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Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.

In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution.

Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory

Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c

Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite

Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf

Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en

Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/

TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/

Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire

The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.

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Check out Sean's other appearance on MDC this week

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&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Jack Scott: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/jack-scott-the-athletic-revolution/

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2020/wild-ride-jack-scott-and-jock-liberation/

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/radical-jocks-how-jack-scott-once-known-as-chief-who-would-go.html

Bill Walton:

Bill Walton On The Road With The Portland Trail Blazers by Jack Scott

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/05/searching-for-bill-walton/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/tnamp/

Audio clips: Interviews with Harry Edwards, Bill Walton, and SLA communiques

Past ARMED Love episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded

Past &&& episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909?view=expanded

Song: Patti Smith - Hey Joe (Patty Hearst)

Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.

Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?

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Check out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter

Referenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demography

Song: Dystopia - Population Birth Control

Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler

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The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.

Song: Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time

We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596

The Deluge by Stephen Markley: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/stephen-markley-deluge.html

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Song: Mekons - Hard to be Human

Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections.

Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front

Macron and Lula support billionaire tax: https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-minimum-tax-billionaires-wealthiest-people/

Recent clashes in New Caledonia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/new-caledonia-unrest-independence-activists-france-detention

https://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1804965294672347603

The Hollande campaign song mentioned: https://pitchfork.com/news/46275-watch-french-presidential-candidate-uses-jay-z-and-kanyes-niggas-in-paris-in-campaign-ad/

Andy's Bordiga/Antifa article: https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/

Song: Brazz - Killing In The Name (French Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-C2O4YSuc

Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."

In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All that and more as we finish Chapter 2 and begin Chapter 3 of "The Fourth Political Theory."

Patrons can hear the full episode on our patreon feed

This and all previous episodes are also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A

Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:

NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show.

Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZ

Labor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smi

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/06/teamsters-and-amazon-labor-union-announce-affiliation-member-vote-still-ahead

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4711847-judge-orders-uc-workers-pause-strike-israel-hamas-war/

https://x.com/thehousered/status/1799216761872458085

Covid:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/opinion/covid-fauci-hearings-health.html

Good podcast refuting lab-leak hypothesis, (thanks to Kie from discord for suggestion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1FGCPenns

Bolerium Books: https://www.bolerium.com/

Song: John Williams - First Order March [EPIC VERSION]

Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and antisemitism in light of the new movement.

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New School divestment vote:

https://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2024/05/20/new-school-trustees-will-hold-a-vote-on-divestment-from-israel/

Freddy Perlman's Continuing Appeal of Nationalism essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalism

Endnotes essay mentioned: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/the-encampments-for-gaza

https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/s-prasad-introduction-to-waiting-for-the-massacre

Postone essays:

https://www.workersliberty.org/files/100205postone.pdf

https://determinatenegation.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/moishe-postone-stammheim-and-tel-zataar-1977/

Song: Lil Wayne - Pure Columbia

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Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.

Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois university over preceding decades which led to it, and how John Jay's Econ department is pushing in another direction.

We ask the essential question: What might a working class education by and for the working class might look like? Find out for yourself and apply to the CUNY if you are looking for a radical education.

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Attend the CUNY JJ econ rock show: People’s Garden in Bushwick, June 8th 2pm

Contact Ian Seda, Graduate Program Director [email protected]

Information about Masters Program: https://johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/

Rick Wolff and Ian Seda on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLY-ftZnF0

Ludy Thenor and Geert Dhondt on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8dT6jWHHI&t=32s

Music: Phony ppl - John Jay

It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.

What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.)

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Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-era Popular Front? Reid gives a powerful account of American socialism past and how we might vindicate the struggles of past generations.

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Works by Reid:

YouTube series on American socialism

Writings in Sublation Magazine

Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese, to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All. How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us understand the economics and politics of this current moment? In what ways are crisis tendencies affecting the United States and the UK? What type of program should socialists offer as a way out of the crisis? Join us in fleshing out Ted's expansive vision for how we might overcome the current crisis and build a world with abundant material wealth for all as its basis.

Order the book: https://grossmanite.medium.com/new-book-abundant-material-wealth-for-all-out-now-7d1ec5e9ac05

Free PDFs for all coming out this month!

Song: Kendrick - Humble

For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and complete the revolutionary vision of Mao. The result was a seizure of power by the PLA and an estimated 2.8 million death between 1966-1976.

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Ralf Ruckus recently published The Left in China, an excerpt of which can be read here: http://illwill.com/mapping-the-left-in-china

He previously published The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China's (R)evolution since 1949

Other resources mentioned: Darren Byler - Terror Capitalism https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/monograph/book/97897

Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/about/

Gonggchao: https://www.gongchao.org/en/the-left-in-china/

China strike-map: https://maps.clb.org.hk/?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2023-11&endDate=2024-05&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&parentAddress=&industry=&parentIndustry=&industryName=&pageEmbed=

Wu Yiching - Cultural Revolution from the Margins https://files.libcom.org/files/Yiching%20Wu-The%20Cultural%20Revolution%20at%20the%20Margins_%20Chinese%20Socialism%20in%20Crisis-Harvard%20University%20Press%20(2014).pdf

Telegram Link for Southwest ILC: https://t.me/+TNXgQOPkV18yOGRh

Song: Sailing the Seas Depends On The Helmsman

We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions

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Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

First We Take Columbia text: https://illwill.com/columbia https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2979646/pro-palestinian-activists-spread-occupation-guidebook-overrun-schools/

Communique From an Absent Future: https://illwill.com/print/communique-from-an-absent-future

Adam Tooze - Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys

Unrest in the MLBPA: https://theathletic.com/5352704/2024/03/18/mlbpa-unrest-players-bruce-meyer/

Big Sean - Control

Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho.

For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Empire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod

Antipolitika journal:

Read: https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/ Buy: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1440 Songs: Infracrvena - Politika Ultima Videosex - Detektivska Priča

And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird.

For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf

New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned

The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.

Copious Loren Goldner Links:

Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/

Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner

Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/

Articles mentioned in order

• Arya
  • Turkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldner
  • Bolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156
  • Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburg
• Ross
  • Race and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676
  • Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/
  • Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldner
• Sean
  • Bordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdf

Audio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio

Songs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever

Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!

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In light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.

Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?

STAY TUNED AFTER THE OUTRO MUSIC FOR A SPECIAL LAST MINUTE ADDENDUM

Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.

Full episode available at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution.

For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran

Song: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tagline is: “Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.”

Buy the book from Common Notions: https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-society

More work by Anselm at Brooklyn Rail and Libcom

Preorder Cured Quail Vol 3

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Song - Courtney Love - Miss Narcissist

For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North America." What do we make of Inhabit's steps to revolution? Why present speculative fiction in a programmatic context? What does this work of ultra-left thought get right, and where does it fall short? How many times have YOU gone to the antifa super-soldier gym this week?

Read along: Inhabit.global

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IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani, won the debate within the framework of international law and human rights. But how far does that get us, and where else could the movement go?

In the bonus we talk about Israel's leftwing defenders in Germany and the US. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

If you're a in NYC, join us Saturday March 23 at 5pm at Woodbine for a meeting of the Independent Workers Club

Song: Taqbir - Aisha Qandisha

Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolutionary wings of the classical workers movement turn towards state developmentalism? How did really existing class develop to conflict with Marxist theories of working class emancipation? What mistakes from past movements are we still making today whether we know it or not? How did the millennial left really die and how might we move past it?

This is part one of an extended, three-hour discussion. To access the full episode, become a patron of the Antifada at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video of this discussion and get a whole lot more incisive commentary sign up for www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Episode on Henryk Grossman with Ted Reese: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67780560

Endnotes - A History of Separation: https://libcom.org/article/history-separation-endnotes-4

NEWS EP! We discuss Aaron Bushnell, voting uncomitted and hopelessness, UAW and Starbucks union victories, the MTA wildcat strike and working-class demands for safety. 

For the full discussion become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

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Aaron Bushnell / Gaza:

-Crimethinc statement https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/26/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has-decided-will-be-normal-on-aaron-bushnells-action-in-solidarity-with-gaza

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/?affid=x Veterans burning uniforms https://uk.news.yahoo.com/veterans-burn-uniforms-vigil-us-123204314.html

UAW / Starbucks:

-https://www.wbrc.com/2024/02/28/uaw-majority-workers-mercedes-plant-vance-signal-they-want-join-auto-workers-union/

-https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-26-auto-workers-go-all-in/

-https://fordauthority.com/2024/02/uaw-announces-project-to-support-mexican-autoworkers/ -https://jacobin.com/2024/02/starbucks-workers-united-master-contract-bargaining

MTA strike: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/29/conductor-slash-delays-work-stoppage/

Song: Crazy Spirit - Train

Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital which excavates not just Marx's use of the structure of Dante's Inferno but the radical political theory that undergirds it. What is the relationship between the analysis in Capital and the debates within the workers movement of the time typified by the likes of Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Owens? What is the place of radical republicanism in Marx's theory? How has this tradition in the workers movement been buried by history and what might we do with it today?

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Son: Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

An interview with Eric King, who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary device to commit arson after throwing a molotov cocktail at an empty Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri during the uprising in Ferguson. Today he is out on probation and talking with us about his history with the anarchist movement, his time inside and release, and how and why to support prisoners

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Eric King's co-authored book about life in prison: http://rattlingthecages.com

Eric's new gig: bread and roses legal

Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Eric's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supportericking/

Prisoner support calendar: https://www.certaindays.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/bop-prison-white-supremacist-anti-fascist/

Song: Motorohead - Stay out of Jail

Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works.

We discuss the legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegade Kautsky.

This is part I of an extended discussion on theory and history. To hear the paywalled fireworks, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

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Song: Whirlwinds of Danger by Monsieur Jack

NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the crisis of liberalism in the US and worldwide through the context of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the formation of BRICs as a challenge to US-based global order, the economic spiral of Germany and China, class war at the border, and betrayal of every millennial's favorite grocery store.

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Show notes:

UAW organizing in Alabama, Tennessee: https://alabamareflector.com/2024/02/01/montgomery-hyundai-workers-announce-union-drive-2nd-at-alabama-auto-plant/

https://uaw.org/over-10000-autoworkers-sign-union-cards-across-13-non-union-automakers-in-major-milestone-for-historic-organizing-drive/

Trump planning to run as a felon: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/trump-conviction-trial-jan-6-court

US/UK weighing recognition of Palestinian state: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war

Dahlia Scheindlin's two-state proposal: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/dscheindlin/ Mutipolarity update:

Russia takes up leadership of BRICs https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/china/brics-membership-applications-china-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

Chinese defaults: -https://www.axios.com/2024/02/03/chart-evergrande-towers-over-list-of-global-bankruptcies

-https://www.ft.com/content/88c027d2-bda6-4e52-97f3-127197aef1bd

Germany was worst-performing major economy last year: https://www.ft.com/content/792a1a09-701c-4c9d-aa77-0d9575d5bda9

Song: Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (80's Version Synthwave REMIX)

Sean and Varn return with part three of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the only really existing internationalism left: the capitalist infrastructure of globalization. Special emphasis is made of the history of state formation in the Middle East as it pertains to the current conflict.

