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A phrase often used at climate actions is ‘system change not climate change’. This podcast explores that idea. What kind of system are we living with now? How do systems of exploitation come about? What options for a new system make sense? How could we make system change happen? Join me as I explore these questions. Get excited as we work out how we might make a fresh start. It could be a good idea to start with the first of these podcasts 'Capitalism: A Ghost Story' from July 4th 2022 and go on from there.
Terry Leahy hosts System Change Made Simple, a society show with 40 episodes published.
The post-capitalist gift economy is explained and proposed in my book 'System Change for a Liveable Future' (Mayfly 2025). Here I am looking at an appendix in that book. I am considering what the anthropologists have to
Unpacking Schmachtenberger again. Terry Leahy 2025. This text and podcast provides an alternative world history to that being promoted by podcasters such as Daniel Schmachtenberger. Their theory is heavily based in socio
Unpacking Schmachtenberger again. Terry Leahy 2025. This text and podcast provides an alternative world history to that being promoted by podcasters such as Daniel Schmachtenberger. Their theory is heavily based in socio
Unpacking Schmachtenberger. This third podcast on the interview with Schmachtenberger looks at two issues. One is Schmachtenberger’s idea that there are a small number of particularly competitive and strategic people who
Unpacking Schmachtenberger. This is the second in a set of podcasts on an interview that Nate Hagens (the Great Simplification) did with Daniel Schmachtenberger. In this podcast I talk about the places where Schmachtenbe
Nate Hagens interviews Daniel Schmachtenberger. This covers a host of topics. I am dividing my comments into four podcasts. This first one relates to the idea that human evolution primes us to work according to the maxim
This is the fourth podcast on an interview that Sarah Wilson did with Nate Hagens. The angle that they are taking is that collapse is going to happen pretty soon, like in fifteen years or less. In this podcast I take a l
In this podcast I look at the argument that problems of debt are going to crash our financial system. Leading to an economic, political and social crisis. A collapse well before environmental problems lead us to that. I
Nate and Sarah are popular podcasters in the de-growth space. In a series of four podcasts I am commenting on the issues that come up in an interview Sarah conducted with Nate in 2023. There is a great deal in these pers
Sarah Wilson and Nate Hagens are both much liked podcasters in the degrowth movement here in OZ and probably also in other countries. There is much they say that anyone in degrowth would agree with. But there are certain
While environmental activism is dominated by the middle class, there are large sections of the middle class that are very hostile to the environmentalist movement. These are people in positions most closely allied to the
This podcast is based primarily on research conducted in the Hunter region of Australia. The working-class see environmentalists as members of a privileged middle class. They produce endless verbal exhortation but have n
This first podcast in series five is about the way social class is constructed in our society today. I look at two major sources. John and Barbara Ehrenreich on the professional managerial class. Pierre Bourdieu on the m
The feminist psychoanalytic tradition provides an excellent account of ‘excessive’ aggression in human societies. In patriarchy, there's a particular pattern to how men are brought up as boys. From boys to men. It create
Most conservatives believe the sociological view of aggression is naïve. The theory of evolution shows us that animals only survive that are fit for the struggle. They urge us to admit that humans have a basic desire to
Conservatives believe that competitive aggression is part of human nature. Given this, they argue, no egalitarian society can be possible. Given how often people behave aggressively, it is hard to believe aggression is t
What is human nature? This question breaks down into two parts. One part is what people mean when they talk about human nature. Clearly people have different ideas about what human nature is in fact — or even if there is
This podcast considers central concepts of the Marxist account of class. Of systems of exploitation. Surplus, work, product, necessary labour, reproduction, use value. Marx and later Marxists give an account of class tha
Marx’s theory of class society has had a huge influence on sociology and on my own thinking. This podcast explains the theory in the simplest way possible. What is the basic structure of all class societies in history? T
Weber is famous as one of the founders of sociology. He sees history as broken into two key periods. Ancient societies where different ‘life chances’ were allocated on the basis of status. A social estimation of honour.
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