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ARMED LOVE 6 - FBI vs. Music w/ Aaron J. Leonard

Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionar...

Ep205: The Politics of Global Turbulence w/ Dylan Riley

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 2023-02-22 14:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Diving into the Wreckage 7.2: Principles and Heuristics w/ C Derick Varn

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 d...

Ep 204 - Going Ewok Mode

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Sean and Andy talk about their "jobs", an architectural controversy at Cooper Union, the war in Ukraine, the apparent resurgence of Stalinism, and Defend the Forest/Stop ...

Antifada's History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman

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 troubl...

Ep 203 - Literacy is Overrated w/ Ian Svenonius

Ian Svenonius is a rock singer turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word. We discus...

BONUS: Classpolitation cinema: The Menu w/ Twitch of the Death Nerve (FULL)

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 ...

Diving into the Wreckage 7.1: First Principles w/ C. Derick Varn

Taking a break from the ongoing debt crisis analysis, Sean and Varn lay out a series of first principles. This miniseries is meant to lay out some basics for how to think about the world and act within/upon it, what differentiates our particular political bent from others on the left and ultimately what is to be done with the...

Ep 202: 2023 and Me

We ring in the New Year by answering all the questions posed to us on our Discord! Topics include: the terminal crisis of capitalism, pushing Biden to the left, Brenner's recent NLR article, John Brown, animal testing, ecosocialism, and of course, what is to be dun.

Brenner dust-up:2023-01-04 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep 201 - New Years' Eve Dérive w/ Eric-John Russell (FULL)

Old friend Eric-John Russell wanders with us through a variety of topics including  critical theory of art and culture, the maturation and end of the Situationist International, and  our traditional holiday discussion of antisemitism.

After the paywall we talk about Triangle of Sadness and Walter Benjamin's E...

Talkin' Tina - The Cuban Uprising of J11

For the 7th episode of Talkin' Tina, the Antifada side project where we discuss the history and politics of America Latina, we chat with a comrade from Oakland about the uprising that occurred in Cuba on July 11th, 2021, via his interview with an anarchist from the island.

The interview can be read in full here: 2022-12-21 16:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Diving into the Wreckage 6.4: Sometimes the Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train w/ C. Derick Varn

Sean and Varn take a brief intermission from their long-running debt crisis series to check in on the state of the American Left. (Tl;dr it's not looking good.) 

Where have the forces unleashed by the Bernie wave gone? Why has the social-democratic left become merely an adjunct to the Democratic Party? How come rev...

Ep 200 - Hans-Hermann Coppe

It's an unhappy 200th birthday for us, we do a postmortem of the little rail strike couldn't. Is the blame on the squad, Brandon, the unions, or the workers themselves? And what comes next for rail workers and class struggle in general?

Then in the second half we propose a few theories of Musk's Twitter takeover: Thiel...

UNLOCKED Low Culture Boil: Caught in a Trap w/ Sean and Rax King

Sean and Rax King of Low Culture Boil talk about Baz Luhrmann's 2022 masterpiece Elvis and suggest that Baz Luhrmann should in fact be tasked with directing the biopics of every single notable person until he dies from exhaustion. We also read ...

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Ep 199: Goddamn You! Rail Emperors w/ Justin Roczniak FULL

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National rail strike impending, Sean is joined by Justin Roczniak (@who_shot_jgr) of Well T...

Ep 198 - Spontaneity vs. Bunkerization w/ Rev Left Radio (full episode)

"Bunker Brett" of Rev Left Radio comes on the show for the first time in years to debate and discuss the contemporary moment for the left, electoralism, the war in Ukraine, China, an what we can learn from First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Al...

ARMED LOVE 5 - Radical Feminism w/ Jenny Brown

Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of 2022-11-16 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep 197 - Trainsurrection when?

Sean's STRIKE update returns! We talk about the UC academic workers strike, Starbucks, 2022-11-09 10:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep 196 - Talkin' Baseball w/ Richard Staff (Full episode)

Sports writer and Mets Sicko Richard Staff joins us to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies World Series triumph, the unionization of the minor leagues and other labor conditions of ballplayers, and how the Mets are are the sinew that ties the world of s...

Hardcore History 2: Hybrid Moments

Jarrod Shanahan is back with an audio essay about his trip to Chicago's Riot Fest to see the Original Misfits--an experience filled not only with the horror of Glenn Danzig's dark lyrics, but also his political rants, the gentrification and recuperation in...

Ep 195: The Landlord Experience w/ Kevin Rogan (Full)

Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism.

How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/...

Diving into the Wreckage 6.3 w/ C Derick Varn

Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling...

Ep 194 - Gilt Trip (full episode)

Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or...

Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what i...

ARMED LOVE 4: Punks is Yippies w/ Crimethinc

We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements. 

Armed Lo...

BONUS: CPI Scandal and Family Abolition w/ Ross Wolfe

Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family.

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Ep 193 - Leftcoms in Kyiv w/ Ross Wolfe

The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism. 

Our episode On the Leftcom Question: 2022-09-21 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Diving into the Wreckage 6.2: The Continuing Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn

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 ...

Ep 192 - Quietly Quitting Brandon

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 the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.

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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...