As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tuned! To listen to the entire episode including the bonus section become a supporter of our show at w...
May 27, 2026•55 min
NEW EP! Was Trump's China trip a Nothing Burger or a soy slop? Why does the Deep State care so much about Taiwan? And Sean's NY☭ hat came from WHERE? All that plus choo-choo talk (LIRR Strike) in the bonus! For the full episode, sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/lirr-strike-long-island-rail-road.html https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/hochul-pushed-lirr-strike-to-pick-up-votes-on-long-island-from-gop-opponent-transit-union-chief/ De-Tuckeri...
May 20, 2026•53 min
NEWS EP! Sean reports back from the a Beverly Hills Hedge Fund summit. Europe goes solar punk. US debt passes GDP as Project Freedom fails, and the Mideast bases lie in ruin. Is America through, or just through being cool? Billionaires Unfazed by Iran : https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/19bda51e-fb62-4432-bc37-b9b425f19edd Labor Market Unfazed by Iran https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/57482c61-164e-4f48-8214-370b269ac7b6 Europe Solar/Iran War : https://www...
May 13, 2026•1 hr 10 min
We're joined by Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast to guide us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations. For the FULL episode, Discord access, and all bonus content support the show at http:///patreon.com/ThisWreckage Written by a Christian exile on an Aegean Island in a time of intense imperial Civil War and internal repression of Jews and Christians, the text is interpreted by scholars as a coded polemic against tyr...
May 08, 2026•28 min
Interviews from this past weekend's Upstate Anarchist Bookfair with Riot Act Books , Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner , Flock Off Ithaca , Bolshevik Tendency , and Warzone Distro For an extended version of this episode, sign up for FREE at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage At the end I include a snippet of our Armed Love interview with Ben Morea, who passed away this weekend. Check out the full interview here: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65595770?collection=87680 Part 2: https://www.patreo...
May 07, 2026•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 333
We take another break from WW3 and various attempted assassinations with a sojourn into some economic shit with our guest Nicolas D Villarreal , an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Full piece: https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-capitalist-in-the-21st-century/ Response https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/letter-limiting-factors-in-capitalist-growth/ Counter-Response https://cosmonautmag.co...
Apr 27, 2026•58 min•Ep. 332
Sean and Andy are joined by researcher A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. How did this basket of conspiracies come together in the post-60s moment? Who was Lyndon Larouche and how did he provide a bridge from quasi-Leninist elitism to the Reaganite New Right? What does culture even mean for the right and how has it taken such outsized importance for them? And, in the bonus for subscribers,...
Apr 22, 2026•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 331
&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)! This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then " Unpacking My Library " and a section of Berlin Childhood. For the full episode, subscribe at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage & listen to the end for a story of Anders' Benjamin-inspired direct action against Rahm Emmanuel. Song: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (Slowed)...
Apr 20, 2026•15 min
NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orbon is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis. In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda. To hear that, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Metropolitans B&N event with Noah Kulwin: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0 ‘Summer of Ludd’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Orban Loss: https://www.n...
Apr 15, 2026•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 330
Catching up with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund , available TODAY!! See also Molly's "My Great Grandfather was a Bundist" in New York Review of Books Support the show / get bonus content at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: New Yiddish Chorale/Workers Circle Chorus feat. Adrienne Cooper - Barikadn (Barricades)...
Apr 15, 2026•59 min•Ep. 329
Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement. Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire. For access to this and all our bonus content become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage For ...
Apr 10, 2026•56 min
Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!! One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character. Check out this excerpt , this interview , or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review . PREORDER from Penguin , Bookshop.org , Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events: April 1: Official book launch! w/ Bradford William Davis at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn (Ticketing i...
Mar 30, 2026•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 328
audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York City's 03/21 panel at the NYU Games Center featuring JD Calvelli, Nathan Greyson, and Goran, Svorcan-Mercola. Moderated by Alexander King. To find more info about the ILC check out ILCLabor.com to sign up. Become a supporter of our podcast at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: LDR - Video Games (Live at Stagecoach)
Mar 25, 2026•1 hr 21 min
Sean and Andy are joined by Deep State Kuba Ph.D., international relation expert to the podcasting stars, to discuss current events in an unraveling world. Who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine? How has the media coverage of war and peace gotten so bad since the last great period of wars in the early 2000's? What kind of divisions exist within the global ruling class and what aspects of governance unify them? Whither the great post-war institutions in an era of global turbulence? For the f...
Mar 18, 2026•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 327
The full episode is avaiable for FREE members at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Paid subscribers can watch the video version of the pod here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152718531 We're joined by actor, comedian, activist, & Anders lookalike NATE SMITH ! The two mog each other as we discuss the roots of his two action groups Climate Defiance & Extinction Rebellion , the recent interest both have received from the state, tips on dealing with FBI knocks from Ron Kuby, the use of humor i...
