Ep 190 - Doing a no growth w/ Aaron Vansintjan

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family. Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!

The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism. Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824 Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/ Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/ An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/ Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons

Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage? For the full episode, a tons more bonus content and access to our Discord server, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Full episode here An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting. Show notes: Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/ Inventories skyrocketing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory Investment decline https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/ https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England. Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada! please support the show :3

Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us. Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/ Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America

Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin. full episode for Patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned! Full Episode! This is an extended preview, for the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists! In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system! For more MDC premium content and to listen to the rest of their ongoing series on the show, subscribe to MDC at https://www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult/

Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges. Buy the book from Verso, now 30% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ Song: Snail Mail - Thinning