In the second half, the discussion turns to the rise and decay of what is called the "Rules Based International Order". For access to this and all of our years of bonus content become a supporter of the podcast at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Sean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14

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BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messageblackmovement.pdf

Clips from Finally Got the News:

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jMrfoH6qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_AS70pgq4

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Song: MC5 - Motor City is Burning

Ex-Militant of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) Lola Mieseroff is our guest on this installment of the Antifada sideproject on the revolutionary culture of the sixties. We talk about growing up in gay South France in the sixties, her experience in May '68 and after, the resonance of Stonewall, what it meant to be a pro-situ and her run-in, with Debord, the revolutionary politics of homosexuality and queerness, her relationship with Guy Hocquenhghem and the rest of the revolutionary left, and her perspectives on the queer revolutionary movements today, right-wing reaction, the potential of revolution in these bleak times, and the phrase "Be Gay, Do Crime"

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Buy FAG HAG from PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501

Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1270

Baedan Journal: https://baedan.noblogs.org/

The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem: https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hocqueghem_screwball_asses.pdf Lola's first book, Voyage en outre Gauche: https://books.google.com/books/about/Voyage_en_outre_gauche.html?id=xRRSDwAAQBAJ

Song: Chant du FHAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGHWw6wsmc

In part two of our discussion on the essay Forest and Factory, we foray into fourierism and the whimsical world of life under global communism. Topics include: the mushroom mafia, nomadic pleasure duels, gender orgies, capitalist fantasy camp, and communist santa!

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What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and Factory

Also check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn Rail

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Song: The Cure - A Forest (Tree Remix)

News episode! We start 2024 by talking about Houthis and global shipping, the Uniparty, the Harvard presidency, and the backlash against Pro-Palestinian protesters as part of the broader backlash against progressive liberalism.

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Notes: Crisis on the seas: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

E. Minassian on Gaza: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Gaza-An-Extreme-Militarization-of-the-Class-War

Global reordering on formerly tense borders: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/china-russia-trade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Song: Hounds of Hate - Wages of Sin

A sneak peak at this new VarnVlog series featuring guest spots from Sean KB and Jason from great post-Trot podcast The Regrettable Century. We read Alexander Dugin's most famous work, 'The Fourth Political Theory' to understand why all sorts of people, from the right to the left, are looking to this eclectic, irrationalist Russian post-fascist to understand this particular moment in world history.

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This is actually the second episode, with the introductory program with Jason appearing on the VarnVlog YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVSZcFZHlQ

Vincent Bevins chats about lessons of the uprisings of 2010s, as outlined in his book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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Song: Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn

Sean KB and C Derick Varn return with part two of their series on nationalism and the nation state. In this episode, the discuss various Marxist conceptions of the state including Otto Bauer, Rosa Luxembourg but especially Vladimir Lenin. What is the relationship between people and nation? Class and nation? And what is to be done?

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Anders & Andy interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete. In the second Garrison takes our answers on being a leftist Effective Altruist.

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Garrison's podcast: https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.com

Original whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executioners

Recent Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

Jacobin interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firms

Song: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand

Sean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)

How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?

This is part one of an extended discussion. In the bonus we pose the question, "What does the left look like in Ukraine at the moment and how can internationalists help build a working class movement adequate to social revolution in a global capitalist social order in steep decline?"

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Articles:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voices

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/russia-ukraine-war-explanation-class-conflict

Song: RotFront - Sovietoblaster

Andy and Sean are joined by returning champion Jason Myles of This is Revolution podcast and industrial metal maniacs Bitter Lake to discuss his recent Damage Magazine article about Ibram X Kendi and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grift. How has identity politics been used to subsume class politics? What's left of a socialist left after the failure of Sandersism? Without the crutch of a social democracy more impossible by the day what might we build?

We also discuss the war on Gaza and why sometimes you have to walk off tour or storm out of a show when things get too woke. (details within)

Song: Special Interest - LA Blues

We read chapters X and XI of Settlers about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.

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And find previous chapters of Reading Settlers on our Reading Settlers Collections page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/241791?view=expanded

Read Along:

https://readsettlers.org/ch10.html

https://readsettlers.org/ch11.html

Info about Yokinen Trial./ White Chauvinism purges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokinen_Show_Trial

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/jacobs-oc/app-a.htm

Song: UAW choir sings La Borinquena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5cL0-_VQk

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NEWS EP: Musk's trip Israel and the elections of Milei, Wildes, and the Dublin riots. Israeli labor shortage. How worried we should be about Trump's Plan 2025? Why Bidenist social-democracy won't help. Civil Socety vs. Social Humanity. PSL and block the boat criticism. The rise of AMLOnomics and Avocado wars in Mexico

Labor shortage in Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/middleeast/israel-farms-foreign-workers-crisis-intl-cmd/index.html

The city where Mexico’s nearshoring hype is becoming reality https://on.ft.com/3RiM0T5

Trump's plan to drain the swamp: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theses on Feuerbach: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

Criticism of Tacoma ship blockade: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/the-boat-that-wasnt-blocked/

Song: Gary Numan - OH! 2025

We visit Argentina, where the extremely online anarcho-capitalist Bolsonarista and MAGA Chud Javier Milei has just been elected their new president. Will it be a return to the Anti-communist dictatorship of the 70s and 80s, the neoliberal dollarization era of the 90s, or will it turn Argentina into one big AnarchApulco?

To find out, Andy interviews members of anarchist-communist collective based in the Biblioteca y Archivo Alberto Ghiraldo from Rosario, Argentina. Recently they put out a new text on the Milei phenomenon called Contra el liberalismo y sus falsos criticos, or Against Liberalism and its False Critics.

They are also involved with the journal Cuadernos de Negacion, and the newsletter La Oveja Negra.

Talkin’ Tina! is the Antifada side project about the politics of America Latina! See all our back episodes here and subscribe to our patreon to support the show!

Other texts mentioned:

Wenüy. For the rebellious memory of Santiago Maldonado

Lead and smoke. The business of Capital: https://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/2022/12/la-oveja-negra-plomo-y-humo-el-negocio.html

Oveja Negra no. 89, from September 2023

Interview extracts from Bloombeg and Daily Caller

Song: Guerra a la Burguesia, Tango Anarquista de 1901

Shadowy Antifa spokesperson and podcaster Jamie Peck returns to tell us about the Block Cop City action this week in Atlanta, and what comes next for the movement against Cop Cities in Atlanta and everywhere.

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Coverage on Block Cop City: Natasha Lennard: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/15/cop-city-protest-police-atlanta-tear-gas/?

NDN Collective: https://twitter.com/ndncollective

Join a weelaunee defense society: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/wds

Support Stop Cop City political prisoners: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/free-the-weelaunee-political-prisoners

Write Victor Puertas: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-note-from-victor-on-indigenous-peoples-day/

Biden's call on Cop City with Andrew Dickens: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1709363361618514368

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NYC's Cop City: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/nyregion/950-million-police-academy-simulates-the-mean-streets.html

Turn-in day horrors: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1721521127044915527 https://twitter.com/juliaxdupuis/status/1721510393091133591

Jamie's review of George Floyd Uprising book: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thinking-was-for-later-movement-was-for-now-on-the-vortex-groups-george-floyd-uprising/

Everybody Loves Communism: https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism

Woke Mob: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWokeMob

Song: Bloc Party - Helicopter

This is audio of CRUSH reading series no.37, Benefit for Palestine featuring Kamelya Youssef, Jenna Hamed, Tenaya Nasser, Tilghman Goldsborough, and Aristilde Kirby, with musical accompaniment by Paco Cathcart.

Recorded at Woodbine Nov 3, 2023.

The reading was a benefit for Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). Donate here- https://secure.everyaction.com/3aJf-w9toEewrIbfQf-XtA2

See a short clip of the performance here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUJSiOuNtd/

CRUSH reading series is curated by Suzanne Goldenberg

A zine accompanying the performance: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2Qk716YmqbEMiamBDRKhhKJ6tR2MK9z/view

The arcane numbering system is gone, but Sean and Varn have (surprise!) a new miniseries. Inspired by current events - such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and the turn towards post-neoliberal economic nationalism - we're going to explore all manner of Marxist and non-Marxist theories on the nation state to help get our heads around the current mess the world is in and hopefully chart a pathway out.

How did the nation-state rise in the early modern world? what role has nationalism played in capitalist development? What are the historical legacies of Lenin and Stalin's nationalities policies? Rhetoric aside, what is the relationship (if any) between national liberation movements and the communist project?

This is an extended preview. For access to the entire episode, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video recording of this episode and get all of C. Derick Varn's amazing content, subscribe at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

For this first episode we mention various theorists - Harun Yilnaz, Ze'ev Sternhell, Benedict Anderson, Benjamin Studebaker, Eric Hobsbawm - and also look at this essay: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/3587.html

For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaJ. Sakai's Settlers Chapter 9 - Neocolonial Pacification in the US discusses how the Settler Nation integrated Native American and Black leaders into its ranks. Topics include: Native American self-governance, the rise of Marcus Garvey's UNIA, international solidarity with Ethiopia after Italy's 1935 invasion, the STFU (Southern Tenant Farmers Union), A. Phillip Randolph, the March on Washington, Black Power, and Settlers-pilled Scorsese. For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSettlers Ch. 9: https://readsettlers.org/ch9.htmlPaul Prescod on A. Phillip Randolph: https://jacobin.com/2020/05/a-philip-randolph-socialist-civil-rights-march-bscpMarcus Garvey and Ethiopia: https://republic.com.ng/august-september-2023/marcus-garvey-ethiopia-and-the-oau/Song: Hepcat - Marcus Garvey

Sean is joined by @DaneilTutt, host of the @torsion_groups and @emancipations_ podcast, to talk about the life of Friedrich Engels through the Tristam Hunt's 2009 biography Marx's General.

Is there truth to the argument, developed in the 1920s, that Engels was responsible for a serious distortion of Marx's theory? What do we make of his 'double life' as both a carousing bourgeois and a disciplined revolutionary? How did the political views of Marx and Engels change over he course of the 19th century? What was The Dialectics of Nature and how has so-called 'dialectical materialism' helped to dogmatize scientific socialism? And what remains of Engels' thought and practice today?

