

Auxiliary Statements
Jack & Dan
Post-peasant commies Dan and Jack read over bits of theory each week in an effort to understand the worldwide state of socialism.
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Email: auxiliarystatements@gmail.com
Episodes
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Aug 22, 2025 • 1h 13min
142. Hypernormalisation | Adam Curtis
Say what you will about this podcast, we keep up with the culture, which is why we're watching a nearly 10 year old documentary on Trump, AI and collective politics.
Watching: Hypernormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
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Aug 8, 2025 • 1h 13min
141. Why the American Working Class is Different | Mike Davis
In which we try to get away from the ultra-left stuff but find it vindicated by history once again :c
Reading: Why the American Working Class is Different (1986) (from Prisoners of the American Dream) by Mike Davis
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Jul 25, 2025 • 1h 7min
140. An Agroecological Europe in 2050 | Xavier Poux & Pierre-Marie Aubert
In which we make an effort to read something other than dense Marxology.
Reading: An Agroecological Europe in 2050 (2018) by Xavier Poux & Pierre-Marie Aubert
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Jul 11, 2025 • 1h 8min
139. Epitaph for the USSR: A clock without a spring | Christopher Arthur
In which we suss out this whole USSR thing.
Reading: Epitaph for the USSR: A clock without a spring (1998) by Christopher J Arthur
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Jun 27, 2025 • 1h 23min
138. The Future of Revolution | Jasper Bernes
We're back on our bs.
Reading: The Future of Revolution (2025) by Jasper Bernes
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Jun 13, 2025 • 1h 3min
137. An Inconvenient Truth | Al Gore
In which we remember the good and sane bush years.
Watching: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Davis Guggenheim & Al Gore
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May 30, 2025 • 1h 10min
136. Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity | Michael Löwy, Olivier Besancenot & David Campbell
Turns out you need to do more than just read Murray Bookchin if you want to be friends with anarchists.
Reading: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity (2023) by Michael Löwy, Olivier Besancenot & David Campbell
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May 16, 2025 • 1h 21min
135. Bourgeois Revolution | Henry Heller
In which brave Henry Heller saves the immortal science of Marxism from the unwarranted revisionism of W O K E political marxism.
Reading: "Bourgeois Revolution" from The Birth of Capitalism (2011) by Henry Heller
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May 2, 2025 • 1h 9min
134. Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire
You ever noticed that the 8 hour working day is like...................the same as school, man?
Reading: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) by Paulo Freire
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Apr 18, 2025 • 1h 37min
133. Red Dust: The Transition to Capitalism in China | Chuang
Sure China has billionaires, a strictly enforced class system, State Owned Enterprises that are evaluated on stock market performance, private property, wage labor and commodity production but is it REALLY capitalism guys
Reading: Red Dust (2019) by Chuang.
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