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Palestine: An Introduction. The Land Imperialism Left Behind. Oct 21, 2023

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Max finally takes aim at the Israel/Palestine conflict with an introduction that frames the approach for the mini-series and sets guardrails for what will undoubtedly be an emotional journey for many UNFTR listeners. This episode answers why we decided to tackle this issue and how we’re examining it through a socioeconomic lens and Marxist view of history. It also dismisses two foundational deceptions pertaining to the larger narrative surrounding the conflict. This introductory episode concludes with several “level-setting” statements and a challenge: “If you can hold these thoughts in your mind at once, we can proceed.”

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Show Notes [Phone A Friend: Nick Hanauer] Oct 20, 2023

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Max flies solo while 99 goes on a long distance mission from god. Left to his own devices, Max dips his pinky toe into the Palestinian conflict to set the table for our upcoming series and responds to listener feedback from the last couple of episodes. Seems like Pitchfork Nick was particularly well received so cheers to the Pitchfork Economics crew for playing in our sandbox.

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Phone A Friend: Nick Hanauer of Pitchfork Economics. Oct 14, 2023

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Max interviews Nick Hanauer, co-host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast and founder of Civic Ventures. They discuss Nick’s work at Civic Ventures to promote the $15 minimum wage among other initiatives and have a wide ranging discussion about the power of neoliberal messaging, Bidenomics and the struggle to break through the “pack of lies” we’ve been sold by corporations to maintain the status quo.

Resources

Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America

The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

The True Patriot

Pitchfork Economics Podcast

Pitchfork Economics on Twitter

Pitchfork Economics on Instagram

NickHanauer.com

Nick Hanauer on Twitter

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Show Notes [The House that Newt Built.] Oct 13, 2023

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In this episode of Show Notes, Max and 99 lightly discuss Israel/Palestine in preparation for a future episode, continue with some Socialism feedback, and 99 makes an admission about shoelaces.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:26:43

Emails: 00:34:22

Facebook Shout Outs: 01:09:54

YouTube Shout Outs: 01:11:38

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:13:12

Reviews: 01:15:02

Outro: 01:15:44

Headlines

The New York Times: In Search of Kamala Harris

Jacobin: Left Politicians Are Showing How to Respond to the Horrors in Israel and Palestine

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The House that Newt Built: The Rise of Matt Gaetz. Oct 07, 2023

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Max struggles to understand exactly what Matt Gaetz is after, but has his suspicions. Regardless of the right-wing endgame, this week’s fiasco was made possible by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Gingrich’s run marked not only the end of civility, but the beginning of a GOP hostile to anything that impedes the complete destruction of the welfare state. We look at how this came to pass and who is the current architect of the GOP meltdown. (Hint: It’s not Matt Gaetz.)

Resources

The New Yorker: The Ringleader

The Intercept: Rep. Josh Gottheimer Headlines No Labels Call While Eyeing Run For Higher Office

UNFTR Episode Resources

The Clinton Years (Parts One–Three)

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Show Notes [Understanding Socialism: Part Six.] Oct 06, 2023

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Today's Show Notes is brought to you by: Hip-Hop! Max and 99 get an assist from Manny Faces who responds to an Unf*cker, and DJs while Max and 99 sing. They also discuss capitalism, the working class and Max's new haircut.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:05:22

Emails: 00:10:02

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:46:09

YouTube Shout Outs: 00:49:59

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 00:51:56

Outro: 01:00:32

Headlines

World Socialist Web Site: California Governor Newsom picks long-time Democratic Party operative Laphonza Butler to replace Senator Feinstein

ACLU: On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Classroom Censorship

Resources

Hip-Hop Can Save America: Dr. Bettina Love [Hip-Hop Education & Civics]

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Understanding Socialism: Part Six. Epilogue. Oct 02, 2023

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The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to identify factors that contributed to the Bolshevik departure from Marxist theory and how nationalism squashed any hope for an internationalist movement. We revisit the words of the theorists and activists we covered in the series from Jeremy Bentham to Eugene Debs and raise difficult questions about the future of socialist activity in the United States specifically and whether new ideas are required to battle the ravages of capitalism.

