Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis
GTAA host Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor, a columnist for Jacobin magazine, and the author of a few books--starting with one with the same name as the podcast. He's debated right-wingers ranging from Charlie Kirk to Walter Block, appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, and been called a "glib c*nt" by Gavin McInnes. Past GTAA guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Ana Kasparian, Richard Wolff, Glenn Greenwald, Sam Seder, Emma Vigeland, Jesse Singal, Norman Finkelstein, Thaddeus Russell, Bhaskar Sunkara, Nathan Robinson, David Pizarro, Tamler Sommers, Matt Christman, Amber Frost, and Touré Reed.
The regular show is at 8 PM EST on Mondays, with a postgame for GTAA patrons starting at 10. There are debate breakdowns at 8 EST every Thursday.
patreon.com/benburgis
Give Them An Argument w/Ben Burgis
In six days (on Election Day), join me, RM Brown, Anders Lee, and Naomi Karavani for a Mamdani Derangement podcast in the performance space in the basement of Bar Freda in Queens. Doors at 6:30, show starts at 7. if nothing goes wrong between now and then, join us upstairs in the main bar area after the podcast to celebrate the glorious inauguration of the Marxist Taqqiya-ist Queer Liberation Police Defunding Sharia Law NYC Caliphate!
www.barfreda.com/#/events/156966
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No episode today, sorry! I'm on a road trip right now and I thought I was going to be able to stop in a Starbucks or something on the road and do it from there, but it's not happening. I'll be getting back to California late Sunday night, though, and doing the episode we had planned for today at the usual time slot Monday morning. As a sneak preview, here's the image Andy already made for it:
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My "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us" talk for Atlanta DSA is coming up tonight at 6 PM at the DSA office at 711 Catherine St--if you apply stern pressure, you might be able to twist my arm (and perhaps even Matt McManus's arm) into getting a beer after:
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This Friday in NYC!
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Tomorrow in LA!
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No episode tonight, sorry! Still traveling and in any case don't like making the crew work on Memorial Day. But here's an article! I'm in Sublation magazine today responding to Jodi Dean's response to me on "neofeudalism."
If you want to go all the way down this rabbit hole, here's the original article of mine she was responding to:
unherd.com/2025/05/the-21st-century-belongs-to-mar…
....here's Dean's response to that:
www.sublationmag.com/post/analogies-and-tendencies…
...and, bringing us up to date, here's my article today responding to Dean:
www.sublationmag.com/post/service-workers-aren-t-s…
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(Online) Capital Class Update:
We just finished Vol. 1, and we're in the middle of a two-week break now while I travel, but as of now, the plan is that we're going to spend the first four Sundays in June reading Marx's "Results of the Immediate Process of Production" (included as an appendix to Vol. 1 if you've got the Penguin edition), take another one-week break while I'm at my brother-in-law's wedding, and then start up on Vol. 2 on the first Sunday in July. If you've already read Vol. 1 and fancy the idea of digging your teeth into Vol. 2, now would be a perfect time to join the class, but also, anyone who enrolls at any time gets immediate access to all 33 of the Vol. 1 class recordings (as well as of course each new week of the "Results.." and then Vol. 2).
You can join by signing up at the Capital class tier here:
patreon.com/Benburgis/join
...and if you happen to live in Los Angeles, the free in-person version meets on Wednesday evenings at 7 PM at Cafe Mak in Koreatown. We're obviously also on break from that while I travel, but we're going to be reading Vol. 1 Ch. 9 the Wednesday after next.
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No episode tonight, sorry! Facing a book deadline and I really have to spend all day writing. Good news is that both of the guests I was going to have on tonight (Matthew McManus & Michael O'Neill Burns) can reschedule for June.
BTW, while we obviously don't quite have a complete manuscript yet (we really are getting very close!), Verso already does have a cover, which is very cool:
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Ben is at a conference right now, so can’t do a live episode. We thought we’d have a prerecorded video we could use but that alas is also not to be. Many apologies for the missed episode! We’ll be back next Monday and meanwhile if you’re looking for some light reading to do this evening when you’d normally be watching GTAA, there’s always this:
benburgis.substack.com/p/walter-block-and-the-pris…
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I had a fun conversation with padawan podcaster 1Dime about the election, Rogan, AOC, the culture war, my second book, and a lot of other stuff I don't remember all of now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQi_T...
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