Dissens

Dissens is a German long-form political conversation show with a clear left perspective and a strong appetite for structure. It is serious, but not sterile. The show usually starts from a live conflict: a Berlin campaign to socialize large housing companies, the political economy of tech billionaires, the fossil gas rollback in Germany, or the memory and organization of the Sudanese December revolution. From there, it expands. Laws become arguments about property. Energy infrastructure becomes a fight over lobby language, risk, and public control. Digital platforms become infrastructure rather than private toys for the wealthy. Protest becomes a question of trust, barricades, alliances, and the difficult work of staying organized after the first surge of momentum. The conversations are long enough to let guests build their case. That matters here. Dissens is less interested in a clever take than in the machinery behind a political condition: which institutions block change, which narratives make dirty technology sound clean, which coalitions survive disappointment, and which emotions keep movements from becoming only exhaustion and analysis. The tone is grave and analytical, with flashes of warmth when the discussion turns toward solidarity, friendship, community, and the habits that keep people active. It is also openly committed. The show names capitalism, authoritarian drift, fossil lobbying, and concentrated ownership without pretending those are neutral abstractions. At its strongest, Dissens makes dense political vocabulary feel connected to ordinary stakes: rent, heating, public space, democratic control, grief, fear, and hope. Some recent episodes are presented through the Was-Tun-Podcast, which brings a practical movement-strategy angle while staying within the same broad political landscape. The result is a feed for listeners who want interviews that explain both the immediate fight and the world underneath it. It can be demanding. It rewards attention. For people who want left politics treated as history, law, affect, infrastructure, and organized practice all at once, Dissens offers a careful map rather than a slogan.