In which we suss out this whole USSR thing. Reading: Epitaph for the USSR: A clock without a spring (1998) by Christopher J Arthur Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/b3rcdKyS
We're back on our bs. Reading: The Future of Revolution (2025) by Jasper Bernes Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vhhSPuUq
In which we remember the good and sane bush years. Watching: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Davis Guggenheim & Al Gore Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/csqrrRRD
Turns out you need to do more than just read Murray Bookchin if you want to be friends with anarchists. Reading: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity (2023) by Michael Löwy, Olivier Besancenot & David Campbell Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TNmaRX2k
In which brave Henry Heller saves the immortal science of Marxism from the unwarranted revisionism of W O K E political marxism. Reading: "Bourgeois Revolution" from The Birth of Capitalism (2011) by Henry Heller Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jgaCypmP
You ever noticed that the 8 hour working day is like...................the same as school, man? Reading: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) by Paulo Freire Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/Be6dQ6hv
Sure China has billionaires, a strictly enforced class system, State Owned Enterprises that are evaluated on stock market performance, private property, wage labor and commodity production but is it REALLY capitalism guys Reading: Red Dust (2019) by Chuang. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Be6dQ6hv
In which we regain our lost optimism. Reading: Peace for our Time (2025) by Critisticuffs, The American Sulla (2025) by Edith Fischer and Notes on the War (2025) by Jack Conrad Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/273xScQK
In which we inaugurate the Chantal Mouffe era of the show. Reading: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal (2021) by Rodrigo Nunes Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAHjv96U
Alright, this time we're really gonna figure out what dialectics is. Reading: Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist (2020) by Pierfrancesco Biasetti Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FUpZKFE3
How do you do communal politics in an individualized, atomized world? How do you do individualism in a communal world? Reading: Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy (the early 1990s) by Gabriel Kuhn Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/CD8wXpzc
In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics. Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CD8wXpzc
Well after a month of being locked out of our Soundcloud account we're finally back in our social democracy era. Reading: Reform or Revolution? (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/arZSSVw6
In which we try to get past our kneejerk sect bashing. Reading: "There are Parties and Then There are Parties" by Archie Woodrow, "Why a Party and What Sort?" by Mike Macnair and "The Communist Party, Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Lawrence Parker (all 2024) from Prometheus, available here: https://prometheusjournal.org/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD:
In which we encounter the unknowable concept of the S P H E R E. Reading: The Logic of Gender (2013) from Endnotes 3 by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4r47b7UF
*banging head against the wall* POLITICALCAPITALISMTECHNONEOFEUDALISMNEOLIBERALISM Reading: Seven Theses on American Politics (2022) by Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/G22EcdhR
SKIP THE ELECTION BANTER: 27:47 In which we sneak into an academic conference and stick out like two sore thumbs. Reading: Nothin' INDEP network: https://www.indep.network/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vC5r2MmA
Lousy workers! Why won't you do industrial unionism?! Reading: Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4zW4DsM9
Just how bad is the looming global population decline going to be for capitalism? Will it be able to AI its way out of the productivity losses? More importantly, what does this mean for my own political project? Reading: After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the "Production of Men" in the Twenty-First Century by Jason E. Smith https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: disco...
Six months later, we come to the end. Chapter discussion timestamps: CLOUDS UNFOLD 8:26 A COLD AND FROSTY MORNING 16:57 ROUND THE BEND 33:53 BURNING GOLD 1:01:18 THE RAFTERS AND THE BEAMS 1:16:41 THE STEPS OF ALL SAINTS 1:38:01 EATING FLOWERS 1:54:30 CORNERED 2:14:35 THE ROOD IN THE WALL 2:27:01 THE JOLLY SMOKERS 2:39:04 GO SEE NOW THIS CURSED WOMAN 2:50:29 CHAIN OF OFFICE 3:06:19 Resources: Jerusalem Annotated - alanmoorejerusalem.wordpress.com/alan-moo…s-index/ Matthew Kirshenblatt essays - se...
Back on our value theory bs - this week we discuss just what it is that makes a society socialist and what makes it capitalist. Is it all just vibes?? Reading: The Capitalist Nature of the "Socialist" Countries (1986) by L.L Men Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/d3rRXNEb
We're back and talking pancakes bay-bee. Reading: Anton Pannekoek and the Theory of the Transition (1990) by Bob Shepard Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/pMFhHCvr
In which we record live from an orgone accumulator. Reading: Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy (1937) and Marxism and Psychology (1938) by Anton Pannekoek Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Vs6CG8et
In which we finally finish this book and talk productive labor, production price and yeah I don't know a lot more I'm too tired to write this caption. Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Chapters 17-19 (1923) by I. I. Rubin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/6QVe5kbp
In which we finally stop joking about reading Lenin and actually do it. Reading: The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/QScuasDH
Is Marxism science? Is science Marxism? Is the strategy of patience all it's cracked up to be? What about all this riot business? All these questions and more answered by the podcast's second ever repeat guest, Viv Soni as we discuss his recent essay in the journal The Black Lamp. Reading: High priests of telescopes and cyclotrons: Marxism and revolutionary strategy as science (2024) by Vivak Soni https://www.black-lamp.com/posts/high-priests-of-telescopes-and-cyclotrons-marxism-and-revolutionar...
Abstract labor eh? Seems like a simple enough concept. Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Chapters 12-16 (1923) by I. I. Rubin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/c7QwVz26
In which we have a look back at what hasn't worked, and why it will continue to not work. Reading: Reflections on the Economics of Socialism (2022) by Nick Rogers Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/daKyRFAW
Well this just keeps getting better. In this episode, Jack pretends he knows anything about occultism. Reading: Book Two: Mansoul from Jerusalem (2016) by Alan Moore Chapter discussion timestamps: UPSTAIRS 9:07 AN ASMODEUS FLIGHT 19:12 RABBITS 39:00 THE SCARLET WELL 48:23 FLATLAND 59:55 MENTAL FIGHTS 1:14:38 SLEEPLESS SWORDS 1:25:50 MALIGNANT, REFRACTORY SPIRITS 1:41:31 THE TREES DON’T NEED TO KNOW 2:00:58 FORBIDDEN WORLDS 2:21:16 THE DESTRUCTOR 2:34:16 Resources: Jerusalem Annotated - alanmoore...
In which we theorize the potential for a protracted people's war in the outer suburbs of Miami. Reading: Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla, Section III - What Can Be Done? (1973) by Abraham Guillén Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/xUqsPs24
