

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.
Email: auxiliarystatements@gmail.com
Email: auxiliarystatements@gmail.com
Episodes
Mentioned books

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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Oct 4, 2024 • 1h 16min
120. The Capitalist Nature of the "Socialist" Countries | L.L. Men
Back on our value theory bs - this week we discuss just what it is that makes a society socialist and what makes it capitalist. Is it all just vibes??
Reading: The Capitalist Nature of the "Socialist" Countries (1986) by L.L Men
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Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 3min
119. Anton Pannekoek and the Theory of the Transition | Bob Shepard
We're back and talking pancakes bay-bee.
Reading: Anton Pannekoek and the Theory of the Transition (1990) by Bob Shepard
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Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 7min
118. Marxism and Psychology | Anton Pannekoek
In which we record live from an orgone accumulator.
Reading: Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy (1937) and Marxism and Psychology (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
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Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 18min
117. Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Pt. 4 (FINALE) | Isaak Illich Rubin
In which we finally finish this book and talk productive labor, production price and yeah I don't know a lot more I'm too tired to write this caption.
Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Chapters 17-19 (1923) by I. I. Rubin
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Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 22min
116. The State and Revolution | Vladimir Lenin
In which we finally stop joking about reading Lenin and actually do it.
Reading: The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
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Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 11min
115. Marxism and Revolutionary Strategy as Science | w/ Viv Soni
Is Marxism science? Is science Marxism? Is the strategy of patience all it's cracked up to be? What about all this riot business? All these questions and more answered by the podcast's second ever repeat guest, Viv Soni as we discuss his recent essay in the journal The Black Lamp.
Reading: High priests of telescopes and cyclotrons: Marxism and revolutionary strategy as science (2024) by Vivak Soni
https://www.black-lamp.com/posts/high-priests-of-telescopes-and-cyclotrons-marxism-and-revolutionary-strategy-as-science
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