We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596

The Deluge by Stephen Markley: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/stephen-markley-deluge.html

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Song: Mekons - Hard to be Human

Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections.

Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front

Macron and Lula support billionaire tax: https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-minimum-tax-billionaires-wealthiest-people/

Recent clashes in New Caledonia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/new-caledonia-unrest-independence-activists-france-detention

https://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1804965294672347603

The Hollande campaign song mentioned: https://pitchfork.com/news/46275-watch-french-presidential-candidate-uses-jay-z-and-kanyes-niggas-in-paris-in-campaign-ad/

Andy's Bordiga/Antifa article: https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/

Song: Brazz - Killing In The Name (French Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-C2O4YSuc

Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."

In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All that and more as we finish Chapter 2 and begin Chapter 3 of "The Fourth Political Theory."

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This and all previous episodes are also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A

Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:

NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show.

Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZ

Labor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smi

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/06/teamsters-and-amazon-labor-union-announce-affiliation-member-vote-still-ahead

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4711847-judge-orders-uc-workers-pause-strike-israel-hamas-war/

https://x.com/thehousered/status/1799216761872458085

Covid:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/opinion/covid-fauci-hearings-health.html

Good podcast refuting lab-leak hypothesis, (thanks to Kie from discord for suggestion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1FGCPenns

Bolerium Books: https://www.bolerium.com/

Song: John Williams - First Order March [EPIC VERSION]

Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and antisemitism in light of the new movement.

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New School divestment vote:

https://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2024/05/20/new-school-trustees-will-hold-a-vote-on-divestment-from-israel/

Freddy Perlman's Continuing Appeal of Nationalism essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalism

Endnotes essay mentioned: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/the-encampments-for-gaza

https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/s-prasad-introduction-to-waiting-for-the-massacre

Postone essays:

https://www.workersliberty.org/files/100205postone.pdf

https://determinatenegation.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/moishe-postone-stammheim-and-tel-zataar-1977/

Song: Lil Wayne - Pure Columbia

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Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.

Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois university over preceding decades which led to it, and how John Jay's Econ department is pushing in another direction.

We ask the essential question: What might a working class education by and for the working class might look like? Find out for yourself and apply to the CUNY if you are looking for a radical education.

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Attend the CUNY JJ econ rock show: People’s Garden in Bushwick, June 8th 2pm

Contact Ian Seda, Graduate Program Director [email protected]

Information about Masters Program: https://johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/

Rick Wolff and Ian Seda on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLY-ftZnF0

Ludy Thenor and Geert Dhondt on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8dT6jWHHI&t=32s

Music: Phony ppl - John Jay

It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.

What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.)

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It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.

What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.)

This is an extended preview of the full three-hour discussion. To access the whole audio file, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada and for a video version of the recording become a supporter of C. Derick Varn's work at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-era Popular Front? Reid gives a powerful account of American socialism past and how we might vindicate the struggles of past generations.

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Works by Reid:

YouTube series on American socialism

Writings in Sublation Magazine