Chapters

Intro: 00:04:17

Part One: 00:05:41

Part Two: 00:16:08

Post Show Musings: 00:37:16

Outro: 00:55:37

Book Love

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917

Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis

Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future

Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky

Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread

Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays

Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination.

Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

Resources

The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism

Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'

Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics

The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria

Stanford: Jeremy Bentham

Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Stanford: Karl Marx

Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism

The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations

Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution

The Collector: Revolutions of 1848

Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870

Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography

JSTOR: Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin

Marxists.org: Bakunin

The Anarchist Library: The Federative Principle

The Anarchist Library: Property Is Theft

Jacobin: Why Kautsky was Right

The New Yorker: Dreyfus Affair

The Jacobin: John Dewey

Marxists.org: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism

Spartacus Ed: Karl Kautsky

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: FAQs

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Show Notes [Strike!] Sep 29, 2023

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99 is back in this episode of Show Notes; her and Max talk Taylor Swift, unions + strikes, and read some opposing view feedback from Unf*ckers. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:17:43

Emails: 00:42:42

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:28:04

Outro: 01:30:55

Headlines

The Intercept: House Republicans Are Hurtling Toward the Most Pointless Shutdown Ever

Resources

UNFTR Facebook Group

House Delegate: Matt Christman: The Founder and Capitalism

Weiner

UNFTR: Republican Rehab

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Strike! Reality checking the labor movement. Sep 22, 2023

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Strike! Union actions are everywhere. High profile work stoppages from the Screen Actors Guild to the United Auto Workers have put the labor movement front and center in ways we haven’t seen for decades. How powerful is the impact of these actions? You’re not going to like my take on it. But we need to have some authentic dialogue about the labor movement, the corporate class and new strategies required to stem the tide of increasing inequality.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:15

Post Show Musings: 00:33:21

Outro: 00:45:05

Resources

Associated Press: United Auto Workers threaten to expand targeted strike if there is no substantive progress by Friday

Automotive News: GM CEO Mary Barra's 2022 compensation: $29M

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Annual work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, 1947 - Present

St. Louis Fed: Civilian Labor Force Level

Detroit Free Press: GM to reinstate a dividend and start stock buybacks, signaling confidence

GM Authority: GM Employees Receive Record $12,750 Profit-Sharing Check

Social Security Administration: National Average Wage Index

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung: The French Labour Paradox

AFL-CIO: Collective Bargaining

NBER: Impacts of Right-to-Work Laws on Unionization and Wages

OECD: United States: Main indicators and characteristics of collective bargaining

Forbes: Remote Work Statistics And Trends In 2023

MckInsey & Company: Freelance, side hustles, and gigs: Many more Americans have become independent workers

CNBC: 61% of Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck even as inflation cools

NLRB: Board Issues Decision Announcing New Framework for Union Representation Proceedings

Democracy at Work

Mondragon

The New Yorker: How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op

Economic Policy Institute: CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021

Aspen Institute: Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US

Worker Participation: Countries

UNDP: How Do Labor Unions Affect Inequality And Efficiency In Latin America And The Caribbean?

UNFTR Episode Resources

Understanding Socialism: Part One.

Labor Unions: From Pullman To Kellogg’s. Labor’s Long, Hard Road

The Clinton Years (Parts I, II, And III)

Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Part One.

Book Love

Nelson Lichtenstein: State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

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Show Notes [Understanding Socialism: Part Five.] Sep 21, 2023

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Max flies solo in this episode of Show Notes while 99 is out with consumption (COVID). He covers AOC + Socialism feedback, goes on a Boebert rant, and reads tons of Unf*cker feedback. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:02:54

Emails: 00:07:41

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:33:03

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:41:13

YouTube Shout Outs: 00:41:43

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 00:54:13

Outro: 00:55:00

Headlines

Mother Jones: New Report: One-Third of States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections

Current Affairs: The Strong Towns Movement is Simply Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb

Resources

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

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