Back on the value theory grind... Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Section Two - Marx's Labor Theory of Value, Chapters 8-11 (1923) by I. I. Rubin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/fDdf6qkx
In which recently departed podcast favorite Loren Goldner discusses the immense promises and successes of the anarchists in Spain, as well as their eventual (and perhaps inevitable) defeat. Reading: "The Spanish revolution, past and future: grandeur and poverty of anarchism; how the working class takes over (or doesn't), then and now" from Revolution, Defeat & Theoretical Underdevelopment (2016) by Loren Goldner Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com D...
Well here it is, the episode no one asked for. A three hour plunge into the first section of Alan Moore's masterpiece Jerusalem. Reading: Prelude "A Work in Progress" & Book One: The Boroughs from Jerusalem (2016) by Alan Moore Chapter discussion timestamps: Prelude - 12:03 A Host of Angles - 36:00 ASBOs of Desire - 50:48 Rough Sleepers - 1:14:10 X Marks the Spot - 1:32:56 Modern Times - 1:49:34 Blind, but Now I See - 1:59:50 Atlantis - 2:15:28 Do as You Darn Well Pleasey - 2:27:18 The Breez...
Value theory?? On auxiliary statements??? Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Section One - Marx's Theory of Commodity Fetishism (1923) by I. I. Rubin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/YkEg2Xad
Back on our ultra-left bs. If we don't read some Lenin soon, people will begin to talk... Reading: Hinterland (2018) by Phil A. Neel Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/YkEg2Xad
In an effort to understand the philosophy of technology and our relationship to it as humans, we turn to a 60 year old essay by Murray Bookchin. Reading: Towards a Liberatory Technology (1965) by Murray Bookchin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/YpmDM5Sd
We finally decided it would be best if we solved quantum mechanics. Big thanks to Viv for coming on and helping us out. Find his work at The Black Lamp: www.black-lamp.com Reading: The Crisis in Physics (1937) by Christopher Caudwell Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/gGh5Xe8k
This episode we a classic Moishe Postone essay in an attempt to further our understanding of the abstract domination of capital, and how misunderstandings of it tend to very often manifest themselves in violent and unspeakable ways. Reading: "Anti-semitism and National Socialism" (1980) by Moishe Postone Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/a4ZpAg4G
Auxiliary Statements is back to reading Capital?!? Well, just the last section. We had to go back to our origin of capitalism bugbear sometime, after all. And maybe we should have just read this first. Reading: Capital, Section 8: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation (1867) by Karl Marx Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vfDswHX6
Well folks, here it is. Our big value theory episode. In this ep we discuss what it is that most people get wrong about value theory, and why using the David Harvey companion may not be the best idea for first time readers of Capital. Huge thanks to Mark again for coming on and setting us straight. Reading: A Companion to David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Capital (2014) by Critisticuffs The Harvey article can be found at critisticuffs.org, and if you want to ask about or challenge anything in t...
If you aren't sure what family abolition means...you are not alone. In fact, its meaning has changed drastically over the course of capitalism's development. So what could it mean today? Reading: "To Abolish the Family" (2018) by M.E. O'Brien from endnotes 5 https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/to-abolish-the-family.pdf Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/D9GMkz6F
Well we held off as long as we could, but we're back to discussing transition debate stuff. This time we attempt to take on Japan's unique path to capitalism and its equally unique brand of "feudalism." Reading: "Japanese Feudalism" from Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974) by Perry Anderson and "The Prussia of the East?"(1991) by Perry Anderson Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/xXDUMZ2a
That's right dear listener, we've somehow actually made it to 100 episodes. From those articles in Tribune & Jacobin in episode two, to reading the man himself, it's safe to say we've come a long way. For this special episode, we returned to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program with fresh perspectives. Strap in, because this is one of our longest episodes yet. Here's to 100 more. Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) by Karl Marx Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliar...
Emancipatory religion rooted in proto-communism? Heh. Sorry bub. Don't you know I'm an......atheist??? Reading: "Religion and Politics Today From a Marxian Perspective" (2008) by Gilbert Achcar Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/MWPap7xJ
Well it's probably about time we approached the question of what role the exploitation and appropriation of African labor both before and during colonization played in the development of capitalism. Turns out, it was quite a large one. Reading: Chapters 3-5 from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FAgdS9UD
Unfortunately, we are back to discussing Althusser. Critisticuffs piece (specifically That Economy section): https://critisticuffs.org/texts/fantastic-thoughts-and-where-to-find-them Gegenstandpunkt piece: https://en.gegenstandpunkt.com/books/work-and-wealth-2nd-revised-edition Reading: The Problem of the Capitalist State by Nicos Poulantzas (1969) and Poulantzas and the Capitalist State by Ralph Miliband (1973) Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCO...
In which two non-scientists discuss agricultural research and the philosophy of science. Reading: Chapters 8-11 of The Dialectical Biologist (1985) by Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/KQGJNY3G
Wait wait wait - you're telling me some proles are getting bourgeois-ified?!?? And some bourgeois are getting aristocratizied?!!??? Reading: "The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality" (1988) by Immanuel Wallerstein Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/XaTRvyGZ
SURELY no self-proclaimed socialist would be out here defending reactionary despots and the regimes they uphold right?? SURELY THERE HAVE NEVER been communists that would have supported the commie killing, anti socialist Turkish developmental regime right?! Not any of our favorite historical figures right? Right?!? Reading: "'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism': The Case of Turkey" from Revolution, defeat and theoretical underdevelopment (201...
This week we tackle the for some reason controversial topic of economic degrowth. Should we be shrinking our economies to match utility based production? Or should we just end the world? A very tricky question to ponder indeed. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com Reading: "Planned Degrowth" by John Bellamy Foster "Planning Degrowth" by Kent Klitgaard "Planning and the Ecosocialist Mode of Cooperation" by Nicolas Graham "Degrowth and Socialism" by Guney ...
Somehow, we're back to the communizers. What makes the common prole decide revolution is the best course of action? And what can mae the long awaited (and first ever) communist revolution actually stick? I don't know. Something about the prisoner's dilemma I guess. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com Reading: Revolutionary Motives (2019) by Jasper Bernes https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/5m DISCORD: https://discord.gg/HGk5wbn3 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/Auxiliary...
This week, Dan and Jack discuss indigenous philosophy in an attempt to answer the question of what we can learn from pre-capitalist societies. Say goodbye to your teleological Marxism, friends. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com Reading: Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism (2022) by Nodrada https://nodrivers.medium.com/karl-marx-and-radical-indigenous-critiques-of-capitalism-fd27169c357 DISCORD: https://discord.gg/qFVuhVs2K LINKTRE...
In which the fellas do their best to plod through the history of the transition from the Imperial Chinese tributary mode to the socialist developmental regime of the CCP. Send us an email: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/BXgVXqTp LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
We are back at this systems theory business attempting to answer the question of just how we can de-alienate our workplaces. Last week a listener named Roger reached out with some of the ideas he's come across in researching democratic workplace systems. He sent us some critiques of the VSM as well as the essays linked below and we figured how better to explain them to you than to have him on the show. Reading: The Socio-Technical Systems Perspective by Eric Trist and The Volvo Uddevalla Plant b...
Well here we go reading entirely unnecessary accounts of century-old communist strategy again. What is democratic centralism? Whatever you want it to be, baby. Reading: Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern (2020) by John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/ DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the second part and it covers Marx, Economic Planning, and Sustainable Industry.
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we held off as long as we could, but now we're back on our leftcom bs. What do socdems and fascists have in common? Well, yeah. A lot in fact. Reading: "Worker's Control" "Revolutionary Marxism" and "Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler" by Paul Mattick Sr. (all from the Council Communist Reader)
Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the second part and it covers System Scaling, Ley Systems, and the Ecological City.
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Alright this week we've finally done it. We hAVE COMPREHENDED THE DIALECTIC - maybe, who knows. But we do have a nice chat about evolution and dump all over Richard Dawkins. So it's a good time. Reading: "On Evolution" from The Dialectical Biologist (1985) by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin
Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the first part and it covers soil, ecology and just what it means to build food systems.
