Revolution Now! is a bi-weekly program about social change, hosted by author, filmmaker and activist: Peter Joseph.
Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
About: In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure real systems analysis and ultimately reinforce capitalism. He outlines why market price mechanisms fail as tools of economic calculation, ecological balance, and democratic coordination, and introduces Integral as a technically grounded, cybernetic, post-market transition system built around five core subsystems designed to enable cooperation, sustainability, and post-scarcity conditions. The episode also explores human compatibility with collaborative systems, challenges myths about “human nature,” and emphasizes the necessity of structural change over ideological debate. Joseph concludes by warning of accelerating authoritarianism in the United States as a product of capitalist power dynamics, stressing that without transforming underlying economic structures, political regression and ecological collapse will continue unabated.
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Integral Website / White Paper: https://integralcollective.io/
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Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
In a vast range of topics surrounding the idea of Democracy, Peter Joseph explains how a working democracy, from a cybernetic standpoint, would need to be organized very differently from the representative structure seen today.
He describes why contemporary democracy is a catastrophic failure, then spending some time on the "activist industrial complex;" then moving into dominant cultural mechanisms of system preservation that limit social change and more, including a detailed dissection on "social inheritance" and the philosophical neuroses that stops society from sharing the fruits of collective society's technological efficiency, with all the world's citizens.
He also addresses the 4 major feedback loops of societal destabilization, coming from market economics, using an analogy from Stafford beer to express how the sequence of perturbations will begin to accelerate faster than any resting time, along with discussing first principles of environmental sustainability, and how it will serve as the baseline foundation of democratic thought in the future, including with the Integral Project - and much more.
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
In Episode 56 of Revolution Now! (approximately two hours), Peter Joseph explores the links between market economics and the drive toward imperialism, conflict and international war. Also discussed is the importance of overriding "Hedonic Adaptation" in pursuit of post-scarcity, as associated to the Integral Project. The program concludes with a 45 minute interview with investigative journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin in regard to the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Palestine.
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Website & Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/
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“Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI
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Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Sunday Apr 13, 2025
In Episode 55 of Revolution Now! (which runs approximately two hours), Peter Joseph explores ten false ideas/narratives that contribute to the modern erosion of civil and human rights. He then reviews the abstract for a forthcoming white paper on the Integral Parallel Economy activist project. Finally, he is joined by Lee Camp, who discusses his new show and the troubling state of global affairs.
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Sunday Feb 09, 2025
Sunday Feb 09, 2025
In this (2 hour+ !) episode of Revolution Now (Episode 54), Peter Joseph examines the complexities of systemic transition and the limitations of reformist approaches to change, including a critical review of Jason Hickel’s work. The episode concludes with a 40-minute conversation with Alfie Kohn on the destructive nature of competition.
Key topics include:
-Defining capitalism in a coherent and precise way.
-The strategic foundation of the Integral Parallel Economy project.
-The importance of out-system leverage points in driving meaningful change.
-Value distortions within market economics (exchange vs use)
-Why negative human behaviors are often mislabeled as human nature.
-The common failures of social movements and the dangers of group identity. And more.
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Medium Transcript: Pending
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
In this episode, the focus is on introducing a new phase of the podcast with expanded content, including visuals, interviews, media analysis, and discussions of current events, while ensuring accessibility for audio-only listeners. It revisits foundational critiques of the socio-economic system, highlighting how market capitalism's competitive nature drives ecological destruction, inequality, and systemic dysfunction. The episode emphasizes the urgency of systemic change, arguing that solutions like technology or policy within capitalism are inadequate. It then discusses a collaborative socio-economic model rooted in sustainability, cooperation, and participatory economic governance, challenging traditional ideologies and exploring approaches the building of a parallel, collaborative-based, economic transition out of market economics.
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“Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI
About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
In this episode, Peter Joseph critiques the pervasive belief in competition as a beneficial force for personal development, creativity, and societal progress. Drawing on research by Alfie Kohn and Daniel Pink, he argues that competition actually hinders creative problem-solving and distorts human motivation. Joseph explores how monetary rewards and the market economy create narrow, self-serving goals that undermine genuine innovation. He also discusses the harmful effects of market-driven incentives, such as planned obsolescence, and the interconnectedness of industries that profit from maintaining problems rather than solving them.
Website & Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episode-52/
Medium Transcript: https://peter-joseph.medium.com/market-incentive-disorders-the-myth-of-competitive-benefit-0d25bf385e13
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Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In episode 51 of Revolution Now, Peter Joseph discusses sociological causality and its profound influence on human behavior. He emphasizes that systemic change, especially in the economy, is necessary to alter behavior, and activism must focus on changing the system itself, not just individual minds. He also explains the difference between internal and external system regulation, and hence the importance of cybernetic self-regulation, while offering a critique regarding the inefficiency of government regulation in managing market forces, noting that market dynamics, driven by money, overpower democratic efforts to correct issues like environmental degradation and inequality. This is not a side effect. The money-power feedback loop is far more powerful than the market-instability-regulatory loop and even democracy itself, making workable regulation toward homeostasis or balance impossible.
Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes/
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Friday Jul 05, 2024
Friday Jul 05, 2024
In this episode, Peter discusses the anti-democratic roots of market capitalism and the dynamics therein.
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Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
In this sprawling episode, Peter discusses the requirement of minimalism in our understanding of post-scarcity; the reason historical idealists have been wrong about predicting the future role of labor-saving automation; the nature of creativity and failure of common communicative forms, along with primary and secondary considerations in market incentive thought.
Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes
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