In which we try to get past our kneejerk sect bashing.

Reading: "There are Parties and Then There are Parties" by Archie Woodrow, "Why a Party and What Sort?" by Mike Macnair and "The Communist Party, Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Lawrence Parker (all 2024) from Prometheus, available here: https://prometheusjournal.org/

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In which we encounter the unknowable concept of the S P H E R E.

Reading: The Logic of Gender (2013) from Endnotes 3 by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton.

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*banging head against the wall* POLITICALCAPITALISMTECHNONEOFEUDALISMNEOLIBERALISM

Reading: Seven Theses on American Politics (2022) by Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley

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SKIP THE ELECTION BANTER: 27:47

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

Reading: Nothin'

INDEP network: https://www.indep.network/

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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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