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Latest Episodes

E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal (first half)
April 24, 2024

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, sup

April 19, 2024

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.For the full episode subscribe at http:/

E245: RIP Loren Goldner
April 17, 2024

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 hi

UNLOCKED: History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman
April 10, 2024

Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreonIn light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behi

E244 (Pt. 2) - Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi
April 05, 2024

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 fee

E244 - Ayatollah Assahola w/ Arya Zahedi (Part 1)
April 03, 2024

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 rev

E243 - Fight the Narcissystem w/ Anslem Jappe
March 27, 2024

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tagline is: “Everyone can feel

Party Girls Zine Club #1 - Inhabit
March 22, 2024

For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously writt

E242 - Escaping the Hamster Wheel w/ Ignacio Choi
March 20, 2024

IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani, won the debate within the framework of international law and human rights. But how far does that get is, and where else could the movement go?

Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberalism and the State 4 w/ C Derick Varn
March 13, 2024

Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolutionary w