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NEWS EP! We talk about the hurricane disaster, the Middle East disaster, the Ukraine disaster, and the Longshoremen's strike as a prelude to the war on Christmas.
Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half! We look at a proletarian get-rich quick scheme, an LAPD robbery gone wrong, and speculate on the REAL reason the Feds are taking down Mayor Eric Adams.
Organized abandonment & campaign strategy in Appalachia: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/30/helene-aftermath-live-updates-monday-north-carolina/75447978007/
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/kamala-harris-asylum-rules-border-crossings
Biden on settling the "strike" https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1840576548992106698
The strike he’s probably thinking of: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-east-coast-port-strike-set-start-tuesday-says-union-2024-09-29/
Cruise ships and weapons shipments not effected by strike: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/baltimore-cruise-ships-military-cargo-not-affected-by-dock-worker-strike/65-93d26a57-812c-44ba-bff6-5704ce08c292
Asheville Mutual Aid Disaster Relief info: https://itsgoingdown.org/mutual-aid-hurricane-helene/
Proletarian self activity: https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/infinite-money-chase-bank-customers-in-trouble-after-viral-glitch/article_4b062eb2-6978-11ef-8c96-2346f53d638b.html
Song: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
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While Marxist friend and historian Cosimo Pataleoni was in town from Italy, Sean decided to bring along Ross Wolf to get a taste of some badass history of piracy. We discuss Cosimo's work on the Uskoks, Croatian rebel sailors of the early modern period, as a lens for understanding the rise of commercial capitalism, proletarianization, debt bondage, and incarceration on the frontiers and the high seas. How do Cosimo's studies-inspired by figures like Eric Hobsbawm, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker-help us understand the transition towards capitalism and, ultimately, how the transition towards communism might unfold?
In the second half we talk about Cosimo's Italian Bordigist futurism project N+1 (no, not that one) then speculate about Houthi rebels and Yemeni pirates, maritime multipolarity, the fetters that your home wifi imposes on production and why intellectual property and the internet have become the new frontier in capitalist development... and perhaps its overcoming?
For this bonus content, and so much more, become a supporter of our work at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Vandals - Pirate's Life
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Sean and Varn are joined by special guest, A.P. Andy of the Antifada podcast, to round out their previous conversation on current impasses on the left.
For access to the full episode, and all our years of great bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
How did Andy’s Platypus Affiliated Panel go? What’s new with the American Communist Party and how have they Stalinized Bordigism? What has happened to make Marxism-Leninism into an anachronistic meme ideology? And, in the bonus section, out of all this decay what hope is there in some sort of renewal? (We’ve got some ideas on this front that are better than tailing MAGA and streaming it to underemployed 20-year-olds.)
Platypus panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQxb86UTmCo
Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
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NEWS ep! We talk about Sean's upcoming well-deserved Alaska vacation before shifting into some preliminary analysis on Israel's brief anti-Netanyahu general strike, the contradictions of the Israeli working-class and war economy, and the legacy of labor Zionism.
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the second half, in which we talk about AfD's victory in Thuringia and the meaning of the cleavages within neoliberalism, including Brazil banning Twitter and the absence of left partisanship in free-speech discourse.
Israel general strike: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/what-are-israels-protests-and-general-strike-about-and-how-big-are https://www.ft.com/content/e0e5de2d-46a7-43c2-a0e5-1bf4c710efde
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/23/gaza-war-extends-toll-on-israels-economyhttps://x.com/bar_peleg/status/1831033750601474400 https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/P%7Cfs%7CF_workers_in_Israel https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/Solidarity
Ecuador: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left-us-linked-prosecutor
Preshow ad: https://bostonanarchistbookfair.org/, https://www.instagram.com/bostonanarchistbookfair/ Song - Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - Alaska
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Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.
We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of class war, and the RKCU (Rachel Kushner Cinematic Universe)
The full episode is FREE at http://patreon.com/theantifada. While you're there, support the show with a free, $5, $10, or annual discounted membership for access to all bonus content and our Discord community!
