Living the Dream

Feb 03 2025 81 ep. 57 mins 1.7k
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Radical anti-capitalist investigation, discussion and debate from Brisbane Australia. http://thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com

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Living the Dream Under Administration

Feb 03 2025 79 mins  
In this episode, recorded in October 2024, Jon and Dave chat with friend of the show and all-around good egg Elizabeth Humphrys about the Labour Movement’s (both the ALP and Trade Unions) actions to put the CFMEU under administration. Just what is going on? You can read more of Liz’s prolific output here. Listeners may be interested in this building industry rank and file n

Living the Dream with Disaster Communism

Aug 13 2024 72 mins  
In this episode Dave chats with Nick Southall about his new book Disaster Communism and Anarchy in the Streets You can buy a copy of Nick’s book from the publisher Kembla Books Nick’s blog is Revolts Now . Here you can find a collection of his work: including that on the Wollongong Out of Workers Union, his PhD thesis, reflections on his life in the Communist Party of Austr

Living The Dream After the End of the Albanese Hegemony

Feb 18 2024 71 mins  
Well it’s been a while, but Living the Dream is back! Jon and Dave welcome in 2024 by discussing how in 2023 the Albanese Hegemony disintegrated. We discuss what the Laborist project looked like coming out of the 2022 election, and how over 2023 between the costs of living crisis and the failure of the Voice referendum the wheels fell off and more importantly why we should or s

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Aug 15 2023 1 mins  
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Living The Dream After White Australia Episode 4: The White Possessive

Dec 27 2022 74 mins  
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) discuss The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman from Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Quandamooka First Nation (Moreton Bay) in Queensland, Australia and is Professor of Indigenous Research at the University of Queensland. Moreton-Robinson’s work provides a root-and-b

Living The Dream whilst Leaving 2021

Dec 31 2021 77 mins  
Recorded just before Xmas in this episode Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk about 2021. Unsurprisingly we talk a lot about the global pandemic and the attempts to manage it. We discuss the continual rise of an insurgent Right that seems to have become the pole for much of social rebellion at the same time large sections of the Left have further invested in fantasie

Living The Dream with Anarchy and its Allies

Nov 24 2021 52 mins  
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with two anarchist comrades Tommy (@correnterosso) and Charlie about Tommy’s recent article Anarchy and Its Allies: The United Front and the Groupings of Tendency and the related rise in anarcho-communist organisations in Australia. We chat about how anarchism is developing andthe current appeal of Platformism and Especifismo . Topics

Living The Dream After White Australia EP3: White Nation

Mar 29 2021 59 mins  
In this episode Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) continue their discussion about race, whiteness and Australia. This time they are reading Ghassan Hage’s classic of 90s Theory White Nation. We talk through his ideas about Whiteness, White Nationalism and fantasy, his critique of tolerance and multiculturalism and try to work out what these ideas give us and also what

Living The Dream After White Australia Ep2: A New Britannia

Sep 28 2020 67 mins  
In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Jon (@JonPiccini) discuss Humphrey McQueen's A New Britannia. This is the first of three books we are reading as part of a series on race and capitalism in Australia, We try to come to grips with his argument and its explanation for racism arising from the specifics of class formation in Australia, how it challenged established Leftwing t

Living The Dream After White Australia Part 1

Aug 04 2020 55 mins  
This is part 1 of our new reading series on race in Australia and the struggle against it. Over the next 3 or so months Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) will be reading A New Britannia by Humphrey McQueen, White Nation by Ghassan Hage and The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. In this episode we set out why we are doing this, our thinking at this point in tim