Meditations on the differences between some superficially similar things that we can’t afford to get twisted. Unprincipled opportunism, idealist insistence that revolutionary organizing always be only prefigurative of stateless, classless society—and meanwhile outright manifestations of react...
2022-04-27 04:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The historical symbolism of the Zelyonka industrial dye attack—by which members of the Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine claim to be marking their victims, whether they be Roma or other central Asian peoples or just supposed Russophiles, as “orcs” tainted by Asiatic racial contagion—lies in ...
2022-04-05 12:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post
As Anglo-American capitalism swept across the globe in the nineteenth century, the school of Japanese Buddhism most closely associated with the thoroughly discredited feudal government, Zen, was struggling to rebrand. Meanwhile, Paul Carus, a German immigrant serving as court philosopher to a zin...
2022-03-09 06:40:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A more newsy, free-flowing episode. I see many socialists confused by paired spectacles of astroturfed extremism and carefully misdirected popular energy: caravans of hooting hollering settler hogs on the one side, caravans of moozlamic hispanic terrorists on the other. I’m pretty sure the plan...
2022-03-04 11:28:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A wide-ranging conversation on historical comparative psychology, spirituality, and leftist politics, with Khālid ibn Yaʿqūb, co-host of the Subliminal Jihad podcast.
2022-03-03 08:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The first private property was the body of the woman, with the historic defeat of the female sex and the birth of the father. We catch fleeting glimpses of the extended clan (gens) family as it existed right down to the 20th century among human beings outside class society, then examine the unexp...
2022-02-02 22:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
With the internet, every ordinary social interaction is now subject to counterinsurgency tactics like COINTELPRO and GLADIO. In places like Vietnam, Kenya, and Ireland, counterinsurgency strategists have allowed the working class to organize while embedding agents within their orgs and...
2021-12-28 06:47:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s bourgeois liberal literature versus the actual history of worker and peasant struggle, as we contrast Ishikawa Jun’s very anti-human view of the unwashed masses of postwar Tokyo, with the economy of autonomous workers’ councils that seized the means of production and traded their produ...
2021-12-10 11:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post
From the 20th c. BCE, discourses on truth and justice delivered by a peasant who has been robbed by a dishonest official. This leads us into meditations on the class basis of the State, discourses of class compromise, and finally the way that class rule can operate not only by speaking to its sub...
2021-11-24 04:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostA little supplement to yesterday’s episode, as my new more spontaneous and hopefully sustainable format may I fear have left some things unsaid and invited misunderstanding.
2021-11-17 02:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A kind of critical support or supportive criticism of the parapolitics left, particularly what we might call the vampire hunter faction, as we take a look at Buddhist folk tales from early–Heian-period Japan, a time and place where the Abrahamic worldview has no purchase but we still see religi...
2021-11-16 10:02:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Japanese Proletarian writer Kobayashi Takiji takes us into class consciousness, gendered violence, wage labor, the commodity, even the revolutionary potential of the working class, all through the eyes of a child, in the short story “Comrade Taguchi’s Sorrow.”
2021-09-29 06:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We explore the hall of mirrors that produced white supremacy, anti-blackness, and the explosive expansion of capital networks in the wake of the “re”conquista of Spain, the crusades, and the age of European exploration.
2021-08-31 07:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a tour of the Silk Road, where merchant capital moved and grew value between the ancient empires of China, India, and the newly formed Muslim world, with its roots in nomadism and trade and frontier relationships with nomads, including future “white people” like the Viking Rus.
2021-08-17 02:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The original conspiracy theory. In ancient myths from opposite sides of the globe, we find ancestral memories of the violent conspiracy that gave birth to class society. We also trace the growth of cosmologies of good and evil through class struggle and the growth of the great ancient empires: do...
2021-08-05 03:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We get an intimate view of the transition to the grain state, straight out of Sumer (modern-day Iraq) in the 22nd century BCE, and compare it to one of the last defenders of the grain state, Aizawa Seishisai in 19th-c. CE Japan, Aristotle in 4th-c. BCE Greece, and current events.
2021-08-03 03:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Human history through the lens of relations of production. A quick ramble through the deep history of class struggle. We rise like Mary Magdalene through the heavenly spheres and meet each of the demonic rulers and powers of the air which we must organize to defeat as we build the Kin...
2021-08-03 02:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post