About What Do We Want? (A podcast about what brings movements together... and drives them apart)
Sense & Solidarity is a platform where people who want to change the world come together to learn about ideology, strategy and the radical imagination. Led my Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven.
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He's So Charismatic and So Can We (THOUGHTSNACK 4)
Researchers Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven analyze Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority to understand fascism and the need for charismatic leadership in struggles against it, exploring political and social psychology.
17 Sept 2025
Student Cheating = Working Class Refusal? (THOUGHTSNACK 3)
Researchers Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven discuss how student cheating and the use of AI tools represents a form of working-class refusal and reclaiming the means of study as part of class war in this interview.
7 Sept 2025
Have more and/or fewer babies (THOUGHTSNACK02)
Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven interview each other about the societal obsession with birth rates, exploring its connections to capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy.
25 Aug 2025
What Motivates Fascists?: Opportunism, Paranoia and Psychedelic Power (THOUGHTSNACK 01)
Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven explore fascist motivations of opportunism, paranoia, and psychedelic power, drawing from Haiven's forthcoming book.
3 Jun 2025
Don't Talk about Politics: Changing 21st Century Minds - Berlin launch
Author Sarah Stein Lubrano discusses her book and the psychological factors that shape political behavior with Max Haiven at a Berlin bookshop, exploring effective actions for changing minds in this interview.
3 Apr 2025
Fascist Dreams ~ Don't Talk about Politics ~ Billionaires and Guillotines ~ bad public art (Spring update))
In this short bonus episode...
👹 We at Sense & Solidarity (https://senseandsolidarity.org/) invite you to apply for our study workshop (https://senseandsolidarity.org/dreams/) “Fascist Dreams, Antifascist Awakenings” in Palermo, May 25-29 (applications due April 7!).
📘 Sarah tells you about her forthcoming book Don’t Talk About Politics (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dont-talk-about-politics-9781399413916/): How to Change 21st Century Minds and events this Spring and Summer.
🎲 And Max tells you about the crowdfunding (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plutopress/billionaires-and-guillotines) campaign on now for his board game Billionaires & Guillotines (https://maxhaiven.com/billionaires-and-guillotines/).
🖼️ Plus, we critique public art and muse about the end of the world.
17 Feb 2025
Fascists, Rats, and Dick Pics: Holiday Special
The world is giving fascism in 2025, so we’ve been away writing, reading and getting ready to serve up more on that topic.
Meanwhile, here’s a chattier, less-structured version of our usual schtick - recorded over the holidays, live in front of a studio (well, living room) audience.
Tune in to hear:
Sarah talk about why we shouldn’t argue with our relatives and why fascists are much like guys who send dick pics.
Max explain how games influenced fascists like Steve Bannon and why he’s obsessed with a rat.
We also get asked questions from the living-room-and-online-studio audience.
For more information, visit: https://senseandsolidarity.org/
9 Dec 2024
PLEASURE
Live, in front of a seductive studio audience, Sarah and Max bring to a climax the first intoxicating season of What Do We Want (https://senseandsolidarity.org/podcast)? (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart) with an episode on PLEASURE.
They are joined by dazzling special guests Sita Balani and Zrinka Balo, to explore salacious questions including:
Should we prioritize activism being pleasurable?
In a world of work and worry, is taking pleasure itself an important form of activism?
And in our quest for collective liberation, what kinds of sacrifices can and should we expect of ourselves and others?
It’s podcasting that goes beyond the pleasure principle and puts its finger right on the most sensitive questions.
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3 Dec 2024
SHAME
We, an unnamed collective, must sanctimoniously inform would-be listeners that the SHAME episode of WHAT DO WE WANT? (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart) has been summarily cancelled.
The hosts, Sarah and Max, have been found preemptively guilty of causing grievous harms to the left by asking questions including: Is pride enough? Should we wield shame? And should we cancel ourselves?
(Also, did you hear that they invited a response from the scandalous radical writer Sophie Lewis (https://lasophielle.org/), author of Abolish the Family and Enemy Feminisms? OMG!).
...And by the way, “comrade,”… what made you want to listen to this f*cked up podcast anyway? Don’t you think that kind of behaviour is a little… problematic?
