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Unf*cking The Republic
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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer.
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results.
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives.
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results.
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives.
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” “Is there life after death?”
“If the POTUS says the economy is great but no one feels it, is it really a recovery?”
I’ll leave the first two for philosophy majors. On the third question, I have some thoughts.
The administration is touting what it calls, “Bidenomics.” Much like Obama chose to own “Obamacare” and turn it into a positive, President Joe Biden is owning the U.S. economy and making it the centerpiece of his re-election campaign. Will it work? Depends.
This week’s episode is a deep(ish) dive into U.S. economic data. The U.S. might be doing better than the rest of the world. Inflation is cooling and people are working. But Americans are also racking up debt, getting priced out of the housing market, depleting their savings and are wholly uncertain about the future. Come election time, it will still be all about the economy, but it won’t be about the numbers. It will be about sentiment.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:58
Sketch: 00:04:54
Chapter One: 00:10:27
Chapter Two: 00:21:52
Post Show Musings: 00:46:06
Outro: 00:54:08
Resources
Foreign Affairs: The End of China’s Economic Miracle
Associated Press: Foreign companies are shifting investment out of China as confidence wanes, business group says
The New York Times: China’s Property Crisis: Why It’s So Hard for Beijing to Fix - The New York Times
Reuters: Analysis: US debt-ceiling deal dooms Biden's revolutionary tax plans
The Conference Board: Leading Economic Index
St. Louis Federal Reserve: Does Labor Market Tightness Vary across States?
Federal Reserve Board: Recent balance sheet trends
St. Louis Federal Reserve: Corporate Profits After Tax (without IVA and CCAdj) (CP)
San Francisco Fed: The Rise and Fall of Pandemic Excess Savings
Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Household Debt and Credit Report
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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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Francesca Fiorentini is a journalist, activist, comedian and host of the popular Bitchuation Room podcast and YouTube channel. Max and Francesca talk swimming pools, presidential politics, California candidates and the liberal obsession with tearing down AOC & the squad.
Watch the interview on YouTube.
Resources
Francesa on YouTube
The Bitchuation Room Podcast
Francesca on Twitter
Francesca on Facebook
Francesca on Instagram
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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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Happy Max-less Show Notes to all who celebrate! 99 is joined by Manny this week and they discuss Socialism Part Four, Barbie, Hip-Hop and podcasts!
Chapters
Intro: 00:20:00
Start Barbie Spoilers: 00:07:37
End Barbie Spoilers: 00:10:56
Emails: 00:12:14
YouTube Shout Outs: 00:22:08
Reviews: 00:25:27
Podcasts: 00:27:43
Outro: 00:45:51
Resources
Bernard E. Harcourt: Critique and Praxis
News Beat: Invisible Wars: A Conversation With Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon: War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
Nathan Rabin: You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes
Hip-Hop Can Save America
Life Kit: Losing a pet is hard. Here's how to cope
Conspirituality: 163: The Huberman Paradox (w/Jonathan Jarry)
Scamanda
The Blog Era
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Nathan J. Robinson is the author of 10 non-fiction books and four illustrated books. He defied modernity by launching a magazine (yes an actual physical magazine), called Current Affairs which blends eye-popping and fun illustrations with scathing prose and real, authentic journalism. Nathan and Max have a wide-ranging conversation from education to socialism in our Phone A Friend.
Resources
Current Affairs: The Intellectual We Deserve
Current Affairs: Admit Everybody
Current Affairs: The Great American World War II Story
Current Affairs Online
Current Affairs Magazine
Nathan J. Robinson: Why You Should Be a Socialist
Nathan J. Robinson: Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America
Nathan's Other Books
Current Affairs News Briefing
Current Affairs Podcast
Current Affairs on Twitter
Nathan on Twitter
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It’s Part Four this week, and things are really heating up. We’re bridging the gap between the “critique” years and the “praxis” years with a deep dive into the late 1800s. Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon make grand entrances into our narrative and bring some intrigue along with them. Part Four covers the pivotal year of 1870, the splinter between the anarchist and Democratic socialist wings of the party, and speaks to the variables present on the European continent at this critical juncture. The episode culminates with the Paris Commune of 1871 and lays the groundwork for Part Five where we’ll cover the rise of the Bolsheviks and the American labor movement. Are we having fun yet? (Don’t answer that.)
