Auxiliary Statements

Well here we go reading entirely unnecessary accounts of century-old communist strategy again. What is democratic centralism? Whatever you want it to be, baby. Reading: Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern (2020) by John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/ DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast

Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the second pa...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we held off as long as we could, but now we're back on our leftcom bs. What do socdems and fascists have in common? Well, yeah. A lot in fact. Reading: "Worker's Control" "Revolutionary Marxism" and "Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler" by Paul Mattick Sr. (all from the Council Communist Reader)

Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the second pa...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Alright this week we've finally done it. We hAVE COMPREHENDED THE DIALECTIC - maybe, who knows. But we do have a nice chat about evolution and dump all over Richard Dawkins. So it's a good time. Reading: "On Evolution" from The Dialectical Biologist (1985) by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin

Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the first par...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Very special ep for you today as we sat down with podcast Mt. Rushmore head Jason W. Moore to talk ecology, strategy, and just what this whole dialectic thing actually is.

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Today we tackle the complicated era of the reconstruction of the American South after the Civil War. What role did the control of a subjugated labor labor force play in a supposedly post-slavery South? What was the burgeoning industrial proletariat doing during all...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week the lads welcome their friend Donal to the show to talk about his upcoming publication in The Black Lamp tentatively titled "Social Object Viability Strategy." Donal is out here combining labor time accounting in the vein of Jan Appel and the GIC with cybe...

DISCORD: discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we're back trying to sort out this whole 'what can we do about capitalism' thing. Comninel boldly claims that 'Marx was not a Leninist' in this week's reading as we learn what it was that made the First International so unique and worthy of daddy Marx's time. Reading:...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well we're back with another episode on our old bugbear - the origin of capitalism. Just what is a transition between productive modes? How did the reproduction of labor power change between feudalism and capitalism? How did the family unit come about? All questions we may or may not have answers to as we take on...

DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well folks, we're back finishing off Fossil Capital. Is there any hope? How can we take power as a class? Are we going to get 4 degrees of warming? All very dire questions, so we distract ourselves by talking some more ecology. Maybe if we talk about it enough we can figure it all out.... Reading: "Fossil Capital" (2015)...

DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week its back to the familiar and much loved Auxiliary Statements format. After a couple of episodes spent welcoming excellent and exceedingly informative guests to the show the dunces are back at the helm. This episode Jack and Dan get stuck into Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm. Continuing there ecological crisis re...

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Two interviews in a row!? Wow Dan and Jack must really be trying to get through a big book. This week we had the pleasure of talking to none other than @Grossmanite himself Ted Reese about the looming final crisis of capitalism, war, ecology, and permaculture based false flag operations. Find out more about Ted's...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Special one today folks as Dan and Jack sat down with their good friend Agata to discuss the Socialist Party in the Netherlands, Maoism as well as the revolutionary organization Communist Platform. CP is a communist cadre based off of the ideas in Mike MacNair's Revolutionary Strategy.

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week our portly podcast hosts take a break from the historical materialisms and the dialectics and the Brenner debates to talk about the only good thing - growing your own food. What will a just agroecological food system look like? Is it compatible with socialism? Probz. I dunno. Reading: Visions of the Food System t...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast LEARN HOW TO DO HISTORICAL MATERIALISM IN 3 EASY STEPS!! This week your fearless podcast hosts sit down to discuss the nature of the french revolution...and just how wrong Marx may have been about it. For answers, we turn to Marx. Lousy Marxists...they ruined Marxism. Reading: Rethinking the French Revolution by George Com...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well I guess it's time to start talking about crisis, eh? It's probably no coincedence this essay was written in 1934 and we're reading this now. Why does capitalism seem to always fall into crisis ever 5-10 years? Is there anything we can do to stop it? How tall is this Rishi Sunak fellow anyway? Reading: "The Permanent C...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast WELL FOLKS, here we are again, rounding out this three-parter with a dialectal, ecological, Marxical reading of crisis and our relationship to the broader web of life. Is there a final capitalist crisis coming? Or will we be able to appropriate our way out of it? Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Mo...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Jack and Dan can put it off no longer. This week they return to Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the web of life’ for a discussion of part two of the book focusing on the place of ecology in capitalisms ongoing cycles of crisis. Will there be an ecologically driven final crisis of capitalism? Reading: Capitalism in the Web...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Here we are rounding out our unofficial/official 'Bad Man Trilogy' of Errol Morris films about, well, bad white guys. This time we take on Trump aide Steve Bannon in an attempt to answer the question tragedy, farce, or something much, much stupider?

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast We are back on our ecology bs. But this week it isn't all doom and gloom as we tackle the first part of Jason Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life, a D I A L E C T I C A L contribution to the Marxist ecology debates. This one tested us, but maybe we came out the other side better off? Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Lif...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week Jack and Dan explore the history of the inception of the US constitution. A text that is sold to us as being an abstract work of pure political theory, inspired by high minded ideals and revolutionary intent; a work with semi-divine provenance. Instead it is discovered it is in fact a document that finds its orig...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast I ask you, humble listener, does it get any better than this? Reading Murray Bookchin on a Wednesday afternoon. No it does not. This week the fellas discuss the influence of systems theory, Marxism & anthropology on the ecotopian ideas of none other than the man himself...Murray Bookchin. Reading: "The Power to Create, The...

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast VSM Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnWVg7CSIg We are back in business with an ep re-discussing Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. We even spitball about how it could be applied to some kindaaaaaaa left wing political project. And I know what you're thinking...socialists being organized?! Stranger things have...