Posts Tagged ‘anti-capitalism’

Capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme! Exploring Anti-Capitalist Alternatives

Posted: January 16, 2024 in Uncategorized
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Meg and Nick in the 3CR studio.

You can listen to this episode above, on Libysn and you can also download it on Archive.org (50mins, 35MB). Subscribe to our podcast on your favourite app – we’re on a bunch including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Podcast Addict.

On episode 299 Nick is joined by Meg and Lottie to discuss anti-capitalist alternatives, with a focus on socialism and anarchism.

This show is a Summer Special from 3CR Community Radio – you can hear this discussion with the music included on the Freedom of Species page on the 3CR website.

Additional resources:

Movies and TV shows referred to:

  • I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.
  • Peep Show.
  • Office Space.
  • On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

You can listen to the 3CR Palestine Special mentioned during this show here.

Intro music: Embrace by ItsWatR.

Relevant songs that we mentioned but didn’t play were Everything I Am by Lowkey and The Wasteland by Chumbawamba. You can hear these songs on the Freedom of Species page as mentioned above, as well as on our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’. Nick also gives daily music recommendations on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

Episode 266: Everyday Anti-Capitalism with Nic from Pynk Spots

Posted: June 5, 2021 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and add us to your favourites on Stitcher. You can also listen to it on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (51mins, 29MB).

Nick is joined by Nic from Pynk Spots (pictured above) to discuss what capitalism is and why we are anti-capitalists, as well as subtle ways we try to disrupt capitalist logic in our everyday lives. The discussion features analysis of capitalism and pop culture, as well as challenging the capitalist idea we have to constantly be productive, including on social media.

This episode is a continuation of the discussion featured on our last episode ‘Disrupting An Ableist, Capitalist Mindset Within Social Movements, Featuring Two Nic’s’. This discussion is also available in video form on Youtube here and below:

Links:

  • Make sure you subscribe to Pynk Spots on Youtube and your favourite podcast app! A great place to start if you enjoyed the topics covered on this show is: ‘009 Shy & Introvert Advice for Public Speaking with Pearson’ – available in both podcast and video format.
  • The Take: Documentary about worker co-operatives and direct democracy.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, MARINA ‘Purge The Poison‘.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

Episode 265: Disrupting An Ableist, Capitalist Mindset Within Social Movements – Featuring Two Nic’s

Posted: May 29, 2021 in Uncategorized
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Nic looks on as Nick shows a standard week from his overloaded 2020 diary/to-do list.

You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and add us to your favourites on Stitcher. You can also listen to it on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (52mins, 29MB).

Nick is joined by Nic from Pynk Spots to discuss the importance of including a wide range of ways to make change within social movements, to reduce burnout and challenge ableism.

This discussion is also available in video form on Youtube here and below:

Links:

https://twitter.com/solnotsilence/status/1389494493779476480
  • Video from Will Potter on mental health, journalism and activism.
  • Check out The Rosie Project book series for more on neurodiversity, especially the third book in this series The Rosie Result.

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Clips:

Petrol Girls ‘Strike’, Solidarity Not Silence ‘This is Sisterhood’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHNlUY2V24&ab_channel=SolidarityNotSilence

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

Episode 197: Destroy Capitalism! Just kidding…But not really*

Posted: January 9, 2018 in Uncategorized
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A slide from Mike’s talk which is discussed on this episode, with the caption explaining the audience’s reaction.

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (48mins, 37MB).

This episode features designer and anthropologist Michael Palmyre who elaborates on some of the themes touched on in his talk ‘Are We Using Design to Make the World a Less Valuable Place?’. This talk was played on our last episode, #196.

More specifically, the discussion covers: the reaction to the talk, especially because it featured “the c word”; questioning whether economic growth really make our lives better; slavery and capitalism; the books Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There; Star Wars and the military industrial complex; mental health and capitalism; and Cracked on apocalyptic movies, zombies and vampires.

The final part of our discussion with Mike is played on episode 198.

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Clips:

Local Resident Failure ‘The Opener’, Bill Hicks ‘Vs the Audience 2’ from the album ‘Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1’, Does economic growth really make our lives better? Anthropologist Jason Hickel says it’s killing us, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in The Sims 3: Chapter 18.

*Title inspired by a quote from the movie Dodgeball, coz we’re that highbrow!

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