And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned
The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend. Copious Loren Goldner Links: Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/ Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/ Articles mentioned in order AryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldner Bolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156 Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburg RossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676 Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/ Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldner SeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdf Audio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio Songs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever
Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023! Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreon In light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades. Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart? STAY TUNED AFTER THE OUTRO MUSIC FOR A SPECIAL LAST MINUTE ADDENDUM
Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza. Full episode available at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution. For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran Song: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran