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    Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

    We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public.

    Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower.

    We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core. We view solidarity with decolonization, indigenous, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, socialist, and anarchist movements across the world as necessary steps toward meaningful liberation for all people.

    Too often within the imperial core we focus on our own struggles without taking the time to understand those fighting for freedom from beneath the empire’s thumb. It is important to highlight these struggles, learn what we can from them, offer solidarity, and support with action when we can. It is not enough to Fight For $15 an hour and Single-Payer within the core, while the US actively fights against the self-determination of the people of the global economically and militarily.

    We recognize that except for the extremely wealthy and privileged, our fates and struggles are intrinsically connected. We hope that our podcast becomes a meaningful platform for organizers and activists fighting for social change to connect their local movements to broader movements centered around the fight to end imperialism, capitalism, racism, discrimination based on gender identity or sexuality, sexism, and ableism.

    If you like our work please support us at www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

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    "Culture is Sovereign" - Amílcar Cabral and African Anti-colonial Internationalism with António Tomás Feb 23, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we interview António Tomás. Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is a native of Angola, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist in Angola and Portugal and has written extensively on issues related to Lusophone Africa.

    Back in early December we published an interview with Tomás on his book Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. In that conversation Tomás delved into the struggle of the PAIGC, various dynamics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and an analysis of Portuguese colonialism and counterinsurgency. Tomás also examined Cabral's theory and practice in relation to Marxist thought and techniques of guerrilla warfare popular at the time. Discussing some of Cabral's unique theoretical and practical interventions along the way.

    As we mentioned at the time, there were others aspects of Cabral's life we wanted to delve into more deeply. Such as his time with the MAC or Movimento Anticolonial (Anticolonial Movement) his relationships with, and the influence of, figures like Frantz Fanon, Sekou Touré, and Kwame Nkrumah and his thinking on issues of Pan Africanism and internationalism. In this conversation we explore those topics and also further discuss how Cabral's speeches must be read in the context of audience both intended and unintended. As well as in relation to the concrete needs of the PAIGC's liberation struggle in that moment. We also talk specifically about the relationships Cabral had with Léopold Senghor and Sekou Touré the heads of state of Guinea-Bissau's neighbors, who each provided different forms of solidarity, allowed different types of activity from the PAIGC within their state, and embraced a different tactics in relation to the PAIGC's struggle against Portuguese colonialism. Finally, Tomás discusses what he considers Cabral's greatest contributions to African anti colonial struggle.

    It's important to remember that many of the questions asked here remain open, but Tomás's insights are very useful in reading Cabral's thought and understanding the practices of the PAIGC in context.

    This is our fourth episode of the month of February, and currently we're still down 3 patrons for the month. So if you've been thinking about becoming a patron, now is a great time to show your support. You can do so for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

    References in the show:

    Part 1 of this conversation

    Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist by António Tomás

    António Tomás' forthcoming book In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda

    Cabral's "Facts About Colonialism" also known as "Facts About Portugal's African Colonies" can be found in Unity & Struggle.

    Return To The Source (and mulitiple speeches within it) is also referenced in the show.

    Cesaire's Notebook of a Return to the Nativeland

    Fanon's Wretched of the Earth


    "If I Fall, And We Struggle Together…" Certain Days, Political Prisoners and Movement Defense with Josh Davidson and Daniel McGowan Feb 18, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we interview two members of the Certain Days Collective.

    Josh Davidson has been an activist for nearly two decades, focusing on prisoner support and the abolition of the carceral state. He is involved in numerous social justice projects, including the Certain Days collective and the Children's Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh is currently editing a book detailing the struggles of current and former political prisoners, and also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.

    Daniel McGowan is a member of the Certain Days collective, and former political prisoner from Queens, NY.

    He works with NYC Books Through Bars, the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) and supporting political prisoner Eric King.

    The topic of today's discussion is the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar which is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York, and Baltimore, and political prisoner Xinachtli (formerly known as Alvaro Luna Hernandez).

    All of the outside collective members are involved in day-to-day organizing work other than the calendar, on issues ranging from refugee and immigrant solidarity to community media to prisoner justice. They work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist, queer- and trans liberationist position.