Join us for a fun and informative episode on one of the revolutionary greats. For the full discussion, and tons more bonus content, become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Dispatch - The General

Recording of a discussion last Saturday with Michael Hardt at Woodbine for a discussion of his new book The Subversive Seventies and our contemporary autonomist experiments in Queens, Atlanta, and elsewhere.

Michael Hardt is a philosopher and political theorist whose work focuses on autonomist social movements since the 1960s. In his books co-authored with Antonio Negri - Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth - Hardt theorized the changes in capitalism and struggle taking place at the turn of the 21st century. The frameworks Hardt and Negri developed together were among the most popular and influential political theories influencing the activism of the last 25 years, helping define the movement contexts that birthed spaces like Woodbine.

In his new book, The Subversive Seventies, Hardt focuses on dozens of movement predecessors, including Black autoworkers and militants in the US, intersectional radical feminists, gay liberation revolutionaries, the Italian autonomists, and antinuclear activists. While the radicalism of the 70s is often understood as responding to the defeat of the spirit of '68, Hardt argues that these movements, by pursuing their own agendas without claiming supremacy over other struggles, developed a model of contemporary intersectionality that solidified as an antithetical pole to neoliberal globalization.

For the rest of our series about the revolutionary cultures of the 60s and 70s check out our Armed Love collection page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680

Song: Alfredo Bandelli - Mort Allende

With neo-Keynesian hacks like Will Stancil crowing about the alleged successes of Bidenomics, it seemed fitting to bring on Jamie Merchant, author of many incisive articles in Paul Mattick's Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere to discuss capital, finance and permanent crisis. Topics include the enduring legacy of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the limits of 'financialization' discourse, the politics of crisis theory, the limits of industrial policy, the Brenner-Riley debate, anti-anti-globalization, so-called Political Capitalism and more.

In the bonus section we discuss the outlines of what a determinate negation of globalization might look like and how to turn global production into international proletarian power. Lastly, Sean, Andy and Jamie take a first pass at an internationalist perspective on fast-moving events in Palestine and what the outcome of resistance might be for the people of Gaza, the West Bank and the broader Middle East.

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Articles by Jamie Merchant:

https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System

https://brooklynrail.org/2018/02/field-notes/Fantasies-of-Secession-A-Critique-of-Left-Economic-Nationalism

https://brooklynrail.org/2018/07/field-notes/Dreams-of-National-Capital-Market-Socialism-Past-and-Present

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/07/field-notes/The-Economic-Consequences-of-Neo-Keynesianism

Riley and Brenner’s 7 Theses on American Politics and further debate:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/dylan-riley-robert-brenner-seven-theses-on-american-politics

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/robert-brenner-marxist-economics-falling-rate-of-profit-stagnation-overcapacity-industrial-policy

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/stagnation-productivity-profit-crisis-brenner-debate-1970s-economics

Taylor Swift - End Game

Sean and Andy talk about their moves/life showers, and the next chapter of our lives. We go on to discuss the influx of asylum seekers to NYC, the crisis of the WTO and rules-based international order, and right-wing opposition to a Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan and a munitions plant in East Germany. In the bonus we talk about Trudeau's "Bonzo goes to Bitzburg" moment and if this is historical revisionism or something else

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Woodbine Reservoir journal release party: https://www.thetranspecos.com/cal/2023/10/4/woodbine-presents-the-reservoir-communion-issue-no-2-release-party

show notes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.reuters.com/business/wto-growing-disregard-trade-rules-shows-world-is-fragmenting-2023-10-02/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/business/gotion-chinese-subsidiary-michigan-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Designed to Kill: https://crimethinc.com/2011/05/22/designed-to-kill-border-policy-and-how-to-change-it

Ukriaine articles:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/politics/putin-ukraine-spy-united-states.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/world/europe/germany-defense-ukraine-war-weapons.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare east germans don’t want arms productions
• myth of the clean SS https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

song: Moldy Peaches - NYC's Like a Graveyard

Sean and Varn continue the second part of their miniseries on left strategies and orientations. Central to the discussion is the definition and role of what is called 'Rank and File' organizing, something that means many things to many people, but whose bases are often conflated in literature and debate, for example in the DSA. This episode tackles, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Leninists and syndicalists.

Taking a cue from current events, the conversation revolves around the ongoing United Autoworkers strike in the Midwest: what it might mean for the industry, how a victory might galvanize the broader working class, and how a defeat might play out.

Become a patron of The Antifada for the extended, two-and-a-half hour audio episode, and/or a patron of VarnVlog to watch the video recording.

UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position.

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In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/no-justice-no-jeeps-scenes-auto-workers-strike https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakers

Alex press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/15/uaw_strike_big_three_automakers

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/the-uaw-strike-matters-for-the-entire-us-working-class

Ex wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702318383642112082

Biden audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1702723784506056705

Trump audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702733477517357310

Hate listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/podcasts/the-daily/ford-general-motors-strike.html

Contradictions at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/biden-uaw-strike.html

Hamilton Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it

-WSWS https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/nvxk-s15.html -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/

Adam Green and Ben Kweller - Kokomo

Audio from our live gig last week in Brooklyn! Find out if this the end of podcasting as we know it.Then we hang with Minion Death Cult a week later to sift through the wreckage of the Well There's Your Problem show in Philly, out trip to Citi Field to woo Mrs. Met, nasty notes to UPS drivers, NY in the post-Bloomberg era, and boys being cats.For full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSongs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'

Since we're in Philly this week to perform with Well There's Your Problem, enjoy this classic episode from December 2019 with Roz!

Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1, to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit? How the hell was this crazy film made? What does it tell us about the history of public transit in Los Angeles and elsewhere? Why is Elon Musk full of shit? How would rail fit into the Green New Deal and socialism broadly? Most importantly, how did our fans get us to watch hentai?

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In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy.

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readsettlers.org/ch5.html

https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html

​​https://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-and

Song: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones

Oh, and DONT FORGET TO SEE US THIS TUESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in.

Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic!

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TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

And yes... the SICK POSTER IS ON SALE!!! https://www.grimgrimgrim.com/products/well-there-s-your-problem-minion-death-cult-the-antifada-gig-poster

full episode at http://patreon.com/theantifada

https://readsettlers.org/ch4.html

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!

BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

song: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr.

Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures?

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!

NYC Sept 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly SEPT 12: w/WTYP https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

We take listener Questions! covering a range of topics including the climate apocalypse and hopes for a better world, if we should take over the internet or destroy it, visions for postwar Ukraine, conspiracy theories turning reactionary, squatting and being aging punx, Bidenomics and much more!

For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5qq0sppNliaml9Lgmdk1Yh9wQ8nEwnY

https://libcom.org/article/strategy-refusal-mario-

New York Year Zero: https://gittlitz.substack.com/p/nyyz

NYT: on conspiracy theories: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The ‘monumental consequences’ of Ukraine joining the EU https://on.ft.com/44Xvr3d

Dog Breath: https://dogbreathnyc.bandcamp.com/album/dog-breath

Iggy Pop '77:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZth4CNaEBA

Song: Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden

This week on This Amerikkkan Life: Chapters 2-3, Bacon's Rebellion, why slaves sided with the British in the US Revolution, the true reason some founding fathers and Northern states were against slavery, why the Confederate class analysis was right (from the Settler perspective), and why Sakai spells Amerika and Afrika with a K

The full episode is on Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Chapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-settlers-86265803

In two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5

Minion Death Cult cohost and union militant Alexander Edward delivers the news on the tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters... and why he's voting NO.Shook ex-Spart Jim Cramer:

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328

MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaA

World Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.html

More on the 2018 agreement: https://nwlaborpress.org/2018/10/ups/

Union buster found: https://twitter.com/JosBrock/status/1684242017641979904

Song: Allan Sherman - Beautiful Teamsters

Mike Crumplar and Matthew Donovan chat with us about the contested political terrain of a certain downtown Manhattan Square through a 2014 Graeber vs Thiel debate and Gramsci's conception of organic intellectuals.

For part 2 of the episode subscribe on our patreon at patreon.com/theantifada

Reading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/theoretical-review/1982301.htm

Song: Gunship - Hegemon

Playtpus co-founder Chris Cutrone chats with us about his new book The Death of the Millennial Left. We chat about the socialist implications of the American Revolution, the irresistible conservative trajectory of suburban millennials, and the left's trouble conception of freedom.

Check out Part 2 of the Episode on our Patreon!

Video about socialism with American characteristics: https://youtu.be/5-kXCBTvxrE

Song - RHCP - Black Summer

Marxism vs. MMT!

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Sean went on the QAnon Anonymous podcast to Postone-pill their listeners on the critique of structural antisemitism.For the full episode sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theantifadaAnd support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymousRead Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism

Cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky chats with us about their new graphic novel Boy's Weekend, a not-too-distant lathe of heaven about the present and future horrors facing queer people and everyone else.In the full episode we talk about Jesusism, sports riots of the Byzantine empire, and "Yolk Hussy"?? Subscribe on Patreon to hear it!Support Mattie on their Patreon! and subscribe to their newsletter! Song: Future Islands - Old Friend

We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight. Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai.

Hear the full episode by supporting the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Meet Luis and Amelia TODAY (6/21/23) at Word is Change bookstore for a discussion on the book with John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine

Burgerville stuff: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/01/viewpoint-burgerville-workers-lessons-independent-unionshttps://bvwu.iww.org/https://nwlaborpress.org/

Hamerquist stuff: Buy A Brilliant Read Thread: The Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/don-hamerquist http://www.unityandstruggle.org/tag/don-hamerquist/

Song: Coach & Ref - Longview

A news roundup--we start by talking about Sean's psychedelic encounter with a woke Civil War statue, the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act and Teamsters, the West Coast port shutdowns and dynamics of portworker labor in the US, and the upcoming UPS strike as a potential opening salvo of the final battle of organized labor. We then discuss the recent trans panic in light of the history of queer liberation, and our cis blindspot on the issue.For the full episode, in which we discuss the legacy of Ted K in US anarchism, and a related analysis of AI, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaWest coast port slowdown links: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/05/tmau-j05.htmlhttps://lbbusinessjournal.com/ports/2-container-terminals-at-port-of-long-beach-closed-monday-at-least-1-to-be-closed-tuesday/https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/whats-behind-work-stoppages-at-west-coast-portshttps://www.supplychainconnect.com/news-trends/article/21267198/west-coast-port-strike-update UPS strike: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/teamsters-ups-strike-possibility/index.htmlZerzan - Whose Unabomber? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-whose-unabomber NYT AI article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/technology/ai-humanity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Song: Marilyn Manson - Astonishing Panorama of End Times

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C. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? Is it a model worth emulating? Lastly, does the working class of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'

Sean's substack article (free): https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-china

Audio recording of article available for patrons on patreon

Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism.

