

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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Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 5min
79. Fossil Capital, Part 1 │Andreas Malm
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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.

Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 14min
78. The Final Crisis w/ Ted Reese
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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

Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 44min
77. Revolutionary Strategy in the Netherlands w/ Agata
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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.

Nov 25, 2022 • 1h 10min
76. Visions of the Food System to Come | B. Dale, M Dipieri, M. Frechette & H. Klemmensen
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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

Nov 11, 2022 • 1h 6min
75. Rethinking the French Revolution | George Comninel
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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)

Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 13min
74. The Permanent Crisis | Paul Mattick on Henryk Grossman
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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)

Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 9min
73. Capitalism in the Web of Life, Part 3 (FINALE) | Jason W. Moore
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WELL FOLKS, here we are again, rounding out this three-parter with a dialectal, ecological, Marxical reading of crisis and our relationship to the broader web of life. Is there a final capitalist crisis coming? Or will we be able to appropriate our way out of it?
Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore

Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 2min
72. Capitalism in the Web of Life, Part 2 | Jason W Moore
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Jack and Dan can put it off no longer. This week they return to Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the web of life’ for a discussion of part two of the book focusing on the place of ecology in capitalisms ongoing cycles of crisis. Will there be an ecologically driven final crisis of capitalism?
Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore

Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 8min
71. Steve Bannon - American Dharma | Errol Morris - (Bad Man Trilogy Pt 3)
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Here we are rounding out our unofficial/official 'Bad Man Trilogy' of Errol Morris films about, well, bad white guys. This time we take on Trump aide Steve Bannon in an attempt to answer the question tragedy, farce, or something much, much stupider?

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 8min
70. Capitalism in the Web of Life, Part 1 | Jason W Moore
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We are back on our ecology bs. But this week it isn't all doom and gloom as we tackle the first part of Jason Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life, a D I A L E C T I C A L contribution to the Marxist ecology debates. This one tested us, but maybe we came out the other side better off?
Reading: Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) by Jason W. Moore