This Wreckage Podcast

⚛️E354: Bad Digger Energy🪏 Joshua Frank of @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social talks about his new book Bad Energy, an investigation into the various lies of green capitalism + in the fun half, our takes on the climate satire DIGGER! www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E355: A Right to HOUSING!?~ Organizer Samuel Stein on his A Right To Housing? from @versobooks.bsky.social ! We chat about the challenges of making progress on housing rights in NYC, let alone decommodifying housing, and how to keep the faith against all doubts. www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

🤿Diving into the Wreckage: Energy Crisis (Part 2)🏚️ @seankb.bsky.social and @varnvlog.bsky.social analyze the US blob's energy war against BRICS, European industrial collapse and bankruptcy of the Atlanticist center, bond market chaos, and MORE! www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

☭This 📉 Wreckage☭ 👁️E353: EMBRACE THE NOID👁️ an interview with @subliminaljihad.bsky.social and others from CommuNoid Zine about the Epstein Class, the Colombia-Cuba connection, and other subjects of paranoiac-materialism www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

In which Andy, Sean, and I discuss my new @htwvmag.bsky.social essay about the capitalist distribution of technical expertise and its transformation during the process of communist construction. There is also lighthearted banter and even some jokes.

~Lycéens to Ill~ @henryjwallis.bsky.social on the student uprising in France www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

🗃️Why don't they make the whole commune out of the Black Box?🗃️ @dfmanufracture.bsky.social discusses his @htwvmag.bsky.social essay about the division of technical knowledge in capitalist reproduction, how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

i hope the listeners of @thiswreckage.bsky.social appreciate that for them i am currently listening to henry rollins do stand-up

🏹BONUS: Paul Greengrass's The Uprising ⚔️ Ross Wolfe and Susannah Grossman Wolfe watch THE UPRISING to help us decide if it's faithful depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin Hood as anti-Trump cautionary tale www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E349: The Menace of Prosperity~ @as_a_worker talks with historian @dlondonwortel.bsky.social about his new book on NYC's economic development, particularly timely as Mamdani tries, within the bounds of political economy, to open up the 'fiscal imaginary' www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

Had a great conversation with our friend @gittlitz.bsky.social of @thiswreckage.bsky.social !

~E348: Was Dolly America A or B?~ Brooklyn v. Dallas. Brownstones v McMansions. The Braves v Savannah Bananas. @legoracers2.bsky.social & Jackson theorize a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B, and if they're leading us to civil war www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

🤿DITW: Only Black Pills🏚️ @seankb.bsky.social interviews @varnvlog.bsky.social back from tour, discuss DSA & prepolitics, climate crisis, Complexity theory, inability of US capitalists to get their shit together in the Trump era & much more www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

i'm doing THREE events in chicago this weekend, with @thiswreckage.bsky.social , @ilcofchi.bsky.social , The Beach (Beneath the Street) Social Center, and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social (And hmu if you're going to the Mets vs Sox game Sunday) Tix for fri: luma.com/tc972eyv

🚨E343: Trojan Shoot-and-Cry🚨 Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists ( @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe) review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, w/ help from the Adornos & Horkheimer www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E342: Elves Against the Machine~ An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E341: The People are Not One~ @varnvlog.bsky.social and Daniel Tutt discuss their new book, a critique of populism offering their vision of path forward for the left www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

Join us in Chicago next month for a live podcast recording of This Wreckage, with Sean KB in conversation with Jamie Merchant about WORKING CLASS INDEPENDENCE ahead of another grueling election cycle. Get your tickets here: luma.com/tc972eyv @thiswreckage.bsky.social @jamiemerchant.bsky.social

The hosts of @thiswreckage.bsky.social, A.M. Gittlitz & Sean KB, visited our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive

~E339: Talkin' Slop~ A chat with @orangefreddyg.bsky.social about his path to becoming a Leftist and Antizionist Jewish comic and viral anti-Hasbara content creator for @trackaipac.com www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E338: Arch Enemies~ @devintoshea.bsky.social stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet!—a history of America from the St Louis Commune to the Ferguson rebellion www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

~E337: Platnerpus Unaffiliated Society~ @seankb.bsky.social reports back on Labor Note drama! Then, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the prefix ULTRA www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

BONUS: Book of Revelations Part 1 @henryjwallis.bsky.social guides us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

~E332: Consumption Junction~ Nicolas D Villarreal, an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy, talks about his recent @cosmonautmag.bsky.social essay about how the State is saving capitalists from themselves www.patreon.com/posts/e332-c...

