Events are moving rapidly and there are processes in motion that seem to be forging a new global order. The question is what kind?

Following up on last week's episode with Alex Gendler, Sean and Derrick are back to continue the discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War. What are the geopolitics that led to this violent and tragic episode? What are the regional and global forces that helped create it? What kind of changes to the capitalist economy can we expect to see especially out of the West's 'total financial war' on Russia? How should communists orient towards these events and what should we be building towards the future?

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Friend of the show and Ukrainian immigrant Alex Gendler (@achilleselbow) discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, situating it in its proper historical context before discussing more recent events. He also takes some time to debunk galaxy brain takes from dumb dumb anti-imperialists who think a "multipolar" world — with neoliberal, authoritarian Russia as one of the poles — will somehow bring us closer to communism.

Song: Blind Boy Grunt - John Brown

Links:

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/the-intellectual-situation/ukraine-putin-and-the-west/

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

https://www.nihilist.li/2017/11/19/confession-of-the-ukrainian-marxist-soldier/

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv

https://illwill.com/the-kazakh-insurrection

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Max Collins of '90s (and present day) alt-rock band Eve 6 (@Eve6) returns for a wide-ranging BONUS convo touching on music, religion, shitposting, and Max's hi-jinx with the guy from Third Eye Blind.

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Andy and Sean discuss Putin vs. Ukraine vs. Brandon and the war's origins in the EuroMaidan uprising. If the left's revolutionary strategy is take public space and push towards militant result, are we not replicating the errors of Ukraine and Syria? Are the Canadian truckers doing essentially the same thing?

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Reading on the subject:

Ukraine:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

Canada:

https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/14/ill-winds-from-ottawa-thinking-through-the-threats-and-opportunities-as-a-far-right-initiative-gains-momentum

https://breachmedia.ca/the-battle-of-billings-bridge/

https://north-shore.info/2022/02/07/trip-report-ottawa-on-saturday-february-5/

Interview with teamster about how this is not a workers movement: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/patriots-and-big-trucks

https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-29/

Song: Яблочко/Yablochko - Ukrainian Black Army song

Jamie and Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) round out the Valentine's Day-adjacent content by attempting to answer a listener's relationship question. They also talk designer babies and bio-mechanical wombs.

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