The Intervention

We're back with another Reactor episode, this time on we read "The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022" recently released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. A scathing but spot-on critique of American "democracy."

[Note for the audiophiles: Mike's audio interference stops at about 10 minutes in]

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In this one we discuss the recent "Lineker Affair," British-state sponsored media, and move into a loose conversation on imperialism and capitalism in sports.

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This week we talked about the US stoking tensions and manufacuring consent for war with China, and why that's actually a bad thing.

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[Note: This episode has been remastered and combined with pt. 3. This rerelease can be found HERE]

We close out the British-sponsored era of the Zionist project.  Content warning on this one folks for descriptions of violence.

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
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This week we talked about Trump's proposed "Freedom Cities," and read through the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' document on US Hegemony and Its Perils.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html

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We're joined by Mike from Turn Leftist to discuss what is probably the most difficult chapter in Capital Vol 1.  There truly is no royal road to science.

Additional Resources:

Althusser, Louis. “How to Read Marx’s Capital.” Marxism Today, October 1969. https://www.generation-online.org/p/fpalthusser11.htm

Cleaver, Harry. Reading Capital Politically. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1979

Engels, Frederick. Economic Manuscripts: Synopsis of Capital, 1868.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/1868-syn/index.htm

Ford, Derek, and Patricia Gorky. “Value (Ch. 1).” Streaming. Reading Capital with Comrades: A Liberation School Podcast Series. Accessed November 26, 2022. https://soundcloud.com/readingcapital/ep2

Harvey, David. A Companion to Marx’s Capital. London ; New York: Verso, 2010.

“Class 02 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey.” Streaming. Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey (2007). Accessed November 26, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwuMrd_Hgww

“Part 2 | Reading Marx’s ‘Capital’ with David Harvey.” Streaming. Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David David Harvey (2019). Accessed November 26, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sgo9I61gOI

Heinrich, Michael. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital. Translated by Alexander Locascio. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004.

How to Read Marx’s Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters. Translated by Alexander Locascio. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2018.

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated by Ben Fowkes. Volume 1: Penguin classics. London ; New York, N.Y: Penguin Books in association with New Left Review, 1867. https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.%201%20Penguin.pdf

Value Price and Profit. New York: International Co., Inc, 1865. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf

Wage Labour and Capital. Edited and translated by Frederick Engels. Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 1847. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

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Levi Levi:
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[Note: This episode has been remastered and combined with pt. 4. This rerelease can be found HERE]

We discuss the role of the British Empire in the construction of the Zionist state in Palestine in the Post WW1 period and through the end of the 1920s.

The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire , John Newsinger

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
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We kick off yet another series.  That's right folks, we are tackling Capital Vol 1! 

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We are joined by Joe Mayall to talk about one of the more obscure, but incredibly significant interventions in the history of the Anglo-American Empires.  The Intervention by the British and the US during the Greek Civil War in many ways set the stage for the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, and beyond and its an event most of us know very little about.

Big thanks to Joe for an amazing write-up and discussion.

Sources for this episode:

By Fire and Axe: The Communist Party and the Civil War in Greece, 1944-1948, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza

Red Acropolis, Black Terror : The Greek Civil War and the Origins of the Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949, Andres Gerlyomatos

Greece: The Hidden War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXb5YkQeDM#t=1807

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After an extended break, we get back to our Taste of Empire Series to talk about the early days of the British in what is now New England and how the nascent colonies became a key linchpin in the British Empire.  At the expense of, ya know, the people already living here.

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