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Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

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Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke.

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Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

This is a short preview of the paywalled portion of the long discussion between Sean and Varn about the 2024 election and the end of the Long Twentieth Century.

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Sean and Varn continue the second part of their miniseries on left strategies and orientations. Central to the discussion is the definition and role of what is called 'Rank and File' organizing, something that means many things to many people, but whose bases are often conflated in literature and debate, for example in the DSA. This episode tackles, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Leninists and syndicalists.

Taking a cue from current events, the conversation revolves around the ongoing United Autoworkers strike in the Midwest: what it might mean for the industry, how a victory might galvanize the broader working class, and how a defeat might play out.

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UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position.

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In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/no-justice-no-jeeps-scenes-auto-workers-strike https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakers

Alex press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/15/uaw_strike_big_three_automakers

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/the-uaw-strike-matters-for-the-entire-us-working-class

Ex wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702318383642112082

Biden audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1702723784506056705

Trump audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702733477517357310

Hate listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/podcasts/the-daily/ford-general-motors-strike.html

Contradictions at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/biden-uaw-strike.html

Hamilton Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it

-WSWS https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/nvxk-s15.html -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/

Adam Green and Ben Kweller - Kokomo

Audio from our live gig last week in Brooklyn! Find out if this the end of podcasting as we know it.Then we hang with Minion Death Cult a week later to sift through the wreckage of the Well There's Your Problem show in Philly, out trip to Citi Field to woo Mrs. Met, nasty notes to UPS drivers, NY in the post-Bloomberg era, and boys being cats.For full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSongs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'

Since we're in Philly this week to perform with Well There's Your Problem, enjoy this classic episode from December 2019 with Roz!

Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1, to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit? How the hell was this crazy film made? What does it tell us about the history of public transit in Los Angeles and elsewhere? Why is Elon Musk full of shit? How would rail fit into the Green New Deal and socialism broadly? Most importantly, how did our fans get us to watch hentai?

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In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy.

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readsettlers.org/ch5.html

https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html

​​https://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-and

Song: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones

Oh, and DONT FORGET TO SEE US THIS TUESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in.

Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic!

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