Sean and Varn are back to talk current events, discuss theory and gripe about everyone and everything. On the tumbrils this week: artificial intelligence, the DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and how not to debate with Colin Drumm online. In the second half we talk about 'The Mamdani Moment', Varn's recent ascension to Chief Fly-in-the-Ointment in the DSA, the pre-political theories of the ILC and how the ruling class are dragging us all into the hellfire. For the full episode, and all past Di...
Dec 24, 2025•1 hr
We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution , a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs. Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-force Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end Maucio Lazzarato - The United States and Fascistic Capitalism: https://illwill.com/fascistic-capitalism Nueva Icaria - New Fascisms and...
Dec 17, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 317
NEWS EP! We cover the true origins or the Warner Brothers buyout, Trump's new National Security manifesto, the death of the West, and say farewell to Asad Haider. Sign up on patreon to hear the fun half!! in which we discuss Death by Lightning, a miniseries about James Garfield and American crankery: http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Referenced articles: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/angels-and-demons https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-war-peace-talks-europe-l...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Sean and Andy are joined by British-Nigerian writer and podcaster, Ralph Leonard , to talk about identity, politics and the Anglo Ummah. We discuss the parlous state of the nationalist left, what a proletarian socialist politics might look like in the 21st century and what might possibly be conserved of the classical Marxist movement which died in the beginning of the last century. Along the way we bring up the morphing politics of identity, the uneasy cohabitation between left populism and Isla...
Dec 08, 2025•56 min
For the full episode (in audio only OR video) sign up at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage ! &y and &ers J. Lee talk about Zohran's walkbacks, meeting with Trump, and relationship with the Satmar community . Then we watch and comment on a few old Conan monologues and interviews with Marc Maron, Kevin Spacey, and Jay Leno....
Dec 05, 2025•9 min
Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving! The concept suggests that fascist impulses don't just come from "above" (authoritarian leaders) but can emerg...
Nov 26, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 314
Sean interviews the ever charming Tony from video essay channel 1Dime and political podcast 1Dime Radio about what it's like to be young and/or Canadian. They discuss politics up north, the vagaries of the so-called left and what a younger cohort might teach us old-timers about the world. This is a preview of the extended version of this episode, to access the whole thing become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues...
Nov 19, 2025•1 hr 3 min
We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke? For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Del Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein Marx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm Song: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein...
Nov 14, 2025•7 min
In 1968, Huey P. Newton told an interviewer that whites who wanted to support the Black Panthers should create the White Panther Party. Later that year, a trio of Michigan radical artists (John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair, and Pum Plamondon) did just that. Gaining notoriety from their campaigns to legalize marijuana, support political prisoners, and the popularity of revolutionary rockers the MC5, the White Panthers formed chapters around the country, and continued their activity through the seventi...
Nov 12, 2025•1 hr 20 min
We give our first reflections of Zohran's mayoral victory in New York: Sean from his coworkers, Andy from the Commie Corridor. Subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which film critic Payton McCarty-Simas pops in to discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' new film Bugonia. Bessner post: https://x.com/dbessner/status/1986204448092528758 Song: Earth Wind and Fire - Where Have All the Flowers Gone?...
Nov 07, 2025•41 min
Sean and Varn meditate on a moment full of incoherence that somehow coheres. Song: Nirvana - Dive For the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Become a patron of Varnvlog at www.patreon.com/varnvlog
Nov 05, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Phil Neel guides our Halloween descent into HELLWORLD --his epic new horror-theory analysis of the megastructures of global capitalism, and a search of the revolutionary subjectivity necessary to revolt against our domestication into the planetary factory. Phil Neel's substack: https://philneel.substack.com/ Theory of the Party: https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party Song: Merle Haggard - Are the Good Times Really Over?...
Oct 29, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 310
Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism . It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901. For the full episode, sign up to support the show! And, while supplies last, sign up to the SUPERWRECKERS tier at the discounted ,...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 309
Andy, Varn, and Alex of Antipolitika Journal read and discuss Gianfranco Sanguinetti's 1979 text "On Terrorism and the State." A follow-up on his "Truthful Report on the Last Chances to Save Capitalism in Italy" hoax from a few years earlier, the text accuses the Italian State of arranging the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, and being behind all acts of terrorism as a short-sighted strategy of defense. The piece also condemns leftwing arm struggle as reproducing the Spectacle, ultimately pro...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
NEWS EP! Government Shutdowns past and present, ICE in Chicago, Trump vs. Big Capital, and Sean's essay on the implications of the international spread of the American petit-bourgeois. We discuss the essay in detail in the fun half! read along: https://seankb.substack.com/p/gadsdens-over-rio Subscribe for the full episode and Discord discussion: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Fall promotion! Subscribe annually for free books. More info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957...
Oct 08, 2025•42 min
We discuss our new podcast name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, One Battle After Another. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!) more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785...