    In this episode they talk about welcoming founding members Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) home from prison in 2018, and founding member David Gilbert home from prison just a few months ago at the end of 2021.

    Daniel and Josh talk about the nuts and bolts of putting the calendar together, working with political prisoners on the project, and supporting prisoners against state repression. Along the way they both talk about tensions they feel in political prisoner support in the present moment. Both embracing prison abolition, understanding the inherently political nature of all imprisonment, and holding firm on the critical importance of movement defense to the creation of a better future.

    Daniel also shares many insights from his own time as a political prisoner on the vicious and arbitrary nature of carceral power and the role that political prisoners try to play teaching and sharing radical knowledge but also seeking to legally combat the most repressive facets of the prison system both inside and out.

    Josh and Daniel reference a ton of great projects and ways people can get involved, we will include all of them in the show notes so make sure to check them all out and get involved. One in particular we want to draw folks attention to uprisingsupport.org which was created to support people facing political repression for their involvement in the uprisings in response to the executions of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others in 2020.

    And of course make sure you pick up a copy of the Certain Days calendar if you haven't yet, they're now on sale for $10 at burningbooks.com and the other outlets listed in this episode and in the show notes.

    Finally, a reminder that if you appreciate the work that we do, we also need support. Become a patron of the show for as little as one dollar a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

    Other links and projects discussed in the episode:

    2022 Artists- Carrot, Comrade Z, Jesus Barraza, Leila Abdelrazaq, Oso Blanco, Peter Railand, Roger Peet, Wendy Elisheva Somerson, Windigo Army, Virginia Lee, Xinachtli and Xue.

    2022 Articles- Alanna Kibbe, Cory Charles Cardinal, David Gilbert, Daniel McGowan, Eric King, Hanif Bey, J."g."J., Martha Hennessy, Montclair Mutual Aid, Mwalimu Shakur, Sean Adams, Shukri Abu-Baker, Tauno Biltsted.

    PPs- editors are/were David Gilbert and Xinatchli

    Prisoners- Comrade Z (Julio Zuniga)- Texas, Fed: Eric King, Hanif Bey, Oso Blanco, Shukri Abu Baker, Martha Hennessy. Sean Adams (released from Texas state), Mwalimu Shakur (CA)

    PP News

    Current campaigns- Dr. Mutulu Shakur (clemency, parole, compassionate release)

    Sundiata Acoli

    Political Prisoners Near Release-

    Doug Wright

    Josh Williams (12.22)

    New(er) Political Prisoners -

    Jessica Reznicek

    Dan Baker

    Daniel Hale

    Floyd Uprising defendants (Uprisingsupport.org)

    More orgs:

    Books Through Bars NYC

    Anarchist Black Cross Federation

    Support Eric King (March 14th trial date)

    Daniel's consulting

    Proceeds 2021

    · RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison)

    · Barton Prisoner Solidarity- .

    · Tucson Anti-Repression Crew

    · Prison Health News

    · Austin ABC

    · Solidarity Across Borders

    · Buffalo Books Through Bars

    · Mongoose Distro-

    HOW TO ORDER -

    US orders

    Burning Books

    AK Press

    Stores that sell the calendar

    Canada

    Kersplebedeb/Leftwingbooks

    Canada bulk orders (10+)

    UK order:Active Distribution

    Prisoner orders- only $8 and you can buy it from Certain Days directly, and they will send the calendar to them.

    Deaths in or after custody- 2021

    Chip Fitzgerald- 3.29.2021 death in custody (RIP) Russell Marroon Shoatz- 10.25.2021

    Releases 2021:

    Michael Markus (Rattler)-

    Father Steve Kelly-

    Jaan Laaman-

    Martha Hennessy- Joshua Stafford-

    Carmen Trotta-

    Clare Grady-

    Patrick O' Neill Mark Colville- 9.11.2021

    David Gilbert- 11.4.21


    "ACT UP, Fight Back" Charlie Frank on AIDS, Resistance, Health and Monopoly Capitalism Feb 10, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode Josh interviews Charlie Frank, an independent marxist researcher currently studying the history of AIDS in the United States. He is on the general staff of Cosmonaut magazine, a member of St Louis DSA and a candidate member of the Marxist Unity Group.

