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This Wreckage

by Sean KB and AP Andy

Mechanical Turks Against Empire

FOR THE FULL EPISODE, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage NEWS 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 Metropolitans event at Pilsen Community Books: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMgcU2GRvQ/ WEDS 8/26 Heatwave Magazine release party at Night Club 101 in Manhattan: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/heatwave-magazine-launch-night-club-101-tickets/15029603 Song: Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business

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 Show sponsored by ILC Chicago on Friday, August 21st https://luma.com/tc972eyv?lm_source=embed Song: Nourished by Time - Workers Interlude

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/thiswreckage The event was sponsored by ILC of NYC Song: Run the Jewels - Goonies vs. E.T.

Trojan Shoot-and-Cry w/ Rax King, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe

For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of the Enlightenment Song: 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-Sabotage Support DFW defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/ Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund Chopped Uncle Ted doc The Net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU Song: Iskra - Ash and Ruin

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 their For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Book Tour! Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM — RSVP Free Library of Philadelphia Baltimore — July 21 7:00 PM — RSVP: Red Emma’s Washington, DC — July 24 6:30 PM — RSVP: People’s Book New York — July 25 7:00 PM — RSVP: Woodbine with This Wreckage New Jersey - July 26 5:00 PM Jersey Shore Arts Center Geese debate: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/in-defense-of-left-populism-a-response-to-the-people-are-not-one?t=1 https://danieltutt.substack.com/p/the-people-are-not-enough?r=2m9aw&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true Marcuse essay: https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/70spubs/Marcuse1979Bahro.pdf Song: The Fall - A New Face in Hell

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/thiswreckage Brooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm Our visit to the Verso Archive. Use WRECKAGE at checkout for 50% off the books we mention: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-archive-featuring-this-wreckage Summer of Ludd schedule: https://buttondown.com/nycofftech/archive/summer-of-ludd-schedule/ Charming 42nd St man: https://x.com/thisismeryan13/status/2074530438035435827 Former Pfizer hq collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/midtown-development-pfizer-headquarters.html https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/08/nyregion/nyc-midtown-building-collapse CIA-backed drone attacks target Russian energy: https://www.ft.com/content/d0f82c05-c35f-4e0f-b452-f61dc8a7e697?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html Song: The Ramones - 53rd and 3rd

Talkin' Slop w/ Freddy G

A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac Check 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.instagram.com/p/DZIviHVtxnv/ With Jacob berger: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSkspoRzUW/ Song: Yung Lean - Metallic Intuition

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. Louis Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Peter 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_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html Check out geese: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028 https://www.geesemag.com/articles/the-direction-of-determination Platner video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMLrU8mI9A Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund Song: New Order - Ultraviolence

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