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NEW EPISODE With winter on its way, we figured what better way to warm our hearts than getting back into the debates around the origin of capitalism? This time, we look at Immanuel Wallerstein's classic Historical Capitalism.

NEW EPISODE Where we read through some critiques of the Fundamental Principles & the GIC, discuss what defines a mode of production, and what it means for that production to be stable and reactive.

📺 You can now watch our INDEP talk, where we introduce the basic ideas of our group: anti-sectarianism, Marxism, cybernetics, planning, democracy and... solarpunk! 🌞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uYl...

Yes the world is falling apart but the dodgers are this close to proving hilferding right!!

In no way did the dodgers deserve that lmao

NEW EPISODE Where we read some James Connolly, discuss his way of viewing Marxism as a method not a dogma, and talk all about the Irish flag.

thoroughly enjoying watching the dodgers ruin baseball rn

NEW EPISODE Two years on from October 7th, we dive into the history of Palestine as experienced by its people, as well as the political economy of Israel and its occupation.

NEW EPISODE Where we read Communism & Strategy by Isabelle Garo and consider her reinterpretation of Marx, specifically the Critique of the Gotha Program, and hassle the post-Marxists.

NEW EPISODE In which we read a history of American Evangelicalism and its tenuous relationship with intellectualism. Why did American Protestantism evolve into such a bizarre collection of denominations? What role did they play in America's bourgeois revolution? What's next?

NEW EPISODE Where we take a bit of a break, watch Hypernormalisation and mull over what it has to say about culture and collective politics in an age where everyone is clearly lying about everything.

NEW EPISODE Where we attempt to answer the age-old question "why is the American working class different?"

NEW EPISODE In which we return to Agroecology; why it's one of the better models for sustainable agriculture, why it meshes so well with systems theory and socialism, and how our diets and ways of laboring would need to change if we're serious about saving our ecology.

NEW EPISODE In which we talk about the USSR and are introduced to the idea of a "non-mode" of production. Does a mode have to be stable and capable of reproducing itself on its own? What does that mean for the transition to communism? Let us know when you have the answer.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

NEW EPISODE In which we read Jasper Bernes' The Future of Revolution and talked about communization, critiques of the GIK, and the difference between the "Test of value" and a fully functioning communist society.

NEW EPISODE Where we rewatch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as a jumping off point to discuss the now well and truly dead progressive bourgeois approach to climate activism, what a socialist climate pedagogy might look like, and the cultural zeitgeist of the Bush years.

NEW EPISODE In which is suss out the possible points of agreement & disagreement for a Marxist/Anarchist solidarity, banter about how anarchism has changed over history, and question both sides' theories of the state.

NEW EPISODE In which we read Henry Heller as he makes the case for the transition to capitalism as a process and not event, and as such defends the idea that the English, Dutch and French revolutions were not only all bourgeois but capitalist too. Take that political marxists!

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Really great stuff - plants the seed for what an emancipatory science might look like while remaining firmly rooted in our present stagnation. www.black-lamp.com/posts/the-sc...

NEW EPISODE In which we read the second part of Chuang's economic history of China and discuss the transition to capitalism, how to talk about transitions between modes, so-called "non-modes" of production and much more.

Where we read a piece by our friends over at @critisticuffs.org about Trump and imperialism and have our biannual current events discussion. open.spotify.com/episode/2yVu...

NEW EPISODE Where we read Rodrigo Nunes' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and talk about what organizing means today, cybernetics and our memories of Occupy. open.spotify.com/episode/7xNF...

Baseball 👍

New article: Peace for our Time Trump has upended the post-war American world order. What has been undone, and what is to be done? critisticuffs.org/texts/peace-...

NEW EPISODE Where we really, truly, once and for all, answer the age old question "what the fuck is the dialectic" open.spotify.com/episode/2RFB...

NEW EPISODE In which we banter about the role of the individual in communism. How can we encourage individualism and self expression? And how could that encourage societal development on the whole? open.spotify.com/episode/5Rbm...

A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/3CVV6Au

NEW EPISODE In which we banter about Austro-Marxism, specifically the attempts to transform the Austrian workers movement into a cultural movement, and why it ultimately fell to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/1kzJ...

LOOK WHAT JUNIOR CAMINERO JUST DID!!!!!!!!!

NEW EPISODE In which we finally read Reform or Revolution, one of the few texts Marxists say you need to read that you probably should actually read. What is Revisionism? Why is it blatantly anti-Marxist? More importantly, why does it keep coming back? open.spotify.com/episode/40fR...

NEW EPISODE In which we read some essays from @prometheusjournal.bsky.social that offered different views on what the mass party might look like. More have been written since we recorded, so go check them out below! open.spotify.com/episode/55Iz...

🚨🚨🚨 CALL FOR ARTICLES Recent discussions of regroupment and reorganisation of the left in Britain have been welcome to see. prometheusjournal.org/2024/10/21/w...

NEW EPISODE In which we read the essay The Logic of Gender and banter about the relationship capital has to reproductive labor, why it doesn't consider it to be "labor" as such, and critically appraise the ideas of Judith Butler and Silvia Federici. open.spotify.com/episode/5yfp...