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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 Banana

Read along: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/politics-not-banana-what-are-you-doing-after-orgy-or-insurrection-or-whatev...

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: 2023-08-09 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

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 K

In 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/MorePerfe...

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 Co...

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 discu...

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 tr...

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 Grams...

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-china
Andy's: https://www.sm28.org/articles/sm28-dis...

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...

Diving into the Wreckage 6.7 - Less Money, More Problems

Marxism vs. MMT!

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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/qanonanonymous 

Read Postone: 2023-06-30 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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 wo...

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 ...

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: 2023-05-24 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

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: - 2023-05-15 13:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post

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, t...

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...

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 interest...

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 - Pal...

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 ...

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 2023-04-05 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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 Federa...

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 2023-03-22 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

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. 

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2023-03-13 18:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post

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. 

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