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99 is back in this episode of Show Notes; her and Max talk Taylor Swift, unions + strikes, and read some opposing view feedback from Unf*ckers. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:17:43

Emails: 00:42:42

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:28:04

Outro: 01:30:55

Headlines

The Intercept: House Republicans Are Hurtling Toward the Most Pointless Shutdown Ever

Resources

UNFTR Facebook Group

House Delegate: Matt Christman: The Founder and Capitalism

Weiner

UNFTR: Republican Rehab

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Strike! Union actions are everywhere. High profile work stoppages from the Screen Actors Guild to the United Auto Workers have put the labor movement front and center in ways we haven’t seen for decades. How powerful is the impact of these actions? You’re not going to like my take on it. But we need to have some authentic dialogue about the labor movement, the corporate class and new strategies required to stem the tide of increasing inequality.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:15

Post Show Musings: 00:33:21

Outro: 00:45:05

Resources

Associated Press:  United Auto Workers threaten to expand targeted strike if there is no substantive progress by Friday

Automotive News: GM CEO Mary Barra's 2022 compensation: $29M

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Annual work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, 1947 - Present

St. Louis Fed: Civilian Labor Force Level

Detroit Free Press: GM to reinstate a dividend and start stock buybacks, signaling confidence

GM Authority: GM Employees Receive Record $12,750 Profit-Sharing Check

Social Security Administration: National Average Wage Index 

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung: The French Labour Paradox

AFL-CIO: Collective Bargaining

NBER: Impacts of Right-to-Work Laws on Unionization and Wages

OECD: United States: Main indicators and characteristics of collective bargaining

Forbes: Remote Work Statistics And Trends In 2023

MckInsey & Company: Freelance, side hustles, and gigs: Many more Americans have become independent workers

CNBC: 61% of Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck even as inflation cools

NLRB: Board Issues Decision Announcing New Framework for Union Representation Proceedings 

Democracy at Work

Mondragon

The New Yorker: How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op

Economic Policy Institute: CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021

Aspen Institute: Building and Sustaining Worker Cooperatives in the US

Worker Participation: Countries

UNDP: How Do Labor Unions Affect Inequality And Efficiency In Latin America And The Caribbean?

UNFTR Episode Resources

Understanding Socialism: Part One.

Labor Unions: From Pullman To Kellogg’s. Labor’s Long, Hard Road

The Clinton Years (Parts I, II, And III)

Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Part One.

Book Love

Nelson Lichtenstein: State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

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Max flies solo in this episode of Show Notes while 99 is out with consumption (COVID). He covers AOC + Socialism feedback, goes on a Boebert rant, and reads tons of Unf*cker feedback. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:02:54

Emails: 00:07:41

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:33:03

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:41:13

YouTube Shout Outs: 00:41:43

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 00:54:13

Outro: 00:55:00

Headlines

Mother Jones: New Report: One-Third of States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections

Current Affairs: The Strong Towns Movement is Simply Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb

Resources

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

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This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and onset of World War I, which precedes (and leads to) the Russian Revolution in 1917. We’re going to cover the Russian Revolution briefly in an epilogue that speaks to the divergence from classical Marxism from the Revolution forward and where socialist movements stand today. This final episode brings new figures into the spotlight such as Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg and crosses the pond to introduce the likes of Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs.

Chapters

Intro: 00:02:05

Chapter Ten: 00:07:16

Chapter Eleven: 00:22:43

Chapter Twelve: 00:50:52

Book Love

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917

Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis

Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx: Das Kapital 

Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future

Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky

Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread

 Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays

Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination.   

Resources

The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism

Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'

Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics

The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria 

Stanford: Jeremy Bentham

Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Stanford: Karl Marx 

Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism

The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations

Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution

The Collector: Revolutions of 1848

Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870

Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography

JSTOR: Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin

Marxists.org: Bakunin

The Anarchist Library: The Federative Principle

The Anarchist Library: Property Is Theft

The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism | Common Errors in English Usage and More

Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'

Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics

The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria 

Stanford: Jeremy Bentham

Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Stanford: Karl Marx 

Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism

The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations

Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution 

The Collector: Revolutions of 1848

Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870

Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography

Jacobin: Why Kautsky was Right 

The New Yorker: Dreyfus Affair 

The Jacobin: John Dewey 

Marxists.org: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism 

Spartacus Ed: Karl Kautsky

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AOC. The country continues to obsess over the bright light of the progressive caucus and most high profile member of “The Squad.” From day one, AOC has been the subject of harsh criticisms steeped in misogyny and class resentment; mostly from the right. Oftentimes, however, the criticisms have come from inside the Democratic Party establishment. Recently, however, she’s been in the crosshairs of the far left end of the spectrum. Some of this isn’t new, but it seems to be growing. In this episode we look deeper at her record, set a few things straight about the nature of politics in America and make a haunting comparison from history that serves as a warning.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:32

Post Show Musings: 00:20:03

Outro: 00:36:33

Resources

The Militant: Hands of Rosa Luxemburg

Vanity Fair: Unearthed Video Shows Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Been Psychotically Stalking AOC for Years

Politico: From agitator to insider: The evolution of AOC

AOC's Pathetic Biden Endorsement

New York Magazine: AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now

Pod Save America: Exclusive: AOC Talks Honestly About Joe Biden, The Supreme Court, and the 2024 Presidential Election

Office of Congressional Ethics: OCE Referral Regarding Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The New York Times: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Vote on Iron Dome Funding

Clerk: Roll Call 275 | Bill Number: HR 5323

Jacobin: Railroad Workers United: “We Would Never Concede Our Right to Strike”

Mother Jones: Railroad Workers Kept Applying Pressure For Sick Days. It’s Working.

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: Robert F. Kennedy Tweet Mobilizes Neo-Nazis

Jacobin: AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long

LR 132: Evaluating The Squad w/ Branko Marcetic + @MinionDeathCult on the UPS Vote

UNFTR Episode Resources

April 2021 Quickie: AOC & the Lying Men Hydra

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Max and 99 are reunited in this episode of Show Notes! They talk Bidenomics, Phone A Friend, and sharting. (Sorry.)

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Headlines: 00:16:41

Emails: 00:27:51

Facebook Shout Outs: 00:47:00

Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:04:24

Reviews: 01:06:04

Outro: 01:06:21

Headlines

HRW: “They Fired on Us Like Rain”: Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border

World Socialist Web Site: BRICS to expand to counter US dollar dependence

The New York Times: America Is Draining Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

Resources

Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North Of Richmond

Billy Bragg: Rich Men Earning North of a Million

What Next Podcast: What’s Vivek Ramaswamy’s Deal?

The New Yorker: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

UNFTR: F*ck Milton Friedman

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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