AI Warrior · The Thinkers Series

Six Thinkers.
One Working-Class
Toolkit.

Gramsci, Kropotkin, Graeber, Freire, Deleuze, Bakunin — six thinkers refitted for the algorithmic century. Every course free to read here. Every course free to remix under CC BY-SA 4.0. If it helps you, throw a koha in the tin so it stays free for the next reader.

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Round One · Dialogues

Six voices. One writing room.

A pencil-sketch round-table where Gramsci opens, Kropotkin answers, Bakunin roars, Freire steadies, Deleuze cuts across, and Graeber lands the last word.

Also available: 9:16 (vertical) · 1:1 (square) · Source: kd-dialogues

Round Two · Audio Episodes

Long-form audio dialogues.

The same thinkers, at length — plus contemporary voices they'd argue with. Two-to-six voices per episode. No music. No ads. Just the argument. Full catalogue and transcripts live at kd-dialogues.

EP 003 Novelly · Bakunin 7:44

The boogeyman with the DeLorean

Novelly and Bakunin on nuclear-free New Zealand.

Waveform
EP 002 Luxon · Freire 6:54

A once-in-a-generation opportunity?

Luxon and Freire on the New Zealand-India free trade agreement.

Waveform
EP 001 Gramsci · Kropotkin 3:29

Housing and the shape of the state

Gramsci and Kropotkin, on why rent has always been political.

Waveform

Full catalogue, transcripts and sources: robertmccallnz.github.io/kd-dialogues · Repo: kd-dialogues

01 · Hegemony · Live

Gramsci

for Aotearoa

Power, hegemony, institutions, and counter-power from below.

7 lessons →
02 · Cooperation · Live

Kropotkin

& Mutual Aid

Cooperation, survival, working-class care, and socialist practice.

7 lessons →
03 · Anthropology · Live

Graeber

Debt · Bullshit Jobs · Direct Democracy

Debt as a tool of power, work made meaningless by design, and how ordinary people run things without bosses.

7 lessons →
04 · Pedagogy · Upcoming

Freire

mō Aotearoa · Pedagogy of the Algorithm

Paulo Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, refitted for the age of generative AI and Aotearoa's own kura kaupapa Māori.

7 lessons →
05 · Rhizome · Upcoming

Deleuze

Rhizomes · Assemblages · Lines of Flight

Rhizomes, assemblages, and lines of flight — Deleuze's ideas for those who teach, create, and organise.

1 lesson →
06 · Federation · Upcoming

Bakunin

mō Aotearoa · Tangi o te Tāheke

Federalist, anti-authoritarian socialism — the man Marx feared, read for Aotearoa.

7 lessons →