This Wreckage

Sean and Varn return to their miniseries on the global debt crisis with a very topical bank failure episode.Since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse went belly up the last couple of week capital and the state have scrambled to contain the damage to the financial system and the 'real' economy. Why is an adequate explanation for inflation important? Does the Federal Reserve Bank itself even have one? If Fed policy is blowing up banks and barely even working is there some other reason (class based, perhaps?) to induce an economic slowdown?For patrons: what 'Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multipolarity' gets very wrong; how the shadow banking sector might be the next shoe to drop; notes on the Brenner-Riley NLR article; on blue-collar toxicity and middle class racism; doomerism, socialism and hope.Sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada for the full episode (over two hours long!) and a ton more content from our bonus archive.

Race Traitor, Hard Crackers, and Insurgent Notes editor John Garvey stops by Antifada HQ to chat about the SVB collapse, the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism,In the bonus we get the Race Traitor line on the hatred of Mr. Beast, Hasan Piker's John Brown-inspired streetwear, who really killed Rosa Luxemburg, and being a militant taxi driver in the '70s.For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada!Read Hard Crackers Read Race Traitor Read Insurgent NotesJohn's essay on revolutionary defeatism and the war in Ukraine: http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/12/against-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-for-the-successful-resistance-of-the-ukrainian-people/Song: Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (we had to remove this due to a copywrite strike :( )

For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaTopics we cover: Lab Leaks and Bioweapons, mall punk, Antifada company mask policy, why being an NPC is actually based, support SB1312, Trump’s Quantam Leap Fully Automated Luxury MAGA Communism cities, Sean's thoughts on American NEOMism, reportbacks from Mexico City and the Villages, and what credit cards YOU need in 2023 to join the revolutionary laptop class.Song: Drug Church - Million Miles of FunShow notes:https://theracket.news/p/there-is-no-lab-leak-theory https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109960680734613154For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy RadicalsAnd his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUXSongs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday

Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.Check out more full episodes and join our discord community by joining our PatreonSong: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.This is an extended preview. For the full 2-hour episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to get access to tons of bonus content, our Discord server and morePublic link to the document we're working with: https://tinyurl.com/muwn3xmy

To celebrate JD Vance's ascension to the Cathedral power, we present you a discussion between Sean and Tarence from May of 2021! They talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?Part 1 of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65977397Beck - Sleeping Bag

For the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-15-77698515 In light of the depressing denouement of last year's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades. Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart? This is an extended preview, but to get access to all two hours of recording - including an example of a practical way that communist theory can begin building class power today - become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada. You'll get access to our discord server, all our archives of bonus content and you get to support our work (if that's something you're into.)

For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada! Ian Svenonius is a rock singer (Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) now turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word. We discuss his theory of literacy as a tool of the bourgeoisie and how rock n' roll reeducation camps might be the antidote, and why that might not go far enough for as to completely devolve to our neanderthal origins. Buy Against the Written Word from Akashic Books Interview with Ian about being the "sassiest boy in America" and why the workers are rock-and-roll Read John Zerzan on The Failure of Symbolic Thought Check out his film The Lost Record Opening song: Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid Closing song: The Make-Up - I am Pentagon

Andy guests on a weird films podcast and forces them to talk about Marx and revolution for an hour. Movies discussed include: The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, Sorry to Bother You, Young Karl Marx, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Don't Look Up, Snowpiercer, Tar, Spirited Away by Agnes Varda, and much much more For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada and/or follow Twitch of the Death Nerve on Instagram and Patreon