Morning Comrades and welcome back to this little part of our world. I am sure some of you paying subscribers have been wondering where in the hell their email was this week and yes, that is coming, but occasionally life gets in the way, in this case a court case and some additional local happenings that required my attention. Rest assured, it is lined up. Without much more ramblings and as I am wrapping up another week I wanted to suggest some infotainment in visual format to you to wrestle you away from the omnipresent propaganda outlets we all enjoy a little too much.
First up, a new episode from Philosophy Tube. Now, I have only watched this twice in the last 24 hours but damn, if you watch one show this weekend make this is. Whilst I don’t agree with everything Ms. Thorn says in this it is just that good. I do struggle with her and the general obsession with Jordan Peterson, considering that I find his contribution to any and all intellectual discourse as valuable as liquid diarrhea yet she manages to review his new book and in turn it into another hugely valuable lesson in logic, philosophical history and relates all of that to question that are currently relevant, more so than most philosophers presently working I know. Again, whatever criticism I have on her work are minuscule in comparison to her contribution and insight. Seriously, watch and re-watch this.
"The point of accusing your enemies of being fueled by resentment is that it gives you an excuse not to listen to them."
This next documentary is very much in line with Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine as it examines the question of our financial world and the havoc it causes. This film explores the reasons for our risky financial system, and looks at how the financial world could be reshaped to be better prepared for the future.
Following this, an extremely on point discussion and book review from The Left Book Club on Zero-Hours by the AngryWorkers collective. AngryWorkers, a small political collective, spent six years organising in London’s industrial backyard, mainly in the food manufacturing and logistics sector. This book is about their experience of building worker's power on the ground and what strategies are most effective.
“We wanted to pay more than just lip service to the classic slogan, ‘the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.’ We worked in a dozen different warehouses and factories. We organised slowdowns on shop floors, rocked up on bosses’ and landlords’ doors with our solidarity network, and banged our heads against brick walls as shop stewards in the bigger unions. We tried to rebuild class power and create a small cell of a revolutionary organisation. This book documents our experiences. It is material for getting rooted. It is a call for an independent working class organisation.”
There is heaps more I wanted to share with you, so there is a small possibility of another Sunday dump ( did you all enjoy that one? ) but here is your selection of rage and the fuckening.