This Wreckage
A communist podcast exploring political economy, history, and class struggle, hosted by AP Andy and Sean KB with guests. The show offers bonus content and community access through Patreon.
Episodes
Embrace the Noid w/ CommuNoid Zine
Get the Zine at https://www.patreon.com/ParaPowerMappingFollow CommuNoid on X and read more at https://parapowermapper.substack.com/ and https://parapowermapping.com/Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageSong: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)
Lycéens to Ill w/ Henry Wallis
Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France. For the full episdoe, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Why don't they make the whole commune out of the Black Box? w/ Nick Chavez
The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production. The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism. Support our show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageRead the essay at
Pacing the F-tier
NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil! SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGEShow notes:Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guessesChina's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytimes.
The Menace of Prosperity w/ Daniel Wortel-London
Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press.Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benefi
Was Dolly Parton America A or America B? w/ Liam & Jackson
Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas.The authors of "Alphabet America" (Liam and Jackson) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, expe
LIVE in Chicago! w/ Jamie Merchant
Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention!For the full episode, including our panel with Jamie Merchant and 3 delegates from ILC locals, support us on patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckageSong: Chicago - Saturday in the Park
Mechanical Turks Against Empire
FOR THE FULL EPISODE, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckageNEWS EP! We preview our coming events in Chicago and New York, and read about the United States' comic inability to make artillery shells. UPCOMING EVENTS:FRI 8/21 This Wreckage live event: https://luma.com/tc972eyv SAT 8/22 UFOlogy to the People event at the Beach: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachchicago/SUN 8/23 M
Real Workerist Hours w/ Billy and Greg
Sean (car painter) sits down with Billy OC (rod buster) and Gregory A. Butler (UBC retiree, IUOE member) to discuss the latter's new book The Workerist Manifesto. This is part 1 of a miniseries devoted to Greg's books, his news service Gangbox News and his many years of experience working in the trades and thinking about working class emancipation. Chicago: get tickets for the This Wreckage Live
Left-Populist LARPing w/ Varn & Tutt (LIVE at Woodbine)
Audio from our live panel on Saturday, July 25 at Woodbine where we go deeper on Varn & Tutt's new book The People Are Not One, starting with some normie vs. Marxist LARPing and ending with a spirited Q&A featuring Ross Wolfe, Greg Butler, Platypus, Donald Parkinson, and more! For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageThe event was sponsored by ILC of NYC
Trojan Shoot-and-Cry w/ Rax King, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe
For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/c/thiswreckageOur consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of the EnlightenmentSong: Cream - Tale of Brave Odysseus
Elves Against the Machine w/ Matthew Wolfe
An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-SabotageSupport DFW defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fundChopped Uncle Ted doc The Net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcUSong: Iskra
The People are Not One w/ Daniel Tutt, C. Derick Varn
The authors of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism join us to discuss their intervention against the electoral-populist trajectory of the US left, their debate with Geese, and their solutions for reviving a Marxist left. SEE Derick Varn and Tutt on theirFor the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageBook Tour!Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM — R
Well There's Your Snafu
NEWS EP! Andy's reportback from Summer of Ludd! Sean on the 42nd Street building collapse and its YIMBY origins! Finally, the war's back on. But did it ever end?For the full episode, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckageBrooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm Our visit to the Verso
Talkin' Slop w/ Freddy G
A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipacCheck out Freddy and Anders' DSA-benefit comedy show: @paidprotestcomedy Some of his vids:Birthright https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVtPlwiuC7/Watermelon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU7Op2hYC1/Pod Save America: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNxxXahCbg/Land Auction: https://www.instag
Arch Enemies w/ Devin Thomas O'Shea
Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. LouisSupport the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckagePeter Thiel's Dialog leak: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/ Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind
Platnerpus Unaffiliated Society
Sean reports back on Labor Note drama!In the fun half, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage to hear it!For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9DwNYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magaz
Upstate Anarchist Bookfair
Interviews from this past weekend's Upstate Anarchist Bookfair with Riot Act Books, Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner, Flock Off Ithaca, Bolshevik Tendency, and Warzone DistroFor an extended version of this episode, sign up for FREE at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageAt the end I include a snippet of our Armed Love interview with Ben Morea, who passed away this weekend. Check out the full interview he
Consumption Junction w/ Nicolas D Villarreal
We take another break from WW3 and various attempted assassinations with a sojourn into some economic shit with our guest Nicolas D Villarreal, an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy.For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageFull piece: https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-capitalist-in-the-21st-century/Response https://cosmonautmag.co
LaRouche Bag w/ A.J.A. Woods
Sean and Andy are joined by researcher A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. How did this basket of conspiracies come together in the post-60s moment? Who was Lyndon Larouche and how did he provide a bridge from quasi-Leninist elitism to the Reaganite New Right? What does culture even mean for
Summer of Ludd
NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orbon is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis. In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda. To hear that, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Metropolitans B&N event with Noah Kulwin: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0 ‘Summer of Ludd’ https://www
Sun's Out, Bund's Out w/ Molly Crabapple
Catching up with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, available TODAY!! See also Molly's "My Great Grandfather was a Bundist" in New York Review of Books Support the show / get bonus content at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageSong: New Yiddish Chorale/Workers Circle Chorus feat. Adrienne Cooper - Barikadn (Barricades)
METROPOLITANS release week!
Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!! One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character. Check out this excerpt, this interview, or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review.PREORDER from Penguin, Bookshop.org, Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events: April 1: Of
International Unrealism w/ Deep State Kuba
Sean and Andy are joined by Deep State Kuba Ph.D., international relation expert to the podcasting stars, to discuss current events in an unraveling world. Who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine? How has the media coverage of war and peace gotten so bad since the last great period of wars in the early 2000's? What kind of divisions exist within the global ruling class and what aspects of gove
Kharg of War (Half)
We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immamentalizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they canFor the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageKharg theory: https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-oil-island-that-could-break-iran/https://x.com/guy_laron/status/
The Tariff Rift w/ C. Derick Varn (PART 1)
News ep! We talk striking nurses, MLBPA drama, SCOTUS vs POTUS, the changing tactics of ICE, looksmaxxing, and more with our cool Social Studies teacher, future governor of New York, the Sigma Marxist, C. Derick Varn!In part two of our new episode we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin mee
The Donroe Mocktrin
Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialismSupport the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageShow notes: EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.htmlEstonia's suppressio
Au Revoir Simón
Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution.Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/Support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageSong: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez
Year of the Youthquake w/ Adrian Wohlleben
We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution, a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs.Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-forceMemes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-endMaucio Lazzarato - The United States an
Microfascist Machines w/ Jack Z. Bratich
Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving!The concep
🔥HELLWORLD🌏 w/ Phil Neel
Phil Neel guides our Halloween descent into HELLWORLD--his epic new horror-theory analysis of the megastructures of global capitalism, and a search of the revolutionary subjectivity necessary to revolt against our domestication into the planetary factory.Phil Neel's substack: https://philneel.substack.com/ Theory of the Party: https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-partySong: Merle Haggard - Are the G
Criminal Anarchy w/ Aaron J. Leonard
Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism. It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901. For the full episode, sign u
Texas in an Outrage
A member of DFW Defendants Support reports from the first court hearing for 17 activists being charged with terrorism after attending a July 4 noise demo in Dallas gone very wrong. While details of the events are limited, it has been centrally cited by the Trump admin to justify their assault on protest and dissent, offering some clues of how similar prosecutions might proceed in the future, and h
Diving into the Wreckage: Energy Crisis
Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more. This is an extended preview of a much longer episode. To access the full episode and tons of other bonus content become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
BONUS: Paul Greengrass's The Uprising w/ Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe
for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGEAn epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide! for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE Rodney Hilton
Real Gen X Hours 1 w/ Rax King
In this bonus episode Andy and Sean are joined by roving media correspondent, Rax King, to get into some of the 80s/90s urtexts that created 21st century American culture: spoken word and standup comedy by Generation X luminaries Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Denis Leary. What do these cultural artifacts from a bygone era tell us about how all the highlights of organized American political life
&merica Deserves a 9/11 Podcast w/ PD&&&
&y, &ers Lee & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
&&&bolish the NYPD? + RIP Vaneigem
&ers makes some recommendations for Mamdani's approach to the NYPD, &y recaps is Irish dérive, & we read together some excerpts from the recently departed Raoul Vaneigem&ers essay on police reform: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-needs-to-fire-jessica-tisch-but-who-will-he-replace-her-with& reply from Ant L.: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/letter-the-nypd-is
Diving into the Wreckage: Only Black Pills w/ C Derick Varn
The boys are back, Sean interviews Varn on his recent tour with Daniel Tutt, What did they learn and what did they see? Next is a segment about the DSA, its strategy and factions, present and future. What might we imagine coming of winning on the Democrat ballot line?In the bonus room we get real doomer talking about the climate crisis, Complexity theory, public/private debt, the inability of US c
Reading Rubio's Cuba Report
