Auxiliary Statements

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

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.

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.

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

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