Chapters
Intro: 00:01:21
Chapter Eight: Socialist Fault Lines. 00:06:31
Coffee Break: 00:22:33
Chapter Nine: 1870. The year everything changed. 00:23:28
Bring It Home, Max: 00:36:33
Post Show Musings: 00:38:15
Outro: 00:51:39
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
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
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In this episode of Show Notes, Max and 99 review some housekeeping, Headlines (Leonard Leo, NY State + the ADA), and talk Socialism Part Three. Enjoy, Unf*ckers!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:22:43
Emails: 00:44:55
Facebook Shout Outs: 00:51:40
YouTube Shout Outs: 00:56:48
Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:02:26
Outro: 01:02:58
Headlines
The Lever: The Church Of Leonard Leo
Office of the New York State Comptroller: DiNapoli: State's Fiscal Outlook Declines
Mother Jones: Disability “Testers” Keep Businesses Accessible. Will SCOTUS Ban Them?
The New York Times: White House Condemns Fox News Over Host’s Holocaust Comments
Resources
UNFTR Facebook Group
News Beat Website
Unf*cker Recommendations
The Atlantic: Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
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We have the third installment in our socialism series, where we resume our journey beginning in 1825 and the collapse of Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment. This next chapter introduces the work of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx and touches on Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, both of whom we’ll explore more fully in Part Four. Not gonna lie, this series may never end. But this is a critical piece of the puzzle that we’re calling the “Critique Period,” lasting from 1825 to around 1870. This era is punctuated by widespread revolts in 1848 that inform some of the new thinking around capitalism and the plight of the working class—all leading into the explosion of socialist philosophy that hits the mainstream consciousness following the events of 1870 (again, for Part Four).
Chapters
Intro: 00:01:07
Chapter Six: Revolutionary Conditions. 00:07:54
Chapter Seven: Marx and Mill. 00:18:42
Post Show Musings: 00:38:17
Book Love: 00:38:44
Outro: 00:53:41
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
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
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In the second part of Show Notes, Max and 99 delve into Unf*cker emails and social comments; weighing in on some heavy hitting topics like Israel/Palestine and term limits.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Emails: 00:01:03
Facebook Shout Outs: 00:55:29
Instagram Shout Outs: 00:59:39
YouTube Shout Outs: 01:01:26
Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:03:57
Outro: 01:08:25
Unf*cker Recommendations
Lessenberry Ink: The Failure of Term Limits
The Guardian: France has ignored racist police violence for decades. This uprising is the price of that denial
Jodi Dean+ Charisse Burden-Stelly: Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Brandon Weber: Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History
Aja Monet: My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
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Today we have a first: a two part Show Notes! In Part One, Max and 99 catch up, and delve into some headlines. Part Two to come tomorrow.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Manny’s Corner: 00:05:00
Headlines: 00:22:50
Outro: 00:52:28
Headlines
The Intercept: Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn't Giving Up.
Emissions Substack: The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettuce
Current Affairs: How To Explain Socialism Clearly In a Way That Actually Persuades People
Resources
News Beat: Interview With U.S. Presidential Candidate Dr. Cornel West
ACLU: Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures
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"If our democracy is to survive, the empire must be dismantled.” That’s what Dr. Cornel West told our friends at News Beat in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview in which he talked about dismantling systems of oppression, uplifting the poor and working class, ending America’s military industrial complex, and abolishing poverty, homelessness, and prisons. West, who is vying for the Green Party nomination for U.S. President, said his third-party bid is also about putting an end to the corporate duopoly and dismissed claims that a candidate outside of the two-party system can’t win. He also said he’s entering the race not just to introduce new ideas but to fight for marginalized people, vowing to take on anyone who is hostile to the struggle of working people and those on the front-line of disastrous conflicts.
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[An update from Max, 6/26/23] Hey Unf*ckers. This episode updates the Assange piece we released a while back. It’s possible that by the time you hear this, there will have been movement on his case. If not, it seems likely that his extradition to the United States is imminent. So I’ve updated the episode with some new thoughts and generally cleaned up the text; it’s very similar, almost a re-release of the original, just tighter and more focused. Either way, it’s a good refresher considering how much the Espionage Act is in the news these days. But mostly it’s a necessary reminder of what’s at stake.
The Espionage Act is having quite the moment in the sun these days. Former President Donald Trump was charged under the act for knowingly absconding with and hiding classified documents said to contain sensitive nuclear capability secrets and theoretical attack plans. Daniel Ellsberg, famed whistleblower behind the release of the Pentagon Papers, passed away this week; perhaps the most high profile modern target of the Espionage Act until, of course, Trump. Amidst all of this newfound attention being paid to an arcane World War I era law designed to squash any objection to the war effort, there’s Julian Assange. He is the ultimate litmus test for America. A test to see just how committed we are to maintaining even a shred of a democratic facade.