Support us on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/theantifada

William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review

Jasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdf

Song: Royksopp - Compulsion

STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

APOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(

AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-pres

WGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/ https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.html

Andrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901

Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Robert B. Ross - The Great Players' Revolt

Song: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive

At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for subscribers: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care

David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida;

For the full episode where we talk about upstate cults like Nxium support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse.

For full episode: http://patreon.com/theantifada

We check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!

Articles by Alex Press:

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesses

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statistics

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/

https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagon

https://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-old

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.html

Song: The Press - Revolution Now!

Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover.

Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/

Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Song: Radiohead - Palo Alto

A NEWS EP so timely we decided to release early. We talk about the strikes and riots in France, A DNA Mist that reveals forced labor in the supply chain, And Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, Subscribe to the show on Patreon and you'll hear the full episode, with: thoughts on raving, Taibbi Derangement Syndrome, ChatGPT's solutions for sublating the New Left, and the Israeli secrets revealed in the recent US Intelligence leaks.

Articles mentioned about France:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-guardian-of-egalite-leads-the-list-of-ultrarich/

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/drowning-in-deposits

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1643991308485414916?s=46&t=VVQ2vdGVkxcBV4MIWyMr6A

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pension-reform-protesters-briefly-invade-paris-blackrock-building-2023-04-06/

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/30/france-in-flames-macron-attempts-to-crush-the-movement-against-the-pension-reform-with-lethal-violence-1

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/france-pension-protests-movement-long-rebellion-neoliberalism-emmanuel-macron

AI DNA Mist: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/business/economy/ai-tech-dna-supply-chain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharelntel

leaks: https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/russia-ukraine-war-documents-leak?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Song: France Gall - Boom Boom

Welcome to Proletkult! The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal and the parapolitical. Today we’ll be talking to Wu Ming 1, of the Italian writing collective Wu Ming about their origins in the Italian revolutionary milieu, the Satanic Panic pranks played by their associates the Luther Blisset Project in the 90s, their novel Q, and their theory that it inspired QAnon. We’ll also talk about their novel UFO78, and their political analysis of the recent UFO news.

In the full episode available to patrons at Patreon.com/theantifada, you'll hear MY analysis of the recent UFO news, which, until we actually make contact with the space comrades, will be the LAST UFO news we should ever care about again.

Check out Wu Ming's new essay UFOs and the Longing for the Unidentified at Ill Will Editions

Songs:Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist

Lana Del Rey - When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing

Sean and Varn return to their miniseries on the global debt crisis with a very topical bank failure episode.Since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse went belly up the last couple of week capital and the state have scrambled to contain the damage to the financial system and the 'real' economy. Why is an adequate explanation for inflation important? Does the Federal Reserve Bank itself even have one? If Fed policy is blowing up banks and barely even working is there some other reason (class based, perhaps?) to induce an economic slowdown?For patrons: what 'Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multipolarity' gets very wrong; how the shadow banking sector might be the next shoe to drop; notes on the Brenner-Riley NLR article; on blue-collar toxicity and middle class racism; doomerism, socialism and hope.Sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada for the full episode (over two hours long!) and a ton more content from our bonus archive.

Our guests today are Intercept writer and author Natasha Lennard, and Libby and Sam from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee provide an update on the arrestees in Atlanta around the Stop Cop City Movement, the history of terrorism charges mobilized against the left since the Green Scare, how Dick beat the terror charges, and security culture in general.

https://freerichardhunsinger.com/

SUPPORT JESSICA REZNICEK http://supportjessicareznicek.com/

Crimethinc: What Is Security Culture? https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-culture

Donate to Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org

Natasha on Cop City arrests: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/

Natasha on Jessica Reznicek: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/08/dakota-pipeline-protester-jessica-reznicek-terrorism/

Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee's reflections and lessons: https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/03/06/we-got-us-a-case-study-and-reflections-on-supporting-an-arrestee-from-the-2020-uprisings/

Titled scales collective guide on being a defendant: https://tiltedscalescollective.org/wp-content/uploads/atiltedguide-web-1.pdf

Support the Antifada at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Song: Pop Smoke ft. Young Thug & Gunna - Paranoia

Race Traitor, Hard Crackers, and Insurgent Notes editor John Garvey stops by Antifada HQ to chat about the SVB collapse, the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism,

In the bonus we get the Race Traitor line on the hatred of Mr. Beast, Hasan Piker's John Brown-inspired streetwear, who really killed Rosa Luxemburg, and being a militant taxi driver in the '70s.

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada!

Read Hard Crackers Read Race Traitor Read Insurgent Notes

John's essay on revolutionary defeatism and the war in Ukraine: http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/12/against-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-for-the-successful-resistance-of-the-ukrainian-people/

Song: Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (we had to remove this due to a copywrite strike :( )

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Topics we cover: Lab Leaks and Bioweapons, mall punk, Antifada company mask policy, why being an NPC is actually based, support SB1312, Trump’s Quantam Leap Fully Automated Luxury MAGA Communism cities, Sean's thoughts on American NEOMism, reportbacks from Mexico City and the Villages, and what credit cards YOU need in 2023 to join the revolutionary laptop class.

Song: Drug Church - Million Miles of Fun

Show notes:

https://theracket.news/p/there-is-no-lab-leak-theory https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109960680734613154

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.

Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/

Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/

Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy Radicals

And his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUX

Songs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday

Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.

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Song: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.

This is an extended preview. For the full 2-hour episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to get access to tons of bonus content, our Discord server and more

Public link to the document we're working with: https://tinyurl.com/muwn3xmy

To celebrate JD Vance's ascension to the Cathedral power, we present you a discussion between Sean and Tarence from May of 2021! They talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?

Part 1 of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65977397

Beck - Sleeping Bag

DONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.org

Sean and Andy talk about their "jobs", an architectural controversy at Cooper Union, the war in Ukraine, the apparent resurgence of Stalinism, and Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City in Atlanta.

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Good articles about Tortugita the struggle in ATL: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stop-cop-city-tortugita-oped https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/defend-atlanta-forest-copy-city-climate-change-defund-the-police-1397188/ https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/little-turtles-war-cop-city-atlanta https://news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/

https://archinect.com/features/article/150336348/the-cooper-union-promotes-russian-architecture-why

Song: Raury - Channel Zero

DONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.org

For the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-15-77698515

In light of the depressing denouement of last year's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.

Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?

This is an extended preview, but to get access to all two hours of recording - including an example of a practical way that communist theory can begin building class power today - become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada. You'll get access to our discord server, all our archives of bonus content and you get to support our work (if that's something you're into.)

For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada!

Ian Svenonius is a rock singer (Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) now turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word.

We discuss his theory of literacy as a tool of the bourgeoisie and how rock n' roll reeducation camps might be the antidote, and why that might not go far enough for as to completely devolve to our neanderthal origins.

Buy Against the Written Word from Akashic Books

Interview with Ian about being the "sassiest boy in America" and why the workers are rock-and-roll

Read John Zerzan on The Failure of Symbolic Thought

Check out his film The Lost Record

Opening song: Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid

Closing song: The Make-Up - I am Pentagon

Andy guests on a weird films podcast and forces them to talk about Marx and revolution for an hour. Movies discussed include: The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, Sorry to Bother You, Young Karl Marx, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Don't Look Up, Snowpiercer, Tar, Spirited Away by Agnes Varda, and much much more

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

and/or follow Twitch of the Death Nerve on Instagram and Patreon

For the full episode and the rest of the Diving into the Wreckage series, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Taking a break from the ongoing debt crisis analysis, Sean and Varn lay out a series of first principles. This miniseries is meant to lay out some basics for how to think about the world and act within/upon it, what differentiates our particular political bent from others on the left and ultimately what is to be done with the social knowledge and beliefs that all of us hold in common.

By the end of this series we hope to have hammered out these principles into a basis for a recomposition of communist organizing.

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

We ring in the New Year by answering all the questions posed to us on our Discord! Topics include: the terminal crisis of capitalism, pushing Biden to the left, Brenner's recent NLR article, John Brown, animal testing, ecosocialism, and of course, what is to be dun.

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Brenner dust-up:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/dylan-riley-robert-brenner-seven-theses-on-american-politics

Closing song: Flower - Filth of their Confines

Old friend Eric-John Russell wanders with us through a variety of topics including critical theory of art and culture, the maturation and end of the Situationist International, and our traditional holiday discussion of antisemitism.

After the paywall we talk about Triangle of Sadness and Walter Benjamin's Emergency Brake, and if George Costanza is Jewish.

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Check out Cured Quail and the interview in Book Forum

Read: Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

Song: Louie Zong - Quail

For the 7th episode of Talkin' Tina, the Antifada side project where we discuss the history and politics of America Latina, we chat with a comrade from Oakland about the uprising that occurred in Cuba on July 11th, 2021, via his interview with an anarchist from the island.

The interview can be read in full here: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Check out Tamarack in Oakland

Song: Afro Cuban Allstars - Distinto, Diferente

Sean and Varn take a brief intermission from their long-running debt crisis series to check in on the state of the American Left. (Tl;dr it's not looking good.)

Where have the forces unleashed by the Bernie wave gone? Why has the social-democratic left become merely an adjunct to the Democratic Party? How come revolutionary organizations have either liquidated themselves into the DSA or remained marginal micro-sects? In what ways might these two coeval paths be overcome and what part might all of us play in this overcoming?

This is an extended preview of [the three-hour long conversation]( the three-hour long conversation) which ends on a hopeful note and a call to action. If you're interested in this content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Follow Varn (@skepoet) on: Youtube and podcasts

It's an unhappy 200th birthday for us, we do a postmortem of the little rail strike couldn't. Is the blame on the squad, Brandon, the unions, or the workers themselves? And what comes next for rail workers and class struggle in general?

In the second half we propose a few theories of Musk's Twitter takeover: Thiel-pilled fascist Musk, Hannah Arendt high-liberalism Musk, Gordon Gecko-style corporate raider Musk, Henry Ford productivist-futurist Musk (and why ultimately we believe none of it really matters.) Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada to hear it!

Song: Annie Lennox - Train in Vain

Sean and Rax King of Low Culture Boil talk about Baz Luhrmann's 2022 masterpiece Elvis and suggest that Baz Luhrmann should in fact be tasked with directing the biopics of every single notable person until he dies from exhaustion. We also read a 1956 NYT review of an Elvis performance, where the reviewer says "teenagers" a lot, and bits of Priscilla Presley's memoir Elvis and Me, where Priscilla talks about Elvis' kinks a lot.

Check out more great cultural commentary and fun times at www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil

RARE TUESDAY RELEASE DUE TO 'SCABBIN' JOE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO HAVE CONGRESS PUT THE RAIL WORKERS IN CHAINS

National rail strike impending, Sean is joined by Justin Roczniak (@who_shot_jgr) of Well There's Your Problem, your favorite engineering disaster podcast - with slides.

