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Last month in New York City, Ben Burgis and Sohrab Ahmari sat down for an in-person dialogue on left- and right- "populism." Here it is!
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Ben Burgis is joined by Michael Lazarus (author of "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx") and Matt McManus (who needs no introduction to GTAA fans) for a fun three-way exchange on "analytical Marxism" (the tradition Ben works in), Michael's more Hegel-inflected version of Marxism, and Matt's sympathies with both sides.
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Last week Ben Burgis and Jillian Michaels hashed out their disagreements on socialism in an in-person debate in Michaels's studio in LA. Here it is!
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Matt McManus discusses his review of Gabriel Rockhill's Temu-Stalinist conspiracy theory of "western Marxism."
Read Matt's review of Rockhill's "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" in Damage magazine:
https://www.damagemag.com/p/western-marxism-through-the-looking
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A day late because Ben had to write a Jacobin article about all this instead of doing the episode (sorry about that!) but there's a lot to cover. Last Friday he recorded a debate on the war in Iran (hosted by philosopher Spencer Case). In this episode, we play the debate and chat a little bit about the truly bizarre developments since it was recorded. Ben argues that it's good to be clear on what TACO Tuesday was, because that strengthens the anti-war case going forward.
Watch the debate on Spencer's podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScPGb91B2k
Here's the Jacobin article that delayed the episode a day:
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-trump-threat-ceasefire
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Last week at York University in Toronto, there was a panel to pre-launch a book of essays called "Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century: Revisitng G.A. Cohen" co-edited by Ben Burgis and Matt McManus. Contributors Les Jacobs and Christine Sypnowich spoke first, then Matt and Ben. Q&A includes some spicy exchanges on dialectics and whether analytical Marxism is too academic to be of much use to the workers' movement. In this episode, Ben starts with some context on Cohen's life and the major themes of the work and then we play the full video of the panel. At the end, Ben comes back to chat a bit more about the trip to Toronto and the GTAA episode schedule going forward.
Prices in academic publishing being what they are, we can't exactly tell you to go out and buy this thing, but if you want to get your library to order a copy, here's the link for that;
https://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Marxism-Democratic-Socialism-Century/dp/3032028930
Prof. Sypnowich's website:
https://www.christinesypnowich.com/
Prof. Jacobs's profile at York:
https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/jacobs/
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Matt McManus joins to discuss the complicated legacy of philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died last Saturday.
Read Matt's article "Jürgen Habermas Showed What Philosophy Could Be" in Jacobin:
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/habermas-obituary-critical-theory-philosophy
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Returning champ Matt McManus joins us once again, this time to explore a reactionary weirdo who somehow hasn't been the subject of a GTAA episode yet!
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Ben Burgis breaks down the idiotic arguments made by the MAGA faithful in defense of Trump's decision to wage an unprovoked, illegal, open-ended war against a country with far more capacity to defend itself than Afghanistan had in 2001 or Iraq in 2003, and makes the case that opposing it isn't just a question of anti-imperialism or harm-minimization (though it certainly is all that) but that there's a basic question of American democracy at stake.
Read Ben's article in Jacobin:
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-iran-war-public-opinion
Read Branko Marcetic's too while you're at it:
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/trump-iran-war-public-opinion
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Ben Burgis and Matt McManus chat with Laura K. Field about her excellent new book "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds
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Deep State Kuba and New York Cynthia join Ben Burgis to talk about Curtis Yarvin's demented new essay "The Situation and the Solution."
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Marxist Twitter has been fighting about Vivek Chibber lately. Ben Burgis takes the opportunity to address the immediate controversy but also the much broader value of Chibber's work.
Read the Jacobin Chibber interview on the origins of capitalism that everyone is freaking out about:
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy
Read Ben's essay "Taking the Red Pill: William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix":
https://benburgis.substack.com/p/taking-the-red-pill-william-clare
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Ben Burgis talks about why he doesn't buy Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's defense of identity politics in Táíwò's book "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)."
Check out the book:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture
Read Ben's review:
https://damagemag.com/2025/06/11/uncaptured-identity-politics-is-no-substitute-for-a-politics-of-class/
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Are service workers part of the "productive" part of the working class? And what does that mean? How about public sector employees--if they're not productive workers, does that mean that their interests don't align with productive workers and socialists shouldn't support the welfare state after all?
Ben Burgis talks about what the Trotskyist leader and Marxist economist Ernest Mandel gets right and wrong in his introduction to Capital Vol. 2.
Read Ben's essay:
benburgis.substack.com/p/are-service-workers-and-public-sector
Watch the Erik Olin Wright "Understanding Class" lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmiiSSMZPnE
Read his review of Jodi Dean's book:
https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-marx/
Read Dean's response to Ben:
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies-a-response-to-ben-burgis
Read Ben's response to Dean's response:
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-servants-a-response-to-jodi-dean
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Many-time GTAA guest Ana Kasparian went on Bill Maher's podcast Club Random. Ben Burgis watches the part where they argue about Gaza and breaks it down.
Read Ben's article "The “Human Shields” Defense of Bombing Gaza’s Civilians Is Morally Bankrupt":
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/human-shields-bombing-gaza-palestine-israel-defense-forces-morally-bankrupt
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Nick Fuentes is comically vile.
So, why is it so hard to exile him to whatever dark corner of the discourse he deserves to go back to?
One problem is that, when the whole landscape is soaking in ethnic essentialism, it's hard to draw the line at one particular version.
Read Ben's essay:
https://benburgis.substack.com/p/fuentes-is-a-symptom
Link for Andy's show:
https://www.facebook.com/events/s/meat-for-tea-presents-le-cirqu/1201459995272451/Link for the Tallywacker one:
https://brendanboogie.substack.com/p/tallywacker-the-band-live-in-la
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The new edition of "Capital" has been getting a lot of buzz.
But...guys...it's really bad.
Read Ben's essay:
benburgis.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-fowkes-translationRead Matt Huber's thread:
https://x.com/Matthuber78/status/1962512243343385070
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Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's critics on the Left think he's a sell-out for not backing a primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries or firing Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Some of them are about ready to denounce him as a fascist collaborator for sitting down with Donald Trump. Do any of these arguments add up?
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Donald Trump, who we keep hearing is a peacemaker, said his speech for the 250th anniversary of the founding of Navy that the U.S. only lost the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan because we got too "woke" about war tactics. Ben Burgis breaks it down.
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https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-vietnam-afghanistan-war-woke
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Both supporters and opponents of the Labor Theory of Value often assume that the LTV and Marx's theory of capitalist exploitation are a package deal. Others, like G.A. Cohen, have questioned that link. Ben Burgis takes a look at the debate, arguing that these two ideas are related...but not in the way a lot of people assume.
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