This Wreckage

OG Antifadas Jamie and Sean plunk down on the podcasting couch for a light chat about two topical topics: the USPS and fascism.

How worker struggle created the modern USPS and how the Democrats shot themselves in the ass with decades of bipartisan attacks on it. Oh no, ICE Bae has an Onlyfans. Fascism: how does it work? Fascism and neoliberalism. Is Trump a fascist? Is Amerikkka? Various thinkers' attempts to define the big F. Maybe the real fascism was the enemies we made along the way.

Article Jamie referenced on fascist economics: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/

Outro song: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony

More discussion of these strange times: partying in the age of Corona, the government's handling of the crisis vis a vis the working class', the international bourgeoisie's quest for stability, and Virgil's plan for abolishing the police and prisons.

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Closing song: Tim Heidecker - Cain is Able

The Beltway Garage's chief mechanic Virgil Texas takes us for a wonk on the wild side! We focus on the Democrats' electoral strategy of writing open letters demanding socialists vote for Biden, carefully weigh their arguments, and come up with our own endorsement by the end of the episode.

The letters:

Former leaders of SDS: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/

DSA North Star: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/defeat-trump-open-letter/

Mitch Abidor: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opinion/socialists-support-biden-election.html

Closing song - Nat King Cole - Bidin' My Time

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We continue to check the decomposition of the spines of our favorite texts of Marx and Marxism with this short and practical discussion on value criticism and Moishe Postone's Time Labor and Social Domination

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