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Boundless and Bottomless: Dugin's 4th Political Theory Part 1 w/ Varn and Jason
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 dingdongs, from the right to the left, are looking to this eclectic, irrationalist Russian post-fascist to understand this particular moment in world history.This is actually the second episode...
E234 - Vincent and the Vortex w/ Vincent Bevins
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 RevolutionSong: Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State Part 2 (Lenin)
Sean and 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? Full episode for patrons!
&&&: De-McKinseyfication w/ Garrison Lovely
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.Garrison's podcast: https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.comOriginal whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willi...
Ep 233: Post-Soviet Space w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
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...
Ep 232: Cryin' Like Lion in Zion w/ Jason Myles
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 mig...
Reading Settlers 7 - McCarthy Did Nothing Wrong
We read chapters X and XI of Settlers, about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.Read Along:https://readsettlers.org/ch10.htmlhttps://readsettlers.org/ch11.htmlInfo about Yokinen Trial./ White Chauvinism purges:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokinen_Show_Trialhttps://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/jacobs-oc/app-a.htmSong: UAW choir sings La Borinquena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5cL0-_VQk
Ep 231 - Demagogics is Destiny
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 MexicoLabor shortage in Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/middleeast/israel-farms-foreign-workers-crisis-intl-cmd/index....
Talkin' 'tina 8: Milei Massacre
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 Ro...
Ep 230 - Block the Beast w/ Jamie Peck
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.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/ndncollectiveJoin a weelaunee defense society: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org...
There is No God But God: five people ambush a stage armed with words at once holding the crowd hostage.
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...
Diving Into the Wreckage - Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State Part 1
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...
Reading Settlers 6 - KKKillers of the Settler Moon
J. 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 Scors...
Ep 229 - The Gang Goes Intifada
Andy and Sean discuss the invasion in Gaza, Israel's move towards ethnic cleansing, the history of proletarian resistance in Palestine, and theorize class conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian national projects and its working classes. We also talk about what all this means for those communists in the US removed from the conflict. Some of our reading for the episode:https://decompositions.noblogs.org/files/2023/10/Explosion- Point.pdfh...
Ep 228 - Anti-Anti-Engelsism w/ Daniel Tutt
Sean is joined by @DanielTutt, 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 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 polit...
ARMED LOVE 8 - The subversive 70s w/ Michael Hardt
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 capital...
Reading Settlers 5 - CIO, New Deal, and WWII
We continue reading J. Sakai's Settlers - The Myth of the White Proletariat, chapters 7 and 8. We begin the episode with a discussion of the war in Israel and Palestine with Sakai's national-liberation framework in mind.Leftcom statements mentioned:https://en.internationalism.org/content/17406/neither-israel-nor-palestine-workers-have-no-fatherland http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-11/the-latest-butchery-in-the-middle-east-is-par...
Ep 227 - Never Go Full Stancil w/ Jamie Merchant
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 ...
Ep 226 - Critical Support for the WTO
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, right-wing opposition to a Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan, and a munitions plant in East Germany, and in the bonus we talk about Trudeau's "Bonzo goes to Bitzburg" moment.Woodbine Reservoir journal release party: https://www.thetr...
Diving into the Wreckage 9.2
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. Sean and Varn tackle, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Lenin...
Ep 225: UAW Strike Emergency Pod!!
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.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 el...
BONUS: Live in Brooklyn w/ Minion Death Cult
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.Songs:Woodie Guthrie - JaramaBig Soda - Swearin'
Ep 77: People's Republic of Toontown w/ donoteat1
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 ...
Reading Settlers 4 - The Union Makes Us... Wrong?
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.https://readsettlers.org/ch5.htmlhttps://readsettlers.org/ch6.htmlhttps://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-andSong: Pete Seeger - Casey JonesOh, and DONT FORGET TO SEE US THI...
Diving into the Wreckage 9: Where is the left now? w/ C. Derick Varn
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 ...
Ep 224: The Short 21st Century w/ Brandon Jourdan
Global Uprisings documentarian and TheRealNews contributor Brandon Jourdan chats about his recent experiences in the pension strikes in France, comparisons to the June Uprising following the murder of Nahel, Belgian Balkanization, the anarchist origins of Twitter, and if the End Notes Decades is ending, or just getting started baby!-Anarcho origins of twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282 -The “End Notes” Decade:htt...
Reading Settlers 3: Settler Trade Unionism and Anti-Imperialism
https://readsettlers.org/ch4.htmlsong: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr.
ARMED LOVE 7 - Mohawk Warrior Society w/ Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny
Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Loved, the Antifada sideproject about the revolutionary countercultures of the 60s and.. Let’s just say early 70s to make it easier on me. Today we’re talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press: The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and SurvivalPromo film Spaces of Exception: https://www.e-flux.com/film/421474/spaces-of-exception/Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill and MKULTRA: https:...
Diving into the Wreckage 7.3: Beginnings of a Positive Orientation
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?SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!NYC Sept 10:...
SEPTEMBER SHOWS ANNOUNCEMENT!
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-691958234707Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problemAnd yes... the SICK POSTER IS ON SALE!!! https://www.grimgrimgrim.com...
