Auxiliary Statements

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/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/d3rRXNEb

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 Send a question, comment or concern to auxiliarystatements (at) gmail (dot) com DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/yAzMehDV

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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/d3rRXNEb

We're back and talking pancakes bay-bee. Reading: Anton Pannekoek and the Theory of the Transition (1990) by Bob Shepard Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/pMFhHCvr

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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Vs6CG8et

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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/6QVe5kbp

In which we finally stop joking about reading Lenin and actually do it. Reading: The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/QScuasDH

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 Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/GYxuAdPh

Abstract labor eh? Seems like a simple enough concept. Reading: Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, Chapters 12-16 (1923) by I. I. Rubin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/c7QwVz26

In which we have a look back at what hasn't worked, and why it will continue to not work. Reading: Reflections on the Economics of Socialism (2022) by Nick Rogers Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/daKyRFAW