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BONUS: Real Inusurrecto-Banana Hours
We weigh in on the Banana Discourse by reading a vulgar insurrectionary journal from 2009: Politics Is Not a BananaRead along: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/politics-not-banana-what-are-you-doing-after-orgy-or-insurrection-or-whatever-1.pdf
Ep 223 - Calm Before the Solar Storm
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!Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5qq0sppNliaml9Lgm...
Reading Settlers part 2: Bakkkon's Rebellion
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 KIn two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5
Ep 222 - Teamster Runoff w/ Alexander Edward
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:https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaAWorld Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.htmlMore on the 2018 agreement:...
Ep 221: Mugged by reality w/ The Marxist Unity Group
Sean is joined by Aliyah and Isaac from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus the Marxist Unity Group to talk about their political line and practice:What is the historical relationship between Marxism, the workers movement and small-r republicanism? Why has Karl Kautsy become anathema on the far-left and is it time to bring this famous 'renegade' back? Who is Mike McNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and what is his influ...
Reading Settlers Part 1
First episode of Andy and Sean reading the classic and mysterious reinterpretation of American history and class structure: J. Sakai's Settlers!We read the intro and Chapter 1 about the settling of the Amerika pre-1776 Read along! Next reading Chapters 2 and 3.. maybe in two weeks. We also discuss this interview: https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/raceburn/
Gramsci Sleaze Part 2 w/ Mike Crumps, Matthew Donovan, Lucia Ribisi, Devon Young
In our bonus episode we talk about Crump's history writing for an nrx blog, the Praxis city-state, esoteric hitlerism, the Cat Power movement, more about the Donzinger and Chris Small event, way too much about a guy named Dagsen, and if we truly believe revolution is possibleThanks to Lucia Ribisi and Devon Young for popping in the Sean seat! song: Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - Jackson
Ep 220 - Gramsci Sleaze w/ Mike Crumps, Matthew Donovan
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. See Matthew and Ana from Neoliberalhell TONIGHT at Baby's All Right with Chris Smalls and Steve DonzingerReading:https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/histor...
Ep 219.2 - Cutrone My Life into Pieces w/ Chris Cutrone
In the bonus, we talk about Zoomer Stalinism, and Chris critiques a couple of our recent pieces of writing:Sean's: https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-chinaAndy's: https://www.sm28.org/articles/sm28-dissolves-a-balance-sheet/Chief Keef - Perry the Platypus
Ep 219.1 - Millennials are Killing the Millennial Left w/ Chris Cutrone
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.Video about socialism with American characteristics: https://youtu.be/5-kXCBTvxrESong - RHCP - Black Summer
Diving into the Wreckage 6.7 - Less Money, More Problems
Marxism vs. MMT! Follow Varn on Youtube and support his Patreon !
BONUS: Everybody must get Postone w/ QAnon Anonymous
Sean went on the QAnon Anonymous podcast to Postone-pill their listeners on the critique of structural antisemitism. Support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymousRead Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism
Ep 218 - Trash Future Islands w/ Mattie Lubchansky
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 bonus we talk about Jesusism, sports riots of the Byzantine empire, and "Yolk Hussy"??Support Mattie on their Patreon! and subscribe to their newsletter!Song: Future Islands - Old Friend
Ep 217 - Imagine a Burgerville w/ Luis Brennan and Amelia Cates
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.Meet Luis and Amelia TODAY ...
Ep 216 - Rotterdam America
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 bli...
UNLOCKED: Real Lib Dem Hours w/ Trash Future
As we take the week off to celebrate the marriage of Sean and Rax, enjoy this classic bonus from our 2019 trip to the UK to visit the Trash lads and drink many horrible cans of lager and read James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power."Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/
Diving into the Wreckage 8.1: Shadow of China 2 w/ C. Derick Varn
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 workingclass of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the future be mar...
As_A_Substack 1: Whither China
First episode of a new feature where Sean writes an article on his free substack and then reads it for patrons! This one is some thoughts about China, why it's become such a touchstone for the left and what the real stakes are in its political and economic development.Stay tuned for the Diving into the Wreckage episode out tomorrow where Sean and Varn discuss the text and riff off some of the conclusions. Enjoy!
Ep 215 - Tool-Organ Time w/ Søren Mau
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.William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-reviewJasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdfSong: Royksopp - Compulsion
Ep 214 - 100 Strikes
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! 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-ala...
Ep 213 - Refusal of Turk w/ Djene Bajalan
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 bonus: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a...
Ep 212 - Gross Authentic Product w/ David A. Banks
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 and upstate cults like Nxium. Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Ep 211 - The Union Makes us Sean w/ Alex Press
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!Articl...
Ep 210 - Hoover Damn America w/ Malcolm Harris
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/Song: Radiohead - Palo Alto
Ep 209 - How to Smoke Up A Pipeline
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, Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, 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-g...
PROLETKULT 12 - End of the UFO era w/ Wu Ming 1
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 o...
Diving into the Wreckage 6.4 Inflation and Bank Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn
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 blow...
Ep 208 - Beating the Terrorism Charges w/ Natasha Lennard
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.Support Richard: https://freerichardhunsinger.com/SUPPORT JESSICA REZNICEK: http://supportje...
Ep 207 - Taxicab Confessions w/ John Garvey
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, Hasan Piker's John Brown-inspired streetwear, who really killed Rosa Luxemburg, and being a militant taxi driver in the '70s.Read Hard CrackersRead Race Traitor Read Insurgent NotesJohn's essay on revolutionary defeatism and the war in Ukraine: http://insurgentnotes.co...
Ep 206 - Culture War III
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.Show notes:https://theracket.news/p/there-is-no-lab-leak-theoryhttps://floridap...
