From Alpha To Omega

About From Alpha To Omega

What is happening to our economy and our politics? Are we stuck forever in this corporate dystopia? What can we learn from the failures of radical politics over the last 100 years? Commandante Alpha talks in depth to experts from the fields of Political Economy, Politics, Science, Philosophy, Complexity, Mathematics, Music, and the Environment.

Publisher

Tom O'Brien

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2012

Latest episode

4 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 372 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 343: #229 Variety and Planning

   Host Dr. Chris Knight interviews Dr. Donal O'Sullivan about organizing capitalist production and its socialist implications, offering insights into economic planning.

2. 

   28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 342: #228 Supply Chain Science

   Donal explores Wallace J. Hopp's "Supply Chain Science" and its implications for socialist planning in this insightful interview.

3. 

   12 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 341: #227 Book Update w/ Donal

   Yes, we are back with another book update! Donal and myself give the lowdown on our progress over the last year and bit. We go into the current state of the project and some glimpses at what to expect from the book.Book Project: https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega

Inside a recent episode

Episode 343: #229 Variety and Planning

Published 4 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So we find it was actually this, what was a vast improvement over the prior stage of capitalist production actually was spewing out huge amounts of waste. Now, Taichi Ono, and I think also one of the Toyota family members, they were very inspired by the supermarket, the American supermarket at the time. Here, a customer would choose a product and they take the product off the shelf. Soon enough, another worker would come along and they'd restock that shelf. okay so they so they looked at the supermarkets and they were like what if we just only instead of doing batch and queue and these massive inventories everywhere what did we try to only produce to the demand signal right and eliminate the need for these inventories everywhere what if we only produced like as if like in the supermarket when they pull it off the shelf and then we'll create a new car to go back on that shelf Okay, this is the general idea. […]

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