This Wreckage

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E302: Which Way, Western Marxist? w/ Ross Wolfe (HALF) Sep 10, 2025

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BASED Western Marxist Ross Wolfe EVISCERATES Domenico Losurdo for poor scholarship and neo-Stalinist zig-zagging.

For the full episode, including paywalled content about the conspiracy theories of Losurdists Gabriel Rockhill and the ACP, and some discussion of their hatred of Nietzsche and "going back to Marx," subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Part I: https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/

Part II: https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

Part III: https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/

Song: Drope Soviético - Audi

E301: National DCification w/ Rax King Sep 03, 2025

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Sean is joined by James Beard Nominated author, Rax King, to discuss her long-suffering hometown, Washington DC and the new trials it faces now that President DJT has decided to declare a crime emergency. The police have been federalized and the National Guard called in to suppress the lives of DC residents. How did this come to pass? What should we do about it? And how might DC be a portent of what we all might face soon enough?

Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

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Song: Chuck Brown - Wind Me Up

E300: Late Antifascism Aug 27, 2025

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We celebrate 300 (+) Antifadas with a news episode and Q+A! New hits include Trump's Intel buy, the alt-right power and schisms within the Trump admin, ICE raid updates, and the theories of late capitalism and late fascism and if we're seeing the emergence of a late antifascism.

In the Q&A we talk about Grossmanism, TRPF, pre-politics, "partyism" and neo-kautskyism, our political trajectories historical moments that inspire us, and what we're reading/watching/listening to lately.

Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, Discord access, and all bonus material!

Alberto Toscano on Late Fascism: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/notes-on-late-fascism/

DJT state capitalism, our new stupid FDR: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/trump-intel-us-steel-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ICE detentions dropping: https://journalistsresource.org/home/ices-recent-detention-data-what-journalists-need-to-understand/

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/ice-arrests-july-decline-immigrants

Did the alt-right win? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

E299: Wrecking Crew w/ Caucus of Rank-and-file Electrical Workers Aug 22, 2025

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Sean is joined by Scott, Leo and Emily of the new nationwide initiative within the International Brotherhood [sic] of Electrical Workers called CREW. What made these union militants decide to organize for power within their union? How does business unionism let us all down? What sort of organizational principles should workers uphold? What would working class independence look like if we broke free from the politicians and the cartels? Join us for the coming out party of this new and exciting initiative.

Contact CREW and get involved: https://rankandfilecrew.org/

Music: 7 Seconds - The Crew

Trump's Big DC Takeover / In the Year Two-thous&&& Aug 18, 2025

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&y & &ers speculate on the deeper motives behind the move to end Home Rule in DC, then hop in Naomi Wolf's Apple Time Machine way back to THE YEAR 2000 to watch and discuss old Conan monologues and bits!

For the full episode, including a VIDEO version, support the show at http://www.patreon.com/c/theantifada

Antifada LIVE: Platforms of Proletarianization w/ Cured Quail & Clocked Out Aug 13, 2025

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Audio from our live event! A panel about the way social media and technology effect our day to day lives and our future as a species with Eric-John Russell of Cured Quail, and Fiona Pearl Miller and Zoe Laris-Djokovic of Clocked Out Magazine. Recorded (mostly) last Friday, August 8 at Woodbine.

Support Antifada! http://patreon.com/theantifada

Buy Cured Quail volume 3: https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/

How to Smile Without Using You Eyes: https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-Eyes

Preview of Platforms of Proletarianization: https://curedquail.com/Platforms-of-Proletarianization

Buy Clocked Out Magzine: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/purchase

Water Cooler Talk/Icarus Again: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/water-cooler-talk

Bottomless Wheatgrass Margaritas (and other apparatuses of deceit): https://clockedoutmagazine.com/bottomless-wheatgrass

Interview with Roy Lee: Maybe We'll Want to Be AI's Servant: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/roy-lee Song: Audrey Nuna & Niki - Clocked Out

E298: This Town is Too Hot w/ Heatwave Collective Aug 06, 2025

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Andy and Sean are joined by two anon members of the Heatwave Collective to discuss their new project: a better magazine for a worse world. How might we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos? What does political economy tell us about the limits to capitalist politics in the current moment? How has history led us to such an impasse and what might we, as a class, do about it?

Become a patron of this podcast for bonus content, reading groups and more: www.patreon.com/theantifada

Subscribe to Heatwave to get print editions of the magazine delivered to your door: https://www.patreon.com/HeatwaveMag

Or by individual issues: https://shop.haters.life/products/heatwave-1

DFW Support Committee for arrested protesters and their fundraiser with updates: http://givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors

Song: Julien Baker - Heatwave

BONUS: Eddington was a Documentary Aug 01, 2025

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Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives?

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

Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/

Thomas Chatterton Williams book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/summer-of-our-discontent-by-thomas-chatterton-williams-reivew-a-muddled-take-on-us-race-politics-and-class

Shemon & Arturo texts: The Return of John Brown: White Rice Traitors in the 2020 Uprising: https://illwill.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising

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

The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising Book

George Floyd Uprising book by Vortex Group

Song: Bonnie Gentry - Courtyard

E297: Malcolm in the Meltdown w/ Malcolm Harris Jul 30, 2025

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Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis--a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present.

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

Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html

Emmanuel Carrere on the G7: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/15/my-trip-g7-summit-emmanuel-macron-emmanuel-carrere

Tooze's NYT review that calls Harris “ the left-wing alter ego to the liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books/review/whats-left-malcolm-harris.html

Song: The Walters - What's Left

E296: Conflicted Solidarity w/ Sarah Schulman Jul 23, 2025

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Sarah Schulman chats about her latest book "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity", a meditation on the category of solidarity informed by her decades of experience as a writer, academic and activist.

Also by Sarah Schulman and mentioned in the episode: "Conflict Is Not Abuse," "Let the Record Show," an oral history of ACT UP, "The Gentrification of the Mind," and the lesbian noir Maggie Terry.

Song: Black Uhuru - Solidarity

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