If the December 9th deadline for strike action is only the capstone of decades of mismanagement, decline and consolidation of private freight service in the United States, how did things get this way? What conditions are rail workers fighting against? How have so many profits been squeezed out of the industry only to see service degrade? What does it mean for US politics that much of these shifts have been happening through conflict within different sectors of the capitalist class?

All this (and a big reveal on Justin's corrupt relationship with Big Hawaiian Roll) in part one of this two part episode. To get access to the second half - including a special Antifada edition of 'Safety Third' and a deposition on Norfolk Nazi Southern's 1990s shit bag scandal - become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Intro music: Godspeed You Black Emperor - Government Came, edited with testimony from rail emperor E Hunter Harrison at Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing, October 2017

A preview taste of the spicy half of our episode with Brett from Rev Left about the possibility of communist regeneration in China and MAGA Communism in the US with Brett by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada. All patrons receive discord access, bonus material, and, if you DM me your mailing address, a signed letterpress Antifada postcard and stickers from collectively-owned union printshop Radix Media!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-198-vs-w-rev-74931782

"Bunker Brett" of Rev Left Radio comes on the show for the first time in years to debate and discuss the contemporary moment for the left, electoralism, the war in Ukraine, China, an what we can learn from First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha.

For the second half of the episode support the show at Patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get all bonus material, access to our Discord, and can DM your address for Antifada stickers and a letterpress postcard from Radix media!

Songs:

Days N Daze - Instra Mental

Days N Daze - I Wanna See It Burn

Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, and a former collaborator with the Redstockings. We talk about the how radical feminism/women's liberation went from a splinter of the New Left to shaping the course of women's struggles around the world, how their politics are misunderstood today, how their demands for repealing all laws on abortion was recuperated by a supreme court in need of legitimacy, and why the political class today strips those rights.

Jenny Brown in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America by Alice Echols: https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo

Shout Your Abortion

Pledge to Aid and Abet abortion

Song: Janis Ian - Too Old to Go Away Little Girl

Sean's STRIKE update returns! We talk about the UC academic workers strike, Starbucks, the rail strike, Toronto teachers, and much more. Sean is optimistic we are heading towards an independent working class movement. Andy thinks we'll lose again.

In the full episode we tell some spooky Halloween stories about a Thing Under the Bridge, a death rock band destroyed by lesbian cop love, and a very "shitty" Halloween cover band. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada to listen!

More:

Downstate NY Starbucks worker solidarity fund: https://opencollective.com/sbsolidarity

Terror in Trumbull: https://twitter.com/EclecticHams/status/1589281938530967552

https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Move-people-quicker-Trumbull-seeks-action-16149765.php

Halloween GG Allin cover band mystery: https://hellgatenyc.com/spooky-season-postscript

Lesbian cop relationship breaks up ACAB Death Rock band: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/us/politics/politics-impacts-relationships.html

Songs:

Rodecaster generic podcast theme song

DUMP - New York City Tonight

Episode image: https://twitter.com/UnionDrip/status/1589756790539161600

Sports writer and Mets Sicko Richard Staff joins us to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies World Series triumph, the unionization of the minor leagues and other labor conditions of ballplayers, and how the Mets are are the sinew that ties the world of sports and proletarian politics together.

For the [full episode]( full episode), including some illicit stories about Keith Hernandez too hot for public consumption, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

The Secret History of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko by Richard Staff: https://defector.com/the-secret-history-of-richard-nixon-mets-sicko/

Inside the Drive: The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB by Emma Baccellieri: https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/09/22/minor-league-baseball-union-daily-cover

Robert Moses' epic Shea Stadium groundbreaking speech: https://www.wnyc.org/story/flushing-meadow-stadium-groundbreaking-ceremonies-october-28-1961-address-by-robert-moses

Mets and Marlins walk-off field in protest after Kenosha shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJfSQAO2cg

Other audio clips throughout the episode come from "The New Breed: The Story of the Fans of the '62 Mets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqcVwCx_9U

Opening song: Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet - Narco

Jarrod Shanahan is back with an audio essay about his trip to Chicago's Riot Fest to see the Original Misfits--an experience filled not only with the horror of Glenn Danzig's dark lyrics, but also his political rants, the gentrification and recuperation inherent in these reunion festivals themselves, and the fear of getting old.

Read the full essay at Hard Crackers Journal: https://hardcrackers.com/hybrid-moments/

Listen to the first episode of Hardcore History on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50262903

Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism.

How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/YIMBYs represent? (Hint: two competing factions of capital) How do we fight the land owners and win? And how do tenant unions fit into the broader struggle against capital?

This is part one of an extended discussion. For the second half - a whole hour of takes on Matt Yglesias, intra-petit bourg warfare over the soul of city, and Mr Skanska looking over the back of US building capital - become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Kevin's Substack: https://kevinrogan.substack.com/

Song: Mirah - Dear Landlord

Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the post-fascist turn be able to overcome the crisis? Could the dying center left do any better? All this and many sidebars/parentheses within!

For the full episode and a ton more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Check out all of C Derick Varn's excellent analysis at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Song: Lou Reed - The Debt I Owe (Woody Guthrie cover)

Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or...

Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666

Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what its like working inside a secure state facility behind unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory of the contemporary spectacle.

We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements.

Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family, and episode 3 an interview with Black Mask and Up Against the Wall founder Ben Morea: Part 1, Part 2

More info on the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

Follow on Twitter and read their latests essays at Crimethic.com

PDF: Jerry Rubin: Do It!

Video: Ed Sanders on Firing Line

Song: The Spectacle - I, Fail

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849

Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family.

Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!

The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.

Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849

Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q

Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/

Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/

An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/

Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons

Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage?

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Full episode here

An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.

Show notes:

Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/

Inventories skyrocketing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory

Investment decline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses

Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html

Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on

Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/

https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages

Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England.

Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada! please support the show :3

Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us.

Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/

Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America

Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin.

full episode for Patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned!

Full Episode!

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Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists!

In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system!

For more MDC premium content and to listen to the rest of their ongoing series on the show, subscribe to MDC at https://www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult/

Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges.

Buy the book from Verso, now 30% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth

Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

Song: Snail Mail - Thinning

Oedipal Alex Jones, the music of David Koresh, the Assassination of Nancy Pelosi by the Coward President Xi, Sean explains Taiwan crisis As_a_joker, and more Settlers banter

For the full episode, Discord access, and all other bonus content support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Sean is joined by Japser Bernes of End Notes and Cal Berkeley to catch up on the comings and goings of the communization current. They discuss the plight of big American cities, the legacy of Occupy/BLM, the ongoing crisis of inflation and supply shocks and how communists might create a counterpower to the logistical infrastructure of capital.

Follow Jasper @outsidedadgitator

if you like our work, support us at patreon.com/theantifada

https://jasperbernes.net/

https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/field-notes/Been-Down-So-Long-It-Looks-Like-Up-To-Me

http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/21

In which Sean and Andy finally start getting mercenary and talk shit behind the paywall. This week we tackle the blinkered stupidity of last week's 'Starbucks baristas are bourgeois' discourse. Is there even a crumb of meaning that we can glean from this meltdown? Anyways, we had fun with it.

To access this bonus content, our side projects History is a Weapon/Diving into the Wreckage/Proletkult and our amazing Discord server, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Here's the critique we mentioned by @criticofpolecon

What do inflation, the London heatwave, 'communisateur' Los Angeles Truckers and the 1990s hardline band Vegan Reich have in common? They are all part of this brand new news episode featuring Sean and Andy! Plenty of scorching takes within about agricultural production, based bin men, inflation as capital in decay and how much means of production must be destroyed before Andy can rest at night.

Sweet bonus episodes, including us talking shit on the 'baristas are bourgeoisie' clowns, can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Sex Pistols - Bodies

Sean met with a whole bunch of listeners and patrons and friends on Discord and described his idea for a new organization. Another meeting coming up on Sunday, July 24th at 3pm EST so be sure to make it if you're interested! (You don't have to be a patron to come, but if you'd like to become one you can sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada)

LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz

Music: The Internationale (Jamaican Reggae Version)

Matthew and Ana from the Neoliberalhell podcast discuss their effort to unite influencers, shitposters, sex workers, abortion advocates, Hunter Biden-watchers in an instarecction against the Meta corporation, which begins this Saturday in NYC and LA!

More info on the NYC Protest: https://www.instagram.com/antizuckprotest/

LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz

For access to our discord and all bonus material, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Free Kita Analena! https://www.instagram.com/free.kitaanalena/

song: Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One

In the latest of our ongoing collaboration between Varn and Sean, the guys sit down to look at the multiple complicating factors behind the ongoing food crisis which has seen it's most striking culmination with the overthrow of the Sri Lankan government last week. How has capital shifted production, distribution and consumption of food crops? What kind of frailties has this produced for global grain supplies? And what are the likely complications as the crisis ratchets up in coming months?

This is an extended preview. The full episode is available for patrons, so sign up for this bonus content and much more at www.patreon.com/theantifada

We chat about Sean's appearance at the Sublation Media release event last week in Brooklyn, the dead end of free speech/cancel culture obsession among leftists, and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach.

Check out the full episode and join or Discord community at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Chris Cutrone's essay from the event: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dogmatization-and-thought-taboos-on-the-left

Song: Neil Young - On the Beach

We talk about the recent Supreme Court decisions, the coming rightwing dictatorship, the collapse of liberal democracy, and why only Dark Brandon can save us now.

Melinda Cooper - Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

Listen to our bonus episode about the Sublation Media panel and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach, and join our Discord community, by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Song: 7 Seconds - New Wind

We discuss some of the methods Noel suggested in Race Traitor journal for white people to abolish themselves.

Full episode at patreon.com/theantifada

Zhana is back with her co-editor of the new Noel Ignatiev reader from Verso: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity. We start by talking about Roe being overturned before moving on to Noel's revolutionary dual power strategy, and his intervention into the SDS debates about whether white workers would ever check their privilege.

In the bonus we talk more about his nineties journal Race Traitor and what it actually looks like renounce whiteness.

Buy the book from Verso (currently 40% off!)

Read Hard Crackers journal

Closing song:

Haggathorn - Awakening

with text from David Horowitz's 1999 book "Hating Whitey"

Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy continue our very specific collaboration of giving positive reviews to controversial works of sf! This time it's David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE! A film in which "surgery is the new sex," and probably an allegory for why art and politics suck. It's NICE!

For the full episode subscribe today at patreon.com/theantifada :)

Our previous episode about Severance: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65010363

Listen to Pod Damn America

Matt and Sean are back with an critical review of David Graeber and David Wengrow's 'The Dawn of Everything' and their popular reimagining of humanity's historical evolution.

