A podcast on the deep history of class struggle, paleo-parapolitics, and the demonology of capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Classic Postclassic Maya: Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Popol Vuh (Kʾicheʾ, 1550s)
3:36:56
3:36:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
3:36:56
The first half of the Popol Vuh as we have it from the Kʾicheʾ colonial tradition is a quintessentially Kingless epic, as the story revolves around pre-human gods, successive generations of hero twins, who must defeat a series of aggrandizer figures, including the lords of death in the underworld, in order to bring about the dawning of the human ag…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Asiatic Athena: karmic roots of Greek culture in Hittite class struggle (Song of Release, 15th c. BCE)
45:50
45:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
45:50
In a series that I hope will include Martin Bernal’s classic Black Athena (about the modern British fabrication of “ancient Greece” and its true roots in ancient Egypt), we start with the East: in recent decades, great advances in Hittite studies have illuminated much of the mechanics of transmission of Mesopotamian literature and religion to a nas…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Consuming the Samurai Self (“The Playboy Dialect,” 1770, Japan)
2:02:21
2:02:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:02:21
A close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The origins of class society and revolutionary consciousness according to Second-Temple Judaism: 1 Enoch, Jubilees [PREVIEW]
1:12:41
1:12:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:12:41
The rise of ancient empires in the Eurasian continent ushered in the Axial Age, with its ideologies of absolute good and evil and the promise of revolutionary recompense for unheard-of oppression by the Occupiers of the Earth (שכני הארץ). The books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, quoted by name in the New Testament, still contained in the Bible of the Eth…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Return to Camões’ “Isle of Love” w/ Min
1:47:09
1:47:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:47:09
I thought I had a hot take in response to the Little Mermaid discourse last year, but predictably I’m not the first one to think of reading the Isle of Venus in Camões’ Lusiads against the Age of Exploration diary entries in which roving European savages discuss their adventures in more complex Indigenous kinship structures where sex was not commod…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
ParaPower Mapping the Six-Pointed Crusader State [PREVIEW]
12:53
12:53
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
12:53
The antisemitic, Nazi-adjacent ideology of Zionism says that members of the Jewish religion must be uprooted from their ancestral homelands and gathered into a white supremacist settler colony ruled by Jews native to Europe—a new kind of crusader state. And like the crusader states, at the behest of their Euro-American masters, the Zionist entity p…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 8: a mushroom dinner, a falsified archive
1:27:00
1:27:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:27:00
In the final installment of the series, we cover all that is known about the mysterious death of this strangely GLADIO-brained scholar of classical Japanese literature and favorite translator of “aesthetic terrorist” Mishima Yukio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 7: The Shield Society of Notting Hill [PREVIEW]
20:46
20:46
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
20:46
We explore the Windsor Free Festival, Sunday Head, Albion Free State milieu of hedonist, individualist, libertarian (and decidedly anti-communist) radicalism in 1970s Britain, led by figures like Ubi Dwyer, Sid Rawle, and Paul Pawlowski, as well as scions of elite families like Heathcote Williams and Nic Albery—in light of the fact that, as we have…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 6: Clockwork Albion
1:59:30
1:59:30
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:59:30
From the semi-autobiographical novel of Ivan’s second Japanese wife, Nobuko Albery (née Uenishi), we have some very sardonic portraits of the Morrises and their upper-crust left-wing milieu in France, as well as a fascinating subplot involving a drug-trafficking, blue-blooded hippie cult leader character who seems a fusion of Mishima Yukio and Nic …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 5: Ogawa Ayako, ballet master of Cold War Japan [PREVIEW]
13:21
13:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
13:21
From 1956 through 1966, during which time he moved from London to Tokyo to New York, Ivan was married to the ballerina Ogawa Ayako, known in the society papers—by analogy with Jackie (Kennedy)—as Yakkie. In the realm of ballet, where other important Cold War battles were fought such as securing the defection of the Tatar dancer Rudolf Nureyev from …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 4: beasts in human guise
1:13:24
1:13:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:13:24
We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produced Barack Obama Sr, supporting Greek, Turkish, and Mexican communists in their way, but for one reason or another being unable to stop their son Ivan from becom…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 3: in the shadow of HUAC [PREVIEW]
16:02
16:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
16:02
We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the progressive President Estimé to power, then making “democratic” anti-fascist propaganda for the American Office of War Information and the Voice of America while …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 2: communists in cashmere
1:16:56
1:16:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:16:56
I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best ru…
…
continue reading
