Auxiliary Statements

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)

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast 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

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast 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

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast 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?

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast 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

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast This week Jack and Dan explore the history of the inception of the US constitution. A text that is sold to us as being an abstract work of pure political theory, inspired by high minded ideals and revolutionary intent; a work with semi-divine provenance. Instead it is discovered it is in fact a document that finds its origin in the corruption, venality and self serving nature of the founders and one that was ratified under circumstances that amount to a de facto coup d'etat. Reading: An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles A. Beard (1913)

DISCORD: discord.gg/bJtAEbFS LINKTREE: linktr.ee/AuxiliaryStatementsPodcast I ask you, humble listener, does it get any better than this? Reading Murray Bookchin on a Wednesday afternoon. No it does not. This week the fellas discuss the influence of systems theory, Marxism & anthropology on the ecotopian ideas of none other than the man himself...Murray Bookchin. Reading: "The Power to Create, The Power to Destroy" (1979) & "Toward an Ecological Society" (1975) by Murray Bookchin.