The Skeptical Leftist Podcast

So I got a message a few weeks ago from Stafford telling me about a book he's writing about the Transendence Movement and anarchism and it sounded great so I got him to go through my process and book an interview. The day that it came to talk to him I was a bit sick but I toughed it out and we made it through, had a great conversation, and happily promoted his book (which isn't quite finished but will be soon). I hope you enjoy this chat. In the intro I talk about the recent policy by the Saskatchewan government on pronouns and names in public schools. For more from me on that subject check out my substack article. ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/theskepticalleftist/p/saskatchewans-new-policy-on-pronouns?r=iu0tj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web⁠ Make sure to follow Stafford on Twitter(X) ⁠https://twitter.com/TheChurchofTra1⁠ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - ⁠www.skepticalleftist.com⁠ You can rate and review the show here - ⁠https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751⁠ You can support the show here - -⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist⁠ - ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty⁠

In this episode of Red Reviews Justin and I talk Star Trek! More specifically we talk about the economics of Star Trek and the book Trekonomics by Manu Saadia.  Before we got started we talked about Mike Rinder's cancer diagnosis and how people can go to his blog mikerindersblog.com to donate. You can get a copy of Trekonomics here https://www.amazon.com/Trekonomics-Economics-Star-Manu-Saadia/dp/1941758754 You can check out Justin's blog about Star Trek here https://www.justinclark.org/blog/the-humanism-of-star-trek-what-we-can-learn-from-the-final-frontier You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

Hi and welcome to the next installment of Red Reviews. In this one Justin and I talked about Erich Fromm’s book, Marx’s Concept of Man which is a book that discusses the humanism of Marx and how the philosophy of socialism has been co-opted by anti-humanist tendencies as well as exploring the humanism of Marx.  Erich Fromm was a psychologist, a psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition, while also reinterpreting Freud and psychoanalysis to be more humanistic and less orthodox. He had an interest in the cross section of psychoanalysis and Freud and Marxism. He was exposed to Marxism at a young age (possibly teens) and like many thinkers in the Marxist Humanist tradition he was particularly attracted to the early writing of Marx. Marx’s Concept of Man  was written in 1961 and is split in two sections. In the first half of the book is Fromm’s essay on Marx’s concept of man and the second half is Marx’s own writings, namely, Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Check out Justin's content at https://www.justinclark.org/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode of the podcast we talk about God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens and Reason, Faith, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton. The conversation takes us through some criticisms of Hitchens and the New Atheist Movement which Justin and I were both part of and then we talk about the value of faith and spirituality and how these things fit into a materialist Marxist worldview. You can get a copy of these books here https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/god-is-not-great-how/9780771041433-item.html and here https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300164534/reason-faith-and-revolution/ Here are a couple links for things we talk about in the episode https://jacobin.com/2014/12/new-atheism-old-empire/ https://philpapers.org/archive/pignaa.pdf Here are Justin's links https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph https://www.in.gov/history/ https://blog.history.in.gov/ https://newspapers.library.in.gov/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode of Red Reviews we talk Humanism and Marxism in a discussion of the book, Towards a Marxist Humanism. You can check out a free copy of this book on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/towardmarxisthum00koak/page/n9/mode/2up Justin's Links https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph https://www.in.gov/history/ https://blog.history.in.gov/ https://newspapers.library.in.gov/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

I had a friendly discussion with Physicist Chris about whether crypto is a con or not. Some argue that it's just for the rich, while others see it as a good long term investment. What's your take? #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #skeptical Here are some links for Chris' content https://twitter.com/PhysicistChris https://cbirkinbine.info/series/adashofscience/ https://www.twitch.tv/physicistchris Links for crypto criticism https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/160_everyone_hates_vcs_after_the_svb_collapse_w_jacob_silverman/ https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/147_ftx_goes_to_zero_w_molly_white/ https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/117_tech_media_needs_to_do_better_on_crypto_and_elon_musk_w_ed_zitron/ https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/115_unstablecoins_and_the_crypto_crash_w_bennett_tomlin/ https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/112_the_financialization_of_everything_w_edward_ongweso_jr/ https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/67_bitcoin_is_a_right_wing_technology_w_david_golumbia/ Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse The Trouble With Banking On Bitcoin with Jason Bloomberg You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode Justin and Cory talk about the book Respectful Atheism by Thomas Sheridan Check out Justin's writing and other work https://www.justinclark.org/ https://www.instagram.com/justinclarkph/ https://www.tiktok.com/@justinclarkph You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode I talked to Jeff Thomas Black about the gig economy, the oppression of workers, and AI. Jeff it very knowledgable on this subject and is writing a book, a blog, and doing his own podcast about it over on his substack. Jeff’s linkshttps://jeffthomasblack.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@JeffThomasBlack https://jeffthomasblack.beehiiv.com/p/full-dashclosure-audiobook-podcast-newsletter https://medium.com/@jblack501c3 https://www.patreon.com/JeffThomasBlack You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode Cory and Justin talk about a collection of works by a variety of people called Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red. Get yourself a copy from PM Presshttps://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=858  Check out Justin's website https://www.justinclark.org/ You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty

In this episode I talked to Sally from the Youtube channel AnRel. It was less of an interview and more of just a nice conversation. Sally is a very cool and smart person and makes great videos that you should check out Here are a couple links for her stuff https://www.youtube.com/@AnRel https://twitter.com/Sallysm https://twitter.com/AnarchoRelating You can check out the full shownotes with pictures on my website - www.skepticalleftist.com You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751 You can support the show here - - https://www.patreon.com/skepticalleftist - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/skepticallefty