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For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it....
Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers ( Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda ) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois university over preceding decades which led to it, and how John Jay's Econ department is pushing in another direction. We ask the essential questio...
It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade. What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.) This is an ...
Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-...
Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese , to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All . How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us understand the economics and politics of this current moment? In what ways are crisis tendencies affecting the United States and the UK? What type of program should socialists offer as a way out of the crisis? Join us in fleshing out Ted's expansive vision for how we might overcome the current crisis and build a world with abundan...
For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties , Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and complete the revolutionary vision of Mao. The result was a seizure of power by the PLA and an estimated 2.8 million death between 1966-1976. For more episode of Armed Love , and all other bonus material and Discord access, please become a patreon at http://patreon.com/theanti...
We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions Join our Discord community by signing up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/theantifada Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== First We Take Columbia text: https://illwill.com/columbia https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2979646/pro-palestinian-activists-sp...
Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Empire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod Antipolitika journal: Read: https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/ Buy: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1440 Songs: Infr...
And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned...
The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend. Copious Loren Goldner Links:...
Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023! Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreon In light of the depressing denouement of 2022'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 ...
Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini , and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza. Full episode available at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran...
Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution. For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read the essay here: ...
Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tagline is: “Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.” Buy the book from Common Notions: https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-society More work by Anselm at Brooklyn Rai ...
For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North America." What do we make of Inhabit's steps to revolution? Why present speculative fiction in a programmatic context? What does this work of ultra-left thought get right, a...
IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani , won the debate within the framework of international law and human rights. But how far does that get us, and where else could the movement go? In the bonus we talk about Israel's leftwing defenders in Germany and the US. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada If you're a in NYC, join us Saturday March 23 at 5pm at Woodbine for a meeting of the Independent Wor...
Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolutionary wings of the classical workers movement turn towards state developmentalism? How did really existing class develop to conflict with Marxist theories of working class emancipation? What mistakes from past movements are we still making today whethe...
NEWS EP! We discuss Aaron Bushnell, voting uncomitted and hopelessness, UAW and Starbucks union victories, the MTA wildcat strike and working-class demands for safety. For the full discussion become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future frie...
Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital which excavates not just Marx's use of the structure of Dante's Inferno but the radical political theory that undergirds it. What is the relationship between the analysis in Capital and the debates within the workers movement of the time typified by the likes of Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Owens? What is the place of radical republicanism in Marx's theory? How ha...
An interview with Eric King , who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary device to commit arson after throwing a molotov cocktail at an empty Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri during the uprising in Ferguson. Today he is out on probation and talking with us about his history with the anarchist movement, his time inside and release, and how and why to support prisoners To support the show, sign up on...
Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works. We discuss the legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegad...
NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the crisis of liberalism in the US and worldwide through the context of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the formation of BRICs as a challenge to US-based global order, the economic spiral of Germany and China, class war at the border, and betrayal of every millennial's favorite grocery store. For the full episode, sign up on patreon! If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership a nd DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid cop...
Sean and Varn return with part three of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the only really existing internationalism left: the capitalist infrastructure of globalization. Special emphasis is made of the history of state formation in the Middle East as it pertains to the current conflict. In the second half, the discussion turns to the rise and decay of what is called the "Rules Based International Order". For access to this and all of our years of bonus conte...
Sean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14 For the full episode, support us on patreon: http://patreon.com/TheAntifada + Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show! BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messageblackmovement.pd...
Ex-Militant of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) Lola Mieseroff is our guest on this installment of the Antifada sideproject on the revolutionary culture of the sixties. We talk about growing up in gay South France in the sixties, her experience in May '68 and after, the resonance of Stonewall, what it meant to be a pro-situ and her run-in, with Debord, the revolutionary politics of homosexuality and queerness, her relationship with Guy Hocquenhghem and the rest of the revoluti...
In part two of our discussion on the essay Forest and Factory , we foray into fourierism and the whimsical world of life under global communism. Topics include: the mushroom mafia, nomadic pleasure duels, gender orgies, capitalist fantasy camp, and communist santa! For the full episode, sign up on patreon! If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership a nd DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions ...
What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and Factory Also check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn Rail For part 2 of the episode , sign up on patreon! If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership a nd DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid ...
News episode! We start 2024 by talking about Houthis and global shipping, the Uniparty, the Harvard presidency, and the backlash against Pro-Palestinian protesters as part of the broader backlash against progressive liberalism. *NEW YEARS PROMOTION! * Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of ...
A sneak peak at this new VarnVlog series featuring guest spots from Sean KB and Jason from great post-Trot podcast The Regrettable Century . We read Alexander Dugin's most famous work, 'The Fourth Political Theory' to understand why all sorts of people, from the right to the left, are looking to this eclectic, irrationalist Russian post-fascist to understand this particular moment in world history. For the full episode and much more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theanti...
Vincent Bevins chats about lessons of the uprisings of 2010s, as outlined in his book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
