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Post-peasant commies Dan and Jack read over bits of theory each week in an effort to understand the worldwide state of socialism.
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In which we return to the plan for communism put together by the Group of International Communists and discuss several critiques made against its proposals.
Reading: Thoughts on the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ (2025) by Angry Workers, Response to Angry Workers (2025) by Hermann Lueer, and On ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution' (2022) by Ian Wright.
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What flag is the right flag for communists to fly? What attitude should we have towards nationalism and religion? Do we all just need to relax a bit?
Reading: Labour, Nationality & Religion (1910) by James Connolly, Pro-Palestine symbolism (2025) by Anne McShane and Trying to capture the flag (2025) by Harley Filben
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In which we discuss the nature of the colonization of Palestine by the West and the fraught state the settler colony of Israel has found itself in after years of violence and economic crisis.
Reading: Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2017) by Rashid Khalidi and Shutdown Nation (2025) by Shir Hever
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In which we answer the age-old question, just what does it mean for a text to be extremely French?
Watching: Communism & Strategy (2023) by Isabelle Garo
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In which we attempt to lay a materialist history over the long, strange history of American Protestantism.
Watching: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) by Mark A. Noll
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Say what you will about this podcast, we keep up with the culture, which is why we're watching a nearly 10 year old documentary on Trump, AI and collective politics.
Watching: Hypernormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
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In which we try to get away from the ultra-left stuff but find it vindicated by history once again :c
Reading: Why the American Working Class is Different (1986) (from Prisoners of the American Dream) by Mike Davis
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In which we make an effort to read something other than dense Marxology.
Reading: An Agroecological Europe in 2050 (2018) by Xavier Poux & Pierre-Marie Aubert
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In which we suss out this whole USSR thing.
Reading: Epitaph for the USSR: A clock without a spring (1998) by Christopher J Arthur
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We're back on our bs.
Reading: The Future of Revolution (2025) by Jasper Bernes
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In which we remember the good and sane bush years.
Watching: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Davis Guggenheim & Al Gore
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Turns out you need to do more than just read Murray Bookchin if you want to be friends with anarchists.
Reading: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity (2023) by Michael Löwy, Olivier Besancenot & David Campbell
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In which brave Henry Heller saves the immortal science of Marxism from the unwarranted revisionism of W O K E political marxism.
Reading: "Bourgeois Revolution" from The Birth of Capitalism (2011) by Henry Heller
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You ever noticed that the 8 hour working day is like...................the same as school, man?
Reading: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) by Paulo Freire
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Sure China has billionaires, a strictly enforced class system, State Owned Enterprises that are evaluated on stock market performance, private property, wage labor and commodity production but is it REALLY capitalism guys
Reading: Red Dust (2019) by Chuang.
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In which we regain our lost optimism.
Reading: Peace for our Time (2025) by Critisticuffs, The American Sulla (2025) by Edith Fischer and Notes on the War (2025) by Jack Conrad
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In which we inaugurate the Chantal Mouffe era of the show.
Reading: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal (2021) by Rodrigo Nunes
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Alright, this time we're really gonna figure out what dialectics is.
Reading: Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist (2020) by Pierfrancesco Biasetti
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How do you do communal politics in an individualized, atomized world? How do you do individualism in a communal world?
Reading: Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy (the early 1990s) by Gabriel Kuhn
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In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics.
Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch
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I think that is is a potentially interesting topic, but I was disappointed that there wasn't more engagement with the physics and the history of its development. Statements like "the universe is relative" are so vague as to mean almost nothing. This is a topic were the devil really is in the details so it is somewhat frustrating to hear it discussed in such a casual way and think that some deep conclusions can be drawn.