Words Are Wind
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) grabs a recorder and heads to the Labour Day rally. He interviews friends and comrades about the rally, what they think the impact of #ChangeTheRules has been, and if there is any opportunity to broaden and open up struggle? Due to a moments hestitation he didn’t try to interview Sally McManus as she walked past.
Music by Alistair Hulet
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In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk with all-round good egg Troy Henderson (@TroyCHenderson) about the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Troy provides us with an intellectual history and we discuss if it is a techbro attempt to sure up capitalism, a radical social democratic attempt to fix capitalism or if it contains radical elements that point in an anti-capitalist direction? We also talk about why a Jobs Guarantee is horrid and shit.
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Some stuff we may have mentioned or should have:
Helen Razer UBI is just a bedtime story Elon Musk tells himself to help the super-wealthy sleep
Bill Mitchell A basic income guarantee is a neo-liberal strategy for serfdom without the work
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams Inventing the Future Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Antonio Negri Benoît Hamon and Universal Income
Immaterial Workers of the World (Paolo Virno) What Did I Tell You?
Andrew Leigh Why a universal basic income is a terrible idea
Chapo Trap House Episode 123 – UBIsoft feat. Clio Chang (7/10/17)
Music includes Soft Pink Things and The Business both covering CRASS
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Rob talk about how the provision of welfare and social services are changing. We chat about the concept of social reproduction, the welfare state and its evolution and critically investigate new developments. As the mining boom ends, the world teeters on a the edge of another economic meltdown and states struggle with increasing amounts of debt we ask what’s going on with welfare and how can we struggle on this terrain in ways that point to a better life and a better society.
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Material referred to includes:
Multi-million dollar ‘green bonds’ could fund Qld’s climate change strategy
Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group
Back ground on Debt and Social Reproduction can be found at Australia you’re standing in it part 2: Debt & Social Reproduction
An earlier show on the struggle of No Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence can be found here
Everyone should read this issue of Viewpoint on Social Reproduction.
For an inspiring historical of the unemployed struggling over the conditions of welfare see The WOW factor: Wollongong’s unemployed and the dispossession of class and history
And listen to this killer track by Mutant Death (which features an on air argument between the scumbag Bob Hawke and dear comrade and friend Nick)
The Word From Struggle Street 