What can their anthropology tell us about what freedom means and has meant to peole? How does their account change our conception of the science of historical materialism? What politics follow from their project and what are the limitations of their Occupy Wall Street-esque worldview?

For the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Intro: N i g h t f e v e r - V a p o r w a v e

A continuation of our discussion in the main episode with Ted Reese (@grossmanite). We discuss Dengism, the connection between crisis and communism and much more!

To check out this bonus content, our History is a Weapon series with Matt Christman, Proletkult with Andy, access to our Discord server and more become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Bonus song: Europe - The Final Countdown

Do you feel like the economy is out of control? That this simply cannot go on? Are you dreading/anticipating a total breakdown? A final crisis, if you will? Well do we have the episode for you.

Andy and Sean are proud to be joined by Ted Reese (@Grossmanite) the author of The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman to discuss his incredible new book. This episode could not have come at a more relevant time, so you'll want to have a listen.

The continued bonus discussion for patrons can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada so sign up to support our work today.

Do yourself a favor and get Ted's work out now from Zero Books.

Music: Trapped Under Ice - Reality Unfolds

Antifada's side project about the paranormal and parapolitical is back! with Andy and Jarrod Shanahan's #ReadtheGreenBook tour event at Chicago's Pilsen Community Books, and a short story about Andy's pilgrimage to Dallas.

Link to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67648274

BUY MY BOOK (from Red Emma's): I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism

The 'Fada boys catch up after Andy's Amtrak trip across the country! We talk the impending Roe vs. Wade overturning, homelessness crisis, crime wave, police slowdowns, and the great resignation. Listen to the end for our new manifesto!

Help us keep the show going by supporting the at patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get bonus episodes and acess to our discord community.

The Interregnum: https://haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/07/the-interregnum-the-george-floyd-uprising-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-the-emerging-social-revolution/

More on Echo Park homeless struggles: https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex

You Sweep? We Strike! action in Minneapolis: https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1529991181945348097

LA Riots 2020 by Ryan Lee https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/ryan-lee-la-riots-2020

Song: The Clash - Train in Vain

None dare call him breadtuber! Sean is joined by Muke (@muke10101) of the Marxist youtube channel Xexizy to discuss his project and popularization of good communist takes on politics, the economy and whether profit is, in fact, theft.

Along the way they discuss the problems with soc-dem streamers, the parlous state of UK politics ,why the critique of political economy is important and begin the critique of Leninism found the bonus.

For this bonus and much more, become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada

Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ

Outro: Ｋａｌｉ Ｕｃｈｉｓ － ｔｅｌｅｐａｔíａ （ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅチ ル)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PYIx8_yn4

Sean and Muke continue the discussion on Leninism and the joy of sects. Also, a very (im)modest proposal on how to maybe revive international unionism, wrest control over supply chains and strike some serious blows against capital.

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We take a look back at 4 years of Antifada, and Jamie says goodbye.

Continue to support her work at Everybody Love Communism!

And, as always, you can support the Antifada for bonus episodes, Discord chat, and more at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Closing songs:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues

Hogtown Jug Band - Future's in The Streets

Andy and Sean trade prison stories with Jarrod, including a near uprising in the Tombs kicked-off by the revolutionary demand for pound cake.

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Don't forget to pick up your copy of Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage

Song: Ghostface Killah - We Made It

Jarrod Shanahan returns to talk about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage, out TODAY from Verso. Captives it the history of Rikers Island as a progressive reform turned riotous penal colony in the neoliberal era. While today it's slated to be closed, the book shows how the plan to build new state-of-the-art humanitarian jails is repeating the mistake.

Check out our bonus episode with Jarrod on Friday at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Song: Negative Approach - Borstal Breakout

Sean and Derick are back with the 4th installment of our crossover series on history, political economy and current events. In this episode, the boys examine China: what was the mode of production in the revolutionary period? How has China changed since the reform period? What are common misconceptions about the CPC, good or bad?

The full conversation is over two-and-a-half hours, so if you like what you hear become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to hear this bonus content and a lot more.

To see the full recorded video of this recording, and support one of the best content creators out there, head over to https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog to give Derick some love as well.

NOTE: We screwed up a previous post of this file, should be fixed now!

In this bonus, Sean and Tarence talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?

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Nearly two years after the epic Trillbillies Workers Party crossover episode, Sean and Tarence decided to check in on how Giovanni Arrighi's historical schema is holding up. Then they throw in some Ellen Meiksins Wood and Andreas Malm for good measure. Also, what to make of the NatCon/Post-Left losers from the Vanity Fair article.

Check out more about JD Vance and Peter Theil and the rest of those dinguses by becoming a supporter at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Intro: Jordan Davis, Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt

In the second part of our interview ben tells us more about his affinity for indigenous struggle, why he moved back to NY, his views on COVID mandates and public health, his hatred of Jerry Rubin, and if he beat up the MC5.

In the spirit of the Motherfuckers, the full episode is available FREE at patreon.com/theantifada... but while you're there, why not support the show for the rest of our bonus content and access to our discord commune!

check out ben's art: https://www.instagram.com/ben_morea/?hl=en

Ben Morea is a founding member of Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, two 1960s revolutionary formations known as the most direct action-oriented wing of the youth revolutionary movement in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Comrades of the Black Panthers, Diggers, Yippies, and SDS, their black bloc tactics and uncompromising solidarity with black and indigenous struggles remains a blueprint of anarchist activity today.

Part 2 of the discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65563424

Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family.

Joining me for the interview was Matt Peterson of Woodbine.nyc

Correction on #ReadtheGreenBook tour-- the Minneapolis date is May 24, not 23

Song: Jefferson Airplane - We Can be Together

In their first ever CURRENT EVENTS episode, the Everybody Loves Communism crew of Jamie Peck, Aaron Thorpe (he's back, y'all!) and Jorge Rocha (@linegoesdown) take on various topics of the day, including Peter Thiel's Bitcoin meltdown and NYC mayor Eric Adams' love of crypto. Okay, so it's mostly about Bitcoin. What does it mean that various capitalists are having it out over this dumb new commodity?

To the 1,000 or so of you who are already listening to ELC on the regs: sorry for the dearth of slop this week. Come to the Eve 6 afterparty and Jamie will buy you a drink. No seriously, she's throwing the afterparty for the 5/4 Eve 6 NYC tour date. DM for deets!

Listen to ELC and give us money: Patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism or Fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism

Follow ELC on Twitter: @ELCpod

Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy discuss the new Apple TV show Severance.

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The crew talks about the Sunset Park shooting, Amazon unionization, global uprisings resulting from inflation and war, and getting various kinds of ill in Mexico.

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Song - Macka B - Give the Workers

We’re going back to our supersoldier roots with Devin Zane Shaw, a professor of philosophy and the author of the book the Philosophy of Antifascism. We talk about the antifascist theory Three Way Fight, political tensions within antifascism between its militant and liberal strains, the "parapolitical" aspects of the MAGA and Covid-denialist movements, Ben Burgis' comments on Joe Rogan about the milkshaking of Andy Ngo, and if Putin is antifa.

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Show notes:

Seven theses on the Three Way Fight

Where Do We Go Next? A Review of Shane Burley’s Why We Fight

Confronting Fascism book: https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/confrontingfascism1.pdf

M.I. Asma - On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal https://burningbooks.com/products/on-necrocapitalism-a-plague-journal

Understanding A22 PDX : discussion and analysis for the antifascist movements

Song: Ministry - Antifa

Listen to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-13-64451503

For almost four years we've been speculating about the end of a certain period of history and hoo boy is it here!

In this part one of the thirteenth installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean return to talk about the roots of this current turbulence: What are the forces aligned for and against the 'rules-based international order'? How has the calculus of the various ruling classes changed in this zero-sum moment? Are there even good guys or bad guys to root for? And how has the seeming exit of the working class from history worked out for humanity? Not so good, it seems...

In part two we delve into the muck and mire of the XXth century, the hopes and dreams of communism, and the bitter denouement of 1991.

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Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Vaporwave

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Jamie and Leslie (@leslieleeiii) discuss two more great vampire movies: Tom Holland's teen popcorn flick 'Fright Night' (1985) and Mel Brooks' classic horror-comedy starring Leslie Nielsen, 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It' (1995).

After the episode on Lenin's imperialism with Erin Hagood, we decided to get a different perspective on the Ukraine war and other current events with Australian anarchist-communist Matt Crossin (@MattCrossin).

How does Australia fit into the global economy and capitalist hegemony? What are the uses and limits of theories of imperialism? How are anarchists in Ukraine and Russia confronting the upheaval of war? And how might working class power be forged in this chaotic and desperate time?

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Gilles Dauve article: https://www.troploin.fr/node/98

Angry Workers: https://www.angryworkers.org/

Music: Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Insufficient Funds

Andy and Sean talk more with Erin Hagood of Platypus about our political horizons. Do we still need a Leninist party? Do the global wave of uprisings point towards revolution or the Democratic Party? Is Antifada Post-Left?

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Andy, Sean, and Platypus Erin Hagood go over the details of a historic panel on the crisis in Ukraine, then segue into the question of Lenin's definitions of imperialism and revolutionary defeatism and what clarity they offer today, if any.

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Show notes:

Lenin - Socialism and War

Crisis in Ukraine panel: https://youtu.be/Uyoe5ml05LQ

Michael Roberts on Ukrainian economy: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Ukraine-The-Economic-Consequences-of-the-War

Spencer Leonard on Bonapartism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6hY8AhT20

song: Oxxxymiron, Porchy, LSP - Imperial

Events are moving rapidly and there are processes in motion that seem to be forging a new global order. The question is what kind?

Following up on last week's episode with Alex Gendler, Sean and Derrick are back to continue the discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War. What are the geopolitics that led to this violent and tragic episode? What are the regional and global forces that helped create it? What kind of changes to the capitalist economy can we expect to see especially out of the West's 'total financial war' on Russia? How should communists orient towards these events and what should we be building towards the future?

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Friend of the show and Ukrainian immigrant Alex Gendler (@achilleselbow) discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, situating it in its proper historical context before discussing more recent events. He also takes some time to debunk galaxy brain takes from dumb dumb anti-imperialists who think a "multipolar" world — with neoliberal, authoritarian Russia as one of the poles — will somehow bring us closer to communism.

Song: Blind Boy Grunt - John Brown

Links:

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/the-intellectual-situation/ukraine-putin-and-the-west/

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

https://www.nihilist.li/2017/11/19/confession-of-the-ukrainian-marxist-soldier/

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv

https://illwill.com/the-kazakh-insurrection

Donate:

https://operation-solidarity.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-ukraines-media-going

https://www.peopleinneed.net/

https://redcross.org.ua/en/donate/

Max Collins of '90s (and present day) alt-rock band Eve 6 (@Eve6) returns for a wide-ranging BONUS convo touching on music, religion, shitposting, and Max's hi-jinx with the guy from Third Eye Blind.

