Auxiliary Statements

Jack & Dan
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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. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Be6dQ6hv
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Apr 4, 2025 • 1h 9min

132. Peace for our Time | Critisticuffs

In which we regain our lost optimism. Reading: Peace for our Time (2025) by Critisticuffs, The American Sulla (2025) by Edith Fischer and Notes on the War (2025) by Jack Conrad Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/273xScQK
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Mar 21, 2025 • 1h 3min

131. Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal | Rodrigo Nunes

In which we inaugurate the Chantal Mouffe era of the show. Reading: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal (2021) by Rodrigo Nunes Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAHjv96U
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Mar 6, 2025 • 59min

130. Dialectical Thinking and Science | Pierfrancesco Biasetti

Alright, this time we're really gonna figure out what dialectics is. Reading: Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist (2020) by Pierfrancesco Biasetti Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FUpZKFE3
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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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/CD8wXpzc
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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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CD8wXpzc
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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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/arZSSVw6
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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/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD:
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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. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4r47b7UF
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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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/G22EcdhR

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