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The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth orbit. Could his and Bezos's fantasies of colonies on the moon, Mars, or in asteroid belts be far behind?
If so, what happened to the late-2010s enthusiasm for "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism"? Is the left now anti-space, and is that position leaving the future entirely in the hands of capitalists and imperialist states? In her new essay for Strange Matters, Valentine argues we should begin strategizing for this new era so we don't get stranded from Elysium.
Guest co-host Nick Chavez gives the engineer's perspective, and describes his critique of ME Obrien and Eman Abdelhadi's vision of expropriating a SpaceX-like factory in their speculative novel Everything for Everyone.
Beka Valentine's essay in Strange Matters: https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/
Inside Musk's Starfactory: https://wccftech.com/spacex-is-using-robots-to-make-starship-rockets-in-texas-shows-footage/
Nick Chavez's review of Everything for Everyone: https://designformanufracture.com/2023/01/25/review-everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072-by-m-e-obrien-and-eman-abdelhadi/
Don't Let Them Leave! zine: https://ia903003.us.archive.org/20/items/dontletthemleave/Dont-Let-Them-Leave-zine-unimposed%20.pdf
Past episodes of Proletkult: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87627 Song - Giorgio Moroder - Racer
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Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings.
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Sean is BACK from hopital with Stroke Updates + Syria, South Korea, UHC Shooter and other political assassinations
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Song: The Strokes - Reptilia (Stroked and Reverbed)
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&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America, in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished.
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Audio from our November 23rd event at Woodbine with Jamie Merchant about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. He sketches the economic background of the rise of populist right internationally before we transition to questions about the current moment and WI2BD.
Jamie Merchant is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club (@ilcofchi).
excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/
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Thanks to Mike, Peter, and Chris from ILC NYC for the recording!
Song: Natalie Merchant - This House is on Fire
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In Part II, Henry discusses the New International article Erasing the Pregnant as a way into talking about religious politics and secularism in regards to issues like abortion, death with dignity, Zionism, and sex.
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Henry's Podcast with George Floyd's Pastor: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xiii-the-gospel-and-george-floyd
Song: KRS-ONE - Why Is That?
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Henry's back for France Popular front updates to unveil his new journal, the New International!
From there, we discuss Andy and Varn's essay The Undying Appeal of Brunch, and if it conflicts with the organizational method of Henry's Party, France Unbowed.
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Follow New International on Twitter and BlueSky
Follow Antifada on BlueSky New International editorial note: https://newintermag.com/our-goal/
Long-read on France Unbowed: https://newintermag.com/communism-lives-in-the-france-unbowed/
Henry's write-up on France Unbowed's structure: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs2eG-GfiFTkXuXxPxJaJb9JDaAa7S9TD0rLuLLC-XI/edit?usp=sharing
Kristin Ross on the Commune Form: https://illwill.com/a-common-horizon-for-situated-struggles
Henry's podcast episode on Citizen Marx: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xxiv-citizen-marx
Song: X - Year One
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Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century continue their reading of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory!
This is the section where it becomes clear that Dugin uses a different intellectual framework about civilizations than left anti-imperialists.
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See this episode and prior videos in this series on VarnVlog
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A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain's tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the second edition of the Housing Monster (with an intro by Sean! pre-order now from PM Press!).
Show notes:
https://schengen.news/spains-congress-approves-bill-to-cancel-golden-visa-program-in-january-2025/
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/spain-sanchez-psoe-vox-eu-elections
Housing Monster PDF: https://www.prole.info/pdfs/thm_english.pdf
All other prole.info material: www.prole.info
B on Twitter: https://x.com/@proledotinfo
Jazz and Blues Radio show from Ben Kritikos
https://buenavida.co.uk/red-white-blues/ Lazo Edicioneshttps://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/
Cuadernos de Negaciónhttps://cuadernosdenegacion.blogspot.com/
Song: Waka Flocka Flame - I Remember
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On November 9th, 2024 the Independent Labor Club of NY hosted a panel at Woodbine in Ridgewood, Queens. Sean moderated this discussion between:
Aaron Lelonde of the International Longshoremen's AssociationSou Mi of WGA-East and Left VoiceGregory Butler of Int'l Union of Operating Engineers and Gangbox NewsEllie Pfeffer of Maoist Communist Union, formerly of Amazonians UnitedWhat accounts for the realignment seen in 2024? Did large swathes of workers (including Black and Hispanic) vote Trump solely from racism and misogyny? What was the role of organized labor in the recent election? What effects might the results of the election have on the prospects for organizing labor in the future?
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If you're interested in joining the ILC, we have chapters across the country and in Australia: https://ilclabor.com/
The event was held @woodbine.nyc in Ridgewood, Queens Saturday November 9th. Contribute to Woodbine's Fall Fundraiser drive.
Song - Capital STEEZ x Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics
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Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties.
In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we plot THE RESISTANCE!
Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid Kane
Song: Los 3 de La Habana - Cancion de Trump
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Sean and Andy are joined by Sean, prolific poster and blogger and short fiction writer, to talk about the changes he has seen over the last decade as an expat worker in both mainland China and Hong Kong.
What shifts in politics, the economy and social life has he seen? What is the material basis for Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign? In what ways is the 'reform and opening up' period of 'market Stalinism' similar to Tony Blair's New Labour Britain? What does the imperial and post-imperial gaze on Hong Kong and the east more generally say about western precepts of China and Chinese capitalism? Is a new social explosion in China on its way or are we all, even in the west, lying flat for the foreseeable future?
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Check out his excellent blog: https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/
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Sean is joined by labor activist and historian Jeff Schuhrke to discuss his new book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade out now from Verso Books.
Why did American unions become a junior partner in US Empire during the Cold War ? How did anti-communists come to control US labor organizations in the 20th Century? What sort of high jinx were the AFL-CIO up to in Europe and the developing world? What did union activists do to expose this class collaboration and fight back against it? What might a reinvigorated working class internationalism look like in the 21st century? Join us for this great conversation about a great book that's absolutely essential reading for unionists and their allies.
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Buy Jeff's book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2979-blue-collar-empire
Get involved:
https://rankandfileproject.com/
https://workerorganizing.org/training/
Song: Neil Young - Union Man
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Aidan Beatty, author of The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism joins us to trainspot the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist cult that was tight with Qaddafi, boasted Vanessa Redgrave as a member, and collapsed after the revelation of years of its leader's sexual abuse of membership.
Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the bonus where we talk about Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, the shared historical dynamics of the Irish and Jews, the WSWS's fascination with Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, and the macabre fate of Trotsky's death mask.
Song: Pop Smoke - For the Night
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Jason, Daniel, and Andy talk about Fight Club to celebrate to the 25th anniversary of the movie and the Battle of Seattle that followed it. We look at the history of the book and Chuck Palahniuk's situationist influence and his embrace of his rightwing fans, the Gen-X ennui behind the creation of Tyler Durden, the politics of Project Mayhem, and Marla Singer's character as the story's ethical core.
The full episode is available for free at http://patreon.com/theantifada. Sign up to support the show for the second episode about Joker 2!
Check out Jason's essay on Fight Club and his New York on Earth substack: https://newyorkonearth.substack.com/
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Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books, called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment.
What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas like economic nationalism spread and why has conspiracism racked the left and right in recent years? Why has a bipartisan consensus emerged around state industrial policy and beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy? And what might the left do about all this except tail the least worst elements of it? This, along with an update on Independent Labor Club of Chicago and how civil-social organizing might pose a path forward that doesn't end in WWIII or a Brave New World.
Read an excerpt at Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/
And stay tune for his 11/23 release event at https://www.woodbine.nyc/
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Interested in joining the Independent Labor Club of North America? There may be a branch near you or other workers nearby interested in starting one, here's our Telegram: https://t.me/+TNXgQOPkV18yOGRh
Song: Rage Against the Machine - People of the Sun
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&nders Lee and AP &y guest on the Quorators podcast to field questions about UFOs, cyptids, Pompeii, and, of course, ampersands.
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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?
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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.
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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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