What flag is the right flag for communists to fly? What attitude should we have towards nationalism and religion? Do we all just need to relax a bit? Reading: Labour, Nationality & Religion (1910) by James Connolly, Pro-Palestine symbolism (2025) by Anne McShane and Trying to capture the flag (2025) by Harley Filben Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/A3AfQgjD

In which we discuss the nature of the colonization of Palestine by the West and the fraught state the settler colony of Israel has found itself in after years of violence and economic crisis. Watching: Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2017) by Rashid Khalidi and Shutdown Nation (2025) by Shir Hever Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/au2uTQJz

In which we answer the age-old question, just what does it mean for a text to be extremely French? Watching: Communism & Strategy (2023) by Isabelle Garo Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/e9fnmxYq

In which we attempt to lay a materialist history over the long, strange history of American Protestantism. Watching: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) by Mark A. Noll Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/sZ3s5uKf

Say what you will about this podcast, we keep up with the culture, which is why we're watching a nearly 10 year old documentary on Trump, AI and collective politics. Watching: Hypernormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/KXt8xrkZ

In which we try to get away from the ultra-left stuff but find it vindicated by history once again :c Reading: Why the American Working Class is Different (1986) (from Prisoners of the American Dream) by Mike Davis Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Mq5d85pV

In which we make an effort to read something other than dense Marxology. Reading: An Agroecological Europe in 2050 (2018) by Xavier Poux & Pierre-Marie Aubert Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/7cKuDtBv

In which we suss out this whole USSR thing. Reading: Epitaph for the USSR: A clock without a spring (1998) by Christopher J Arthur Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/b3rcdKyS

We're back on our bs. Reading: The Future of Revolution (2025) by Jasper Bernes Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/vhhSPuUq

In which we remember the good and sane bush years. Watching: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Davis Guggenheim & Al Gore Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/csqrrRRD

Turns out you need to do more than just read Murray Bookchin if you want to be friends with anarchists. Reading: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity (2023) by Michael Löwy, Olivier Besancenot & David Campbell Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TNmaRX2k

In which brave Henry Heller saves the immortal science of Marxism from the unwarranted revisionism of W O K E political marxism. Reading: "Bourgeois Revolution" from The Birth of Capitalism (2011) by Henry Heller Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jgaCypmP

You ever noticed that the 8 hour working day is like...................the same as school, man? Reading: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) by Paulo Freire Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/Be6dQ6hv

Sure China has billionaires, a strictly enforced class system, State Owned Enterprises that are evaluated on stock market performance, private property, wage labor and commodity production but is it REALLY capitalism guys Reading: Red Dust (2019) by Chuang. Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Be6dQ6hv

In which we regain our lost optimism. Reading: Peace for our Time (2025) by Critisticuffs, The American Sulla (2025) by Edith Fischer and Notes on the War (2025) by Jack Conrad Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/273xScQK

In which we inaugurate the Chantal Mouffe era of the show. Reading: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal (2021) by Rodrigo Nunes Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAHjv96U

Alright, this time we're really gonna figure out what dialectics is. Reading: Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist (2020) by Pierfrancesco Biasetti Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FUpZKFE3

How do you do communal politics in an individualized, atomized world? How do you do individualism in a communal world? Reading: Antiindividualistic Individuality: Anarchism's Legacy (the early 1990s) by Gabriel Kuhn Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: discord.gg/CD8wXpzc

In which the Austrians do antifascism by definitely not recreating any fascist aesthetics. Reading: Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture (2016) by Gabriel Kuhn & Julius Deutsch Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CD8wXpzc

Well after a month of being locked out of our Soundcloud account we're finally back in our social democracy era. Reading: Reform or Revolution? (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/arZSSVw6