This Wreckage

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&&& w/ De-McKinseyfication w/ Garrison Lovely Dec 18, 2023

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Anders & Andy interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete. In the second Garrison takes our answers on being a leftist Effective Altruist.

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

Garrison's podcast: https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.com

Original whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executioners

Recent Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

Jacobin interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firms

Song: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand

Ep 233: Post-Soviet Space w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko Dec 13, 2023

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Sean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)

How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?

This is part one of an extended discussion. In the bonus we pose the question, "What does the left look like in Ukraine at the moment and how can internationalists help build a working class movement adequate to social revolution in a global capitalist social order in steep decline?"

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Articles:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voices

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/russia-ukraine-war-explanation-class-conflict

Song: RotFront - Sovietoblaster

Ep 232: Cryin' Like Lion in Zion w/ Jason Myles Dec 06, 2023

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Andy and Sean are joined by returning champion Jason Myles of This is Revolution podcast and industrial metal maniacs Bitter Lake to discuss his recent Damage Magazine article about Ibram X Kendi and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grift. How has identity politics been used to subsume class politics? What's left of a socialist left after the failure of Sandersism? Without the crutch of a social democracy more impossible by the day what might we build?

We also discuss the war on Gaza and why sometimes you have to walk off tour or storm out of a show when things get too woke. (details within)

Song: Special Interest - LA Blues

Reading Settlers 7 - McCarthy Did Nothing Wrong Dec 01, 2023

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We read chapters X and XI of Settlers about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.

For the full episode, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

And find previous chapters of Reading Settlers on our Reading Settlers Collections page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/241791?view=expanded

Read Along:

https://readsettlers.org/ch10.html

https://readsettlers.org/ch11.html

Info about Yokinen Trial./ White Chauvinism purges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokinen_Show_Trial

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/jacobs-oc/app-a.htm

Song: UAW choir sings La Borinquena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5cL0-_VQk

Ep 231 - Demagogics is Destiny Nov 29, 2023

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NEWS EP: Musk's trip Israel and the elections of Milei, Wildes, and the Dublin riots. Israeli labor shortage. How worried we should be about Trump's Plan 2025? Why Bidenist social-democracy won't help. Civil Socety vs. Social Humanity. PSL and block the boat criticism. The rise of AMLOnomics and Avocado wars in Mexico

Labor shortage in Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/middleeast/israel-farms-foreign-workers-crisis-intl-cmd/index.html

The city where Mexico’s nearshoring hype is becoming reality https://on.ft.com/3RiM0T5

Trump's plan to drain the swamp:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theses on Feuerbach: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

Criticism of Tacoma ship blockade: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/the-boat-that-wasnt-blocked/

Song: Gary Numan - OH! 2025

Talkin' 'tina 8: Milei Massacre Nov 22, 2023

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We visit Argentina, where the extremely online anarcho-capitalist Bolsonarista and MAGA Chud Javier Milei has just been elected their new president. Will it be a return to the Anti-communist dictatorship of the 70s and 80s, the neoliberal dollarization era of the 90s, or will it turn Argentina into one big AnarchApulco?

To find out, Andy interviews members of anarchist-communist collective based in the Biblioteca y Archivo Alberto Ghiraldo from Rosario, Argentina. Recently they put out a new text on the Milei phenomenon called Contra el liberalismo y sus falsos criticos, or Against Liberalism and its False Critics.

They are also involved with the journal Cuadernos de Negacion, and the newsletter La Oveja Negra.

Talkin’ Tina! is the Antifada side project about the politics of America Latina! See all our back episodes here and subscribe to our patreon to support the show!

Other texts mentioned:

Wenüy. For the rebellious memory of Santiago Maldonado

Lead and smoke. The business of Capital: https://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/2022/12/la-oveja-negra-plomo-y-humo-el-negocio.html

Oveja Negra no. 89, from September 2023

Interview extracts from Bloombeg and Daily Caller

Song: Guerra a la Burguesia, Tango Anarquista de 1901

There Is No God But God: five people ambush a stage armed with words at once holding the crowd hostage. Nov 10, 2023

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This is audio of CRUSH reading series no.37, Benefit for Palestine featuring Kamelya Youssef, Jenna Hamed, Tenaya Nasser, Tilghman Goldsborough, and Aristilde Kirby, with musical accompaniment by Paco Cathcart.

Recorded at Woodbine Nov 3, 2023.

The reading was a benefit for Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). Donate here- https://secure.everyaction.com/3aJf-w9toEewrIbfQf-XtA2

See a short clip of the performance here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUJSiOuNtd/

CRUSH reading series is curated by Suzanne Goldenberg

A zine accompanying the performance: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2Qk716YmqbEMiamBDRKhhKJ6tR2MK9z/view

Diving Into the Wreckage - Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State (Part 1) Nov 08, 2023

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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 role has nationalism played in capitalist development? What are the historical legacies of Lenin and Stalin's nationalities policies? Rhetoric aside, what is the relationship (if any) between national liberation movements and the communist project?

This is an extended preview. For access to the entire episode, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video recording of this episode and get all of C. Derick Varn's amazing content, subscribe at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

For this first episode we mention various theorists - Harun Yilnaz, Ze'ev Sternhell, Benedict Anderson, Benjamin Studebaker, Eric Hobsbawm - and also look at this essay: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/3587.html

Reading Settlers 6 - KKKillers of the Settler Moon Nov 06, 2023

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For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaJ. 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 Settlers-pilled Scorsese. For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSettlers Ch. 9: https://readsettlers.org/ch9.htmlPaul Prescod on A. Phillip Randolph: https://jacobin.com/2020/05/a-philip-randolph-socialist-civil-rights-march-bscpMarcus Garvey and Ethiopia: https://republic.com.ng/august-september-2023/marcus-garvey-ethiopia-and-the-oau/Song: Hepcat - Marcus Garvey

Ep 228 - Anti-Anti-Engelsism w/ Daniel Tutt Oct 25, 2023

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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 century? What was The Dialectics of Nature and how has so-called 'dialectical materialism' helped to dogmatize scientific socialism? And what remains of Engels' thought and practice today?

Join us for a fun and informative episode on one of the revolutionary greats. For the full discussion, and tons more bonus content, become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Dispatch - The General

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