Mar 16, 2026•8 min
We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immamentalizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Kharg theory: https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-oil-island-that-could-break-iran/ https://x.com/guy_laron/status/2030262780389937167 Uniparty Theory: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-iran-regime-change-demo...
Mar 09, 2026•54 min•Ep. 326
To access the entire conversation, all of our bonus content and more become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage The boys are back to discuss the latest war in West Asia. How should socialists view this recent outbreak of violence? What role does Zionism have in US foreign policy? Is the tail wagging the dog or has Dr Frankenstein lost control of his creation? In the fun half we discuss American Bundism and its failure, what role artificial intelligence is playing in the imperial military...
Mar 04, 2026•1 hr
Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic, Wuthering Heights! For the full episode , Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Feb 27, 2026•6 min
For the full episode , Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage In part two of our news episode we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF....
Feb 25, 2026•9 min
News ep! We talk striking nurses, MLBPA drama, SCOTUS vs POTUS, the changing tactics of ICE, looksmaxxing, and more with our cool Social Studies teacher, future governor of New York, the Sigma Marxist, C. Derick Varn ! In part two of our new episode we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF. For the full episode, Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show ...
Feb 23, 2026•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 325
Abigail Susik is an art historian, vice president of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, and editor of Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement , 1964-1967 , a compilation of publications by a surrealist sixties' anarchist group in NYC. For this Armed Love episode, we challenge ourselves to understand the political potency of the interwar avant-garde art movements (Dada, Futurism, Surrealism), their resurgence within the sixties New Lef...
Feb 20, 2026•1 hr 35 min
Sean and Varn tackle the important question regarding the release of the much-vaunted 'Epstein Files': which ones of 'our faves' might be implicated? How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? What do the files tell us about the absolute state of barbarism we currently live in and must find some way to work ourselves out of? N.B. at one point in the main episode Sean, in reference to diversity ...
Feb 11, 2026•1 hr 30 min
The hosts of Blowback Podcast report back from Colombia and Cuba! For an extended version of this episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage In Bogota, they attended a conference of the Progressive International that drafted a declaration for countering the Donroe Doctrine. And in Havana, they witnessed immediate results of Trump's full blockade of oil imports, leaving the island with only 3 weeks of fuel before the power grid fails. Along the way we talk about various forms of...
Feb 04, 2026•1 hr 6 min
Gavin and Hope from the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club join Sean to discuss national news and local chapter news in Chicagoland. Join us for a conversation about the recent events (pig murders) in Minneapolis, what it means to organize against the state, how not to become fodder in blue vs red politics and what autonomous class self-activity looks like amid general crisis. For access to the bonus portion of this episode become a supporter of our work Click on the link for informat...
Jan 29, 2026•1 hr 5 min
Sean and Andy are joined by Connor Mulhern, lead researcher at the Reactionary International Research Consortium, and Henry Wallace, head honcho at the New International Magazine and Franco-American raconteur, to discuss the networks of power and influence behind the rise of right populist movements across the globe. How might this reactionary global influence network compare to the unsuccessful 20th century attempt to create a fascist international or the relative successes of the Mount Pelerin...
Jan 23, 2026•19 min
Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialism Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Show notes: EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.html Estonia's suppression of Russian minority: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/russia/article/2025/03/26/estonia-s-parliament-b...
Jan 19, 2026•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 321
Sean and Andy are joined by Marco and Luke of the UK collective Angry Workers of the World , here to discuss their practical activity and intellectual output since the publication of Class Power on Zero Hours several years ago. They also present their relatively new healthcare industry project whose publication Vital Signs seeks to analyze how medical labor, in all its industrial diversity and its day-to-day struggles, might prefigure a world where our class has taken responsibility for producti...
Jan 17, 2026•1 hr 9 min
We discuss PLURIBUS: Vince Gilligan's new show about a misanthropic writer who has to deal with the annoying communist singularity. for the FULL EPISODE subscribe at patreon.com/thiswreckage
Jan 12, 2026•7 min
Sean is drunk and angry Listen to the full episode free and subscribe for our bonus ep about Pluribus at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Show notes: NYE murder in Cali https://abc7.com/amp/post/keith-porter-death-advocates-want-legal-action-man-shot-killed-off-duty-ice-agent-northridge/18359155 Feds block investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-news.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Border Patrol attacks school kids: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-bor...
Jan 09, 2026•17 min
Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution. Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/ Support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez
Jan 05, 2026•56 min•Ep. 318