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Image: emily_eclectic

Andy and Sean discuss Putin vs. Ukraine vs. Brandon and the war's origins in the EuroMaidan uprising. If the left's revolutionary strategy is take public space and push towards militant result, are we not replicating the errors of Ukraine and Syria? Are the Canadian truckers doing essentially the same thing?

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Reading on the subject:

Ukraine:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

Canada:

https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/14/ill-winds-from-ottawa-thinking-through-the-threats-and-opportunities-as-a-far-right-initiative-gains-momentum

https://breachmedia.ca/the-battle-of-billings-bridge/

https://north-shore.info/2022/02/07/trip-report-ottawa-on-saturday-february-5/

Interview with teamster about how this is not a workers movement: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/patriots-and-big-trucks

https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-29/

Song: Яблочко/Yablochko - Ukrainian Black Army song

Jamie and Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) round out the Valentine's Day-adjacent content by attempting to answer a listener's relationship question. They also talk designer babies and bio-mechanical wombs.

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Friend of the show Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) stops by for some capital-d Discourse about the Superbowl, nostalgia, and the NFL's promise to "end systemic racism." Jamie and Aaron also discuss Larry David's crypto ad and REI's woke anti-union campaign.

Check out Aaron's substack piece on nostalgia: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/what-may-have-been

Outro song: Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City

Eve 6 frontman and powerful poster Max Collins (@Eve6) stops by to discuss Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and "cancel culture"...but more importantly, how Spotify is fucking musicians out of rent money. What, if anything, can music fans do to help? Is Max the daddy that Joe Rogan's fans need? He also previews his band's upcoming tour with friend-of-the-show Jake Flores!

Closing song: Eve 6 - The Heart in a Blender Song (downloaded from Soulseek)

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Clark Filio, producer of How To: With John Wilson, stays on to talk NFTs, crypto, CIA Anitfa vs. Nazi Apes, metaverse nikes, how to make it rich with NFT farts, and Jingle Berry.

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Critique of crypto currency by Gegen Kapital und Nation: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/bitcoin-finally-fair-money/?fbclid=IwAR24m892D8HjbHgJD7tWHM4GH5zHcUZ15hL6MWA4FI6E6-Qm9IAMVoRqb7M

Signal creators weights in on Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Antifa Ryder Ripps: https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/after-bored-ape-yacht-clubs-alleged-racist-ties-critic-ryder-ripps-elaborates-on-specifics-of-the-controversy

But NFT farts: https://fartjarsnft.com/

Line Goes Up video on NFTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

song: The Vandals - Ape Shall Never Kill Ape

Painter, arts worker organizer, and How To: With John Wilson producer Clark Filio talks to us about the world of art! What is an arts worker, why are they organizing, and what are they organizing for? How do we wrest the art world away from the Sachlers and Axelrods of the world, and what would it look like after?

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Clark Filio's IG and painting Children of Gont: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHX6IbcFMdr/

The Financial Reason for Abolishing Museum Boards: https://hyperallergic.com/author/clark-filio/

Clark's article about the Tear Gas Biennial: https://communemag.com/breathing-together/

Closing song: The Thermals - No Culture Icons

The long-awaited second installment of Diving Into The Wreckage, the VarnVlog/Antifada crossover series is here! This time, Sean and Derrick put on their doomer caps to discuss capitalism and global warming: Is there a way out within this mode of production? Why have emissions ramped up so much in our lifetimes? What kind of political forces make climate change so intractable? And what does the future look like if we keep going down this path?

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Music: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Sean and David Parsons, host of the excellent history podcast Nostalgia Trap, take a dive into the politics and ideology of fossil fuels through the lens of the 2005 George Clooney and Matt Damon film 'Syriana'. They go back to the 1990s and 2000s, especially the wake of 9/11 and the runup to the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, to look at the sometimes troubled and myopic, but always fraught, way that Americans understand their relationship to oil and geopolitics.

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Continuing our discussion from the main episode, we go deeper into the denialism mess with Pavlos and ask ourselves what COVID and society's response might tell us about a possible revolutionary horizon. How do approach the real issues in the world without seeing like a state? We also discuss a second article written by an Italian collective, Wu Ming, that has a different take on the backlash against mandates: https://illwill.com/conspiracy-and-social-struggle

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The gang is back with returning guest, Pavlos Roufos, for a spicy discussion about ever-contentious pandemic politics and how the left should relate to it:

Why has SARS-COVID 19 and the state response to it caused such an uproar in parts of Europe and the United States? What contradictory functions does the capitalist state perform in class society, and how has this led to disaster? What is the attraction of denialism among the populist right and, increasingly, parts of the left? Is there a rational kernel inside the mystical shell of COVID conspiracism? How have the unvaccinated been made a scapegoat for the failures of the bourgeois state? And is there anything recuperable within the waves of protest and direct action against mandates and vaccines?

Even spicier bonus episode will be available for subscribers at www.patreon.com/theantifada to sign up today. Special thanks from all of us to our friends at Cured Quail for publishing the collective article in question: https://curedquailjournal.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/the-reality-of-denial-and-the-denial-of-reality/

Outro: Juice WRLD - Denial

We continue our discussion on the J6 "insurrection" with a reading of a NYT piece about a shadowy rightwing group you may not have heard of... likely because it's all a grift.

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song: John Cale - Praetorian Underground

On the one-year anniversary of the media spectacle that was the Jan 6 Capitol Hill 'insurrection,' the Antifada crew look back on what happened on that fateful day, how it compared to the George Floyd uprising, what's going on with liberal democracy, and how the anti-capitalist left should relate to all of it.

Outro song: Sick of it all - Insurrection

Fundraiser for families affected by Bronx fire: https://www.gofundme.com/f/relief-for-families-at-333-e-183rd-st

After the election of self-described libertarian socialist Gabriel Boric, we talk to Isabel from the Valparaiso anarchist assembly and Rara Senal anarchafeminist podcast network about the election, constitutional referendum, and what, if anything, these things have to do with the massive uprising in Chile in 2019. We also discuss the relationship of indigenous groups to the new constitution, the status of political prisoners, and the many riot dogs (and other animals) of Chile.

Follow effort to support uprising prisoners: https://instagram.com/buscandolakalle

Bees attack cops: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/americas/beekeepers-chile-police-scli-intl/index.html

Perro Vaquito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NkNbhXRXpQ

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Opening song: Los Prisioneros -Baile de los que Sobran

Closing song: Dirti Lepra - Anti 133

We continue our discussion of Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism with the story of the Lyman Family--a folk music collective turned into a creepy cult of astrology-obsessed devotees to a toothless harmonica-playing manchild. Afterwards we discuss cults today--why they are so intriguing in popular culture yet seem to be on the decline. Finally we talk about acid. If it's a CIA psyop, does that mean we shouldn't take it?

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Were the Manson and Lyman families apocalyptic cults, misunderstood revolutionaries, or media distortions created to delegitimize the revolutionary communalism of the '60s? Parallax Views host JG Michael joins us to discuss Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism, a collection of early-'70s Rolling Stone Magazine articles, to ponder cultism, psychedelic culture, hippy racism, The Beatles, and much more.

Part two about the Lyman Family available for Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

The second episode of a series on the revolutionary counterculture of the '60s! Listen to the first with Peter Coyote here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57554185

Support Parallax Views on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews

Music:

Charles Manson - Garbage Dump

The Beatles - Glass Onion

Lemonheads - Your Home is where You're Happy (Charles Manson cover)

A new special collaboration series for VarnVlog and Antifada patrons featuring Sean and C. Derrick Varn. In this first episode we tackle to outlines of the present moment: what is the state of geopolitics? How does China fit into the world system? What is the state of American decline? How is US politics reflecting this decadence? What do the Democrats and Republicans stand for at the present moment, if anything? And more!

The full episode is available for patrons now at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/diving-into-ep1-59884519

This will be an ongoing collaboration so there will be more episodes soon. In the meantime, be sure to check out Varn's work:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/varn-vlog/id1567634170

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

A conversation about r/antiwork with @highriselowlife. Where did it come from? Why does it appeal to people? Is it the antidote to culture war? Will it organize a revolutionary general strike?

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Song: Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It

Along with Red May and History Against Misery we interview communist collective Chuang about their new book the Social Contagion (sort of). Expanding on the 2020 essay about the origins of the pandemic in China, the anonymous collective living in and outside of China uses on-the-ground interviews, reports and analysis to show the fragile reality between China's authoritarian Marxist facade.

Buy Social Contagion from AK Press

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Closing song - Sandee Chan - Uncanny Valley

Jamie and Sean continue with Jason Myles (@lafinabsolute) and Pascal Robert (@probert06) of the podcast and YouTube show This is Revolution (@TIRShowOakland) to critique the American left, talk shit and analyze the intersection of music and politics.

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Jamie and Sean are joined by Jason Myles (@lafinabsolute) and Pascal Robert (@probert06) of the podcast and YouTube show This is Revolution (@TIRShowOakland) for a wide-ranging discussion of black politics, media, and organizing in the modern age.

Pascal's Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384

Jason's Medium article: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-anarchist-e918b00bb13

What The Negro Wants: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268019648/what-the-negro-wants/

Check out This Is Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qbDUXlCk5s&t=1s

Enjoy this unlocked bonus ep! Happy Thanks-taking, we'll be back next week. -jamie

Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot.

Can we meme revolution into reality? Or is it impossible to force a meme? We discuss Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Darwin, and more!

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Music: Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Notes from the great impasse.... the boys are back to take you for a wild ride from supply chains, to the Great Resignation, to culture wars, to cryptocurrency, to NFTs to terminal crisis.

Why is nothing working and why does everything feel bad? It's the decadence of capitalism as a functioning social system and Sean and Matt explain why.

Be sure to listen to the end as Matt, like a similarly bearded guy before him, reaches into the misty depths of theology to try to analogize the impersonal domination of the value form. Ask yourself: is capital in fact the DEVIL? The answer might surprise you.

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Intro: The Doors 'Light my fire' (Vaporwave)

Jamie is joined by pal-of-the-show Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) to discuss Lizzie Borden's 1983 feminist sci-fi film "Born In Flames." Ten years after a "war of liberation" that established a social democratic government in the United States, things are still not great for women, especially queer, black, working class women! In a story that remains relevant to this day, the film follows the radical organizers of the Women's Army as they fight for true equality.

Outro song - "Born In Flames," Red Krayola

Greetings, Antifada super soldiers! This week, we're cross-posting an episode of Jamie's new show Everybody Loves Communism, wherein she and co-host Jorge do the reading so you don't have to. In this edition, Jamie and Jorge begin their mini-series on the Paris Commune as a prelude to chapter 3 of Lenin's "State and Revolution," because you need to know about it to understand that chapter. It's also just an important event in the history of class struggle; Marx called it "the dawn of the great social revolution which will liberate mankind from the regime of classes forever"(!)

