We're taking a break from reading this week, and instead we are discussing some of our favorite songs.

The Dicks - Hate the Police

billy woods - A Day in a Week in a Year

Dropkick Murphys - Workers Song

Johnny Cash - San Quentin (live)

Sonic Youth - Kissability

Chumbawamba - Invasion

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On this episode, the It Can Be Done crew (@hshs_miller, @grilled_peppers, @meatshowerky) invites on Austin Gonzalez, Democratic Socialists of America steering member and one of three hosts of our cousin pod Machete Y Mate, to talk George Ciccarello-Maher’s Building the Commune and Venezuela’s communes, an under discussed project in the US Left. You can find Austin online @Gaius_Gracchus_ and Machete Y Mate wherever you get It Can Be Done.

Outro music: PSUV - Chavez Vive! La Lucha Sigue!

Text: Building the Commune Radical Democracy in Venezuela

Photo by Eduardo Acevedo

In a special weekend bonus episode, Patrick (@hshs_miller) is joined by special guest A.M. Gittlitz (@spaceprole) of The Antifada (@the_antifada) podcast to talk about the recent death of Pete Ventantonio AKA Jack Terricloth, the enigmatic leader of the anarcho-punk-rock-orchestra, The World/Inferno Friendship Society. We discuss the revolutionary potential of The Scene and punk in general, shows turning into riots, autonomous zones, and lessons learned from punk, The Scene, and Jack Terricloth himself.

Links:

Pod Damn America Episode: https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-worldinferno-friendship-society-w-am-gittlitz-ted-leo

Death of an Anarchist: https://hardcrackers.com/jack_terricloth/ 

Andy’s Newsletter: https://gittlitz.substack.com/ 

Me and the Mad Monkettes: https://youtu.be/psvN9SoSZhQ  

Peter Ventantonio, Rest in Power.

On this episode, Patrick (@hshs_miller), Phil (@grilled_peppers), and Sloce (@meatshowerky) sit down and discuss Chairman Mao’s essay “Where Do Correct Ideas Come From”. We also talk about how stupid we were when we were kids. Probably because we didn’t read Chairman Mao.

On our inaugural episode, Phil (@grilled_peppers), Patrick (@hshs_miller) and Sloce (@meatshowerky) talk about baby Marx’s letter to Arnold Ruge, the co-editor of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals). In 7 words, he introduced a philosophical project that would take over his and, frankly, million of lives: Marxism, a ruthless criticism of, well, everything existing.