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Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests.
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email: antifadamindset at gmail
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E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien
We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions
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Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
First We Take Columbia text: https://illwill.com/columbia https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2979646/pro-palestinian-activists-spread-occupation-guidebook-overrun-schools/
Communique From an Absent Future: https://illwill.com/print/communique-from-an-absent-future
Adam Tooze - Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys
Unrest in the MLBPA: https://theathletic.com/5352704/2024/03/18/mlbpa-unrest-players-bruce-meyer/
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E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal (first half)
Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho.
For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Empire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod
Antipolitika journal:
Read: https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/ Buy: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1440 Songs: Infracrvena - Politika Ultima Videosex - Detektivska Priča -
🔥&&&🌿4/20 Special🔥: Walter Benjamin's On Hashish on hashish
And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird.
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PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf
New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned -
E245: RIP Loren Goldner
The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.
Copious Loren Goldner Links:
Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/
Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner
Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/
Articles mentioned in order
AryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldnerBolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburgRossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldnerSeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdf
Audio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio
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UNLOCKED: History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman
Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!
Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreon
In light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.
Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?
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E244 (Pt. 2) - Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi
Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.
Full episode available at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
Customer Reviews
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Just listened to Hardcore History 2. Great essay. Well worth one’s time.
Stay lean & ready for anything comrades
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Good sh!t
I’m once again asking you to take away the mic from white men.
This is based on Ep 182.
I pushed through and I still only got to 25 min. Maybe I picked the wrong episode to start with, but still so irritating. The smug, the constant laughs of the usual white men with a mic who think they have it all figure it out. Nothing constructive, no points made, just self reference, elitism and mutual m*asturbat*on. Yikes.
You are the people I am supposed to build a better society with? To be side by side to fight fascism? Nah. I have a feeling you just want to feel like you’re better than everyone else. You are not.
Please pass the mic and go make fun of other people in your dad’s basement.