This Wreckage

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ARMED LOVE 6 - FBI vs. Music w/ Aaron J. Leonard Mar 01, 2023

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Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.

Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/

Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/

Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy Radicals

And his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUX

Songs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday

Ep205: The Politics of Global Turbulence w/ Dylan Riley Feb 22, 2023

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Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.

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Song: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Diving into the Wreckage 7.2: Principles and Heuristics w/ C Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW Feb 15, 2023

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Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.

This is an extended preview. For the full 2-hour episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to get access to tons of bonus content, our Discord server and more

Public link to the document we're working with: https://tinyurl.com/muwn3xmy

UNLOCKED: Where's our Theilbux? w/ Tarence Ray Feb 08, 2023

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To celebrate JD Vance's ascension to the Cathedral power, we present you a discussion between Sean and Tarence from May of 2021! They talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?

Part 1 of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65977397

Beck - Sleeping Bag

Antifada's History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW Jan 25, 2023

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For the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-15-77698515

In light of the depressing denouement of last year's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.

Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?

This is an extended preview, but to get access to all two hours of recording - including an example of a practical way that communist theory can begin building class power today - become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada. You'll get access to our discord server, all our archives of bonus content and you get to support our work (if that's something you're into.)

Ep 203 - Literacy is Overrated w/ Ian Svenonius (preview) Jan 18, 2023

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Ian Svenonius is a rock singer (Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) now turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word.

We discuss his theory of literacy as a tool of the bourgeoisie and how rock n' roll reeducation camps might be the antidote, and why that might not go far enough for as to completely devolve to our neanderthal origins.

Buy Against the Written Word from Akashic Books

Interview with Ian about being the "sassiest boy in America" and why the workers are rock-and-roll

Read John Zerzan on The Failure of Symbolic Thought

Check out his film The Lost Record

Opening song: Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid

Closing song: The Make-Up - I am Pentagon

Classploitation cinema: The Menu w/ Twitch of the Death Nerve (PREVIEW) Jan 13, 2023

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Andy guests on a weird films podcast and forces them to talk about Marx and revolution for an hour. Movies discussed include: The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, Sorry to Bother You, Young Karl Marx, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Don't Look Up, Snowpiercer, Tar, Spirited Away by Agnes Varda, and much much more

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

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Diving into the Wreckage 7.1: First Principles w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW Jan 11, 2023

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Taking a break from the ongoing debt crisis analysis, Sean and Varn lay out a series of first principles. This miniseries is meant to lay out some basics for how to think about the world and act within/upon it, what differentiates our particular political bent from others on the left and ultimately what is to be done with the social knowledge and beliefs that all of us hold in common.

By the end of this series we hope to have hammered out these principles into a basis for a recomposition of communist organizing.

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Ep 202: 2023 and Me (First Half) Jan 04, 2023

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We ring in the New Year by answering all the questions posed to us on our Discord! Topics include: the terminal crisis of capitalism, pushing Biden to the left, Brenner's recent NLR article, John Brown, animal testing, ecosocialism, and of course, what is to be dun.

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

Brenner dust-up:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/dylan-riley-robert-brenner-seven-theses-on-american-politics

Closing song: Flower - Filth of their Confines

Ep 201 - New Years' Eve Dérive w/ Eric-John Russell (first half) Dec 28, 2022

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Old friend Eric-John Russell wanders with us through a variety of topics including critical theory of art and culture, the maturation and end of the Situationist International, and our traditional holiday discussion of antisemitism.

After the paywall we talk about Triangle of Sadness and Walter Benjamin's Emergency Brake, and if George Costanza is Jewish.

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

Check out Cured Quail and the interview in Book Forum

Read: Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)

Song: Louie Zong - Quail

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