Auxiliary Statements

SKIP THE ELECTION BANTER: 27:47

In which we sneak into an academic conference and stick out like two sore thumbs.

Reading: Nothin'

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Lousy workers! Why won't you do industrial unionism?!

Reading: Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover

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Just how bad is the looming global population decline going to be for capitalism? Will it be able to AI its way out of the productivity losses? More importantly, what does this mean for my own political project?

Reading: After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the "Production of Men" in the Twenty-First Century by Jason E. Smith

https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter/

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Six months later, we come to the end.

Chapter discussion timestamps:

CLOUDS UNFOLD 8:26

A COLD AND FROSTY MORNING 16:57

ROUND THE BEND 33:53

BURNING GOLD 1:01:18

THE RAFTERS AND THE BEAMS 1:16:41

THE STEPS OF ALL SAINTS 1:38:01

EATING FLOWERS 1:54:30

CORNERED 2:14:35

THE ROOD IN THE WALL 2:27:01

THE JOLLY SMOKERS 2:39:04

GO SEE NOW THIS CURSED WOMAN 2:50:29

CHAIN OF OFFICE 3:06:19

Resources:

Jerusalem Annotated - alanmoorejerusalem.wordpress.com/alan-moo…s-index/

Matthew Kirshenblatt essays - sequart.org/magazine/64975/a-jo…m-work-in-progress/

Readers of Jerusalem - https://www.reddit.com/r/ReadersofJerusalem/

Round the Bend Translation - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-TC_xHcLM7LFW4WsNzC6dfuyBXQG-NX38Ok8qDdDvOU/edit?usp=sharing

Songs:

"And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time"

"You are my Asylum"

Reading: Book Three: Vernall's Inquest and Afterlude: Chain of Office from Jerusalem (2016) by Alan Moore

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Back on our value theory bs - this week we discuss just what it is that makes a society socialist and what makes it capitalist. Is it all just vibes??

Reading: The Capitalist Nature of the "Socialist" Countries (1986) by L.L Men

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We're back and talking pancakes bay-bee.

Reading: Anton Pannekoek and the Theory of the Transition (1990) by Bob Shepard

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In which we record live from an orgone accumulator.

Reading: Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy (1937) and Marxism and Psychology (1938) by Anton Pannekoek

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In which we finally finish this book and talk productive labor, production price and yeah I don't know a lot more I'm too tired to write this caption.

Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Chapters 17-19 (1923) by I. I. Rubin

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In which we finally stop joking about reading Lenin and actually do it.

Reading: The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin

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Is Marxism science? Is science Marxism? Is the strategy of patience all it's cracked up to be? What about all this riot business? All these questions and more answered by the podcast's second ever repeat guest, Viv Soni as we discuss his recent essay in the journal The Black Lamp.

Reading: High priests of telescopes and cyclotrons: Marxism and revolutionary strategy as science (2024) by Vivak Soni

https://www.black-lamp.com/posts/high-priests-of-telescopes-and-cyclotrons-marxism-and-revolutionary-strategy-as-science

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