This Wreckage

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E262: Piratical Bordiga w/ Cosimo Pantaleoni & Ross Wolf Sep 25, 2024

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While Marxist friend and historian Cosimo Pataleoni was in town from Italy, Sean decided to bring along Ross Wolf to get a taste of some badass history of piracy. We discuss Cosimo's work on the Uskoks, Croatian rebel sailors of the early modern period, as a lens for understanding the rise of commercial capitalism, proletarianization, debt bondage, and incarceration on the frontiers and the high seas. How do Cosimo's studies-inspired by figures like Eric Hobsbawm, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker-help us understand the transition towards capitalism and, ultimately, how the transition towards communism might unfold?

In the second half we talk about Cosimo's Italian Bordigist futurism project N+1 (no, not that one) then speculate about Houthi rebels and Yemeni pirates, maritime multipolarity, the fetters that your home wifi imposes on production and why intellectual property and the internet have become the new frontier in capitalist development... and perhaps its overcoming?

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Song: Vandals - Pirate's Life

Diving into the Wreckage: Decay and Renewal 2 Sep 18, 2024

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Sean and Varn are joined by special guest, A.P. Andy of the Antifada podcast, to round out their previous conversation on current impasses on the left.

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How did Andy’s Platypus Affiliated Panel go? What’s new with the American Communist Party and how have they Stalinized Bordigism? What has happened to make Marxism-Leninism into an anachronistic meme ideology? And, in the bonus section, out of all this decay what hope is there in some sort of renewal? (We’ve got some ideas on this front that are better than tailing MAGA and streaming it to underemployed 20-year-olds.)

Platypus panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQxb86UTmCo

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

E261 - Histadrut is a Weapon Sep 09, 2024

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NEWS ep! We talk about Sean's upcoming well-deserved Alaska vacation before shifting into some preliminary analysis on Israel's brief anti-Netanyahu general strike, the contradictions of the Israeli working-class and war economy, and the legacy of labor Zionism.

Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the second half, in which we talk about AfD's victory in Thuringia and the meaning of the cleavages within neoliberalism, including Brazil banning Twitter and the absence of left partisanship in free-speech discourse.

Israel general strike: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/what-are-israels-protests-and-general-strike-about-and-how-big-are https://www.ft.com/content/e0e5de2d-46a7-43c2-a0e5-1bf4c710efde

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/23/gaza-war-extends-toll-on-israels-economy https://x.com/bar_peleg/status/1831033750601474400 https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/P%7Cfs%7CF_workers_in_Israel https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/Solidarity

Ecuador: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left-us-linked-prosecutor

Preshow ad: https://bostonanarchistbookfair.org/, https://www.instagram.com/bostonanarchistbookfair/ Song - Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - Alaska

E260 - Stone Age Noir w/ Rachel Kushner Sep 04, 2024

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Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.

We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of class war, and the RKCU (Rachel Kushner Cinematic Universe)

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Megabasin protests: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/water-mega-basins-reservoirs-france-drought/674313/

https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/stop-mega-basins---international-mobilization-from-july-16-to-21-2024

Drift Mag interview: https://www.thedriftmag.com/history-as-it-is-happening/

Nation Review: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/

Info on Eric McDavid entrapment case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/18/40682.php

The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Jacques Camatte - This World We Must Leave

Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War

The Invisible Comittee - The Coming Insurrection

The Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence

Song: Daft Punk - Get Lucky (V A P O R W A V E)

Happy Bell Riots day to all who celebrate Sep 01, 2024

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REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on September 1, 2024 that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution.

Listen to Part II: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41951161/

DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"

Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats

Boundless and Bottomless Seas 7: Chapter 5 of "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin Aug 30, 2024

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Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."

For the full episode subscribe on http://patreon.com/theantifada or view the episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_qKnAxV2I&list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A&index=1

In this episode they read chapter 5 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory"

Previous episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A

Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:

E259: Lethal Strength Through Joy w/ Zhana Kurti Aug 26, 2024

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Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.

Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in depth discussions of the protests in Chicago, and why some found them underwhelming.

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Essay about CLR James' American Civilization: https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-democracy

Check out Zhana's books: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and States of Incarceration (buy them from Chicago's radical bookstore Pilsen Community Books!)

song: Charli XCX - 360 + 365 (ガキ brat - slowed and reverbed)

ARMED LOVE 12 - The Revolution of Everyday Life w/ Bill Brown Aug 21, 2024

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Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's prediction of the "End of Christianity" in relation to heresy and queerness.

Greil Marcus’s Liptick Traces https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932

Bill Brown's Not Bored! anthology: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Not_Bored_Anthology_1983_2010/1wQlAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Bill's translation of Vaneigem's Resistance to Christianity: https://eris.press/Resistance-to-Christianity

Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life

Vaneigem on Coronavirus: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-coronavirus

Writing on Tarnac affair: https://notbored.org/tarnac.html

Armed Love series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680

Songs: Chrissy Hynde - Love Minus Zero (No Limits) Wanda Jackson - Riot Goin’ On Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun The Strokes - NYC Cops The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness

Diving in the Wreckage - Independence, Decadence, and Renewal w/ C. Derick Varn Aug 14, 2024

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Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do?

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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

BONUS: Theory of the YoungHegelianE-Girl Aug 09, 2024

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Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of Hegel

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Matthew Donovan's review/analysis of the party: https://matthewdonovan.substack.com/p/i-hosted-the-hegelian-e-girl-party

Sanje call-out: https://x.com/sanjehorah/status/1820166696021131470

Manifesto: https://x.com/tenshi_anna/status/1819922668704944403