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Hardcore History 2: Hybrid Moments Oct 26, 2022

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Jarrod Shanahan is back with an audio essay about his trip to Chicago's Riot Fest to see the Original Misfits--an experience filled not only with the horror of Glenn Danzig's dark lyrics, but also his political rants, the gentrification and recuperation inherent in these reunion festivals themselves, and the fear of getting old.

Read the full essay at Hard Crackers Journal: https://hardcrackers.com/hybrid-moments/

Listen to the first episode of Hardcore History on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50262903

Ep 195: The Landlord Experience w/ Kevin Rogan (part 1) Oct 19, 2022

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Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism.

How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/YIMBYs represent? (Hint: two competing factions of capital) How do we fight the land owners and win? And how do tenant unions fit into the broader struggle against capital?

This is part one of an extended discussion. For the second half - a whole hour of takes on Matt Yglesias, intra-petit bourg warfare over the soul of city, and Mr Skanska looking over the back of US building capital - become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Kevin's Substack: https://kevinrogan.substack.com/

Song: Mirah - Dear Landlord

Diving into the Wreckage 6.3 w/ C Derick Varn Oct 12, 2022

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Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the post-fascist turn be able to overcome the crisis? Could the dying center left do any better? All this and many sidebars/parentheses within!

For the full episode and a ton more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Check out all of C Derick Varn's excellent analysis at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Song: Lou Reed - The Debt I Owe (Woody Guthrie cover)

Ep 194 - Gilt Trip Oct 05, 2022

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Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or...

Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666

Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what its like working inside a secure state facility behind unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory of the contemporary spectacle.

ARMED LOVE 4: Punks is Yippies w/ Crimethinc Sep 28, 2022

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We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements.

Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family, and episode 3 an interview with Black Mask and Up Against the Wall founder Ben Morea: Part 1, Part 2

More info on the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

Follow on Twitter and read their latests essays at Crimethic.com

PDF: Jerry Rubin: Do It!

Video: Ed Sanders on Firing Line

Song: The Spectacle - I, Fail

BONUS: CPI Scandal and Family Abolition w/ Ross Wolfe (BONUS PREVIEW) Sep 23, 2022

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Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849

Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family.

Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!

Ep 193 - Leftcoms in Kyiv w/ Ross Wolfe Sep 21, 2022

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The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.

Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849

Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q

Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/

Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/

An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/

Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons

Diving into the Wreckage 6.2: The Continuing Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW Sep 14, 2022

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Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage?

For the full episode, a tons more bonus content and access to our Discord server, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Ep 192 - Quietly Quitting Brandon Sep 05, 2022

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Full episode here

An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.

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Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/

Inventories skyrocketing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory

Investment decline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses

Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html

Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on

Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/

https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages

Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

On the Irish Question w/ Foreign Agent Sep 02, 2022

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We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England.

Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada! please support the show :3

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