

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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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