Buying Shares of a Colony, pt. 1
304: Doing Business Deals to Make Crystal Balls for Evil Wizards
303: Let's Paint a Cheerful Phoenician Sky
302: In Conclusion, North Carolina is a Lagoon of Pig Shit
301: The Value of Gohan in the Son Goku Period of Japan
236: McManorialism
235: Tomorrow Night, You Die
234: Funding the DSA with Anarchist Pirate Crews (w/Reed)
233: Kado: The Wrong Ending
232: 100% Marginal Income Tax
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