Give Them An Argument

We"re back! This last weekend, Ben Burgis was at an international conference of socialist, communist, and labor parties in Mexico City hosted by the Partido del Trabajo (the smallest but furthest left of the three parties in Claudia Sheinbaum"s coalition). He introduced Richard Wolff to the assembled delegates, and Wol

After a four-year run on the show, Producer Jake is saying goodbye. (Although presumably he"ll be saying "hello" again on some future episodes as a guest.) One of his predecessors, Producer Cale, joins us to see the lad off. Jay Zeroni, who"s never been a GTAA producer but is still a good guy, joins us in the postgame

Jacobin writer and editor Meagan Day joins us to talk about what reactionary "tradwife" influencers are latching onto, and how social democracy can actually help families in a way that ugly anti-feminist culture war can"t. Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument on what the Epstein scandal says about our late capital

The crossover event the world has eagerly awaited is here (OK, well, some of us are excited)--Matt McManus and Stormin" Norman Finkelstein on the same podcast episode. As it turns out, they share an interest in John Stuart Mill, so we thought it might be interesting to explore that. Before that, Ben does an Opening Arg

Nicholas Vrousalis, author of "Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust" joins Ben Burgis to talk about his book, how to rigorously think about capitalist exploitation, what it was like to work with G.A. Cohen in grad school, and more. Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument about the bizarro argument

Steve Paxton studied with the great Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen as a graduate student at Oxford. Since then, he"s had blue-collar jobs, white collar jobs, and been unemployed, but he"s never stopped writing and thinking about socialism and Marxism. For this special Bastille Day episode, Ben Burgis talks with Steve a