This Wreckage

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E290: French President SLAPPED by FURIOUS wife!!! w/ Henry Wallis May 28, 2025

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Our French correspondent joins us to talk about the SLAP heard 'round the world. We also get some updates on Melanchon's US tour, discuss Hasan Piker's detainment, death with dignity, the abundance agenda, Zohran, Robert Moses vs. Tammany Hall, the 5 year anniversary of the George Floyd Uprising.

Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, in which we listen to some clips from Jordan Peterson's debate with 20 Reddit Athiests, and talk about what the "radical left" means.

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articles mentioned: https://newintermag.com/assisted-suicide-or-social-murder/

https://newintermag.com/the-defeat-of-biopolitics/

https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/

song: Ludacris - Slap

E289: Freedom Zone of Interest w/ Malek Rasamny May 19, 2025

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Malek Rasamny walks us through the moving gears of Middle East geopolitics in the wake of Trump's visit to Riyadh, opening relations to the Syrian regime under Ahmed Al-Saraah (fka Mohammed al-Julani), nuclear talks with Iran, PKK disarmement, the current situation in Lebenon, and much more.

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Malek is one directors of Native and the Refugee a film about the commonalities native american life on reservations and palestinian life on refugee camps

"Beyond the Axis of Resistance" panel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-beyond-of-118617202

US/Israel/Arab League ceasefire talks: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-netanyahu-saudi-arabia-arab-gulf-hamas-qatar-ceasefire https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade

”Saudi-US investment forum” clip: https://x.com/hxhassan/status/1922390556740550962

Trump on Syria sanctions: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/16/trumps-decision-to-lift-syria-sanctions-fuels-dreams-of-economic-revival PKK disarmament and its regional significance: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/14/what-does-the-pkks-disarming-mean-for-its-regional-allies

Song: Logic - 44 More

E288: Fraudian Ziz-o Analysis w/ David Z Morris May 12, 2025

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Tech and finance writer David Z. Morris talks us through the mental illness behind Silicon Valley's fascist immortalists, rationalists, effective altruists, abundists, etc.

Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifdada for the fun half, in which we speculate on Luigi's connection to this world, what's behind the assassination attempts on Trump, and if we should "buy the dip" on the technofuturist dystopia

read/subscribe to his substack: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/

Especially on the Zizians: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/deepseek-and-the-ai-murder-cult

On Tesla: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/tesla-enters-its-memetic-death-spiralhttps://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/tesla-is-on-fire

In Luigi Mangione: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/luigi-mangione-reformed-techno-rationalist

Excerpt from his upcoming book on Sam Bankman-Fried: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-ai-timelines-scam-expanded-free Song: Madvillain - Accordion

AI Caramba 3 w/ Paris Marx May 09, 2025

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Sean talks with Paris Marx about AI

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Song: Barry Manilow - Aye Caramba!

E287: Studying for the Communism Test w/ Jasper Bernes May 05, 2025

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Jasper Bernes chats with us about his new book on the history of revolution from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising and the task of communists today.

Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution

Excerpt: https://illwill.com/inquiry-and-organization

Check out Red May: https://www.redmayseattle.org/

BK Rail debates: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/on-the-future-and-past-of-revolution/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/workers-councils-solution-or-problem/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/jasper-bernes-responds/

Jasper’s critique of Bevins’ If We Burn: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/field-notes/What-Was-To-Be-Done-Protest-and-Revolution-in-the-2010s/

Song: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies

RIP Joshua Clover Apr 30, 2025

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Tribute to a recently-departed comrade.

"nothing is over, that is the only certainty. the other certainty is that everything ends, even this" -Poem (Sept 26, 2023)

Clip from Occupy Oakland: https://x.com/poetryc0mmunity/status/1917001969467838652

Reading from The Totality for Kids at Bowery Poetry Club in 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfMT58xkTg

Youtube clip of Joshua talking about his book on the Modern Lovers' song Road Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qc8EqN_XI&t=468s

Riot. Strike. Riot pdf:https://fighttowin.noblogs.org/files/2020/06/riot-strike-riot-intro.pdf

On "Old Town Road": https://communemag.com/the-high-rise-and-the-hollow/

Cleaning up fascist trash right up to the end: https://x.com/outsidadgitator/status/1916845565725520303 ideo/1

Episode image from a painting by Dianna Settles: https://www.instagram.com/platonicyouth/

Full Commie Camp episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-57-old-road-w-28280348

Check out Jamie’s awesome new podcast Party Girls

Songs: Modern Lovers - Road Runner

Joshua Clover's sing-a-long cover of Old Town Road by Lil Nas X

Diving into the Wreckage: Into the Train Wreck w/ C. Derick Varn Apr 23, 2025

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Sean and Varn catch up on the first 100 days or so of Trump 2.0, the inanities and indignities of history forced to move again in dumb, but possibly productive ways. Most of all this moment calls for humility amidst radical political and economic changes we might only be able to 'sane-wash' in 20 or 30 years, if ever.

How have recent events challenged our priors as Marxists or as Millennials or as Americans? Even if the Left is largely powerless to affect global events, do we at least have the courage to situate ourselves and our own subjectivities within the massive changes of the last 10 to 15 years? How might the left wing of capital respond to the current chaos and how might we?

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&&& 🌿420🌳 SPECIAL- Walter Benjamin's 👼On The Concept of History 😇 Apr 21, 2025

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&y & &ers smoke a joint and read Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History

Read along: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm

Song: Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

E286: Indefinite Baseball General Strike 2027 w/ Tipping Pitches Apr 14, 2025

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Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner of the labor-focused baseball podcast Tipping Pitches join Andy to chat about the 2025 season, the upcoming 2026 showdown by the players' union and owner on the salary cap, the gap between "rich" and "poor" teams, why we might miss the Yankee Empire one day, and why leftists stay interested in America's Pastime as America itself collapses.

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Song: Simpsons - Talkin' Softball

E285 - Liberation Day Apr 07, 2025

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Sean and Andy discuss JDPon Don's Great Reset, the #HandsOff protests, the Mar-A-Lago accords, and the death of the American Dream

In the fun half, available for patrons, we chat about Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 and it's sauce-obsessed Musk-Trump hybrid villain

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Ken Klip on Hands Off protest: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-went-to-the-anti-trump-protest

Speculation on Mar-A-Lago Accords: https://www.nordea.com/en/news/mar-a-lago-accord-explained-a-new-era-for-the-dollar

Krugman and Klein: https://youtu.be/DhabG-dyQu0?si=UWMvD4m_JmqwWyPC

Washington Post on Miran's tariff pans: https://archive.is/UYkXb