DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Very special ep for you today as we sat down with podcast Mt. Rushmore head Jason W. Moore to talk ecology, strategy, and just what this whole dialectic thing actually is.
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Today we tackle the complicated era of the reconstruction of the American South after the Civil War. What role did the control of a subjugated labor labor force play in a supposedly post-slavery South? What was the burgeoning industrial proletariat doing during all this? How can we finish reconstruction? All questions we at the very least, ask. Reading: A Short Hi...
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week the lads welcome their friend Donal to the show to talk about his upcoming publication in The Black Lamp tentatively titled "Social Object Viability Strategy." Donal is out here combining labor time accounting in the vein of Jan Appel and the GIC with cybernetics and broader systems theory - in other words, he can teach your faithful podcast hosts a thin...
DISCORD: discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we're back trying to sort out this whole 'what can we do about capitalism' thing. Comninel boldly claims that 'Marx was not a Leninist' in this week's reading as we learn what it was that made the First International so unique and worthy of daddy Marx's time. Reading: 'Inaugural Address to the IWA' (1864) by Karl Marx & 'Marx and the Politics of the First Interna...
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we're back with another episode on our old bugbear - the origin of capitalism. Just what is a transition between productive modes? How did the reproduction of labor power change between feudalism and capitalism? How did the family unit come about? All questions we may or may not have answers to as we take on this classic of Marxist history. Reading: "All the World Needs a Jolt" & "The Accumulation of L...
DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well folks, we're back finishing off Fossil Capital. Is there any hope? How can we take power as a class? Are we going to get 4 degrees of warming? All very dire questions, so we distract ourselves by talking some more ecology. Maybe if we talk about it enough we can figure it all out.... Reading: "Fossil Capital" (2015) by Andreas Malm, Chapters 9-16.
DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week its back to the familiar and much loved Auxiliary Statements format. After a couple of episodes spent welcoming excellent and exceedingly informative guests to the show the dunces are back at the helm. This episode Jack and Dan get stuck into Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm. Continuing there ecological crisis reading series the lads learn all about how and why fossil fuel became the prime mover of British indu...
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Two interviews in a row!? Wow Dan and Jack must really be trying to get through a big book. This week we had the pleasure of talking to none other than @Grossmanite himself Ted Reese about the looming final crisis of capitalism, war, ecology, and permaculture based false flag operations. Find out more about Ted's work as well as where to buy his books and show him some support at the link below. https://linktr....
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Special one today folks as Dan and Jack sat down with their good friend Agata to discuss the Socialist Party in the Netherlands, Maoism as well as the revolutionary organization Communist Platform. CP is a communist cadre based off of the ideas in Mike MacNair's Revolutionary Strategy.
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week our portly podcast hosts take a break from the historical materialisms and the dialectics and the Brenner debates to talk about the only good thing - growing your own food. What will a just agroecological food system look like? Is it compatible with socialism? Probz. I dunno. Reading: Visions of the Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating, and Ecological Justice in 2050 (2021) by Bryan Dale, Matilda Dipieri, M...
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast LEARN HOW TO DO HISTORICAL MATERIALISM IN 3 EASY STEPS!! This week your fearless podcast hosts sit down to discuss the nature of the french revolution...and just how wrong Marx may have been about it. For answers, we turn to Marx. Lousy Marxists...they ruined Marxism. Reading: Rethinking the French Revolution by George Comninel (1987)
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well I guess it's time to start talking about crisis, eh? It's probably no coincedence this essay was written in 1934 and we're reading this now. Why does capitalism seem to always fall into crisis ever 5-10 years? Is there anything we can do to stop it? How tall is this Rishi Sunak fellow anyway? Reading: "The Permanent Crisis - Henryk Grossman’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory Of Capitalist Accumulation" by Paul Mattic...
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast WELL FOLKS, here we are again, rounding out this three-parter with a dialectal, ecological, Marxical reading of crisis and our relationship to the broader web of life. Is there a final capitalist crisis coming? Or will we be able to appropriate our way out of it? Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Jack and Dan can put it off no longer. This week they return to Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the web of life’ for a discussion of part two of the book focusing on the place of ecology in capitalisms ongoing cycles of crisis. Will there be an ecologically driven final crisis of capitalism? Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Here we are rounding out our unofficial/official 'Bad Man Trilogy' of Errol Morris films about, well, bad white guys. This time we take on Trump aide Steve Bannon in an attempt to answer the question tragedy, farce, or something much, much stupider?
