This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy
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Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

  1. E312: We Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy

    1D AGO

    E312: We Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy

    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

    7 min
  2. ARMED LOVE 13: White Panther Party w/ DJ PreSkool

    3D AGO

    ARMED LOVE 13: White Panther Party w/ DJ PreSkool

    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 Plum Plamondon) did just that. Gaining notoriety from their campaigns to legalize marijuana, support political prisoners, and the popularity of revolutionary rockers the MC5, the White Panthers formed chapters around the country, and continued their activity through the seventies, long after other New Left formations dissolved. Among them was our guest today, Larry Weissman, aka DJ PreSkool. He joined the party in 1971 until he was jailed during a public dispute over gun rights against mayor Dianne Feinstein. We talk about the history of WPP, their political line, their alliances and disagreements with other New Left groups, the importance of weed and rock n' roll to their program, and how he continues that spirit today as house DJ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Check out PreSkool's Underground Syllabus Friday at Casette in Ridgewood, Queens: https://dice.fm/event/eoanp6-dj-preskools-underground-syllabus-14th-nov-cassette-new-york-city-tickets DJ PreSkool's Bandcamp Read Guitar Army by John Sinclair More on WPP food program: https://www.foundsf.org/Hard-Left_Politics_Enters_the_People%E2%80%99s_Food_System More on WPP wiretaps and entrapment: https://www.necessarystorms.com/home/watergate-wiretaps-and-the-white-panther-party https://fifthestate.anarchistlibraries.net/library/101-march-19-april-1-1970-the-history-of-president-pig Check out the rest of the Armed Love Series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expanded Song: Henry Rollins & Bad Brains - Kick Out the Jams

    1h 20m
  3. E311: Z-Day + Bugonia w/ Payton McCarty-Simas

    NOV 7

    E311: Z-Day + Bugonia w/ Payton McCarty-Simas

    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 Flowers Gone?

    41 min
  4. Diving into the Wreckage - New Old Crises

    NOV 5

    Diving into the Wreckage - New Old Crises

    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

    1h 6m
  5. 🔥HELLWORLD🌏 w/ Phil Neel

    OCT 29

    🔥HELLWORLD🌏 w/ Phil Neel

    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 Good Times Really Over?

    1h 30m
  6. Criminal Anarchy w/ Aaron J. Leonard

    OCT 22

    Criminal Anarchy w/ Aaron J. Leonard

    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 to support the show! And, while supplies last, sign up to the SUPERWRECKERS tier at the discounted, ANNUAL level and we'll send you a free copy of Jarrod Shanahan's new book Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms 📙, with an introduction from Andy! +For the Wrecking Krew tier You can receive Every Fire AND a copy of Andy's I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism 📗👽 Article on the book: https://truthout.org/articles/how-a-century-of-anti-communism-cleared-the-way-for-trumps-authoritarianism/ Video: Trump says "we took free speech away": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VqMY8djOM Indypendent article on Antifa: https://indypendent.org/2025/10/what-is-antifa/ Song: billy woods - Source Awards

    1h 7m
  7. DITW: On Terrorism and the State by Gianfranco Sanguinetti (RIP)

    OCT 15

    DITW: On Terrorism and the State by Gianfranco Sanguinetti (RIP)

    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 defense. The piece also condemns leftwing arm struggle as reproducing the Spectacle, ultimately proposing its own vision of proletarian insurrection. Subscribe for the full episode and Discord discussion: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Fall promotion! Subscribe annually for free books. More info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785 In the fun half we judge this thesis in the context of the post 9/11 security state, with a final autobiographical note saying farewell to Sanguinetti, who passed away in Prague as we were planning this episode. Some obituaries can be read here: https://www.gianfrancosanguinetti.com/ https://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1975228886741868743 https://libcom.org/article/farewell-gianfranco-sanguinetti-1948-2025 Sanguinetti texts: On Terrorism and the State: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gianfranco-sanguinetti-on-terrorism-and-the-state?v=1632580307 Truthful Report: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/censor-truthful-report-on-the-last-chances-to-save-capitalism-in-italy?v=1632737089 The Orgasm of History: https://francosenia.blogspot.com/2017/10/un-orgasmo-della-storia.html Correspondenses with Debord on SI's dissolution: https://libcom.org/article/notes-serve-history-si-1969-1971-debord-sanguinetti Split in the International: https://libcom.org/article/veritable-split-international-situationist-international Song: Nirvana - Dive

    1h 2m
  8. E308: Snake Mistakes

    OCT 8

    E308: Snake Mistakes

    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 promotion! Subscribe annually for free books. More info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785 Song: Digital Octopus - Don't Tread on Me

    42 min
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Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

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  • Creator
    Sean KB and AP Andy
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    555
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    Explicit
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