This Wreckage

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BONUS - Electric Boogaloo w/ Shemon and Arturo Jan 15, 2021

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Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war.

What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture?

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Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body

Ep 127 - Riot Cars Go Vrrrrroom w/ Arturo & Shemon Jan 13, 2021

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Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens.

Stay tuned for Friday's bonus in which we discuss the chud riot at the capitol and what lessons we can take from the American Civil War.

Articles referenced:

https://illwilleditions.com/theses-on-the-george-floyd-rebellion/

https://illwilleditions.com/the-rise-of-black-counter-insurgency/

https://illwilleditions.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising/

https://illwilleditions.com/prelude-to-a-new-civil-war/

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation

https://itsgoingdown.org/fire-on-main-street-small-cities-in-the-george-floyd-uprising/

Outro song: Dj Screw - Sittin on Top of the World (Big Floyd aka George Floyd verse)

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Gen-X Ghost Stories w/ Douglas Lain (PREVIEW) Jan 11, 2021

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Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path?

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Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise

The 17th Nivôse of Donald J. Trump w/ Matt Christman (PREVIEW) Jan 07, 2021

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Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond?

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Also joining us was french-based comrade Henry J Wallis and Remi from Cosmonaut Magazine and the Marxist Center

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Ep 126 - Lasch Back w/ Douglas Lain Jan 06, 2021

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The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background and new media strategies for the left in general.

Watch the banned video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/christopher-paul-44266732

Another good convo on Lasch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zO1SAdCRE

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Closing song: Brockhampton - Weight

Ep 125 - The Monster Enters w/ Mike Davis Dec 30, 2020

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Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what should anti-capitalist organizers be focusing on going into 2021? All will be revealed.

Articles referenced:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare

https://lithub.com/how-a-pandemic-happens-we-knew-this-was-coming/

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/california-fire-drought-climate/

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-malibu-burn-20181114-story.html

Outro song: Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

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Ep 124 - On the Xmas Question w/ Dave Silverberg Dec 23, 2020

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Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas!

Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi

Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state

Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012

Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone

Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy

Ep 123 - Trillbilly Elegy w/ Tarence Ray Dec 16, 2020

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In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to.

Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem?

Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé

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Ep 122 - Uber (Owned) Dec 09, 2020

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A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more.

Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund: atlsolidarity.org

Donate to Dick's commissary fund: venmo kat-richards-1 / cashapp $katrichards (caption that it’s for Richard)

Send Dick a letter at writetodick@protonmail.com

Closing song: Lady Bits - C'Mon Baby

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PREVIEW - C*mmunization Th**ry w/ Aaron Benanav Dec 04, 2020

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Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment?

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Outro: Rolling Stones - Luxury

You can get Aaron's excellent book at, where else, verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

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