Greetings from Read Max HQ! For this week’s edition of my intermittment podcast with John Ganz (author of When the Clock Broke and proprietor of the Unpopular Front Substack) we were pleased to host Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of the new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, an exploration of Elon Musk’s ideology (such as it is) and power through the system of production and accumulation he seems intent on inaugurating. I highly recommend the book, which you can purchase here; we also discussed, among other things:

* this excellent essay on Muskism and Fordism from Quinn and Ben at the Law and Political Economy blog;

* Musk’s relationship to apartheid South Africa;

* some interesting objections to the Muskism thesis;

* how Neon Genesis: Evangelion can help us explain and understand Elon Musk.

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