    Josh interviews Charlie about his article in Cosmonaut Magazine, entitled "ACT UP, Fight Back: A History of AIDS in America." In conversation Charlie talks about the history of AIDS and how imperialist capitalism or international monopoly capitalism fueled the spread of the AIDS epidemic in the US.

    The bulk of the conversation is about the development of political resistance to the AIDS crisis, most prominently in the organization ACT UP. Charlie also discusses the weak governmental response to the crisis, and areas where ACT UP was successful, as well as areas in which the response to the AIDS crisis continues to fall short - in eliminating the epidemic among Black and racialized populations in the US, and internationally - due to the problems created by a capitalist health system and an insufficient organizing response.

    Along the way Josh asks Charlie about some resonances between the responses to the COVID pandemic and the AIDS epidemic in the political economy of the US. And they discuss their perspectives on some of the issues that come up when socialist organizations try to engage or alternatively don't engage in mass struggles like the AIDS crisis, or the most recent rebellions after the police lynching of George Floyd.

    Our episodes are completely funded by our listeners. No ads, no corporate money, no grants. And this allows us the independence to cover history like this from a radical perspective. If you like what we do please support our work at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.


    "Consecrate the Obscene… Condemn The Sacred" O'ahu Water Protectors on US Military, Water Contamination and Colonialism Feb 01, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we interview two organizers with O'ahu Water Protectors.

    O'ahu Water Protectors is an organization that formed out of a coalition of Kanaka Maoli organizers, Sierra Club members and supporters, Hawai'i Peace and Justice, and other groups working toward sovereignty, decolonization, and demilitarization.

    Mikey Inouye is an independent filmmaker born and raised in Hawai'i, community organizer and member of O'ahu Water Protectors.

    Shelley Muneoka is a Kanaka Maoli woman and water drinker from He'eia Uli on the island of O'ahu. Her work focuses on the care of past, present and future elders of all kinds -- human, more than human and elements like water.

    In this conversation Mikey and Shelley discuss the crisis posed by the decrepit fuel tanks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, above the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. They sit just 100 feet above the aquifer which provides the water supply for the island of O'ahu, the most populous island in Hawaii. Just a few months ago, the drinking water of 93,000 residents was contaminated by fuel from these tanks, closing down two wells. Organizers and residents have fought to shut down Red Hill, the Navy currently has until February 2nd to submit its plan to defuel the tanks at the base.

    Mikey and Shelley discuss the crisis and the multi-pronged organizing they've been a part of around this issue. They also spend significant time discussing the history of colonialism, US imperialism, and the US military in Hawaii. This includes conversations on environmental degradation, water contamination, as fundamental byproducts of US militarism. They also discuss the unique history of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor as a site of militourism, and its ideological role as a site of alleged US victimhood and the need for defense of the US against amorphous and alleged "asian threats." This in contrast with the reality that Hawai'i was not even a US state at the time of the attacks, but was itself a colonized territory the US used as an occupied military outpost and that the preservation of these tourist attractions continues to contaminate the natural beauty and resources on the Island of O'ahu.

    We encourage folks to follow O'ahu Water Protectors on Twitter and Instagram and support their campaign to defend their water. More updates are sure to come soon as this story develops.

    We'll include their social media accounts and some additional links in the show notes.

    And as always if you like what we do, please contribute to our patreon, we don't sell any ads, we don't have any corporate or foundation sponsors, so everything we are able to do here at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism is funded by you. You can become a patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

    Follow O'ahu Water Protectors on Twitter

    or on Instagram

    also follow Puuhuluhulu on Instagram for updates on Mauna Kea

    Shelley's speech referenced in discussion

    Mikey's speech

    Speech from another O'ahu Water Protector, Tina


    "Against Alienation" - Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi on their book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine Jan 24, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we talk to Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their recently published book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine.

    Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology Program.

    Stephen Sheehi is a Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary.

    Full bios here

    Their work in this text is heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engages theories of decoloniality and Liberatory psychoanalysis. It centers the stories and struggles of clinicians and their clients in Palestine.

    In this conversation Lara & Stephen talk about the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and colonialism, and how power relations and epistemology structure those relations.

