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
231: Vince McMahon: Big Business Tyrant (w/Bryan Quinby)
230: Corporations are Fetal States
229: Neighborhood Bloc Party
228: Total Derailment
227: AT&T and Time-Warner, Sittin' in a Court Room, M-E-R-G-I-N-G
226: If marxism-communism is so great ,,
225: Tesla Face-Ripping Rally
224: Stark Still Sells Bombs
223: The Millionaires and the Billionaires!
222: Billionaires: Gollum Belson
221: Capital as Power 3: Buying up all the innovation
220: The Invisible Reach Around
219: Adhocracy
218: Capital as Power 2: It's Sabotage
217: Mother of God
216: My Liege Academia
215: Mike Zuckerberg, who?
214: Capital as Power 1: Why CasP/What is Capital?
213: One Mob Psycho Punch Man 100
212: The House of Mouse's War on Netflix
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