This Wreckage

In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy.

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readsettlers.org/ch5.html

https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html

​​https://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-and

Song: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones

Oh, and DONT FORGET TO SEE US THIS TUESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in.

Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic!

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TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

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https://readsettlers.org/ch4.html

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!

BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

song: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr.

Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures?

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SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!

NYC Sept 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly SEPT 12: w/WTYP https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

We take listener Questions! covering a range of topics including the climate apocalypse and hopes for a better world, if we should take over the internet or destroy it, visions for postwar Ukraine, conspiracy theories turning reactionary, squatting and being aging punx, Bidenomics and much more!

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Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5qq0sppNliaml9Lgmdk1Yh9wQ8nEwnY

https://libcom.org/article/strategy-refusal-mario-

New York Year Zero: https://gittlitz.substack.com/p/nyyz

NYT: on conspiracy theories: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The ‘monumental consequences’ of Ukraine joining the EU https://on.ft.com/44Xvr3d

Dog Breath: https://dogbreathnyc.bandcamp.com/album/dog-breath

Iggy Pop '77:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZth4CNaEBA

Song: Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden

This week on This Amerikkkan Life: Chapters 2-3, Bacon's Rebellion, why slaves sided with the British in the US Revolution, the true reason some founding fathers and Northern states were against slavery, why the Confederate class analysis was right (from the Settler perspective), and why Sakai spells Amerika and Afrika with a K

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Chapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-settlers-86265803

In two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5

Minion Death Cult cohost and union militant Alexander Edward delivers the news on the tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters... and why he's voting NO.Shook ex-Spart Jim Cramer:

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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328

MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaA

World Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.html

More on the 2018 agreement: https://nwlaborpress.org/2018/10/ups/

Union buster found: https://twitter.com/JosBrock/status/1684242017641979904

Song: Allan Sherman - Beautiful Teamsters