Oct 03, 2025•23 min
A member of DFW Defendants Support reports from the first court hearing for 17 activists being charged with terrorism after attending a July 4 noise demo in Dallas gone very wrong. While details of the events are limited, it has been centrally cited by the Trump admin to justify their assault on protest and dissent, offering some clues of how similar prosecutions might proceed in the future, and highlighting the necessity of solidarity with those targeted for their political beliefs and associat...
Oct 01, 2025•47 min•Ep. 306
Catching up on the news, and announcing the show's rebrand! A must listen for all longtime friends and fans. Bailing out Argentina: https://on.ft.com/4nmFPei Dysphoria Dimes’ take on Trans terror designation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO6EqTYjqT_/ Klip on Dallas shooter's motives: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive For the full show and Discord info support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscr...
Sep 26, 2025•45 min
Max Shanly calls in from the UK to give his thoughts on the formation of the new party challenging Labor and Reform. Shanly argues that it should be modeled on the American DSA, with an eye towards renewing the Republican tradition in the UK. support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which we talk about the social conservative and petit bourgeois elements in the party, why Corbyn's actions have been misguided so far, Max's opinion on what's fundamentally wrong wit...
Sep 22, 2025•58 min
Audio from our public reading + NYC Anarchist Bookfair afterparty at Book Row ! A celebration of the publication of Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms from @PMPress . For the full reading support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!) more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785 Order o...
Sep 19, 2025•27 min
BASED Western Marxist Ross Wolfe EVISCERATES Domenico Losurdo for poor scholarship and neo-Stalinist zig-zagging. For the full episode, including paywalled content about the conspiracy theories of Losurdists Gabriel Rockhill and the ACP, and some discussion of their hatred of Nietzsche and "going back to Marx," subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Part I: https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/ Part II: https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/ Part III: https://newintermag.com/revisionism-...
Sep 10, 2025•57 min
Sean is joined by James Beard Nominated author, Rax King , to discuss her long-suffering hometown, Washington DC and the new trials it faces now that President DJT has decided to declare a crime emergency. The police have been federalized and the National Guard called in to suppress the lives of DC residents. How did this come to pass? What should we do about it? And how might DC be a portent of what we all might face soon enough? Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Mutual aid lin...
Sep 03, 2025•1 hr 7 min
We celebrate 300 (+) Antifadas with a news episode and Q+A! New hits include Trump's Intel buy, the alt-right power and schisms within the Trump admin, ICE raid updates, and the theories of late capitalism and late fascism and if we're seeing the emergence of a late antifascism. In the Q&A we talk about Grossmanism, TRPF, pre-politics, "partyism" and neo-kautskyism, our political trajectories historical moments that inspire us, and what we're reading/watching/listening to lately. Subscribe a...
Aug 27, 2025•47 min
Sean is joined by Scott, Leo and Emily of the new nationwide initiative within the International Brotherhood [sic] of Electrical Workers called CREW. What made these union militants decide to organize for power within their union? How does business unionism let us all down? What sort of organizational principles should workers uphold? What would working class independence look like if we broke free from the politicians and the cartels? Join us for the coming out party of this new and exciting in...
Aug 22, 2025•1 hr 8 min
&y & &ers speculate on the deeper motives behind the move to end Home Rule in DC, then hop in Naomi Wolf's Apple Time Machine way back to THE YEAR 2000 to watch and discuss old Conan monologues and bits! For the full episode, including a VIDEO version, support the show at http://www.patreon.com/c/theantifada
Aug 18, 2025•37 min
Audio from our live event! A panel about the way social media and technology effect our day to day lives and our future as a species with Eric-John Russell of Cured Quail, and Fiona Pearl Miller and Zoe Laris-Djokovic of Clocked Out Magazine . Recorded (mostly) last Friday, August 8 at Woodbine . Support Antifada! http://patreon.com/theantifada Buy Cured Quail volume 3 : https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/ How to Smile Without Using You Eyes: https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Andy and Sean are joined by two anon members of the Heatwave Collective to discuss their new project: a better magazine for a worse world. How might we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos? What does political economy tell us about the limits to capitalist politics in the current moment? How has history led us to such an impasse and what might we, as a class, do about it? Become a patron of this podcast for bonus content, reading groups and more: www.patreon.com/theant...
Aug 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives? For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/ Thomas Chatterton Williams...
Aug 01, 2025•19 min
Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis --a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html Emmanuel Carrere on the G7: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr
Sarah Schulman chats about her latest book "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" , a meditation on the category of solidarity informed by her decades of experience as a writer, academic and activist. Also by Sarah Schulman and mentioned in the episode: " Conflict Is Not Abuse, " " Let the Record Show ," an oral history of ACT UP, " The Gentrification of the Mind, " and the lesbian noir Maggie Terry . Song: Black Uhuru - Solidarity...
Jul 23, 2025•48 min
