
Auxiliary Statements
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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Latest episodes

Feb 14, 2025 • 1h 3min
129. Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy | Gabriel Kuhn
How do you do communal politics in an individualized, atomized world? How do you do individualism in a communal world?
Reading: Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy (the early 1990s) by Gabriel Kuhn
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Feb 6, 2025 • 1h 12min
128. Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety | Julius Deutsch & Gabriel Kuhn
In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics.
Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch
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Jan 23, 2025 • 1h 18min
127. Reform or Revolution? | Rosa Luxemburg
Well after a month of being locked out of our Soundcloud account we're finally back in our social democracy era.
Reading: Reform or Revolution? (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
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Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 23min
126. What is the Party? | Prometheus
In which we try to get past our kneejerk sect bashing.
Reading: "There are Parties and Then There are Parties" by Archie Woodrow, "Why a Party and What Sort?" by Mike Macnair and "The Communist Party, Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Lawrence Parker (all 2024) from Prometheus, available here: https://prometheusjournal.org/
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Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 8min
125. The Logic of Gender | Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton
In which we encounter the unknowable concept of the S P H E R E.
Reading: The Logic of Gender (2013) from Endnotes 3 by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton.
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Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 13min
124. Seven Theses on American Politics | Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley
*banging head against the wall* POLITICALCAPITALISMTECHNONEOFEUDALISMNEOLIBERALISM
Reading: Seven Theses on American Politics (2022) by Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley
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Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 23min
123. Socialist Planning Panels at the 2024 Historical Materialism Conference
SKIP THE ELECTION BANTER: 27:47
In which we sneak into an academic conference and stick out like two sore thumbs.
Reading: Nothin'
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Oct 31, 2024 • 1h 17min
122. Riot. Strike. Riot. | Joshua Clover
Lousy workers! Why won't you do industrial unionism?!
Reading: Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover
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Oct 18, 2024 • 1h 8min
121. Demographic Decline in the Twenty-First Century | Jason E. Smith
Just how bad is the looming global population decline going to be for capitalism? Will it be able to AI its way out of the productivity losses? More importantly, what does this mean for my own political project?
Reading: After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the "Production of Men" in the Twenty-First Century by Jason E. Smith
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter/
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Oct 7, 2024 • 3h 25min
III. Jerusalem - Book Three: Vernall's Inquest & Afterlude | Alan Moore
Six months later, we come to the end.
Chapter discussion timestamps:
CLOUDS UNFOLD 8:26
A COLD AND FROSTY MORNING 16:57
ROUND THE BEND 33:53
BURNING GOLD 1:01:18
THE RAFTERS AND THE BEAMS 1:16:41
THE STEPS OF ALL SAINTS 1:38:01
EATING FLOWERS 1:54:30
CORNERED 2:14:35
THE ROOD IN THE WALL 2:27:01
THE JOLLY SMOKERS 2:39:04
GO SEE NOW THIS CURSED WOMAN 2:50:29
CHAIN OF OFFICE 3:06:19
Resources:
Jerusalem Annotated - alanmoorejerusalem.wordpress.com/alan-moo…s-index/
Matthew Kirshenblatt essays - sequart.org/magazine/64975/a-jo…m-work-in-progress/
Readers of Jerusalem - https://www.reddit.com/r/ReadersofJerusalem/
Round the Bend Translation - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-TC_xHcLM7LFW4WsNzC6dfuyBXQG-NX38Ok8qDdDvOU/edit?usp=sharing
Songs:
"And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time"
"You are my Asylum"
Reading: Book Three: Vernall's Inquest and Afterlude: Chain of Office from Jerusalem (2016) by Alan Moore
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