The arcane numbering system is gone, but Sean and Varn have (surprise!) a new miniseries. Inspired by current events - such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and the turn towards post-neoliberal economic nationalism - we're going to explore all manner of Marxist and non-Marxist theories on the nation state to help get our heads around the current mess the world is in and hopefully chart a pathway out. How did the nation-state rise in the early modern world? what ro...
Nov 08, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifada J. Sakai's Settlers Chapter 9 - Neocolonial Pacification in the US discusses how the Settler Nation integrated Native American and Black leaders into its ranks. Topics include: Native American self-governance, the rise of Marcus Garvey's UNIA, international solidarity with Ethiopia after Italy's 1935 invasion, the STFU (Southern Tenant Farmers Union), A. Phillip Randolph, the March on Washington, Black Power, and Settle...
Nov 06, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andy and Sean discuss the invasion in Gaza, Israel's move towards ethnic cleansing, the history of proletarian resistance in Palestine, and theorize class conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian national projects and its working classes. We also talk about what all this means for those communists in the US removed from the conflict. Some of our reading for the episode: https://decompositions.noblogs.org/files/2023/10/Explosion- Point.pdf https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/isr...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean is joined by @DaneilTutt , host of the @torsion_groups and @emancipations_ podcast , to talk about the life of Friedrich Engels through the Tristam Hunt's 2009 biography Marx's General . Is there truth to the argument, developed in the 1920s, that Engels was responsible for a serious distortion of Marx's theory? What do we make of his 'double life' as both a carousing bourgeois and a disciplined revolutionary? How did the political views of Marx and Engels change over he course of the 19th ...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recording of a discussion last Saturday with Michael Hardt at Woodbine for a discussion of his new book The Subversive Seventies and our contemporary autonomist experiments in Queens, Atlanta, and elsewhere. Michael Hardt is a philosopher and political theorist whose work focuses on autonomist social movements since the 1960s. In his books co-authored with Antonio Negri - Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth - Hardt theorized the changes in capitalism and struggle taking place at the turn of the ...
Oct 18, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast We continue reading J. Sakai's Settlers - The Myth of the White Proletariat, chapters 7 and 8. We begin the episode with a discussion of the war in Israel and Palestine with Sakai's national-liberation framework in mind. For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Leftcom statements mentioned: https://en.internationalism.org/content/17406/neither-israel-nor-palestine-workers-have-no-fatherland http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-11/the-latest-butchery-in-the-middle-ea...
Oct 16, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast With neo-Keynesian hacks like Will Stancil crowing about the alleged successes of Bidenomics, it seemed fitting to bring on Jamie Merchant, author of many incisive articles in Paul Mattick's Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere to discuss capital, finance and permanent crisis. Topics include the enduring legacy of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the limits of 'financialization' discourse, the politics of crisis theory, the limits of industrial policy, the Brenner-Ri...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean and Andy talk about their moves/life showers, and the next chapter of our lives. We go on to discuss the influx of asylum seekers to NYC, the crisis of the WTO and rules-based international order, and right-wing opposition to a Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan and a munitions plant in East Germany. In the bonus we talk about Trudeau's "Bonzo goes to Bitzburg" moment and if this is historical revisionism or something else . For the full episode and access to the Discord support the show ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean and Varn continue the second part of their miniseries on left strategies and orientations. Central to the discussion is the definition and role of what is called 'Rank and File' organizing, something that means many things to many people, but whose bases are often conflated in literature and debate, for example in the DSA. This episode tackles, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Leninists and syndicalists. Taking a cue from current events, ...
Sep 27, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position. For the full episode subscribe to the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a mor...
Sep 19, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Audio from our live gig last week in Brooklyn! Find out if this the end of podcasting as we know it.Then we hang with Minion Death Cult a week later to sift through the wreckage of the Well There's Your Problem show in Philly, out trip to Citi Field to woo Mrs. Met, nasty notes to UPS drivers, NY in the post-Bloomberg era, and boys being cats. For full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Songs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'...
Sep 18, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since we're in Philly this week to perform with Well There's Your Problem , enjoy this classic episode from December 2019 with Roz ! Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1 , to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada readsettlers.org/ch5.html https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html https://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-and Song: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones Oh, and DONT FORGE...
