

This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
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Sep 14, 2022 • 51min
Diving into the Wreckage 6.2: The Continuing Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage?
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Sep 5, 2022 • 51min
Ep 192 - Quietly Quitting Brandon
Full episode here
An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.
Show notes:
Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/
Inventories skyrocketing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory
Investment decline
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses
Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html
Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on
Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/
https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages
Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

Sep 2, 2022 • 8min
On the Irish Question w/ Foreign Agent
We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England.
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Aug 31, 2022 • 54min
Ep 191 - How the Irish became Based w/ Foreign Agent
Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us.
Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/
Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America

Aug 26, 2022 • 9min
Nikolai Bukharin w/ PDA's Anders Lee (Preview)
Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin.
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Aug 24, 2022 • 54min
Diving into the Wreckage 6.1: Sovereign Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn (EXTENDED PREVIEW)
Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned!
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Aug 17, 2022 • 1h 55min
Jesus was an Anarchist w/ Minion Death Cult
Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists!
In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system!
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Aug 10, 2022 • 1h
Ep 190 - Doing a no growth w/ Aaron Vansintjan
Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges.
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https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Song: Snail Mail - Thinning

Aug 8, 2022 • 17min
Deterritorializing the News (Preview)
Oedipal Alex Jones, the music of David Koresh, the Assassination of Nancy Pelosi by the Coward President Xi, Sean explains Taiwan crisis As_a_joker, and more Settlers banter
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Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 1min
Ep 189: Counterlogistics w/ Jasper Bernes
Sean is joined by Japser Bernes of End Notes and Cal Berkeley to catch up on the comings and goings of the communization current. They discuss the plight of big American cities, the legacy of Occupy/BLM, the ongoing crisis of inflation and supply shocks and how communists might create a counterpower to the logistical infrastructure of capital.
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https://jasperbernes.net/
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/field-notes/Been-Down-So-Long-It-Looks-Like-Up-To-Me
http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/21


