157. Britain is Dead | Samuel McIlhagga

In which we welcome Phil Neel on the show to talk about the current great state of the world. Phil's substack: https://philneel.substack.com/ Get Hellworld (soon): https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2813-hellworld-the-human-species-and-the-planetary-factory Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/gZY9cQQ2

Is Britain's decline a result of long, historical trends affecting every country in capitalism? Or is it due to centuries of elite inbreeding? Reading: 'Britain is Dead' (2023) by Samuel McIlhagga Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/HctY6Cq2

Historical party, formal party, communist party....it's all a party to me, brother. Reading: 'Theory of the Party' (2025) by Phil Neel Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/a4ZdUaA4

Turns out socialism, cybernetics and agroecology might actually just be the same thing Reading: 'Potatoes Made of Oil': Eugene and Howard Odum and the Origins and Limits of American Agroecology (1997) by Mark Glen Madison Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/WxJx6gkrt

Kautsky? More like crapsky. Reading: The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/mNrzsQQY

We've finally done it. We finally read one half of worker's councils. Reading: Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/XRun56vB

You know what, this one wasn't that good. Reading: The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (1984) by Fredy Perlman Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/DUT4FA2t

Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodger. Reading: Tariff Dossier (2025) edited by Heatwave Magazine, with contributions from Chuang, Jamie Merchant, Clearinghouse, Réalité, Raffaele Sciortino, Conatus Editorial and more. Just go read it all here: https://www.heatwavemag.info/dossiers/tariffs/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Mb6B2e48

Turns out that large scale collapse we've all been worried about might have already happened. Reading: The Long, Slow Death of Global Development (2022) by David Oks & Henry Williams Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4Y9xFfPa

Why does it seem as though every political issue is being filtered through the issue of immigration? What does this say about the historical mission of socialism? Let us know when you figure it out. Reading: The Contradictions of Global Migration (2019) by Adam Hanieh Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/NjEG9Q9J