Megabasin protests: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/water-mega-basins-reservoirs-france-drought/674313/
Drift Mag interview: https://www.thedriftmag.com/history-as-it-is-happening/
Nation Review: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/
Info on Eric McDavid entrapment case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/18/40682.php
The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Jacques Camatte - This World We Must Leave
Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War
The Invisible Comittee - The Coming Insurrection
The Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence
Song: Daft Punk - Get Lucky (V A P O R W A V E)
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REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on September 1, 2024 that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution.
Listen to Part II: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41951161/
DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"
Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats
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Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."
For the full episode subscribe on http://patreon.com/theantifada or view the episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_qKnAxV2I&list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A&index=1
In this episode they read chapter 5 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory"
Previous episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A
Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:
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Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.
Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in depth discussions of the protests in Chicago, and why some found them underwhelming.
Support the Antifada for all bonus content and discord community discussion at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Essay about CLR James' American Civilization: https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-democracy
Check out Zhana's books: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and States of Incarceration (buy them from Chicago's radical bookstore Pilsen Community Books!)
song: Charli XCX - 360 + 365 (ガキ brat - slowed and reverbed)
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Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's prediction of the "End of Christianity" in relation to heresy and queerness.
Greil Marcus’s Liptick Traces https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932
Bill Brown's Not Bored! anthology: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Not_Bored_Anthology_1983_2010/1wQlAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Bill's translation of Vaneigem's Resistance to Christianity: https://eris.press/Resistance-to-Christianity
Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life
Vaneigem on Coronavirus: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-coronavirus
Writing on Tarnac affair: https://notbored.org/tarnac.html
Armed Love series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680
Songs: Chrissy Hynde - Love Minus Zero (No Limits) Wanda Jackson - Riot Goin’ On Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun The Strokes - NYC Cops The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness
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Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do?
This is an extended preview of the complete episode. To listen to this, the rest of the DitW series and years worth of bonus content become a subscriber at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Check out Varn's work at www.patreon.com/varnlog
Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
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Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of Hegel
For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Matthew Donovan's review/analysis of the party: https://matthewdonovan.substack.com/p/i-hosted-the-hegelian-e-girl-party
Sanje call-out: https://x.com/sanjehorah/status/1820166696021131470
Manifesto: https://x.com/tenshi_anna/status/1819922668704944403
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Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block?
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
First episode with Henry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e253-populaire-w-106800367
Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his post-election essay.
International Communist Tendency: Popular Front in France: A Deception in 1936, A Deception in 2024
Lundi Matin - Poplar Front in the Streets (by Georges Bataille):
Bordiga on activism: https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordiga
Song: Zouzou - Il est parti comme il était venu
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Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.
In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution.
Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory
Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c
Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite
Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf
Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en
Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/
TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/
Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire
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The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.
For the full episode, all other bonus content, and Discord access, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
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&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army.
For all our bonus content and access to our Discord community support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Jack Scott: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/jack-scott-the-athletic-revolution/
Bill Walton:
Bill Walton On The Road With The Portland Trail Blazers by Jack Scott
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/05/searching-for-bill-walton/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/tnamp/
Audio clips: Interviews with Harry Edwards, Bill Walton, and SLA communiques
Past ARMED Love episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded
Past &&& episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909?view=expanded
Song: Patti Smith - Hey Joe (Patty Hearst)
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Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.
Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?
For the complete episode and much more bonus content become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Check out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter
Referenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demography
Song: Dystopia - Population Birth Control
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Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler
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The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.
Song: Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
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We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596
The Deluge by Stephen Markley: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/stephen-markley-deluge.html
For all bonus content and Discord discussion support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Mekons - Hard to be Human
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Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections.
Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front
Macron and Lula support billionaire tax: https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-minimum-tax-billionaires-wealthiest-people/
Recent clashes in New Caledonia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/new-caledonia-unrest-independence-activists-france-detention
https://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1804965294672347603
The Hollande campaign song mentioned: https://pitchfork.com/news/46275-watch-french-presidential-candidate-uses-jay-z-and-kanyes-niggas-in-paris-in-campaign-ad/
Andy's Bordiga/Antifa article: https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/
Song: Brazz - Killing In The Name (French Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-C2O4YSuc
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Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."
In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All that and more as we finish Chapter 2 and begin Chapter 3 of "The Fourth Political Theory."
Patrons can hear the full episode on our patreon feed
This and all previous episodes are also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A
Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:
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