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Get access to The Backroom (80+ EXCLUSIVE episodes): https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠Given there is some confusion regarding my positions on immigration, I decided to release the BACKROOM exclusive episode (originally supposed to be for Patrons only) that I did with Benjamin Studebaker (Cambridge, and author of the Chronic Crisis of American Democracy) all on the subject of immigration,—what both the left and right get wrong, and what leftists & liberals don't understand about the rise of the far-right in Europe. This episode is a heavy one! The conversation delves into the complexities of immigration and why the left needs a better response to mass migration and how the far-right captured many working class people across the world. We address topics such as the assimilation, social cohesion, demographic change, brain drain, declining bargaining power, and the socio-economic impacts of immigration, globalization, and neoliberalism more broadly. The dialogue also touches on the challenges and necessities of having an open discourse on immigration without falling into binary thinking ideological trap.Timestamps: 00:00 How Leftists and and Liberals Often Respond to immigration04:25 Social Cohesion and Integration12:55 Brain Drain and Economic Imperialism 18:46 Assimilation Challenges30:58 Modern Immigration Policies45:21 European Union and Migration55:07 Racism, Xenophobia and tribalism56:05 Trust and Integration in Multi-Ethnic Societies58:27 Leftist and Liberal Perspectives on Immigration01:05:22 Cosmopolitanism vs. Localism01:24:09 The Role of the Professional Managerial Class (PMC)01:34:45 Technocratic Mindset and Immigration01:39:58 Its about more than "Living Standards"01:41:45 Internationalism and Globalism Critique01:45:39 Managerialism in Progressivism01:52:14 Challenges of Assimilation and Immigration02:27:13 Climate Change and Refugee Crisis02:28:31 Concluding Thoughts on Political DiscourseGUEST:Benjamin Studebaker — political theorist; author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of Liberal Democracy.• Website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/about/• Follow Benjamin Studebaker on X: https://x.com/BMStudebakerFOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://substack.com/@tonyof1dime • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: / tonyof1dime• Check out my main channel videos: / @1dimeeCheck out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee.Outro Music by Karl Casey. Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Debunking Ray Dalio's viral video (and book) titled "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order." Ray Dalio is a billionaire investor who recently released a video titled "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order" (which is based on his book of the same title): https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8 The video put together by his team has been heavily promoted by the YouTube algorithm, reaching a a staggering 15 MILLION views. However, the video is filled with bad economics, blatant contradictions, ideological myths, misleading generalizations of history, and a backward neoliberal understanding of how money and inflation work. Dalio's flawed assumptions about economic history and the nature of money shape his problematic implications and neoliberal technocratic "centrist" political prescriptions. This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast aims to debunk this Ray Dalio's video by deconstructing his talking points. In doing so, I am joined by Andrés Bernal, a MMT advocate, researcher, lecturer, and policy adviser (former advisor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). You can find his links and some of his work here:  Andrés Bernal Twitter: https://twitter.com/andresintheory Andrés Bernal on MMT as a theory of Inflation: https://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/WP-132.pdf Andrés on the Green New Deal: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-green-new-deal-cost_n_5c0042b2e4b027f1097bda5b Money on the Left: https://moneyontheleft.org/2022/04/09/economics-as-discourse/ The Modern Money Movement: https://mronline.org/2019/08/15/the-modern-money-movement-with-andres-bernal/ Podcast Timestamp:  0:00 Intro 6:10 Who is Ray Dalio?   10:55 Ray Dalio's False Assumptions 1:03:50 Ray Dalio's contradictory politics 1:41:20 Imperialist Realism Support 1Dime on Patreon and get access to bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5 Star Rating on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Cryptocurrency is filled with ponzi schemes, but so is the entire tech sector. Chris from the Beyond Binary Thinking Podcast joins me to talk about how Silicon Valley is filled with faux utopian lies, Ponzi schemes, and marketing myths of "innovation." We discuss the current stock market crash, the 2008 financial crash, the dot-com bubble, and whether or not the current tech bubble will burst.    