Andy reads the 99 page State Department report: "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageEpisode with Blowback: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e324-blockade-w-1497810672021 Cuban uprising episode: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/talkin-tina-of-76203208Song: Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
ILC Assembly: The Queer Worker
Audio from June 27, 2026 ILC of NYC panel and town hall event for pride month on LGBTQ workers self-organizing, past and present. Watch and subscribe on ILC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfkabZCR04&t=4sWith the increase in anti-LGBTQ (and especially anti-trans) sentiment among American legislators, the Independent Labor Club views it as pressing to host a public conversat
Book of Revelation Part 2
Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION! We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III!For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckagesong: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Notes on Labor Notes 1 w/ Independent Labor Club of Chicago
Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to.Whither the Teams
Notes on Labor Notes 2 w/ Joyce from Teamsters Mobilize and ILC Chicago
The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's advers
E336 - The Nine Rigors w/ Rax King
Sean is joined by favorite guest and wife Rax King to discuss her upcoming essay in journalism cooperative Flaming Hydra on why organizing in the food service industry is so difficult but also so vital. What will it take for labor to break through in this industry? What can restaurant work teach us about labor in general? Why are these restaurant owners always clenching their jaws and sweating so
Diving into the Wreckage: Welcome to the Summer w/ C Derick Varn
As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tu
E335: That's What Xi Said
NEW EP! Was Trump's China trip a Nothing Burger or a soy slop?Why does the Deep State care so much about Taiwan?And Sean's NY☭ hat came from WHERE?All that plus choo-choo talk (LIRR Strike) in the bonus! For the full episode, sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckagehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/lirr-strike-long-island-rail-road.htmlhttps://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/hochul-pushe
E334: Milkin' It
NEWS EP! Sean reports back from the a Beverly Hills Hedge Fund summit. Europe goes solar punk. US debt passes GDP as Project Freedom fails, and the Mideast bases lie in ruin. Is America through, or just through being cool? Billionaires Unfazed by Iran: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/19bda51e-fb62-4432-bc37-b9b425f19edd Labor Market Unfazed by Iran https://giftarticle.ft.com/
BONUS: Book of Revelations Part 1
We're joined by Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast to guide us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations.For the FULL episode, Discord access, and all bonus content support the show at http:///patreon.com/ThisWreckageWritten by a Christian exile on an Aegean Island in a time of intense imperial Civil War and internal rep
Weeding out our Library (&&& 420 special)
&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)! This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" and a section of Berlin Childhood. For the full episode, subscribe at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage & listen to the end for a story of Anders' Benjamin-inspired direct action a
Diving into the Wreckage: Vive La Commune w/ C. Derick Varn & Henry Wallis
Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement. Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire.
Boss Fight: Labor Organizing in the Gaming Industry (ILC Public Assembly)
audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York City's 03/21 panel at the NYU Games Center featuring JD Calvelli, Nathan Greyson, and Goran, Svorcan-Mercola. Moderated by Alexander King. To find more info about the ILC check out ILCLabor.com to sign up.Become a supporter of our podcast at www.patreon.com/thiswreckageSong: LDR - Video Games (Live at Stagecoach)
&&&: Clim&te Defi&nce w/ Nate Smith
The full episode is avaiable for FREE members at http://patreon.com/thiswreckagePaid subscribers can watch the video version of the pod here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152718531We're joined by actor, comedian, activist, & Anders lookalike NATE SMITH! The two mog each other as we discuss the roots of his two action groups Climate Defiance & Extinction Rebellion, the recent interest both
Diving into the Wreckage: Iran Crisis w/ C Derick Varn
To access the entire conversation, all of our bonus content and more become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckageThe boys are back to discuss the latest war in West Asia. How should socialists view this recent outbreak of violence? What role does Zionism have in US foreign policy? Is the tail wagging the dog or has Dr Frankenstein lost control of his creation?In the fun half we discuss Ameri
BONUS: Smothering Heights w/ Susannah Grossman Wolfe
Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic, Wuthering Heights!For the full episode, Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
E325 (PART 2): Nick Land Acknowledgment w/ C. Derick Varn
For the full episode, Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageIn part two of our news episode we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF.
