The Marxist/Christian dialogue continues!
This week Jason and Ben sat down with Daniel Saunders to discuss an article he wrote called Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nbfr.12642

Daniel's paper "explores Christianity’s ambiguous relationship to capitalism by engaging Marx’s notion of the fetishism of commodities as a way of rethinking Marxism’s critique of religion from the standpoint of political economy. "

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This week we tried something new, we put out a call on our Patreon and Discord for questions and y'all responded with 10 pretty good questions. Questions about democracy, ethics, children, etc...

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They said it wasn't possible for a Marxist to break down the national question in a sophisticated and nuanced way, but Otto Bauer has done it. This book from 1907, which no one on the Anglophone Left has ever read, is quite possibly the best book on the subject. We are here to read it and let you know.

This week we covered the introductory materials.

A link to the PDF:
https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer

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This week we are joined by Jon (thelitcritguy of HorrorVanguard fame) to discuss his new book A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch which was just released on Zero Books.  We discuss nihilism, optimism, hope, and dialectical pessimism and the ever pertinent work of Ernst Bloch.

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This week we sat down with our old comrade and actual Psychiatrist, Dr Byron, to talk about mental health, the left, and how TikTok is ruining everyones brains.


Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (review for relevant book)
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/03/psychiatric-hegemony-marxist-theory-mental-illness/

What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illness
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/anti-psychiatry-movement-mental-illness-psychological-suffering

Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do That
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/psychiatry-history-trauma-politics-medicine-mental-health

This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers (NYT discussing the WISE Teens Study)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/teenagers-mental-health-treatment.html

The functions of the mental health system under capitalism https://joannamoncrieff.com/2022/03/28/the-functions-of-the-mental-health-system-under-capitalism/

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Jason and Varn are joined again by Sean KB of Antifida and continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin.

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This month we return to Richard Seymour's essay about the new forms of nationalism. At this point the essay is a few years old, so we were able to discuss how things have developed since it was written. We also did not know that a book by the same name by Seymour was coming out soon...

Prepared for the Worst: Disaster Nationalism
https://salvage.zone/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/

Disaster Nationalism: THE DOWNFALL OF LIBERAL CIVILIZATION
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761156/disaster-nationalism-by-richard-seymour/

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This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship.

The Ex-Communist’s Conscience
https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm

Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Right
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right 

From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol
https://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html

The Neoconservative Counterrevolution
https://jacobin.com/2015/04/neoconservatives-kristol-podhoretz-hartman-culture-war

How Ex-Communists Shaped American Conservatism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-ex-communists-shaped-american-conservatism/426849/

Trotskycons
https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/06/trotskycons-stephen-schwartz/

The Neoconservative Journey
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817945725_105.pdf 

The Legacy of the Trotskyist Right
https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/SneigoskiTOQV6N2.pdf

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This week Jason and Varn sat down to have a primer discussion about the different types of American Conservatism. Don't worry, we will be back later this month with more Dugin.

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Welcome to our seventh and FINAL reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso.  We had a lot of fun with this series and will be starting a new one soon. Head on over to the Discord if you would like to be involved. 

Special thanks to our comrade Connor at Autumn Brigade for our new intro music. Check his music out here: https://autumnbrigade.bandcamp.com/album/geist-ist-tot

Traverso, Enzo. 2021. Revolution : An Intellectual History. London ; New York: Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2783-revolution

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