Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/

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Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez

Sean and Varn are back to talk current events, discuss theory and gripe about everyone and everything. On the tumbrils this week: artificial intelligence, the DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and how not to debate with Colin Drumm online. In the second half we talk about 'The Mamdani Moment', Varn's recent ascension to Chief Fly-in-the-Ointment in the DSA, the pre-political theories of the ILC and how the ruling class are dragging us all into the hellfire.

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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution, a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs.

Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-force

Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end

Maucio Lazzarato - The United States and Fascistic Capitalism: https://illwill.com/fascistic-capitalism

Nueva Icaria - New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of Global Counterrevolution: https://illwill.com/new-fascisms

Preorder Depose–the first publication from Ill Will Editions: https://store.illwilleditions.com/products/depose-luigi-mangione-and-the-right-to-health

Song: Youthquake - Manuver

NEWS EP! We cover the true origins or the Warner Brothers buyout, Trump's new National Security manifesto, the death of the West, and say farewell to Asad Haider.

Sign up on patreon to hear the fun half!! in which we discuss Death by Lightning, a miniseries about James Garfield and American crankery: http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

Referenced articles:

https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/angels-and-demons

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-war-peace-talks-europe-london.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/world/europe/trump-europe-strategy-document.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.ft.com/content/953635f0-4b87-41a4-a087-e8b1d71470b6?accessToken=zwAGRXR0h59AkdOVNjXwS4dBpNOgh-ix1xRwtg.MEYCIQCiIhSoXOIILWLPg-7ZjoHpI708TFPiQa5dgUpQcYcNOAIhAIMOrTTL9rQQWQgwir0APRqS6mXhN5TCt2yC234GZ2rX&sharetype=gift&token=30118284-df0a-41b5-bea7-ddfbb92fc2e9

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Asad Haider's writing:

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3972-mistaking-identity-politics-a-conversation-with-asad-haider-part-i

https://viewpointmag.com/author/asad-haider/

Our interview with Asad from 2020: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36803245

Song: Justice - Civilization

Sean and Andy are joined by British-Nigerian writer and podcaster, Ralph Leonard, to talk about identity, politics and the Anglo Ummah. We discuss the parlous state of the nationalist left, what a proletarian socialist politics might look like in the 21st century and what might possibly be conserved of the classical Marxist movement which died in the beginning of the last century. Along the way we bring up the morphing politics of identity, the uneasy cohabitation between left populism and Islamism in the UK, remigration as capitalist politics and how pre-politics might could get us out of this mess.

This is the first half of a full length conversation you can access by becoming a supporter of our show at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage

Fall book promotion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785

Articles mentioned:

https://buffsoldier-96.medium.com/can-israel-survive-for-100-years-8dbdd5bc9abf

https://unherd.com/2023/07/mcdonalds-made-me-a-marxist/

https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-kemi-badenoch-downplaying-her-nigerian-identity-for-political-gain/

Song: The Equals - Baby Come Back

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&y and &ers J. Lee talk about Zohran's walkbacks, meeting with Trump, and relationship with the Satmar community. Then we watch and comment on a few old Conan monologues and interviews with Marc Maron, Kevin Spacey, and Jay Leno.

Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving!

The concept suggests that fascist impulses don't just come from "above" (authoritarian leaders) but can emerge from "below" in how people treat each other daily. Deleuze and Guattari believed everyone has some "fascist" potential—desires for domination, control, or submission. Bratich's work looks at the idea in the current context of MAGA, stochastic terrorism, and the manosphere.

Buy his book On Microfascism: Gender, War, Death and Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture from Common Notions.

3WF interview: https://threewayfight.org/antifascism-in-2025-shane-burley-interviews-xtn-alexander-and-matthew-n-lyons/

Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf

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Sean interviews the ever charming Tony from video essay channel 1Dime and political podcast 1Dime Radio about what it's like to be young and/or Canadian. They discuss politics up north, the vagaries of the so-called left and what a younger cohort might teach us old-timers about the world.

This is a preview of the extended version of this episode, to access the whole thing become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage

Song: Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues

We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke?

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Del Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein

Marx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

Song: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein

In 1968, Huey P. Newton told an interviewer that whites who wanted to support the Black Panthers should create the White Panther Party. Later that year, a trio of Michigan radical artists (John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair, and Pum Plamondon) did just that. Gaining notoriety from their campaigns to legalize marijuana, support political prisoners, and the popularity of revolutionary rockers the MC5, the White Panthers formed chapters around the country, and continued their activity through the seventies, long after other New Left formations dissolved.

Among them was our guest today, Larry Weissman, aka DJ PreSkool. He joined the party in 1971 until he was jailed during a public dispute over gun rights against mayor Dianne Feinstein. We talk about the history of WPP, their political line, their alliances and disagreements with other New Left groups, the importance of weed and rock n' roll to their program, and how he continues that spirit today as house DJ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Check out PreSkool's Underground Syllabus Friday at Casette in Ridgewood, Queens: https://dice.fm/event/eoanp6-dj-preskools-underground-syllabus-14th-nov-cassette-new-york-city-tickets

DJ PreSkool's Bandcamp

Read Guitar Army by John Sinclair

More on WPP food program: https://www.foundsf.org/Hard-Left_Politics_Enters_the_People%E2%80%99s_Food_System

More on WPP wiretaps and entrapment: https://www.necessarystorms.com/home/watergate-wiretaps-and-the-white-panther-party

https://fifthestate.anarchistlibraries.net/library/101-march-19-april-1-1970-the-history-of-president-pig

Check out the rest of the Armed Love Series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded

Song: Henry Rollins & Bad Brains - Kick Out the Jams