While we were reading about Covid 19 in Salvage last week, an uprising against police brutality began in Minneapolis. We didn't (don't) know what to make of it yet, but it sure did take over a discussion that was supposed to be about pestilence and the left's role in troll vigilantism.
Listen to our uninformed and incomplete takes from day one of the unrest.

We have a much more complete and thought out take coming for you in a few days.

We Are All Unclean- Salvage Editorial Collective
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We are joined by veteran of the podcast wars, C. Derick Varn, for his third appearance on the show, to talk a little about historical Bonapartism and a little more about contemporary Bonapartism. We talked about the contemporary left's perceived need to seek out a Bonapartist savior and drift further and further from the utopian horizons we once sought.

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon 

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/

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Pop the Left- With Douglas Lain and C. Derick Varn
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Marxism had always contained within it a multiplicity of variations and is possessed, in equal parts, of the potential to be used for illumination and obfuscation. Nothing more clearly illustrates this than the early responses of Marxists to fascism.
In our third installment of our series on the history of fascism, we dive into some more Marxist theories of fascism; specifically the German and Austrian Social Democratic Theories, Trotsky and Thalheimer, and then wrap up with a bit of Horkheimer.

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https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1233-marxists-in-the-face-of-fascism

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This week we sat down with Patrick of the Radical Thoughts Podcast to talk about Walter Benjamin and his ideas of myth and rationality, capitalism as religion, and a number of other disconnected things that were just fun to talk about.

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Capitalism and Religion-
https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/capitalism-as-religion-benjamin-1921/

 Benjamin, Walter, et al. Selected writings. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1996.

Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. The arcades project. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1999. Print.

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This week we have something special for you guys, our very first Lost Horizons Network collective podcast release, Here We Are Together, Still...After All.
Join Chris and Jason from The Regrettable Century,  Adam from Red Library, and Neil from the From78 Podcast as we talk about what it means to be dialectically pessimistic.
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On Easter Monday, April 24 1916, 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered in Dublin and declared the formation of the Irish Republic. Marxist and Irish Republican, James Conolly, led the Irish Citizen's Army in hopes that the Easter Rising would touch off a revolution in Ireland that would lead to the establishment of a Workers' Republic, the death of the British Empire, and the beginning of a socialist world revolution.

Over a century later, Ireland is still ruled in the north by what remains of the British Empire, The Republic of Ireland is a Bankers' Republic, and hopes for the world revolution are a nostalgic memory... for now.

Manifesto of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (Connolly):
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1896/xx/isrp.htm

Connolly and the Paris Commune
https://jacobinmag.com/2016/04/james-connolly-paris-commune-easter-rising-tactics?fbclid=IwAR2NFon_XDCsFniTFdsVD1qM_u3m23fbJ88qKzokacYaSqghGlaPIAevu40

Socialism Made Easy (Connolly) -- the only long-ish one:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/james-connollys-socialism-made-easy-1909-11-political-action-labor

Easter Rising Proclamation (original text):
https://www.onthisday.com/photos/easter-proclamation-of-1916

Socialism and Nationalism (Connolly):|
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/xx/scirenat.htm

Socialism and Religion (Connolly):
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1901/evangel/socrel.htm

Socialism in Ireland (Connolly):
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/03/socinire.htm

Direct Action in Belfast (Connolly):
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1911/09/diract.htm

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This week, Jenny, Chris, and Jason read and discussed Jodi Dean's essay: The Four Theses on the Comrade.

A comrade is much more than an identity that one adopts. It is an ethos, an ideal for the collective reorganization of the world. We talk about how this is a concept that the left has abandoned and needs to find again.

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The old world is dying and a new one is being created before our eyes. Thus far, the left has had little if any input into this process. If we don't insert ourselves into the conversation with great haste, a much worse version of our current hellscape will be the outcome. What kind of project will be necessary to salvage the useful pieces of detritus needed to build a better world? To that end, we sat down with our good friend Michael to talk about how to build a better post-apocalyptic world.

The Mask of the Red Death: Dispatch One from a Changing World- Salvage Editorial Board

https://salvage.zone/articles/the-mask-of-the-red-death-dispatch-one-from-a-changing-world/

The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene- Salvage Editorial Board

https://salvage.zone/editorials/the-tragedy-of-the-worker-towards-the-proletarocene/

Under coronavirus, pro market ideologies are overturned around the world, But its too little, too late. - Jeff Sparrow

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/26/under-coronavirus-pro-market-ideologies-are-overturned-around-the-world-but-its-too-little-too-late?fbclid=IwAR0i6X8SfuLdlHyc119RYYlEqMUsT8XCBnK9ZsnFWJkjIagNCqC4D3YrYWM

The world after coronavirus- Yuval Noah Harari
https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR2f2bCCh3iBuc61PT_Nt4zLbthYaPQuodJsg0ee6Qwoocln65faxeK0cpY

A Greater Depression? Nouriel Roubini 

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-greater-great-depression-by-nouriel-roubini-2020-03?fbclid=IwAR2f6pVYUmXeacbcOx3TTobG_0vZodG0MVoJ2VrxVqtZPBcshLSQdapm3Vw

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(PART II)
The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning.


Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernal
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/

Music: Alyans- Na Zare
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Jenny, Chris, and Jason sat down with our friend, rank and file union organizer, and CPUSA member Brad to talk about electoralism  and what the hell to do next.


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