This Wreckage

Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the p...

Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or... Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666 Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in t...

We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements. Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an...

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family. Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!

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. Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https...

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...

Full episode here 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...

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 . Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada ! please support the sho...

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. Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/ Song: Bl...

Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin. full episode for Patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

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! Full...

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! For more MDC premium content and to listen to the re...

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. Buy the book from Verso, now 30% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada...

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 For the full episode, Discord access, and all other bonus content support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Sean is joined by Japser Bernes of End Notes and Cal Berkeley to catch up on the comings and goings of the communization current. They discuss the plight of big American cities, the legacy of Occupy/BLM, the ongoing crisis of inflation and supply shocks and how communists might create a counterpower to the logistical infrastructure of capital. Follow Jasper @outsidedadgitator if you like our work,...

In which Sean and Andy finally start getting mercenary and talk shit behind the paywall. This week we tackle the blinkered stupidity of last week's 'Starbucks baristas are bourgeois' discourse. Is there even a crumb of meaning that we can glean from this meltdown? Anyways, we had fun with it. To access this bonus content, our side projects History is a Weapon/Diving into the Wreckage/Proletkult an...

What do inflation, the London heatwave, 'communisateur' Los Angeles Truckers and the 1990s hardline band Vegan Reich have in common? They are all part of this brand new news episode featuring Sean and Andy! Plenty of scorching takes within about agricultural production, based bin men, inflation as capital in decay and how much means of production must be destroyed before Andy can rest at night. Sw...

Sean met with a whole bunch of listeners and patrons and friends on Discord and described his idea for a new organization. Another meeting coming up on Sunday, July 24th at 3pm EST so be sure to make it if you're interested! (You don't have to be a patron to come, but if you'd like to become one you can sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada ) LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz Music: The In...

Matthew and Ana from the Neoliberalhell podcast discuss their effort to unite influencers, shitposters, sex workers, abortion advocates, Hunter Biden-watchers in an instarecction against the Meta corporation, which begins this Saturday in NYC and LA! More info on the NYC Protest: https://www.instagram.com/antizuckprotest/ LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz For access to our discord and all b...

In the latest of our ongoing collaboration between Varn and Sean, the guys sit down to look at the multiple complicating factors behind the ongoing food crisis which has seen it's most striking culmination with the overthrow of the Sri Lankan government last week. How has capital shifted production, distribution and consumption of food crops? What kind of frailties has this produced for global gra...

We chat about Sean's appearance at the Sublation Media release event last week in Brooklyn, the dead end of free speech/cancel culture obsession among leftists, and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach. Check out the full episode and join or Discord community at http://patreon.com/theantifada Chris Cutrone's essay from the event: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dogmatization-and-thought-taboo...

We talk about the recent Supreme Court decisions, the coming rightwing dictatorship, the collapse of liberal democracy, and why only Dark Brandon can save us now. Melinda Cooper - Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection Listen to our bonus episode about the Sublation Media panel and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach, and join our Discord community, by supporting the show at pat...

We discuss some of the methods Noel suggested in Race Traitor journal for white people to abolish themselves. Full episode at patreon.com/theantifada

Zhana is back with her co-editor of the new Noel Ignatiev reader from Verso: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity. We start by talking about Roe being overturned before moving on to Noel's revolutionary dual power strategy, and his intervention into the SDS debates about whether white workers would ever check their privilege. In the bonus we talk more about his nineties journal Race Traitor...

Jake " Feral Jokes " Flores and Andy continue our very specific collaboration of giving positive reviews to controversial works of sf! This time it's David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE! A film in which "surgery is the new sex," and probably an allegory for why art and politics suck. It's NICE! For the full episode subscribe today at patreon.com/theantifada :) Our previous...