This Wreckage

Sean and Varn tackle the important question regarding the release of the much-vaunted 'Epstein Files': which ones of 'our faves' might be implicated? How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? What do the files tell us about the absolute state of barbarism we currently live in and must find some...

The hosts of Blowback Podcast report back from Colombia and Cuba! For an extended version of this episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage In Bogota, they attended a conference of the Progressive International that drafted a declaration for countering the Donroe Doctrine. And in Havana, they witnessed immediate results of Trump's full blockade of oil imports, leaving the island...

Gavin and Hope from the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club join Sean to discuss national news and local chapter news in Chicagoland. Join us for a conversation about the recent events (pig murders) in Minneapolis, what it means to organize against the state, how not to become fodder in blue vs red politics and what autonomous class self-activity looks like amid general crisis. For acces...

Sean and Andy are joined by Connor Mulhern, lead researcher at the Reactionary International Research Consortium, and Henry Wallace, head honcho at the New International Magazine and Franco-American raconteur, to discuss the networks of power and influence behind the rise of right populist movements across the globe. How might this reactionary global influence network compare to the unsuccessful 2...

Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialism Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Show notes: EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.html Estonia's suppres...

Sean and Andy are joined by Marco and Luke of the UK collective Angry Workers of the World , here to discuss their practical activity and intellectual output since the publication of Class Power on Zero Hours several years ago. They also present their relatively new healthcare industry project whose publication Vital Signs seeks to analyze how medical labor, in all its industrial diversity and its...

We discuss PLURIBUS: Vince Gilligan's new show about a misanthropic writer who has to deal with the annoying communist singularity. for the FULL EPISODE subscribe at patreon.com/thiswreckage

Sean is drunk and angry Listen to the full episode free and subscribe for our bonus ep about Pluribus at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Show notes: NYE murder in Cali https://abc7.com/amp/post/keith-porter-death-advocates-want-legal-action-man-shot-killed-off-duty-ice-agent-northridge/18359155 Feds block investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-news.html?smid=nyt...

Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution. Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/ Support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez

Sean and Varn are back to talk current events, discuss theory and gripe about everyone and everything. On the tumbrils this week: artificial intelligence, the DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and how not to debate with Colin Drumm online. In the second half we talk about 'The Mamdani Moment', Varn's recent ascension to Chief Fly-in-the-Ointment in the DSA, the pre-political theories of the ILC a...

We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution , a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs. Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-force Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end Maucio Lazzarato - The United State...

NEWS EP! We cover the true origins or the Warner Brothers buyout, Trump's new National Security manifesto, the death of the West, and say farewell to Asad Haider. Sign up on patreon to hear the fun half!! in which we discuss Death by Lightning, a miniseries about James Garfield and American crankery: http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Referenced articles: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/angels-...

Sean and Andy are joined by British-Nigerian writer and podcaster, Ralph Leonard , to talk about identity, politics and the Anglo Ummah. We discuss the parlous state of the nationalist left, what a proletarian socialist politics might look like in the 21st century and what might possibly be conserved of the classical Marxist movement which died in the beginning of the last century. Along the way w...

For the full episode (in audio only OR video) sign up at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage ! &y and &ers J. Lee talk about Zohran's walkbacks, meeting with Trump, and relationship with the Satmar community . Then we watch and comment on a few old Conan monologues and interviews with Marc Maron, Kevin Spacey, and Jay Leno.

Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving! The conce...

Sean interviews the ever charming Tony from video essay channel 1Dime and political podcast 1Dime Radio about what it's like to be young and/or Canadian. They discuss politics up north, the vagaries of the so-called left and what a younger cohort might teach us old-timers about the world. This is a preview of the extended version of this episode, to access the whole thing become a patron at www.pa...

We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke? For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Del Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein Marx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm Song: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein

In 1968, Huey P. Newton told an interviewer that whites who wanted to support the Black Panthers should create the White Panther Party. Later that year, a trio of Michigan radical artists (John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair, and Pum Plamondon) did just that. Gaining notoriety from their campaigns to legalize marijuana, support political prisoners, and the popularity of revolutionary rockers the MC5, the...

We give our first reflections of Zohran's mayoral victory in New York: Sean from his coworkers, Andy from the Commie Corridor. Subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which film critic Payton McCarty-Simas pops in to discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' new film Bugonia. Bessner post: https://x.com/dbessner/status/1986204448092528758 Song: Earth Wind and Fire - Where Have All the...

Sean and Varn meditate on a moment full of incoherence that somehow coheres. Song: Nirvana - Dive For the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Become a patron of Varnvlog at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Phil Neel guides our Halloween descent into HELLWORLD --his epic new horror-theory analysis of the megastructures of global capitalism, and a search of the revolutionary subjectivity necessary to revolt against our domestication into the planetary factory. Phil Neel's substack: https://philneel.substack.com/ Theory of the Party: https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party Song: Merle Haggard - Are the...

Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism . It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901. For the full episode, sign up...

Andy, Varn, and Alex of Antipolitika Journal read and discuss Gianfranco Sanguinetti's 1979 text "On Terrorism and the State." A follow-up on his "Truthful Report on the Last Chances to Save Capitalism in Italy" hoax from a few years earlier, the text accuses the Italian State of arranging the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, and being behind all acts of terrorism as a short-sighted strategy of...

NEWS EP! Government Shutdowns past and present, ICE in Chicago, Trump vs. Big Capital, and Sean's essay on the implications of the international spread of the American petit-bourgeois. We discuss the essay in detail in the fun half! read along: https://seankb.substack.com/p/gadsdens-over-rio Subscribe for the full episode and Discord discussion: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Fall promotio...

We discuss our new podcast name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, One Battle After Another. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!) more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785