A chatty episode to break the hiatus. I discuss recent news of the new final solution being demoed by the Zionist entity in Gaza. These days I’m walking around with posture like a ballerina because I’ve been de-settlerising and un-domesticating my leg muscles by running in huaraches and doing squats. We take a look at the First Crusade as seen in A…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Doraemon’s Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1:30:58
1:30:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:30:58
Family movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arguably) more constructive forum than ranting to my kids—but this latest Doraemon film outdid even last year’s Ukraine War puff piece, and I had to call on P…
…
continue reading
How does an Indigenous-led movement rebuild in the wake of imperial decline? With the spectacular collapse of both Sassanian Persia and Byzantime Rome in 622 CE, a certain revolutionary communal movement led by masses of nomadic herders, merchants, and farmers, provides us with one of the greatest and earliest examples, albeit one poorly attested i…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Traces of Japanese matriliny in the Rainy Night Critique of Ranks (by 1021)
3:04:18
3:04:18
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
3:04:18
Kinship in Heian Japan (roughly 800–1200 CE) was matrilocal, which means it was men who moved in with their wives’ families and lived largely under their control. Although already thoroughly patriarchal in most respects, these last vestiges of what Engels calls Mother Right create fascinating tensions in a society where the world-historic defeat of…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: How To Master Secret Work, pt 2 (South Africa, 1980s)
44:56
44:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
44:56
Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: How to Master Secret Work, pt 1 (South Africa, 1980s)
59:02
59:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:02
Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Ruling classes have always wanted us dead [PREVIEW]: Atraḫasīs (Babylon, 18th c. BCE); The Extinction Narrative (2young Badazz, 2021 CE)
24:12
24:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:12
Plague, famine, flood; nuclear holocaust, nuclear winter, global warming. Seen through a class lens, these existential threats to humanity are threats indeed, but they are ultimately threats directed by the capitalist ruling class at the rest of humanity: that if they are truly faced with losing their position, they will carry out the mass depopula…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Collectivize the Buddha: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 2
2:14:15
2:14:15
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:14:15
We continue our free flowing conversation about our respective journeys as sketchy gaijin wandering in and out of the capitalist puppet states of East Asia and searching for ways to build the revolutionary saṃgha. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
…
continue reading
A newsy update on the non-release of the Abe Shinzō autopsy; the apparently accidental crash of a Japanese SDF helicopter which left multiple high-ranking military and intelligence officers dead including the leader of arguably the most important division of Japan’s Western Command (and about whom I have an interesting discovery to share); and fina…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
A Host Questions a Host: Dharma talks w/ Marcus, pt 1
2:22:04
2:22:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:22:04
I interview Marcus of the podcast Return of the Repressed about his journey, partially with reference to Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Japan, 13th c.) and the Record of Linji (China, 9th c.), and featuring a song from the noh play “Xiwangmu,” or the Queen Mother of the West. On the Feast of Winding Water, block the flow with your hand an…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
LoFi Botanical Ramble: Gerald Horne, Race War! (2004); etc [PREVIEW]
43:42
43:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
43:42
We take a ramble through the diverse forest, plains, and mountainside biomes of a historic botanical garden here in Tokyo while discussing, among many other things, Gerald Horne’s fascinating first book on Imperial Japan and Black America, as well as that book’s perfidious falsification in Japanese translation, the rights to which were somehow give…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hammurabi’s COIN: Agushaya; The Cleaner; The Poor Man of Nippur; The Doctor; Sargon, Lord of the Lies (Akkad, 18th c. BCE seq)
2:27:23
2:27:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:27:23
In the 19th c., working backwards from Old Persian to Hittite to Amorite, modern scholars rediscovered the long-forgotten Semitic language Akkadian, and then an even older language, Sumerian. The logographic cuneiform script which was created to write Sumerian was adapted to write Akkadian, and a complex matrix of graphic and linguistic play was op…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Weebs of the Ages: Ivan Morris, Mishima, and aesthetic GLADIO in Japan’s fourth reich, part 1 w/ Prez [PREVIEW]
21:18
21:18
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
21:18
In this ongoing series, we savor the weebery of the greatest weebs of history, pondering the roles they play in various regimes of class struggle including whiteness, patriarchy, capital, and data counterinsurgency. This time, the President of the United States joins me from the Minyan to explore the life of Ivan Morris, a Swedish-Jewish man who gr…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The ‘Real Little Mermaid’ was Indigenous, w/ Šuŋgmánitu: The Lusíads (Portugal, 1572), Disney’s Little Mermaid (1989), Ponyo (2008)
2:30:16
2:30:16
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:30:16
