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Three Motivations for Fascists

In this month’s episode of Parallel Streams we listen to an episode of THOUGHT SNACK, with Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano.

THOUGHT SNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah and Max explore the big ideas that make and break our world.

PARALLEL STREAMS

EPISODE 05 | MAY 8 | 2026

PARTICIPANTS

Max Haiven | Owen Kelly | Sarah Stein Lubrano

COMMENTARY

Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. He works as an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University in Canada. His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022).

Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. For many years she was the Head of Content at The School of Life in London, Currently she is Head of Research for the The Future Narratives Lab, whose work focuses on narratives about social and political change. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025).

Together Max and Sarah founded and now organise Sense & Solidarity which offers a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity.

The podcast is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence and the music in the podcast is by Dan Gouly.

REFERENCES

Three Motivations for Fascists on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/threefascistmotivations

THOUGHT SNACK on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/thoughtsnack