Resources
RSF: UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal
Book Love
Glenn Greenwald: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Tariq Ali + Margaret Kunstler: In Defense of Julian Assange
Pod Love
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill: Joe Biden's War Powers
Media Roots Radio with Abby & Robbie Martin: Assange Trial: Torture, Trumped Up Charges & A Warning to Us All w/ Kevin Gosztola
News Beat: Chelsea Manning: Collateral Murder Cover-Up
News Beat: Espionage Act & The Battle For The Free Press
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Today’s Show Notes is a rousing display of show notes. Headlines, emails + donations galore. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:03:50
Emails: 00:17:00
Instagram Shout Outs: 01:00:13
YouTube Shout Outs: 01:01:23
Buy Me A Coffee Donations + Memberships: 01:06:06
Outro: 01:06:52
Headlines
RSF: UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal
Mother Jones: The Weight of Water: Women Mariners Abused at Sea Are Finally Breaking Their Silence
The Intercept: The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With “Brain Development Issues” to Become a Terrorist
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Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American and French revolutions by imagining new societies and mechanisms of power. In their writings we begin to see the roots of Marxian philosophy and draw upon concepts and experiments that would influence Marx and others during the second industrial revolution.
Resources
The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?
Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism
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
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
Bernie Sanders: It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
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In this episode of Show Notes, Max and 99 read a comment from a disgruntled Unf*cker, discuss the weird number of conservatives who have done drag, and have a rousing conversation about menstruation. Oh, and the headlines! Enjoy y'all.
Listen to The Doctor is in: Dr. Cornel West announces bid for presidency.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:04:50
Emails: 00:14:38
Instagram Shout Outs: 00:52:41
YouTube Shout Outs: 00:58:30
Buy Me A Coffee + Reviews: 01:03:49
Outro: 01:04:36
Headlines
The New York Times: CPI Report Live: Inflation Rose 4% in May, Another Sign of Cooling
World Socialist Web Site: The Democratic Party, Donald Trump and the Espionage Act
ICIJ: About the Deforestation Inc. investigation
Unf*cker Recommendations
Cedric J. Robinson: Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Jonathan M Katz: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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In this episode of Show Notes, Max and 99 spend too much time talking about Mad Men, cover pressing news in Headlines (the injustices being waged against the LGBTQ+ community, children in the work force & climate issues), plus they hear from friend of the show John Kane.
Listen to SCOTUS Native Adoption Case: Landmark Decision Due This Month.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:10:07
Emails: 00:19:57
YouTube Shout Outs: 00:47:38
Outro: 00:49:51
Resources
Leave UNFTR a Review
Let's Talk Native with John Kane
Headlines
Best of the Left: #1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
Mother Jones: Legislatures Passed 550 Anti-Trans Bills So Far This Year
Human Rights Campaign: National State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans
World Socialist Web Site: Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
New York Times: Opinion | The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate
Emissions Substack
UNFTR Resources
Episode: The Economics of Racism.
Episode: The Black & Jewish Divide in America.
Unf*cker Recommendations
Pitchfork Economics: Can the economy be liberated? (with Jeremie Greer)
Raci$m Is Profitable podcast
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But now after all that slamming dairy, 99 is fine with obesity...because that causes no problems lol. Alright am deleting this Podcast. Maybe in a few months will check back.
As i am eating cottage cheese you nuts spend all that time slamming dairy. Jesus about to just delete this Podcast. So much waste of time. Nobody listens to this podcast to get all yours and 99's food choices. Unless either one of you is an MD stick to politics. We want the republic unfucked. And yes I am complaining too much. Just about to delete it though so hoping to keep it.
Starting to feel like a time suck listening to your podcast. So much wasted time talking about whatever. Stick more to progressive issues.
Bs odometer says someone bought some Amazon options.
Hey i am too negative at times. All of you are great.
So are you trying to get in 99's pants or does she really require that much back slapping?
Maybe pat each others backs for a whole show.
Lol honesty takes courage. Maybe give it another try when being honest about Obama.
👍👍Smart show.
great episode
Good show.
Great episodes.
And yeah we're f'n angry. Still dying from lack of healthcare and the only one who still notices that is Jimmy Dore.
Just stfu attacking j. door. As much time as you pump your lame coffee it won't be a problem deleting this podcast.
Omg stop fucking talking about coffee.
As I was listening to this episode I saw a classroom was studying Chief Seattle's 1854 treaty speech. Asshole bigger brother indeed.
When first listening to the podcast I felt like I had found something important. But 35% of the Podcast talking about someone giving you a coffee or buying a membership .... hard to take this seriously. Run a few ads dude. No one wants to get excited about seeing a whole hour Podcast, and then after 40 min it devolves into just begging for money.
No matter what platform I'm using, I always really dig this podcast. Thanks Manny, 99, and Max for all your efforts. Oh, and the coffee is pretty fucking good to boot!
Am new to the show and am impressed. But reading some messages for ever about people that like you and buy you coffee...
Very amusing and easy to listen to. I like the presenters wordy explanations and laughed out loud many times. I recommend it as a diversion to the present news.