Well folks, we’ve been teasing it long enough…today your large beautiful boys are reading THE BOOK.

In an attempt to answer the questions “What is a conspiracy theory?”, “What happened to all the Nazis?” and “How did we get into this mess?” Dan and Jack are taking a look at The Devil’s Chessboard - a “biography” of the early CIA.

Everyone has that friend on the left that’s a little bit too into conspiracy theories (cough, jack, cough), but this week, your lionhearted podcast hosts are going to separate the wheat from the chaff and find out what’s crazy, and what’s not so crazy. Can this history be any use to us on the left? Is everything bad in the world simply CIA? Is Dan CIA? Is Jack CIA? Are YOU CIA? Don’t be so sure.

So join us in the first part of this journey as we tell you all about how the robber barons of the early 20th century managed to survive and indeed thrive in the post-wwi world. 

This one goes long. Strap in.

Reading: The Devil’s Chessboard (2015), David Talbot

28. Nixon, Dulles & the CIA | The Devil's Chessboard - David Talbot Pt. 1

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

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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