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E250: La CUNY Lucha Continúa w/ Carolyn Hietter & Ian J. Seda-Irizarry

Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at th...

Diving into the Wreckage: Specters of Left Melancholia w/ C. Derick Varn

It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.

What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics toda...

E249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid Kane

Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent ...

E248 - Grossman's Revenge w/ Ted Reese

Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese, to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All. How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us understand the economics and politics of this current moment? In what ways are c...

ARMED LOVE 10 - The Cultural Revolution w/ Ralf Ruckus

For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and c...

E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien

Happy May Day! We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions

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E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal

Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nat...

🔥&&&🌿4/20 Special🔥: Walter Benjamin's On Hashish on hashish

And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird.

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E245: RIP Loren Goldner

The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Za...

E244 (Pt. 2) - Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi

Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran ...

E244 (Pt. 1) - Ayatollah Assahola w/ Arya Zahedi

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new piece Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions...

E243 - Fight the Narcissystem w/ Anslem Jappe

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tag...

Party Girls Zine Club #1 - Inhabit

For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North ...

E242 - Escaping the Hamster Wheel w/ Ignacio Choi

IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani, won the debate within the framework of inter...

Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberalism and the State 4 w/ C Derick Varn

Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolutionary wings of the classical workers movement turn towards state developmentali...

E241 - March Sadness

NEWS EP! We discuss Aaron Bushnell, voting uncomitted and hopelessness, UAW and Starbucks union victories, the MTA wildcat strike and working-class demands for safety. 

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Ep 240: Our Social Hell w/ William Clare Roberts

Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital...

As_A_Substack 2: The Left Undead w/ Sean KB

In which Sean writes another Substack article and reads it out for patrons on the feed! 

This time about the republican communist turn, the death of civil society and our opportunity to build an organizat...

E239: Prisoner With the Antifa Face Tattoo w/ Eric King

An interview with Eric King, who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary device to commit arson after throwing a molotov cocktail at an empty Federal Build...

E238 - The Renegade Century w/ Mike Macnair

Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central  Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works.

We discuss the leg...

February 24th Meetup!

We are pleased to announce that we've got a space and a date for the Antifada meetup this month. We'll be gathering on February 24th at 5:30-8:00pm at the Woodbine collective at 585 Woodward Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens. There will be no cover and it will b...

E237 - Traitor Joe

NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the crisis of liberalism in the US and worldwide through the context of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the formation of BRICs as a challenge to US-based global order, the economic spiral of Germany and China, class war at the border, and betrayal of every millennial's favorite grocery sto...

Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberation and the State Part 3 (Bourg Internationalism)

Sean and Varn return with part three of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the only really existing internationalism left: the capitalist infrastructure of globalization. Special emphasis is made of the history of state formation in the Middle East as it pertains to the current conflict. I...

Update on Meetup

Happy belated New Years! 

As I've mentioned a few times on the pod, we're looking to do an NYC meetup this winter. This would be to hang out with old friends and meet some new ones, but also in preparation for a potential new project for 2024.

Alas, despite being two weeks unemployed (thank god) I've been hav...

Reading Settlers 8 - This is the end, my Settler friend

Sean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14

BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messag...