- Feb 3, 202100:00:0001:15:23
Political economist Jason Smith, (@profitratedown) author of 'Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in and Age of Stagnation', joins Sean to give us all an update on how that dang line is doing.
What is the source of all of America's various morbid symptoms the last 12 to 40 years? How can it be that a handful of tech companies (the FAANGS) can seem to be so profitable when the 'real economy' is so depressed? What does all this mean for a return to social democratic, non-revolutionary politics in the capitalist core? And if you've ever wondered just why all the jobs, including perhaps your own, as so shitty these days, we ask: what is service work, really, and how does it fit into the schema of capitalist production. Finally, what is the future of work?
Bonus episode on the end of Trump and the GameStop debacle out on Friday!
Jason's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo70564105.html
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Closing song: Daisy Chainsaw - Love your money
- Jan 29, 202100:0005:21
Jamie, Jarrod, and Zhana from Hard Crackers talk more about the realistic possibilities of defunding or abolishing the police, non-reformist reformers, and an anti-carceral popular front.
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- Jan 27, 202100:00:0001:18:43
Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti of Hard Crackers Journal inaugurate our new era of unrest! We talk about the origins of the journal in the white abolitionist work of Noel Ignatiev, race treason in the George Floyd uprising, and finally the January 6th Capitol Siege and how the left can take insurrectionism back from the trumpist pretenders.
Read, order, and/or donate to Hard Crackers at https://hardcrackers.com/
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Work by Jarrod and Zhana:
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Prelude-to-a-Hot-American-Summer
https://hardcrackers.com/the-big-takeover/
https://hardcrackers.com/last-stand-freedom-america/
https://hardcrackers.com/stopthesteal/
https://hardcrackers.com/remembering-noel-ignatiev-jarrod-shanahan/
https://hardcrackers.com/white-people-discussion-race-class-police-violence/
Opening music: Second South Carolina String Band - Hard Crackers Come Again No More
Closing music: Blood for Blood - White Trash Anthem
- Jan 20, 202100:00:0001:31:16
Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect synthesis of both? And what's so bad about going to therapy that men will literally run for president to avoid it?
Apologies for the poor sound quality on Jamie's end, she forgot to check the input settings and feels very bad.
The Drop Squad: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-squad/id1523282652
A Time Of Monsters: https://www.patreon.com/atompod
Trillbillies: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718
Aaron's substack: https://spacelight.substack.com/
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- Jan 15, 202100:0004:45
Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war.
What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture?
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Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body
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- Jan 13, 202100:00:0001:25:02
Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens.
Stay tuned for Friday's bonus in which we discuss the chud riot at the capitol and what lessons we can take from the American Civil War.
Articles referenced:
https://illwilleditions.com/theses-on-the-george-floyd-rebellion/
https://illwilleditions.com/the-rise-of-black-counter-insurgency/
https://illwilleditions.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising/
https://illwilleditions.com/prelude-to-a-new-civil-war/
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation
https://itsgoingdown.org/fire-on-main-street-small-cities-in-the-george-floyd-uprising/
Outro song: Dj Screw - Sittin on Top of the World (Big Floyd aka George Floyd verse)
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- Jan 11, 202100:0006:40
Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path?
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Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise
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