

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
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May 12, 2023 • 1h 22min
87. Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler | Paul Mattick
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Well we held off as long as we could, but now we're back on our leftcom bs. What do socdems and fascists have in common? Well, yeah. A lot in fact.
Reading: "Worker's Control" "Revolutionary Marxism" and "Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler" by Paul Mattick Sr. (all from the Council Communist Reader)

May 3, 2023 • 55min
II. Agroindustrial Society & its Future | System Scaling, Ley Systems, and the Ecological City
Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing
A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the second part and it covers System Scaling, Ley Systems, and the Ecological City.

Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 9min
86. The Dialectical Biologist - On Evolution | Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Alright this week we've finally done it. We hAVE COMPREHENDED THE DIALECTIC - maybe, who knows. But we do have a nice chat about evolution and dump all over Richard Dawkins. So it's a good time.
Reading: "On Evolution" from The Dialectical Biologist (1985) by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin

Apr 19, 2023 • 43min
I. Agroindustrial Society & its Future | Soil Chemistry, Ecology & Agricultural Planning
Link to full essay & much, much more: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtzmDZk0j1jeoygovUndoI7sZJ7pZg3U?usp=sharing
A few months ago a listener of ours named Will sent us this essay on how we can begin thinking about planned, sustainable food systems. It blew both of us away so, will his permission, we're going to be releasing a recording of it over the next few weeks. This is the first part and it covers soil, ecology and just what it means to build food systems.

Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 19min
85. The Web of Life & the Dialectic w/ Jason W. Moore
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter)
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Very special ep for you today as we sat down with podcast Mt. Rushmore head Jason W. Moore to talk ecology, strategy, and just what this whole dialectic thing actually is.

Mar 31, 2023 • 1h 27min
84. A Short History of Reconstruction | Eric Foner
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LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Today we tackle the complicated era of the reconstruction of the American South after the Civil War. What role did the control of a subjugated labor labor force play in a supposedly post-slavery South? What was the burgeoning industrial proletariat doing during all this? How can we finish reconstruction? All questions we at the very least, ask.
Reading: A Short History of Reconstruction (1990) by Eric Foner.

Mar 17, 2023 • 1h 13min
83. Cybernetics & Labour Time Accounting w/ Donal
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter)
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
This week the lads welcome their friend Donal to the show to talk about his upcoming publication in The Black Lamp tentatively titled "Social Object Viability Strategy." Donal is out here combining labor time accounting in the vein of Jan Appel and the GIC with cybernetics and broader systems theory - in other words, he can teach your faithful podcast hosts a thing or two.
Donal: @DonalOC91 on twitter
Check out the book Donal is writing with Tom from From Alpha To Omega here: https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 22min
82. Marx and the First International | George Comninel & Karl Marx
DISCORD: discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter)
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Well we're back trying to sort out this whole 'what can we do about capitalism' thing. Comninel boldly claims that 'Marx was not a Leninist' in this week's reading as we learn what it was that made the First International so unique and worthy of daddy Marx's time.
Reading: 'Inaugural Address to the IWA' (1864) by Karl Marx & 'Marx and the Politics of the First International' (2014) by George Comninel

Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 11min
81. Caliban and the Witch | Silvia Federici
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Well we're back with another episode on our old bugbear - the origin of capitalism. Just what is a transition between productive modes? How did the reproduction of labor power change between feudalism and capitalism? How did the family unit come about? All questions we may or may not have answers to as we take on this classic of Marxist history.
Reading: "All the World Needs a Jolt" & "The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women" in Caliban and the Witch (2004) by Silvia Federici

Feb 3, 2023 • 1h 16min
80. Fossil Capital, Part 2 | Andreas Malm
DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6
LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast
Well folks, we're back finishing off Fossil Capital. Is there any hope? How can we take power as a class? Are we going to get 4 degrees of warming? All very dire questions, so we distract ourselves by talking some more ecology. Maybe if we talk about it enough we can figure it all out....
Reading: "Fossil Capital" (2015) by Andreas Malm, Chapters 9-16.