Sep 11, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in. Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic! For access to the full e...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Global Uprisings documentarian and TheRealNews contributor Brandon Jourdan chats about his recent experiences in the pension strikes in France, comparisons to the June Uprising following the murder of Nahel, Belgian Balkanization, the anarchist origins of Twitter, and if the End Notes Decades is ending, or just getting started baby! >>>for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/theantifada<<< -Anarcho origins of twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.351228...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast full episode at http://patreon.com/theantifada https://readsettlers.org/ch4.html TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!! BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707 Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem song: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr....
Aug 25, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Loved, the Antifada sideproject about the revolutionary countercultures of the 60s and.. Let’s just say early 70s to make it easier on me. Today we’re talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press: The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival Promo film Spaces of Exception: https://www.e-flux.com/film/421474/spaces-of-exception/ Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill and MKULTRA: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mohawk-mothers-mcgill-reach-de...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures? For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly on...
Aug 16, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast We weigh in on the Banana Discourse by reading a vulgar insurrectionary journal from 2009: Politics Is Not a BananaFull episode at http://patreon.com/TheAntifada Read along: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/politics-not-banana-what-are-you-doing-after-orgy-or-insurrection-or-whatever-1.pdf
Aug 11, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast We take listener Questions! covering a range of topics including the climate apocalypse and hopes for a better world, if we should take over the internet or destroy it, visions for postwar Ukraine, conspiracy theories turning reactionary, squatting and being aging punx, Bidenomics and much more! For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5...
Aug 09, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on This Amerikkkan Life: Chapters 2-3, Bacon's Rebellion, why slaves sided with the British in the US Revolution, the true reason some founding fathers and Northern states were against slavery, why the Confederate class analysis was right (from the Settler perspective), and why Sakai spells Amerika and Afrika with a K The full episode is on Patreon.com/TheAntifada Chapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-settlers-86265803 In two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5...
Aug 04, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Minion Death Cult cohost and union militant Alexander Edward delivers the news on the tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters... and why he's voting NO.Shook ex-Spart Jim Cramer: For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328 MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaA World Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.html More on the ...
Jul 31, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean is joined by Aliyah and Isaac from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus the Marxist Unity Group to talk about their political line and practice:What is the historical relationship between Marxism, the workers movement and small-r republicanism? Why has Karl Kautsy become anathema on the far-left and is it time to bring this famous 'renegade' back? Who is Mike McNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and what is his influence? How is it possible to uphold the revolutionary repub...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast First episode of Andy and Sean reading the classic and mysterious reinterpretation of American history and class structure: J. Sakai's Settlers! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada We read the intro and Chapter 1 about the settling of the Amerika pre-1776 Read along! Next reading Chapters 2 and 3.. maybe in two weeks. We also discuss this interview: https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/raceburn/...
Jul 24, 2023•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Crumplar and Matthew Donovan chat with us about the contested political terrain of a certain downtown Manhattan Square through a 2014 Graeber vs Thiel debate and Gramsci's conception of organic intellectuals. For part 2 of the episode subscribe on our patreon at patreon.com/theantifada Reading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/theoretical-review/1982301.htm Song: Gunship - Hegemon...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Playtpus co-founder Chris Cutrone chats with us about his new book The Death of the Millennial Left . We chat about the socialist implications of the American Revolution, the irresistible conservative trajectory of suburban millennials, and the left's trouble conception of freedom. Check out Part 2 of the Episode on our Patreon! Video about socialism with American characteristics: https://youtu.be/5-kXCBTvxrE Song - RHCP - Black Summer...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marxism vs. MMT! For the full episode , support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Follow Varn on Youtube and support his Patreon !
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean went on the QAnon Anonymous podcast to Postone-pill their listeners on the critique of structural antisemitism.For the full episode sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theantifada And support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous Read Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism...
Jun 30, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky chats with us about their new graphic novel Boy's Weekend , a not-too-distant lathe of heaven about the present and future horrors facing queer people and everyone else. In the full episode we talk about Jesusism, sports riots of the Byzantine empire, and "Yolk Hussy"?? Subscribe on Patreon to hear it! Support Mattie on their Patreon! and subscribe to their newsletter! Song: Future Islands - Old Friend...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight . Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai. Hear the full episode by supporting the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada ...
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