In Episode Three of the CounterVortex [7] podcast, Bill Weinberg [8] expounds on the concept of the countervortex [9]. Making note of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [10]' decision to advance the minute hand of its Doomsday Clock to two minutes of midnight, he discusses the current global dilemma in light of EP Thompson [11]'s 1980 essay Notes on Exterminism, the Last Stage of Civilization [12], and Rosa Luxemburg [13]'s positing of humanity's imminent future as either "socialism or barbarism [14]." What are the prospects for resisting the global vortex of ecological collapse, totalitarianism and permanent war in the age of Trump and Putin? This is a question that goes beyond the personalities involved, and requires a profound critique of the underlying political economy that elevates such pathological personalities to the highest levels of power. You can listen on SoundCloud [15], and support our ongoing podcast via Patreon [16].
Music: The Fugs, "Four Minutes to Twelve [18]"
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