This Wreckage
Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Episodes
We discuss PLURIBUS: Vince Gilligan's new show about a misanthropic writer who has to deal with the annoying communist singularity.
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Sean is drunk and angry
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Show 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/18359155
Feds block investigation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-news.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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/
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Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez
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 and how the ruling class are draggin...
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-force
Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end
Maucio Lazzarato - The United States and Fascistic Capitalism: https://ill...
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.
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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 bring up the morphing politics of ...
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&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.
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 concept suggests that fascist impulses do...
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.
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Song: Blind Le...
We talk about Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke?
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Del Toro interview: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein
Marx on alienated labor: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
Song: Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein
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 White Panthers formed chapters aro...
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/1986204448092528758
Song: Earth Wind and Fire - Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Sean and Varn meditate on a moment full of incoherence that somehow coheres.
Song: Nirvana - Dive
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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-party
Song: Merle Haggard - Are the Good Times Really Over?
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.
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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 defense. The piece also condemns le...
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
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We discuss our new podcast name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, One Battle After Another.
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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 highlighting the necessity of solida...
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