419b: Merit is for Scouts

**This is Part 2, if you have not listened to Part 1, go to the previous episode first**

We are joined by John (@exJohnValdez) from Pastrami Hour to talk about an article Ryan wrote on the state & class.

419a: Merit is for Scouts

We are joined by John (@exJohnValdez) from Pastrami Hour to talk about an article Ryan wrote on the state & class.

417: Hypothetical carbon sucking machine gosplan (w/yungneocon)

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

311: “The Gang Tries to Learn LTV”

In this corner, weighing in at 210 IQ, representing the infallible modern future sight of the ghost ideology, Ryan "the greatest epic genius of all time" Salisbury!

And in this corner, weighing in at 209 IQ, representing 150-year old pseudo-intellectual pig slop, Kris "pretty good but not quite as good as Ryan" Nivens!

Ding ding ding!

Here's the (still WIP) article we're talking about

P.S. Guess what, I was right about the Google search URL. This is a useful talent that I am proud of.

230: Corporations are Fetal States

Ryan had to go to a wedding this weekend, so we couldn't do an episode this week. Instead we're releasing this old episode about corporations as organs of the state. I haven't listened to it since February, so it could be awesome or terrible. Let me know, unless it's not good, in which case just tell me you liked it anyway.