This Wreckage

The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.

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Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/

An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/

Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons

Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage?

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An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.

Show notes:

Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/

Inventories skyrocketing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory

Investment decline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses

Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html

Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on

Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/

https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages

Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England.

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Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us.

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Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America

Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin.

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Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned!

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Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists!

In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system!

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Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges.

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Song: Snail Mail - Thinning

Oedipal Alex Jones, the music of David Koresh, the Assassination of Nancy Pelosi by the Coward President Xi, Sean explains Taiwan crisis As_a_joker, and more Settlers banter

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