ARMED LOVE 14: Sixties Surrealism w/ Abigail Susik
Abigail Susik is an art historian, vice president of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, and editor of Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-1967, a compilation of publications by a surrealist sixties' anarchist group in NYC.For this Armed Love episode, we challenge ourselves to understand the political potency of the interwar av
DitW: The Dam Breaks in 2026 w C. Derick Varn
Sean and Varn tackle the important question regarding the release of the much-vaunted 'Epstein Files': which ones of 'our faves' might be implicated? How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? What do the files tell us about the absolute state of barbarism we currently live in and must find some
E324: Blockade Party w/ Noah Kulwin & Brendan James
The hosts of Blowback Podcast report back from Colombia and Cuba!For an extended version of this episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageIn Bogota, they attended a conference of the Progressive International that drafted a declaration for countering the Donroe Doctrine. And in Havana, they witnessed immediate results of Trump's full blockade of oil imports, leaving the island w
E323: Chai El See w/ Chicago Independent Labor Club
Gavin and Hope from the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club join Sean to discuss national news and local chapter news in Chicagoland.Join us for a conversation about the recent events (pig murders) in Minneapolis, what it means to organize against the state, how not to become fodder in blue vs red politics and what autonomous class self-activity looks like amid general crisis.For access
E322: L'Internationale (Derogatory) w/ Connor Mulhern & Henry Wallace PREVIEW
Sean and Andy are joined by Connor Mulhern, lead researcher at the Reactionary International Research Consortium, and Henry Wallace, head honcho at the New International Magazine and Franco-American raconteur, to discuss the networks of power and influence behind the rise of right populist movements across the globe. How might this reactionary global influence network compare to the unsuccessful 2
E320: This Angry Wreckage w/ Angry Workers of the World
Sean and Andy are joined by Marco and Luke of the UK collective Angry Workers of the World, here to discuss their practical activity and intellectual output since the publication of Class Power on Zero Hours several years ago. They also present their relatively new healthcare industry project whose publication Vital Signs seeks to analyze how medical labor, in all its industrial diversity and its
The Warmth of Collectivism
We discuss PLURIBUS: Vince Gilligan's new show about a misanthropic writer who has to deal with the annoying communist singularity.for the FULL EPISODE subscribe at patreon.com/thiswreckage
E319: Good and Evil
Sean is drunk and angryListen to the full episode free and subscribe for our bonus ep about Pluribus at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageShow notes:NYE murder in Cali https://abc7.com/amp/post/keith-porter-death-advocates-want-legal-action-man-shot-killed-off-duty-ice-agent-northridge/18359155Feds block investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-news.html?smid=nytcore
Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis after Another w/ C. Derick Varn
Sean and Varn are back to talk current events, discuss theory and gripe about everyone and everything. On the tumbrils this week: artificial intelligence, the DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and how not to debate with Colin Drumm online. In the second half we talk about 'The Mamdani Moment', Varn's recent ascension to Chief Fly-in-the-Ointment in the DSA, the pre-political theories of the ILC a
E316: The Bovine of Western Civilization
NEWS EP! We cover the true origins or the Warner Brothers buyout, Trump's new National Security manifesto, the death of the West, and say farewell to Asad Haider. Sign up on patreon to hear the fun half!! in which we discuss Death by Lightning, a miniseries about James Garfield and American crankery: http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageReferenced articles: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/angels-a
E315: Conservative Marxism w/ Ralph Leonard
Sean and Andy are joined by British-Nigerian writer and podcaster, Ralph Leonard, to talk about identity, politics and the Anglo Ummah. We discuss the parlous state of the nationalist left, what a proletarian socialist politics might look like in the 21st century and what might possibly be conserved of the classical Marxist movement which died in the beginning of the last century. Along the way we
&&&: DSA Drama & Conan Watching
For the full episode (in audio only OR video) sign up at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage!&y and &ers J. Lee talk about Zohran's walkbacks, meeting with Trump, and relationship with the Satmar community. Then we watch and comment on a few old Conan monologues and interviews with Marc Maron, Kevin Spacey, and Jay Leno.