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25 Nov 2024
FANTASY
Why do so many people insist on believing in systems that hurt them?
Why do so many of us dwell in fantasy, rather than facing reality?
(Wait, is dwelling in fantasy an option? Why weren’t we told?)
In this episode of WHAT DO WE WANT? (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart) Max and Sarah dive deep into the murky waters of FANTASY, desire and illusion to ask questions like:
How do we break through destructive ideologies?
How can we win arguments (and when should we)?
And should we just abandon activism?
Then we’re joined by veteran Toronto-based activist, movement trainer and editor Sharmeen Khan, who tells us about the state repression that broke her fantasies and what she dreams of now.
It's podcasting that accompanies you right to the precipice of Mount Doom and helps you throw away your Precious.
ACTION ALERT! Our guest, Sharmeen, is facing outrageous, repressive charges for standing up for Palestinian human rights. Read Naomi Klein’s summary (https://breachmedia.ca/naomi-klein-calls-on-heather-reisman-drop-charges-indigo-11/) of the case, and please consider donating (https://www.tcjf.ca/) to the legal defence fund or signing (https://www.cjpme.org/drop_the_charges) the letter demanding the charges be dropped.
To learn more about the many things we do and support us financially or otherwise, visit us at Sense and Solidarity .org
11 Nov 2024
DESPAIR
Do you sometimes feel like a little cartoon dog, surrounded by flames? Is the dog also our movements for justice? Are the flames systems of domination? Is nothing, in fact, at all “fine”?
Then break out the marshmallows and join us for an episode of What Do We Want? (https://senseandsolidarity.org/podcast/) (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart) about despair!
This time Sarah and Max go deep and dark with questions like...
Should we just give up hope?
Should we embrace nostalgia?
And should we stop being sad and… just do something?
But wait! Who is that on the bleak horizon? It’s climate-corruption journalist Rachel Donald of the Planet Critical (https://www.planetcritical.com/about) podcast, joining us to deliver the tough love and a shot of common courage!
It’s podcasting that will make you feel cruelly optimistic or your money back (it’s also free).
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4 Nov 2024
CONSPIRACY
Unless you are a lizard person hiding under a tin-foil rock, you, dear activist, have met your fair share of conspiracists.What the f*ck is wrong with these people? And why are they so damn successful in attracting others when their stories are so implausible?
In this episode of What Do We Want? (https://senseandsolidarity.org/podcast/) (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart), Max and Sarah sail to the farthest reaches of our beautiful flat earth to answer questions about CONSPIRACY like…
What actually separates us radical malcontents from conspiracy theorists?
Should movements have better enemies?
And should we bother trying to drag people out of the rabbit-hole?
Then ex-conspiracist and anti-conspiracy podcaster Brent Lee of Some Dare Call it Conspiracy (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/some-dare-call-it-conspiracy--5932731) patiently explains all the things we got wrong.It’s podcasting that wakes up the sheeple.
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29 Oct 2024
HEARTBREAK
“Heartbreak is at the heart of revolutionary consciousness” writes Gargi Bhattacharyya. So let’s get used to it!
In this episode of What Do We Want? (https://senseandsolidarity.org/podcast/) (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart), Sarah and Max ask the tear-jerking questions about movement breakups, wounded hearts and petty revenge fantasies.
Should we try and hit on (recruit) everyone?
How can we keep our movement romance alive (or should we fight about the kitchen)?
And should we utter goblins have more schisms (and can we even help it)?
Then, thank god, Black feminist writer and activist Lola Olufemi (https://lolaolufemi.co.uk/) joins us to set the record queer.
It’s podcasting that hits you like cheap wine and a romcom. Get back out there, tiger.
For more information, visit: https://senseandsolidarity.org/podcast/
23 Oct 2024
Wait... what DO we want?
In this trailer, Max and Sarah discuss what motivated them to produce WHAT DO WE WANT? (a podcast about what draws movements together... and drives them apart) and what they're looking forward to in season 1, with episodes on heartbreak, conspiracy, despair, fantasy, shame and pleasure and special guests including Rachel Donald, Lola Olufemi, Brent Lee and Sophie Lewis.
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