    Upending those relations of course are anti-colonial or decolonial theories of psychoanalysis and in this context relationships forged between Palestinian clinicians and their Palestinian clients. Both are subjected to the same settler colonial apartheid regime that necessitates a national liberation struggle.

    Along the way they talk about the different forms of every day and extreme oppression faced by Palestinian people, we talk about the work of Palestinian clinicians to confront that harm, and how confronting that requires transgressive acts, organization and ultimately resistance.

    We take up problems like ideological misattunement between Israeli clinicians and Palestinian clients, talk about concepts like disalienation, and conscientisation and other key concepts in Fanonian and decolonial psychoanalytic theory. Providing key insights for resisting individuation, alienation and colonial oppression.

    Lara Sheehi also mentions that she and others have some networks of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist therapists and BIPOC anti-imperialist therapists for folks who are looking for that you can connect with Dr. Sheehi to find out more information.

    Also just a note, we realize that this book is priced too high for most people to purchase it for themselves. You can ask your public or school library to purchase a copy - as this was really the publishing model that the publisher chose for this text. The authors are committed however to making sure that anybody who wants to read it can find a way to get access to the text. So if you aren't able to get your hands on it, please reach out to Lara.

    If you like what we do please support our work on patreon.

    Links & Resources:

    Palestinian Global Mental Health Network

    Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

    Maana Centre

    Palestinian Counseling Center

    The Guidance and Training Center for the Child and Family

    Cafe Palestine Index

    Stephen Sheehi's website

    Twitter Handles:

    Lara: @blackflaghag

    Stephen: @zghartawi

    IG handles:

    @psychoanalystactivist, @decolonizingphotography, and bipocanalysis


    Martin Luther King Jr: Dialectics, Materialism, and the Black Radical Critique of Racial Capitalism with Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins Jan 15, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we interview Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins to discuss their recently published book, Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism.

    Andrew Douglas is a professor of political science and a faculty affiliate in Africana studies and international comparative labor studies at Morehouse College. Douglas is also the author of In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition and W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of Competitive Society.

    Jared Loggins is a visiting assistant professor of Black Studies and political science at Amherst College

    We talk to Jared and Andrew about the mutually informing theoretical legacies of Martin Luther King Jr and Cedric Robinson. Loggins and Douglas share their insights on Robinson's theoretical work around racial capitalism, the Black Radical Tradition, and leadership and examine some of King's most potent radical critiques in dialogue with these concepts.

    We also ask about King's legacy as a dialectical thinker, and the authors share their insights on King's critiques around the materialistic nature of the capitalist system in dialogue with Marx's critique of commodity fetishism.

    Douglas and Loggins also engage King's thinking around guaranteed basic income, the welfare state, and building and learning through communal struggle.

    They also explore King's thought around riots, the organized abandonment coinciding with deindustrialization, and the ways his thinking anticipates the neoliberal turn that comes after his assassination.

    Finally they share thoughts on King's anti-imperialism and their own thinking around rebuilding a Black radical counter public, and building the types of formations and institutions that can resist the patterns of capture and cooptation that continue to plague Black movements and Black thought in the 21st Century.

    You can read a free online copy of their book Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism or purchase a paperback copy. We'll include links to it in the show notes.

    And it's a new year and we really need folks' continued support to sustain this podcast. So if you appreciate what we do, please chip into support our efforts here. You can become a patron for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.


    "We Cannot Allow Our Movement To Abandon Them In Prison" - Jalil Muntaqim on Political Prisoners, Charging Genocide and Organizing Inside & Out Jan 09, 2022
    Show notes

    In this episode we once again get the opportunity to sit-down with Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army veteran Jalil Muntaqim. Muntaqim was a political prisoner of the United States for 49 years due to his involvement in the Black liberation struggle. He was released from prison in October of 2020 after eleven parole denials. He is the author of We Are Our Own Liberators, and Escaping The Prism… Fade to Black, which we discuss parts of in this episode.

    This is the second conversation we've had with Jalil Muntaqim and if you missed the first you will want to also check that out to get more information about Jalil's personal history and what led to the Spirit of Mandela Tribunal this past October. In this episode we caught up with Jalil on December 13th to talk about the outcomes of the Spirit of Mandela Tribunal and next steps for the conveners of this historic event.