The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman.

New Yorker Review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris

Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur)

Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song.

Image: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning by Camille Pissarro

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As "Striketober" becomes "Strikevember," Sean and Jamie discuss the ongoing wave of strikes and labor actions, and what they might mean for class struggle in the US.

Outro song: Strike Anywhere - You're Fired

Happy Halloweekend! Jamie and Leslie are back with a seasonally appropriate discussion of two takes on the same tale from two towering directors: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), written and directed by Werner Herzog.

Which film contains the more convincing worldview? Which Dracula is incel, and which is volcel? Does Mina come off cooler than she should because she's played by Winona Ryder? All will be revealed.

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After the GSA convention (Gothic Socialists of America) the Antifidada crew spends a night at a hotel made famous by the book The Palmer Hotel, a collection of spooky short stories set over a century at a downtown hotel. $20. Venmo: Rick-Paulas, PayPal: RickPaulas@gmail, CashApp: $RickPaulas. Include address.

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In the second part of our first episode of Armed Love, Peter Coyote discusses his interest in Zen, how it came to be so influential to the beatniks and hippies, and his background with indigenous solidarity, particularly the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.

Coyote recommends Peter Matthiessen's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse regarding Peltier, and The New Buddhism by David Brazier and How the Swans came to the Lake by Rick Fields about Zen Buddhism.

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Opening song: Pink Fairies - Do it

Closing song - John Trudell - Look at Us / Peltier / Aim Song

We begin our new series on the revolutionary counterculture of the sixties by interviewing Peter Coyote, founding member of the Diggers -- an anarchist group from San Francisco whose free stores, tie-died shirts, free concerts, and activist street theater opened the gates of the Haight to tens of thousands of dropouts and helped define the sixties aesthetic. But by '67, the Diggers were already trying to escape the hippie movement by forming a network of revolutionary communes.

Joining Andy for the interview is Sean Lovitt, researcher sixties revolutionary groups and author of Mimeo Insurrection: The Sixties Underground Press and Long Hot Summer of Riots

Topics discussed include: The SF Mime Troop and their controversial minstrel show, the formation of the Diggers, the alleged insurrectionary activities, the Hells Angels, psychedelic drug culture and conspiracies, and the movements against war and for racial justice then and now.

For Part 2 of the series visit Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Check out Peter Coyote's books Sleeping Where I fall and Rainman’s Third Cure

And Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters

Intro song: Patti Smith - Citizen Ship

Outro Song - My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row

Jamie and Sean are joined by superproducer Paul Channelstrip (@aufhebenkultur) (Antifada twitch channel, Everybody Loves Communism, many more) for a laid back episode about the zoo, a high profile bird murder, and the tendency of the rate of treats to fall over time. Why is the supply chain having a normal one and what does it mean for the current phase of capitalism?

You can watch this trio shoot the shit from 3pm-5pm ET every Wednesday and Friday at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada!

Check out Paul's many projects:

Everybody Loves Communism <--Jamie's new history and theory pod

Mortal Science

Varn Vlog

Reel Abstractions

closing song: Berner - Status

The madlads from TrashFuture are back! Sean is joined by Riley (@raaleh) and Nate (@inthesedeserts) to discuss the very public meltdown of, well, you know, the entire British civilization. As it turns out, things in the UK are even more bleak than they appear from across the pond: supply chains breaking down, petrol stations empty, services being cut, etc. But even more dire, and darkly funny, is the reaction of the British ruling class' which absolutely refuses to rule. Put on your schadenfreude caps before queuing up for this one.

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Good writers on the UK mentioned by Nate:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372431-when-the-lights-went-out

https://tribunemag.co.uk/author/owen-hatherley

Outro: Stormzy - Disapointed

Jamie and Andy are joined by Natasha Lennard (@NatashaLennard), contributing writer at The Intercept and author of "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life," to commemorate Occupy Wall Street's ten-year anniversary. What are people erasing when they remember Occupy solely as something that "changed the conversation" around wealth inequality? How did the occupiers demonstrate anarchist politics in action? And what lessons can we carry into the future as we fight not merely to shore up the system, but to overthrow it?

Natasha on OWS:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-five-years/

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

Audio: Slavoj Zizek speaks at OWS: https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript

"Peanut butter man" is alive and well and asks that we support LES Food Not Bombs: tiktok.com/@lesfoodnotbombs, Instagram.com/lesfoodnotbombs

Closing song: Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was a Time

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Sean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire.

Then, with some extra time, Sean gives a briefing of several recent strikes and what they might mean for organized labor going forward.

Links:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/ten-thousand-uaw-members-gear-strike-vote-john-deere

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/13/pari-s13.html

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/06/nabisco-owner-sends-cease-and-desist-to-bakers-union-pledging-legal-action/

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/after-voting-down-four-tentative-agreements-washington-carpenters-strike

Closing song: B.o.B. - Arena

The crew discuss some of the cultural changes that happened in New York City and the country following the attacks of September 11th through the lens of the biggest band of that era, The Strokes.

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We share our stories of 9/11 (some more harrowing than others) and commemorate some of the lesser known actions of the NYPD and FDNY with one of the anonymous members of Research and Destroy NYC

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Music: Bruce Springsteen - Into the Fire

Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot.

Can we meme revolution into reality? Or is it impossible to force a meme? We discuss Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Darwin, and more!

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The late Noel Ignatiev's comrades Zhana Kurti (from Hard Crackers) and Dave Ranney and Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization discuss the release of Acceptable Men, a memoir of Noel's time in the '70s as militant worker in the larger US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana.

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Show notes:

Dave Ranney's Living and Dying on the Factory Floor review:

https://www.angryworkers.org/2019/11/26/living-and-dying-on-the-factory-floor-by-dave-ranney/

Hard Crackers Journal:

https://hardcrackers.com/

Eulogy of Noel Ignatiev by Jarrod Shanahan:

https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/

Truth and Revolution: A history of the Sojourner Truth Organization: https://www.akpress.org/truthandrevolution.html

Song: Dave Dudley - Steel Worker Blues

Matt and Sean have returned to talk about the disastrous defeat of the United States in Afghanistan:

How did this happen and how does it implicate the American Imperial project? Why was the War on Terror? How is Biden's withdrawal linked to broader strategic interests (Cold War with China)? Whither American capitalist hegemony in the 21st century? And how will the citizens of this cursed country reconcile themselves to imperial decline? (Not well.)

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Jamie is joined by Geo Maher to discuss his new book, "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete." They discuss the origins of mass incarceration, the debate around "non-reformist" reforms, and alternative models of community safety. Also, the million dollar question: how do abolitionist politics fit into the over-arching project of building communism?

W/ bonus questions on the communes of Venezuela and the Zbellion!

Buy the book:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police

Andy's essay criticizing the politics of safety:

https://illwill.com/gimme-danger

Outro: Noname - Song 33

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In this very special bonus, Michael Heinrich addresses his detractors and fleshes out the political implications of his reading of Marx's mature work:

Is Michael's reading of Marx as having a monetary theory of value a concession to neoliberalism? What was Marx trying to get at with the Tendency of the Law of the Rate of Profit to Fall? What remains of Marx's crisis theory if we admit he gave up on TRoPF? Is the empirical work of 'Marxist Economics' worth a damn? And, of course, what does all this have to do with the production of communism?

Long-time listeners of the show are not going to want to miss this one, it's a banger!

Intro: LCD Soundstystem - Dance Yrself Clean

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Sean and Jamie are excited to be joined by Michael Heinrich, German scholar and author of a series of books popularizing and clarifying Marx's value theory and contextualizing the life and times of old Karl. We discuss the core of Marx's project, what distinguished him from the economists of his day, and what political orientations might follow from a precise understanding of his critique of political economy. Importantly, Michael has a powerful critique of vulgar Marxism and the orthodoxies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nerds, you're not going to want to miss this one!

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Works by Michael Heinrich:

"An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital" https://monthlyreview.org/product/an_introduction_to_the_three_volumes_of_karl_marxs_capital/

"Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society" https://nyupress.org/9781583677353/karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society/

"How to Read Marx's Capital" (Out soon) https://nyupress.org/9781583678947/how-to-read-marxs-capital/

"The Science of Value" (Out next year)

Intro: Kenny Dorham - Maxology

Outro: Atari Teenage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years of Culture

Sean, Jamie and Andy are joined by Anton Jaeger (@antonjagermm), Marxist researcher of populism, to discuss the history, present and future of populism whether in the left or right mold.

Several years ago it seemed as though left populism - exemplified by practitioners such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders - had a decent shot at upending the Washington Consensus on austerity, markets and foreign policy. With the failure and retreat of these candidates and others, what is left of this project? Why does right populism seem everywhere ascendant? What do these movements say about the economy and the political order? How can we understand the populist mode of politics in relation to the fight to abolish capital?

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Works by Anton:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/anton-jager-rebel-regions

https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/02/welfare-without-welfare-state-death-postwar-welfarist-consensus

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/we-bet-the-house-on-left-populism-and-lost

https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/03/making-sense-of-populism

https://nonsite.org/back-to-work-review-of-david-graebers-bullshit-jobs/

Intro: Cincinnati's University Singers -The Hand the Holds the Bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqiAT6o7Kks

Outro: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Populism Yea Yea

Julian Feeld sticks around to smoke a hash joint and discuss the work of the New School alumni graphic designer who began the Deep State Map Project, his contact with aliens for Ashtar, the Q-esque manifesto it inspired, and our opinions on the "lab leak" hypothesis

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Show notes:

Dylan Louis Monroe: Deep State Mapping Project

Interview: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/04/a-fascinating-interview-with-a.html

Nicholas Baker in New York Magazine: Did COVID-19 Escape from a Lab?

We're joined by QAnon Anonymous host Julian Feeld from Paris, giving us an update on all things QAnon, including Ron Watkins' pivot to UFOs, the right and left of the Yellow Vest movement's resistance to Macron's neoliberalism and vaccine passports, if there's any hope in a revolutionary left QAnon movement, and tips on staying sane in the eye of the storm.

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Video of fascists getting wrecked at vaccine passport demo in Toulouse

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Music: Q: Into the Storm theme by Brent Knopf

Jamie is joined by Marvin Gonzalez (@Sulliedsubjects), a member of DSA's International Committee Secretariat, to discuss his recent trip to Venezuela as part of DSA's delegation to the Congreso Bicentenario de los Pueblos del Mundo, as well as his experience touring las comunas, a Soviet-like organ of dual power.

Outro song: Lloviznando Cantos - Arriba a la Izquierda

For more, check out the DSA delegation's report back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2RHFnzpG0