Auxiliary Statements

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/

DISCORD: discord.gg/wMYg8TWhWu (if this link don't work message us on twitter) LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast 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

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

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.

DISCORD: discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week its back to the familiar and much loved Auxiliary Statements format. After a couple of episodes spent welcoming excellent and exceedingly informative guests to the show the dunces are back at the helm. This episode Jack and Dan get stuck into Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm. Continuing there ecological crisis reading series the lads learn all about how and why fossil fuel became the prime mover of British industry and in turn the primary source of power behind capitalisms growth during the industrial revolution. Reading: "Fossil Capital" (2015) by Andreas Malm, Chapters 1-8.

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4Fhbu6fSa6 LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Two interviews in a row!? Wow Dan and Jack must really be trying to get through a big book. This week we had the pleasure of talking to none other than @Grossmanite himself Ted Reese about the looming final crisis of capitalism, war, ecology, and permaculture based false flag operations. Find out more about Ted's work as well as where to buy his books and show him some support at the link below. https://linktr.ee/grossmanite

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Special one today folks as Dan and Jack sat down with their good friend Agata to discuss the Socialist Party in the Netherlands, Maoism as well as the revolutionary organization Communist Platform. CP is a communist cadre based off of the ideas in Mike MacNair's Revolutionary Strategy.

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week our portly podcast hosts take a break from the historical materialisms and the dialectics and the Brenner debates to talk about the only good thing - growing your own food. What will a just agroecological food system look like? Is it compatible with socialism? Probz. I dunno. Reading: Visions of the Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating, and Ecological Justice in 2050 (2021) by Bryan Dale, Matilda Dipieri, Madeleine Frechette, and Hannah Klemmensen

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast LEARN HOW TO DO HISTORICAL MATERIALISM IN 3 EASY STEPS!! This week your fearless podcast hosts sit down to discuss the nature of the french revolution...and just how wrong Marx may have been about it. For answers, we turn to Marx. Lousy Marxists...they ruined Marxism. Reading: Rethinking the French Revolution by George Comninel (1987)

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast Well I guess it's time to start talking about crisis, eh? It's probably no coincedence this essay was written in 1934 and we're reading this now. Why does capitalism seem to always fall into crisis ever 5-10 years? Is there anything we can do to stop it? How tall is this Rishi Sunak fellow anyway? Reading: "The Permanent Crisis - Henryk Grossman’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory Of Capitalist Accumulation" by Paul Mattick (1934)