Chris has first-hand experience in the tech sector as the Co founder of a successful software company, which is why he's talking with me today about why he believes we're in a tech bubble that's about to burst. Chris is host of the podcast Beyond Binary Thinking, exploring the nuance beyond the debates in politics, philosophy and economics.    You can find the Beyond Binary Thinking Podcast here: https://youtu.be/mezZsfkj55k  The stock market is crashing, the cryptocurrency market is crashing, and many companies are on the verge of collapse following the Federal Reserve deciding to raise interest rates. With a fragile economy fueled on private debt, a raise in interest rates is enough to collapse the market like a house of cards. Or is it? Could the state keep propping up this bubble economy with central bank money?  Let us know what you think! Get exclusive 1Dime podcasts on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5 Star Rating on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Kieran Fong, a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Edmonton, Canada whose films focus on controversial social issues.  In January, he released his documentary short "Hippocrates: A Guide to Treating Healthcare Workers" on YouTube, which explored the privatization of Canadian healthcare: https://youtu.be/ix7qCwiadoE By releasing his film, he hopes to expose the corruption of conservative government's healthcare management while also highlighting solutions to improve healthcare systems around the world.  Canada's Healthcare system is often touted by American leftists and liberals as the mode to aspire to. Bernie Sanders frequently cited Canada's "Medicare for all" system as the model that America should seek to follow. But a closer examination of the reality reveals something different. Canada's healthcare system has been gradually privatized and cut ever since the rise of neoliberalism and the quality the system provides has significantly diminished.  Watch Kieran Fong's short minidocumentary to learn more about the bleak realities of Canadian Healthcare and the lessons leftists around the world can learn form it. In this podcast, talk about how Canada got healthcare in the first place with Tommy Douglass and the Canadian socialist movement, and then how Canada has gradually lost it's healthcare pillages. We also discuss how to improve healthcare systems and how to use what is happening to bring people to the left.  Check out Kieran Fong's Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCss9QzRe66XXTeRuOGdpLOA Support 1Dime on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime   Be sure to give the podcast a 5 Star Rating on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Part 3: Was The Soviet Union "Socialist'? on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Part 2 on the Marxist Project's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNalGyK3DaK37GTLIHSwmyA/featured  In this podcast I am joined by YouTuber, friend, and grad student The Marxist Project, who makes excellent videos on Marxist theory and Soviet history.  In this in-depth podcast, we put into question various competing narratives that aim to rationalize the tragedy of the Soviet Union. We talk about some of the many problems in the Soviet Union and various historical narratives about what went wrong and what lead to it's demise.    For this podcast, we try to avoid the hurdles of one dimensional narratives from various ideological tendencies (Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Left Communism, Orthodox Marxism, Anarchism, Liberalism, conservatism, etc..) and try to give a balanced analysis of the USSR and the problems it faced.   Check out The Marxist Project's video on the Fall of the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/N7Z-D4eybZI  Timestamp:   0:00 Intro 6:10 The Collapse of the Soviet Union   16:28 The Civil War: Doomed From The Start?   27:58 Semi-Feudal Underdevelopment  41:33 Collectivization, WW2, and Industrialization   57:54 Famines, Incentives, and Lysenkoism  1:10:00 Repression and Civil Liberties  1:28:32 The Red Purges and Opportunism  1:48:32 Was the USSR Democratic?   2:13:10 Contrarianism and Denialism  2:20:41 Central Planning    Book recommendations on Soviet History:  The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin  A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner  October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville  The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State by Boris Kagarlitsky  Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick   Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak  Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System by David Kotz This is part of a 3 part series on the political problems in the Soviet Union. Part 2 will be on the Marxist Project's channel and Part 3 will be a Patreon exclusive podcast only available to my lovely Patrons (:   Support 1Dime on Patreon at patreon.com/OneDime