E313: Imagining a Zoomer Marxism w/ Tony 1dime
Sean interviews the ever charming Tony from video essay channel 1Dime and political podcast 1Dime Radio about what it's like to be young and/or Canadian. They discuss politics up north, the vagaries of the so-called left and what a younger cohort might teach us old-timers about the world.This is a preview of the extended version of this episode, to access the whole thing become a patron at www.pat
E312: We Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy
We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke?For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckageDel Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankensteinMarx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htmSong: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein
ARMED LOVE 13: White Panther Party w/ DJ PreSkool
In 1968, Huey P. Newton told an interviewer that whites who wanted to support the Black Panthers should create the White Panther Party. Later that year, a trio of Michigan radical artists (John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair, and Pum Plamondon) did just that. Gaining notoriety from their campaigns to legalize marijuana, support political prisoners, and the popularity of revolutionary rockers the MC5, the
E311: Z-Day + Bugonia w/ Payton McCarty-Simas
We give our first reflections of Zohran's mayoral victory in New York: Sean from his coworkers, Andy from the Commie Corridor.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which film critic Payton McCarty-Simas pops in to discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' new film Bugonia.Bessner post: https://x.com/dbessner/status/1986204448092528758Song: Earth Wind and Fire - Where Have All the Flo
Diving into the Wreckage - New Old Crises
Sean and Varn meditate on a moment full of incoherence that somehow coheres.Song: Nirvana - DiveFor the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageBecome a patron of Varnvlog at www.patreon.com/varnvlog
DITW: On Terrorism and the State by Gianfranco Sanguinetti (RIP)
Andy, Varn, and Alex of Antipolitika Journal read and discuss Gianfranco Sanguinetti's 1979 text "On Terrorism and the State."A follow-up on his "Truthful Report on the Last Chances to Save Capitalism in Italy" hoax from a few years earlier, the text accuses the Italian State of arranging the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, and being behind all acts of terrorism as a short-sighted strategy of
E308: Snake Mistakes
NEWS EP! Government Shutdowns past and present, ICE in Chicago, Trump vs. Big Capital, and Sean's essay on the implications of the international spread of the American petit-bourgeois. We discuss the essay in detail in the fun half! read along: https://seankb.substack.com/p/gadsdens-over-rio Subscribe for the full episode and Discord discussion: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Fall prom
E307: Time doesn't exist, yet it controls us anyway
We discuss our new podcast name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, One Battle After Another.For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageAnd for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!)more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785
E305: Years of Lard
Catching up on the news, and announcing the show's rebrand! A must listen for all longtime friends and fans.Bailing out Argentina: https://on.ft.com/4nmFPeiDysphoria Dimes’ take on Trans terror designation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO6EqTYjqT_/Klip on Dallas shooter's motives: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motiveFor the full show and Discord info support us at https://www.p
E304: DSA with Bruv Characteristics w/ Max Shanly
Max Shanly calls in from the UK to give his thoughts on the formation of the new party challenging Labor and Reform. Shanly argues that it should be modeled on the American DSA, with an eye towards renewing the Republican tradition in the UK.support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which we talk about the social conservative and petit bourgeois elements in the part
Every Fire Needs A Little Bit of Help w/ Aristilde Kirby, O.K. Fox, Samantha Hinds, Heatwave, Antipolitika, Payton McCarty-Simas & Jarrod Shanahan
Audio from our public reading + NYC Anarchist Bookfair afterparty at Book Row! A celebration of the publication of Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms from @PMPress.For the full reading support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstar
E302: Which Way, Western Marxist? w/ Ross Wolfe (HALF)
BASED Western Marxist Ross Wolfe EVISCERATES Domenico Losurdo for poor scholarship and neo-Stalinist zig-zagging.For the full episode, including paywalled content about the conspiracy theories of Losurdists Gabriel Rockhill and the ACP, and some discussion of their hatred of Nietzsche and "going back to Marx," subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifadaPart I: https://newintermag.com/against-losur
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