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast We are back on our ecology bs. But this week it isn't all doom and gloom as we tackle the first part of Jason Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life, a D I A L E C T I C A L contribution to the Marxist ecology debates. This one tested us, but maybe we came out the other side better off? Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week Jack and Dan explore the history of the inception of the US constitution. A text that is sold to us as being an abstract work of pure political theory, inspired by high minded ideals and revolutionary intent; a work with semi-divine provenance. Instead it is discovered it is in fact a document that finds its origin in the corruption, venality and self serving nature of the founders and one that was ratified und...
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast I ask you, humble listener, does it get any better than this? Reading Murray Bookchin on a Wednesday afternoon. No it does not. This week the fellas discuss the influence of systems theory, Marxism & anthropology on the ecotopian ideas of none other than the man himself...Murray Bookchin. Reading: "The Power to Create, The Power to Destroy" (1979) & "Toward an Ecological Society" (1975) by Murray Bookchin.
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast VSM Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnWVg7CSIg We are back in business with an ep re-discussing Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. We even spitball about how it could be applied to some kindaaaaaaa left wing political project. And I know what you're thinking...socialists being organized?! Stranger things have happened!! Reading: Diagnosing the System for Organizations (1985) by Stafford Beer
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week we learned all about the global, existential, horrifying threat of avian flus and their relationship to the capitalist mode of production. Then we learned all about the Chinese state. Then we had a breakdown. This is also now a xXstraightXedgeXx vegan podcast now. Reading: Social Contagion (2021) by Chuang https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI-bXCJOTBs
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well folks, the lads finally did it. They finished End Notes #1. And all it took was their sanity. Reading, Endnotes 1 (2008) endnotes.org.uk/issues/1
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DISCORD: https://discord.gg/JGGu5MGN LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well well well, look who it is, back again. You! The dear listener. God bless you. This week the lads attempt to untangle the mess of ideas that always seem to assert themselves under the banner of being 'anti work.' What does that mean? Is it viable as a movement? Whether it's Tang ping or r/antiwork, we're here to figure it alllllll out. Reading: The Tangpingist Manifesto - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
This week Dan & Jack return from their COVID hiatus to finish up Perry Anderson's C L A S S I C text and talk feudalism. Specifically, what was it, where did it come from, how did it differ from place to place and what caused its seemingly inevitable crisis and collapse. Reading - Part 2 - ''Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism'' (1974) by Perry Anderson
DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Following up on their interview with June Reith a few weeks back, Jack and Dan decided for this show to take her advice and read Designing Freedom by business consultant and cybernetician Stafford Beer. First delivered as a series of radio lectures in 1973, designing freedom is a scathing critique of the principles of organisation that underlay contemporary social institutions and an impassioned appeal for change...
This week's art is by Tom: https://www.instagram.com/thomasagreenwood/ Very special episode this week as we sat down with June Reith of General Intellect Unit to discuss systems theory, burning our Kautsky and left organization tactics! Reading: 'The Tree of Knowledge' by Maturana and Varela DISCORD: discord.gg/Ym8Bwmaz LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Ym8Bwmaz LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week Jack and Dan cover the first half of Anderson’s classic book on the transition to feudalism. They cover the rise of the slave mode of production in Antiquity from its initial emergence as a solution to class struggle in Greece to its peak during thee Roman Empire. Whilst this mode of production allowed the ancient states to reach stunning cultural heights it was also wracked with internal contra...
Alright, we're finally drawing some conclusions about the whole 'MILITANCY' thing. Universal conscription sounds scary...but what if it wasn't? Reading: Repression Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party by Akinyele Umoja from "Setting Sights" (Scott Crow) Rittenhouse and white backlash by Daniel Lazare https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1373/rittenhouse-and-white-backlash/ Our gun rights too by Paul Demarty https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/...
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/bJtAEbFS Is there even still a working class to hang our hopes and dreams on? What is revolutionary agency? Who has it? Is tea even good? All these questions answered today AND MORE as we dive back into longtime friend of the show Mike Davis. Plus, a special listener comment! Reading: Old Gods. New Enigmas (2018) by Mike Davis
Today the fellas have a gander at some Irish history and open up a wider discussion on revolutionary agency, marxism & nationalism and the nature of the Irish working class. Reading: Rethinking national marxism: James Connolly and ‘Celtic Communism’ (2003) by David Lloyd