    In this conversation Jalil Muntaqim discusses the legal outline of why the conduct of the United States of America constitutes genocide against Black and Indigenous people. Jalil talks about the relationship between white supremacy, capitalism and US imperialism. Muntaqim shares thoughts on the life of his Jericho Amnesty Movement co-founder Safiya Bukhari. We talk about recent releases of David Gilbert, Jaan Laaman, and Russell "Maroon" Shoatz. Maroon passed away 4 days after this episode was recorded, we send our condolences to his family, loved ones and comrades, and our own gratitude to him and his spirit for a life engaged in unrelenting struggle.

    We also talk about the current struggles for freedom of several political prisoners, including Kamau Sadiki, Leonard Peltier, Veronza Bowers, Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Sundiata Acoli among others. We discuss Mumia Abu Jamal's struggle for freedom after the recent passing of the 40th anniversary of his capture. And we talk about Larry Hoover and why he is recognized by the Jericho Amnesty Movement. We will include several links in the show notes to the episode on how people can get involved and support these and other political prisoners.

    We also talk to Muntaqim more about Arm The Spirit the first national newspaper created and written by prisoners, which he was central to organizing. Muntaqim offers several recommendations for prisoner solidarity and prison abolition organizers. And we get Muntaqim to share a story of cadre and mass based organizing that he was involved in while inside. Jalil also shares his thoughts on resisting political imprisonment, and how to handle political imprisonment if you are incarcerated for your political activities.

    A couple more final notes, we will link to ways people can stay informed and get involved in the ongoing work of the Spirit of Mandela campaign, as they look to move their findings forward into a legal case and a broader international movement. We also want to again plug the Mutual Aid Fund For Veteran Black Panther Party Members.

    Every month this fund brings in money and those funds are distributed to elders from the Black Panther Party, we contribute to this fund and we encourage others to do the same.

    There are links throughout this to support individual political prisoners and organizations. Below are some organizations & related efforts:

    Spirit of Mandela

    Jericho Amnesty Movement

    Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition

    Anarchist Black Cross Warchest Program


    "And Another Phase of Struggle Begins" - Kali Akuno and Kamau Franklin on Strategy and Liberation Dec 30, 2021
    Show notes

    In this episode we were honored to host Kali Akuno, co-director and co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders and a co-host at Black Power Media's Remix Morning Show.

    We brought Kali and Kamau into conversation under a banner of discussing strategy. Strategy is something that Josh and I feel is both essential and often lacking within a lot of formations in the US left.

    The conversation is wide-ranging and touches on a number of topics that may prompt folks to need greater context. In the show notes we will include some links to other readings and discussions with Kali and Kamau on what the Jackson plan is, why they left the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and what their current work entails.

    Beyond strategy, in this episode we get into discussion of political education, neoliberal socialization, burnout, fickle organizers, reflection and criticism, Democratic Centralism, cadre and mass organizing, climate change, ecological collapse, food sovereignty, self-defense, revolutionary violence, and the capture of social movements through the nonprofit industrial complex and Democratic Party electoral politics.

    It is our greatest hope that conversations like this one provide folks with tools, insights and provocations that they can bring with them into their organizing efforts so that we can build more effectively going forward for the alternatives are clearly bleak and dystopian.

    Both Community Movement Builders and Cooperation Jackson do accept donations. So we will also provide links to both organizations in our show notes if people would like to give them a donation. And please support Black Power Media as well.

    And of course, we need your support to continue to bring you these conversations freely, and in non-commoditized form. All of our work is available ad-free and none of our episodes are behind a paywall and we hope that we can always keep it that way so that all of these conversations are freely available to organizers, activists, students, workers, the poor, and the oppressed. To support our ability to do that you can contribute to our patreon for as little as $1 a month or for a yearly contribution of just $11 a year.

    For more context:

    Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno on the lessons of and the ongoing struggle in Jackson MS

    Community Movement Builders and Liberated Zones Theory with Kamau Franklin

    The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle For Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy

    Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi


    "We have to understand what we're dealing with" On Necrocapitalism with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul, and Devin Zane Shaw Dec 27, 2021
    Show notes

    This is part two of our two part episode with three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at leftwingbooks.net.

