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 F...
2023-03-01 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSean 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 2023-02-22 14:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 o...
2023-02-15 22:29:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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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.
Good articles about Tortugita the str...
2023-01-31 01:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 u...
2023-01-25 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Ian Svenonius is a rock singer 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' ...
2023-01-18 09:43:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2023-01-13 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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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.
Brenner dust-up:
2023-01-04 10:59:01 +0000 UTC
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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 2022-12-28 11:00:00 +0000 UTC
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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: 2022-12-21 16:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 DS...
2022-12-14 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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?
Then 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...
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 "te...
2022-12-02 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-11-29 22:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-11-29 14:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"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.
Songs:
Days N Daze - Instra Mental
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Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle 2022-11-16 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean's STRIKE update returns! We talk about the UC academic workers strike, Starbucks, the rail strike, 2022-11-09 10:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
The Secret History of...
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 ...
2022-10-26 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-10-19 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 th...
2022-10-12 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
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 fence...
2022-10-05 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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. Epis...
2022-09-28 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Comrad...
2022-09-21 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q...
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 or...
2022-09-14 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.
Show notes:
Productivity crashing https://www.re...
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 2022-09-02 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post