This page highlights our goals, editorial guidelines, and unsurpassed ability to copy and paste George Orwell quotes.
GOALS
The Postcapitalism Podcast wants to do more than providing critiques of capitalism, not least because lots of great podcasts do that already (suggesting, ironically enough, that there could be money in it).
Instead, our goals are to:
- increase popular understanding that alternatives to capitalism exist;
- encourage discussion about these possible futures;
- outline the ways we can achieve change (in large and small ways);
- engage with a diverse range of communities and viewpoints.
EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
The editorial guidelines followed by the Postcapitalist Podcast include being:
- independent;
- available for free (which seems like the least we can do);
- easy to understand for all listeners;
- a champion of under-represented voices;
- respectful and open-minded (although if we’re talking about libertarianism, that could be a struggle);
- informative, but challenging, for the audience;
- advertising-free (sorry, GEICO).
ORWELLIANISM (THE GOOD KIND)
Borrowing from the essay “Politics and the English Language”, the show also seeks to apply George Orwell’s guidelines for print journalism to podcasting (while probably failing on at least five, and frequently all six, criteria during every episode):
- “never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print”;
- “never use a long word where a short one will do”;
- “if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out”;
- “never use the passive where you can use the active”;
- “never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday equivalent”;
- “break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”