- May 5, 202100:00:0001:21:40
Sean and Jamie are joined by Gabe Winant (@gabrielwinant), historian and author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," to discuss the composition of the US working class yesterday and today.
Gabe's excellent historical work has given us a picture of the remarkable changes seen in Pittsburgh, once an emblematic blue collar town and one now dominated by hospitals and pink collar work. But, as we see in the interview, Pittsburgh is merely a microcosm of an epochal shift from one regime of accumulation to another; from the post-war "Golden Age," to the (decaying) neoliberal order of today. Together we pick apart the contradictions within both as we look at real examples of class struggle (alongside the grand dialectic of capital) and wonder what the future might look like for the American working class as a whole.
Buy "The Next Shift" https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
Outro - Wiz Khalifa: Black and Yellow (Vaporwave)
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- Apr 28, 202100:00:0001:14:02
Jamie and Sean are joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. (@bigblackjacobin), staff writer at Motherboard and co-host of This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod), for a discussion of all things tech. Rather than freeing us from drudgery, technology has been used by capitalists to make things worse for the vast majority of humanity. How did we get here? How can workers fight back? What does it mean to be a 21st century Luddite? How does this relate to police abolition? Plus: Edward's answer to Andy's Twitter poll about turning off the internet.
Outro music: Chumbawumba - the Triumph of General Ludd
Check out Edward's reporting at Motherboard: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/edward-ongweso-jr
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- Apr 23, 202100:0011:17
A free-form discussion on the history of hardcore, from its origins in the '77 punk explosion in LA, NY, DC, Boston, and Canada. We talk about our experiences in the scene and the various class backgrounds and political sentiments at play. Discussions include: anti-racism, youth crew, straightedge, veganism, political hardcore, if anarchopunk really exists, the concept of "unity", and why hardcore singers keep saying "all lives matter" at their reunions.
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Including tracks from: John Joseph, Pg.99, Slapshot, SSD, Gorilla Biscuits, Catharsis, and Twisted Thing
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- Apr 21, 202100:00:0001:32:24
Ah, a good old fashion news ep with Sean and Jamie!
First, we've reached pretty pass when the Wall Street Journal is penning diatribes about woke capitalism. Is it true, as they contend, that big business is.. anti-capitalist? What does this even fucking mean?
Next, President Biden has passed $2 trillion in stimulus and proposed another $2 trillion in infrastructure spending. Did it work? Did 'we' push Biden 'to the left'? We break down the spending and talk about what it really means. (Spoiler: the left wing of capital is desparate)
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Outro: Novelist - Street Politician
- Apr 14, 2021Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Apr 14, 202100:00:0001:09:22
Andy and Anders have an intimate discussion about the history autism, starting in the coffeehouses of Red Vienna and ending in the imageboards of collapsing modernity. With a history rooted in eugenics, fascism, and neoliberalism, Anders questions the origins and continued necessity of the category while advocating for increased understanding and compassion for neurodivergency.
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Read his article "I Don't Believe in Autism": https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/i-dont-believe-in-autism/
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN): https://autisticadvocacy.org/
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Opening song: Autistic Youth - Stones
Closing: Autistic Youth - Not for Me
- Apr 7, 202100:00:0001:15:17
Jamie, Sean and special guest Jake Flores (@feraljokes) of Pod Damn America (@PodDamnAmerica) get together to discuss Harmony Korine's seminal 2012 film Spring Breakers. We trust you've already seen this masterpiece, but in case you haven't, major spoilers ahead!
Outro: Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
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- Apr 2, 202100:0017:04
HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?
The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?
Part 2 of 2.
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Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave
Suggested Readings:
Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View
Jainus Banaji - Theory as History
Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth
Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure
G.M. Tamas - Telling the Truth About Class
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