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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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PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf
New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned
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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 Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.
Copious Loren Goldner Links:
Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/
Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner
Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/
Articles mentioned in order
AryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldnerBolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburgRossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldnerSeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdfAudio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio
Songs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever
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Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!
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In light of the depressing denouement of 2022'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?
STAY TUNED AFTER THE OUTRO MUSIC FOR A SPECIAL LAST MINUTE ADDENDUM
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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 from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.
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Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
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Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution.
For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
Song: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran
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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 tagline is: “Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.”
Buy the book from Common Notions: https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-society
More work by Anselm at Brooklyn Rail and Libcom
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Song - Courtney Love - Miss Narcissist
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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 America." What do we make of Inhabit's steps to revolution? Why present speculative fiction in a programmatic context? What does this work of ultra-left thought get right, and where does it fall short? How many times have YOU gone to the antifa super-soldier gym this week?
Read along: Inhabit.global
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IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani, won the debate within the framework of international law and human rights. But how far does that get us, and where else could the movement go?
In the bonus we talk about Israel's leftwing defenders in Germany and the US. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada
If you're a in NYC, join us Saturday March 23 at 5pm at Woodbine for a meeting of the Independent Workers Club
Song: Taqbir - Aisha Qandisha
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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 developmentalism? How did really existing class develop to conflict with Marxist theories of working class emancipation? What mistakes from past movements are we still making today whether we know it or not? How did the millennial left really die and how might we move past it?
This is part one of an extended, three-hour discussion. To access the full episode, become a patron of the Antifada at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video of this discussion and get a whole lot more incisive commentary sign up for www.patreon.com/varnvlog
Episode on Henryk Grossman with Ted Reese: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67780560
Endnotes - A History of Separation: https://libcom.org/article/history-separation-endnotes-4
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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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Aaron Bushnell / Gaza:
-Crimethinc statement https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/26/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has-decided-will-be-normal-on-aaron-bushnells-action-in-solidarity-with-gaza
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/?affid=x Veterans burning uniforms https://uk.news.yahoo.com/veterans-burn-uniforms-vigil-us-123204314.html
UAW / Starbucks:
-https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-26-auto-workers-go-all-in/
-https://fordauthority.com/2024/02/uaw-announces-project-to-support-mexican-autoworkers/ -https://jacobin.com/2024/02/starbucks-workers-united-master-contract-bargaining
MTA strike: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/29/conductor-slash-delays-work-stoppage/
Song: Crazy Spirit - Train
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Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital which excavates not just Marx's use of the structure of Dante's Inferno but the radical political theory that undergirds it. What is the relationship between the analysis in Capital and the debates within the workers movement of the time typified by the likes of Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Owens? What is the place of radical republicanism in Marx's theory? How has this tradition in the workers movement been buried by history and what might we do with it today?
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Son: Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
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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 Building in Kansas City, Missouri during the uprising in Ferguson. Today he is out on probation and talking with us about his history with the anarchist movement, his time inside and release, and how and why to support prisoners
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Eric King's co-authored book about life in prison: http://rattlingthecages.com
Eric's new gig: bread and roses legal
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Eric's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supportericking/
Prisoner support calendar: https://www.certaindays.org/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/bop-prison-white-supremacist-anti-fascist/
Song: Motorohead - Stay out of Jail
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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 legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegade Kautsky.
This is part I of an extended discussion on theory and history. To hear the paywalled fireworks, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
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Song: Whirlwinds of Danger by Monsieur Jack
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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 store.
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Show notes:
UAW organizing in Alabama, Tennessee: https://alabamareflector.com/2024/02/01/montgomery-hyundai-workers-announce-union-drive-2nd-at-alabama-auto-plant/
Trump planning to run as a felon: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/trump-conviction-trial-jan-6-court
US/UK weighing recognition of Palestinian state: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war
Dahlia Scheindlin's two-state proposal: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/dscheindlin/ Mutipolarity update:
Russia takes up leadership of BRICs https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/china/brics-membership-applications-china-russia-intl-hnk/index.html
Chinese defaults: -https://www.axios.com/2024/02/03/chart-evergrande-towers-over-list-of-global-bankruptcies
-https://www.ft.com/content/88c027d2-bda6-4e52-97f3-127197aef1bd
Germany was worst-performing major economy last year: https://www.ft.com/content/792a1a09-701c-4c9d-aa77-0d9575d5bda9
Song: Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (80's Version Synthwave REMIX)
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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.
In the second half, the discussion turns to the rise and decay of what is called the "Rules Based International Order". For access to this and all of our years of bonus content become a supporter of the podcast at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
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Sean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14
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BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messageblackmovement.pdf
Clips from Finally Got the News:
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jMrfoH6qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_AS70pgq4
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Song: MC5 - Motor City is Burning
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Ex-Militant of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) Lola Mieseroff is our guest on this installment of the Antifada sideproject on the revolutionary culture of the sixties. We talk about growing up in gay South France in the sixties, her experience in May '68 and after, the resonance of Stonewall, what it meant to be a pro-situ and her run-in, with Debord, the revolutionary politics of homosexuality and queerness, her relationship with Guy Hocquenhghem and the rest of the revolutionary left, and her perspectives on the queer revolutionary movements today, right-wing reaction, the potential of revolution in these bleak times, and the phrase "Be Gay, Do Crime"
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Buy FAG HAG from PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501
Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1270
Baedan Journal: https://baedan.noblogs.org/
The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem: https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hocqueghem_screwball_asses.pdf Lola's first book, Voyage en outre Gauche: https://books.google.com/books/about/Voyage_en_outre_gauche.html?id=xRRSDwAAQBAJ
Song: Chant du FHAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGHWw6wsmc
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In part two of our discussion on the essay Forest and Factory, we foray into fourierism and the whimsical world of life under global communism. Topics include: the mushroom mafia, nomadic pleasure duels, gender orgies, capitalist fantasy camp, and communist santa!
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What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and Factory
Also check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn Rail
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Song: The Cure - A Forest (Tree Remix)
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News episode! We start 2024 by talking about Houthis and global shipping, the Uniparty, the Harvard presidency, and the backlash against Pro-Palestinian protesters as part of the broader backlash against progressive liberalism.
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Notes: Crisis on the seas: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
E. Minassian on Gaza: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Gaza-An-Extreme-Militarization-of-the-Class-War
Global reordering on formerly tense borders: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/china-russia-trade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Song: Hounds of Hate - Wages of Sin
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