    On Necrocapitalism was collectively authored by a writing group known as M.I. Asma which included J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D.W. Fairlane.

    In this conversation we speak with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul and Devin Zane Shaw.

    In part two we continue our discussion of pacification and capture in response the historic rebellions of 2020 and the related crisis in the ruling class. We also get into some discussion of unequal exchange, the ongoing climate crisis, and settler colonialism as a material relation of capitalism in the US & Canada, rather than just as a moral wrong. Along the way we get into some of the nuanced differences in the racial regimes in the US and Canada. We talk about some events since the Biden election, from liberal pacification, to the declining ranks in movement work, and the ongoing danger posed state support for settler vigilantism among the far right. And we ask the authors if they predicted the weird re-emergence of so-called proletarian patriotism in the imperial core.

    As we wrap up the end of the year at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, we just wanted to note that we've put out 48 episodes this year. That's 4 episodes each month. We read all the books, do the research, develop the questions, record, edit and release these ourselves with no ad revenue, no pay per click revenue and no sponsorships, just the support of the many great folks who donate to our patreon. And we're approaching 300,000 downloads for this year alone. So please if you're able to contribute even a small amount to our patreon, it helps us make this show possible and ensures that all our content stays free, even for the folks who can't afford to give anything.

    Link to Part 1 (and links to more work from Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul and Devin Z. Shaw)


    "Capitalism Generates Death Worlds" - On Necrocapitalism with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul, and Devin Zane Shaw Dec 23, 2021
    Show notes

    In this episode we speak to three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at leftwingbooks.net.

    On Necrocapitalism was collectively authored by a writing group known as M.I. Asma which included J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D.W. Fairlane. In this conversation we speak with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul and Devin Zane Shaw.

    The authors introduce themselves in a little more detail in the episode, but Alyson Escalante you probably know as the co-host of Red Menace Podcast and J. Moufawad Paul and Devin Zane Shaw have both written multiple books. First written in blog form, On Necrocapitalism was written through weekly entries throughout the first year of the pandemic.

    The authors approached the pandemic as an occasion to think capitalism according to what it always has been, what the pandemic reveals about its current ideological deployment, and how we can think about a communist alternative in the face of exterminism.

    As we deal with the omicron surge and in the US as we deal with dimensions of capitalism that have only continued to become more necrotic after the pacification of the electoral process. This two part conversation and the book On Necrocapitalism are as timely as ever. Reminding us of the death worlds of the pandemic we're still in, the possibilities of rebellion and the ways in which our uprisings can ultimately be pacified.

    By the end of the year, we will have put out 49 episodes of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism this year. With all of the planning, outreach, reading, editing, and recording time we put into this it has become a full-time endeavor for us. A reminder that if you enjoy these conversations, and can afford to give even $1 a month towards our patreon, it all adds up and goes a long way towards sustaining the level of output we've been able to maintain this year.

    In this part we talk about the origin of the On Necrocapitalism project. Discussing the necrosis that is always within capitalism. The bad bourgeois and "left pundit" frames that were trotted out in the beginning of the pandemic. The way the pandemic most impacted groups of people on specific margins of bourgeois society. We touch on the authors' use of proletarian feminism and social reproduction theory. We talk about how the pandemic shifted amid rebellion, talk about the entry of abolitionist demands into the mainstream and begin to discuss the onset of pacification - an issue we will delve into more deeply in part 2.

    Links to some (not all) of the work of our guests, beyond On Necrocapitalism:

    Alyson Escalante - Red Menace Podcast

    Some of Alyson's writings at Cosmonaut and Regeneration

    Beyond Negativity: What Comes After Gender Nihilism?

    J. Mouwafad-Paul - MLM Mayhem Blog

    A Communist Necessity

    Continuity and Rupture

    Critique of Maoist Reason

    Demarcation and Demystification

    Methods Devour Themselves

    Austerity Apparatus

    Devin Zane Shaw

    Politics of the Blockade

    Philosophy of Antifascism

    Egalitarian Moments

    We also had a conversation with Devin Zane Shaw on Philosophy of Antifascism earlier this year.


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