Auxiliary Statements

Mar 05 2025 146 ep. 75 mins 108
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Post-peasant commies Dan and Jack read over bits of theory each week in an effort to understand the worldwide state of socialism. Email: [email protected]

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130. Dialectical Thinking and Science | Pierfrancesco Biasetti

Mar 05 2025 59 mins  
Alright, this time we're really gonna figure out what dialectics is. Reading: Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist (2020) by Pierfrancesco Biasetti Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FUpZKFE3

129. Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy | Gabriel Kuhn

Feb 13 2025 62 mins  
How do you do communal politics in an individualized, atomized world? How do you do individualism in a communal world? Reading: Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy (the early 1990s) by Gabriel Kuhn Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/CD8wXpzc

128. Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety | Julius Deutsch & Gabriel Kuhn

Feb 05 2025 71 mins  
In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics. Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CD8wXpzc

127. Reform or Revolution? | Rosa Luxemburg

Jan 22 2025 77 mins  
Well after a month of being locked out of our Soundcloud account we're finally back in our social democracy era. Reading: Reform or Revolution? (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/arZSSVw6

126. What is the Party? | Prometheus

Dec 15 2024 83 mins  
In which we try to get past our kneejerk sect bashing. Reading: "There are Parties and Then There are Parties" by Archie Woodrow, "Why a Party and What Sort?" by Mike Macnair and "The Communist Party, Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Lawrence Parker (all 2024) from Prometheus, available here: https://prometheusjournal.org/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatemen

125. The Logic of Gender | Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton

Dec 09 2024 68 mins  
In which we encounter the unknowable concept of the S P H E R E. Reading: The Logic of Gender (2013) from Endnotes 3 by Maya Gonzalez and Jeanne Neton. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4r47b7UF

124. Seven Theses on American Politics | Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley

Nov 26 2024 72 mins  
*banging head against the wall* POLITICALCAPITALISMTECHNONEOFEUDALISMNEOLIBERALISM Reading: Seven Theses on American Politics (2022) by Robert Brenner & Dylan Riley Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/G22EcdhR

123. Socialist Planning Panels at the 2024 Historical Materialism Conference

Nov 11 2024 83 mins  
SKIP THE ELECTION BANTER: 27:47 In which we sneak into an academic conference and stick out like two sore thumbs. Reading: Nothin' INDEP network: https://www.indep.network/ Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vC5r2MmA

122. Riot. Strike. Riot. | Joshua Clover

Oct 30 2024 76 mins  
Lousy workers! Why won't you do industrial unionism?! Reading: Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/4zW4DsM9

121. Demographic Decline in the Twenty-First Century | Jason E. Smith

Oct 17 2024 68 mins  
Just how bad is the looming global population decline going to be for capitalism? Will it be able to AI its way out of the productivity losses? More importantly, what does this mean for my own political project? Reading: After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the "Production of Men" in the Twenty-First Century by Jason E. Smith https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-note