The structure of the problem is unfolding.

Note: this was recorded before the post-COVID labor market, the new wave of labor organizing, and the resurgence of strikes. We like strikes.

“The Infrastructure of the Modern World”
from “A History of Separation”, Endnotes 4 (2015)

Mortal Science/Separation V

Separation V: Cartel Structures

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This week its back to the familiar and much loved Auxiliary Statements format. After a couple of episodes spent welcoming excellent and exceedingly informative guests to the show the dunces are back at the helm. This episode Jack and Dan get stuck into Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm. Continuing there ecological crisis reading series the lads learn all about how and why fossil fuel became the prime mover of British industry and in turn the primary source of power behind capitalisms growth during the industrial revolution.

Reading: "Fossil Capital" (2015) by Andreas Malm, Chapters 1-8.

79. Fossil Capital, Part 1 │Andreas Malm

We begin our close examination of the Critique of the Gotha Program with Constance.

#156 - Close Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 1)

Dan & Jack spend an hour trying to explain the show's title and we get a little visit from an old friend - Ralph Miliband.

Reading: Marxism and Politics by Ralph Miliband (1977), Chapter I: Introduction

Introduction

Post-peasant commies Dan and Jack read over bits of theory each week in an effort to understand the worldwide state of socialism.

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79. Fossil Capital, Part 1 │Andreas Malm

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