~E331: LaRouche Bag~ We're joined by researcher @ajawoods.bsky.social to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West www.patreon.com/posts/e331-l...

👨‍🦰420 Special: Weeding out our Library🦝 @gittlitz.bsky.social & @andersleehere.bsky.social celebrate 420 by reading Walter Benjamin! First: Leon Wieseltier's preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" & a section of Berlin Childhood. www.patreon.com/posts/155773...

🥳E330: Summer of Ludd🧱 NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orban is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis. In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda www.patreon.com/posts/e330-s...

🏟️E328: METROPOLITANS release week!🐈‍⬛ @gittlitz.bsky.social talks to @tippingpitchespod.com and @rickpaulas.bsky.social's greenpoint history night about his new messianic-marxist history of the Mets www.patreon.com/posts/154237...

👨‍⚕️E327: International Unrealism🇨🇺 Security/defense policy specialist @drkuba.bsky.social tells us who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine, how the media has gotten so bad, what divisions exist within the global ruling class, and much more! www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

&&& - Clim&te Defi&nce w/ Nate Smith We're joined by @climatedefiance.bsky.social and @xrglobal.bsky.social activist NATE SMITH to talk about dealing with FBI knocks, the use of humor in disruptive actions, anti-ginger racism, & much more! www.patreon.com/posts/clim-t...

~E326: Kharg of War~ We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immanentizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can. www.patreon.com/posts/e326-k...

In Part 2 of the episode for subscribers, we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report by @manabovetown.bsky.social from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF www.patreon.com/posts/e325-p...

🥀BONUS: Smothering Heights🏚️ Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah Grossman Wolfe returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic Wuthering Heights! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

🥀BONUS: Smothering Heights🏚️ Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah Grossman Wolfe (@diaeresismurder) returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic Wuthering Heights! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

☮️ARMED LOVE 14: Sixties Surrealism🔫 @abigailsusik.bsky.social discusses the resurgence of surrealism among the IWW and NYC anarchists in the sixties, how these groups foretold the New Left and punk, and why we lack a revolutionary avant-garde today www.patreon.com/posts/armed-...

☮️ARMED LOVE 14: Sixties Surrealism🔫 @abigailsusik.bsky.social discusses the resurgence of surrealism among the IWW and NYC anarchists in the sixties, how these groups foretold the New Left and punk, and why we lack a revolutionary avant-garde today www.patreon.com/posts/armed-...

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DitW: The Dam Breaks in 2026 @varnvlog.bsky.social & @seankb.bsky.social tackle the 'Epstein Files': How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? www.patreon.com/posts/ditw-d...

ILC Chicago members were featured on the This Wreckage podcast this week! They discussed ICE, strikes, the concept of pre-politics, and more. If you're not a patron but would like to listen to the full/paywall free version, DM us! @thiswreckage.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/e323-c...

~E324: Blockade Party~ Noah Kulwin & Brendan James of Blowback Pod report back from their trip to Colombia and Cuba, and how nations under the Donroe Doctrine gun are organizing to fight back free: rss.com/podcasts/the... extended: www.patreon.com/posts/e324-b...

🤿Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis After Another🏚️ @as_a_worker and @varnvlog talk DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and Colin Drumm. + in the fun half, Varn's recent ascension to DSA Gadfly! www.patreon.com/posts/146392...

~E319: Good and Evil~ @as_a_worker is drunk and angry www.patreon.com/posts/147772...

E318: Au Revoir Simón Quick react to Trump's first regime change, and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution. www.patreon.com/posts/e318-a...

🤿Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis After Another🏚️ @as_a_worker and @varnvlog talk DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and Colin Drumm. + in the fun half, Varn's recent ascension to DSA Gadfly! www.patreon.com/posts/146392...