This Wreckage

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E258 - Populaire Frontin' 2: Melon Pilled w/ Henry Wallis Aug 05, 2024

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Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block?

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First episode with Henry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e253-populaire-w-106800367

Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his post-election essay.

International Communist Tendency: Popular Front in France: A Deception in 1936, A Deception in 2024

Lundi Matin - Poplar Front in the Streets (by Georges Bataille):

Bordiga on activism: https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordiga

Song: Zouzou - Il est parti comme il était venu

E257 - Joe vs. the Volcano w/ Phil Neel & Nick Chavez (Part 1) Jul 31, 2024

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Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.

In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution.

Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory

Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c

Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite

Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf

Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en

Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/

TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/

Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire

BONUS: Cancel All Workers w/ Minion Death Cult Jul 26, 2024

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The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.

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Check out Sean's other appearance on MDC this week

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&&&RMED LOVE - Jack Scott, Bill Walton, the SLA, and the Athletic Revolution Jul 24, 2024

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&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Jack Scott: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/jack-scott-the-athletic-revolution/

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2020/wild-ride-jack-scott-and-jock-liberation/

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/radical-jocks-how-jack-scott-once-known-as-chief-who-would-go.html

Bill Walton:

Bill Walton On The Road With The Portland Trail Blazers by Jack Scott

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/05/searching-for-bill-walton/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/tnamp/

Audio clips: Interviews with Harry Edwards, Bill Walton, and SLA communiques

Past ARMED Love episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded

Past &&& episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909?view=expanded

Song: Patti Smith - Hey Joe (Patty Hearst)

E256: IVF or IMF w/ Jason Smith Jul 17, 2024

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Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.

Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?

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Check out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter

Referenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demography

Song: Dystopia - Population Birth Control

E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler Jul 10, 2024

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Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler

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The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.

Song: Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time

E254 - Climate Adorno w/ Jacob Blumenfeld Jul 03, 2024

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We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596

The Deluge by Stephen Markley: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/stephen-markley-deluge.html

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Song: Mekons - Hard to be Human

E253 - Populaire Frontin' w/ Henry Wallis Jun 26, 2024

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Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections.

Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front

Macron and Lula support billionaire tax: https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-minimum-tax-billionaires-wealthiest-people/

Recent clashes in New Caledonia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/new-caledonia-unrest-independence-activists-france-detention

https://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1804965294672347603

The Hollande campaign song mentioned: https://pitchfork.com/news/46275-watch-french-presidential-candidate-uses-jay-z-and-kanyes-niggas-in-paris-in-campaign-ad/

Andy's Bordiga/Antifa article: https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/

Song: Brazz - Killing In The Name (French Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-C2O4YSuc

Boundless and Bottomless Seas: "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin (Episode 5) Jun 21, 2024

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

In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All that and more as we finish Chapter 2 and begin Chapter 3 of "The Fourth Political Theory."

Patrons can hear the full episode on our patreon feed

This and all previous episodes are also available on Youtube: 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:

E252 - Exiting the Star Wars Castle Jun 17, 2024

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NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show.

Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZ

Labor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smi

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/06/teamsters-and-amazon-labor-union-announce-affiliation-member-vote-still-ahead

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4711847-judge-orders-uc-workers-pause-strike-israel-hamas-war/

https://x.com/thehousered/status/1799216761872458085

Covid:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/opinion/covid-fauci-hearings-health.html

Good podcast refuting lab-leak hypothesis, (thanks to Kie from discord for suggestion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1FGCPenns

Bolerium Books: https://www.bolerium.com/

Song: John Williams - First Order March [EPIC VERSION]