Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-12-03
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 61
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Andrew (Andrewism) discussed Less is More by Jason Hickel, The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin, and Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Robert Evans recommended Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito. Megan Bodet recommended Sara by Sakine Cansız. Debbie Bookchin discussed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Less is More
Discussed“For one, I think that as Jason Hickle um advocates in his book, less is more, we absolutely need to put an end to the practice of planned obsolescence.”
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The Ecology of Freedom
Discussed“Um you is something that Marie Buchchin social ecologist talks a lot about um in his book the ecology of freedom and it's essentially the freedom of individuals or groups in a community to access and use but not destroy common resources to supply their needs.”
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Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber is an incisive examination of modern employment, exploring how a vast proliferation of high-prestige yet entirely pointless administrative roles came to dominate corporate and bureaucratic culture.
Discussed“Um if you've read jobs by David Greyber, you'll see that a lot of particularly service economy jobs are practically worthless.”
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Marx in the Anthropocene
Marx in the Anthropocene is a book by Kohei Saito that reinterprets Karl Marx's work through an ecological lens, presenting degrowth communism as a necessary response to the climate crisis.
Recommended“So there there's a Japanese Marxist named Kohi Saito who's been writing like a bunch of stuff recently who basically like he he he's been like probably the biggest voice of drowth in Japan and his book Capital anthroposine is finally getting translated into English pretty soon and so yeah check check that out when it comes out.”
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Sara
Sara by Sakine Cansız is the autobiography of a prominent Kurdish revolutionary who co-founded the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
Recommended“one book that I would recommend anyone interested in the Kurdish movement um in revolutionary women's movements anywhere in the world in really any topic related to any of this to read is um the autobiography of Sakina Johnson's who was the only woman present for the founding of the PKK”
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed by Ursula K.
Discussed“Women only women can can decide those issues that are related to to women. And there there are councils at every level and people sending delegates, you know, meeting in their little villages and towns and communities and electing delegates to the next level. It is a true grassroots democracy and it's ecological and it's feminist.”
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