How the Hippies Became Yuppies: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Release Date: 07/03/2021
The Technofeudal Roadmap to Socialism
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I hit 50k subs! Here's some questions and answers! Join my Discord server: https://discord.gg/sfHRjccnt9 Support this channel at https://patreon.com/ericrosenfield for early, ad-free episodes, exclusive author's notes, bonus essays, and more for only $1/mo. Bibliography: Video about the problems with DeleteMe and Incogni: https://youtu.be/iX3JT6q3AxA Video about the problems with VPNs: https://youtu.be/mIwfNw5UaHA?si=oi065lcla5vGw_0Y How Meta used a VPN to spy on people: https://twinsilos.substack.com/p/zuckerbergs-120m-spy-app-how-meta How the advantage of centrism on "electability" has...
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The Medievalization of Work and the Cooperative Cure
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With the economy getting more technofeudal, work is getting more medieval. What if this could play into the hands of creating a more cooperative economy that's better for everyone and not just the rich? Text version: https://literatemachine.com/2026/09/07/the-medievalization-of-work-and-the-cooperative-cure/ Bibliography: https://literatemachine.com/2026/09/07/the-medievalization-of-work-and-the-cooperative-cure/#bibliography Audio version on your favorite podcast app. Support this project at for early, ad-free videos, exclusive authors notes, and bonus material for only $1/mo. ...
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Is Ground News a Right Wing Psy-Op?
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Ground News and the War on Truth
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Ground News bills itself as a way to evaluate bias in the news, but the way it does so plays into the hands of those who have a reason to make you think all news bias falls into a simple left-right spectrum Bibliography: https://literatemachine.com/2026/07/29/ground-news-and-the-war-on-reality/#bibliography Text version: https://literatemachine.com/2026/07/29/ground-news-and-the-war-on-reality/ Support this channel at https://patreon.com/ericrosenfield and get early, ad-free episodes and more for only $1, including the bonus chapter to this episode about Walter Lippmann ("The Manufacture...
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Why Infinite Growth is not Possible
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Innovation and the stars will not be enough to give us infinite growth in a capitalist economy and all you have to do to know why is look at the evidence Support this project at https://patreon.com/ericrosenfield and get early, ad free episodes, exclusive author's notes, and more for only $1. Support via one-time donation at: Text Version: YouTube version: Bibliography:
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Anti-Life or How Capitalism Will Die (with Math)
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It seems like the entire economy is being sucked up into the realm of the ultra-rich. Let's explore why this looks like the beginning of the end. Support this project on Patreon at https://patreon.com/ericrosenfield and get early, ad-free episodes, exclusive author's notes, and other extras for only $1. Text version: https://literatemachine.com/2026/05/26/anti-life-or-how-capitalism-will-die-with-math/ Video version: https://youtu.be/M-_W1qVE9Ks Bibliography: https://literatemachine.com/2026/05/26/anti-life-or-how-capitalism-will-die-with-math/#bibliography
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The book V for Vendetta posits a battle for the soul of the country between Anarchism and Fascism, freedom and oppression. But what if revolution doesn't happen the way we think it does? Bibliography: https://literatemachine.com/2026/03/24/anarchism-and-the-promise-of-revolution-v-for-vendetta/#bibliography
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**Bibliography and Further Reading**
* Abbie Hoffman testimony at the Chicago 7 trial: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Hoffman.html
* Differences between the film and what really happened: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/trial-of-the-chicago-7/
* Wikipedia page about COINTELPRO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
* _Do It!_ (1970), Jerry Rubin
* _Growing Up at 37_ (1976), Jerry Rubin
* A profile of Jerry Rubin from the 1980s: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/10/18/jerry-rubin/beb88e6b-ba7e-4839-80ac-4442f6d47809/
* Abbie Hoffman’s debate with Jerry Rubin in 1985, “Yippie vs. Yuppie” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOFBAJ8BlJs&t=913s, and another time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1x9u-466A
* NY Times obituary of Jerry Rubin: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/obituaries/jerry-rubin-56-flashy-60-s-radical-dies-yippies-founder-and-chicago-7-defendant.html
* “The ‘Me’ Decade”, Tom Wolfe: https://nymag.com/news/features/45938/