The Rob Marshall–directed live-action Little Mermaid, which should be coming out this May, was buzzed up by a good old culture war psy-op of which the two sides were: 1. Errm, the real Little Mermaid was white! This is cultural appropriation of marginalized white settler bodies and spaces and voices!; 2. The Little Mermaid is a fictional character,…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Transcendental Settlerism vs Landback Enlightenment: Thoreau, Kunikida Doppo, Walt Whitman, Jairus Banaji, Arthur Rosenberg [PREVIEW]
53:33
53:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:33
We go long, looking at “progressive” settler idealism in Throeau and Walt Whitman, and a Japanese analogue, the romantic or naturalist novelist Kunikida Doppo. Connections are drawn to the mass appeal of fascism which comes in part from its partaking of the settler relation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
w/ Prez: Fascism from Hispania to Manchuria
1:55:17
1:55:17
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:55:17
Prez of the Minyan is here to discuss the dialectical deep history of fascism, starting with some readings from the Japanese far right and ranging back to Anglo settler colonialism, Iberian conquistadors, crusaders, even Mongol absolutism and tanistry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Islamic Picaresque and the Birth of the Bourgeoisie: al-Jawbarī, Book of Charlatans (Damascus, 1210s) [PREVIEW]
37:10
37:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
37:10
The picaresque, a genre of satirical novel which is usually traced from Spain to Britain to America, where Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would be the best-known examples, follows the adventures of hucksters, preachers, and charlatans on the underside of capitalist society—as opposed to those on the top of “respectable” society, who, these w…
…
continue reading
A free-rambling conversation with Marcus, the host of Return of the Repressed, a podcast on the psychology of mass movements both good and bad, an ordained Pure Land Buddhist monk, a painter of temple walls across China, an expert in natural farming, a new father, and a new resident of Japan. Topics include———Marcus’ travels around China and Europe…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Imperial Liberalism Lost: Endō Shūsaku, “Mothers,” (Japan, 1969) [PREVIEW]
21:42
21:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
21:42
The author of Silence, the famous novel of Japan’s early-modern persecution of Christianity recently adapted to the screen by Martin Scorsese (and actually drawing in revealing ways on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory), bares his soul and reveals some of the sources of his obsession with the late-medieval Japanese Christians in a short story…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch5, The ‘Plan’ for an All-Russian Political Newspaper; Conclusion
1:23:48
1:23:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:23:48
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new Lars T. Lih translation. 5. The ‘Plan’ for an All-Russian Political Newspaper: a) Who was offended by the article ‘Where to Begin?’; b) Can a newspaper be a collective organiser?; c) What type of organisation do we need? / Conclusion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 4 pt 2, The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
1:14:14
1:14:14
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:14
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new Lars T. Lih translation. 4. The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries: d) The sweep of organisational work; e) A ‘conspiratorial’ organisation and ‘democratism’; f) Local and all-Russian work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 4 pt 1, The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
1:23:29
1:23:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:23:29
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new Lars T. Lih translation. 4. The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries: a) What are artisanal limitations?, b) Artisanal limitations and economism, c) Organisation of workers and organisation of revolutionaries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 3 pt 2, Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
54:57
54:57
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:57
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new Lars T. Lih translation. 3. Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics: e) The worker class as advanced fighter for democracy, f) Once more ‘slanderers’, once more ‘mystifiers’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 3 pt 1, Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
1:10:51
1:10:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:51
Lenin’s What is to be Done? in the illuminating new translation by Lars T. Lih. 3. Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics: a) Political agitation and its narrowing by the economists, b) The story of how Martynov made Plekhanov deep, c) Political indictments and ‘education for revolutionary activeness’, d) What do economism and terro…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 2, The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy
1:10:44
1:10:44
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:10:44
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new translation by Lars T. Lih. 2. The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy: a) The beginnings of the stikhiinyi upsurge, b) Kow-towing to stikhiinost: Rabochaia mysl, c) The Self-Liberation Group and Rabochee delo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Kingless Reads: WitbD? ch 1, Dogmatism and ‘Freedom of Criticism’
1:04:58
1:04:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:58
Lenin’s *What is to be Done?* in the illuminating new translation by Lars T. Lih. Foreword; Chapter 1: Dogmatism and ‘Freedom of Criticism’: a) What does ‘freedom of criticism’ mean?, b) New defenders of ‘freedom of criticism’, c) Criticism in Russia, d) Engels on the significance of theoretical struggle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Hellenistic Synthesis and the Christian Image of Man (When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible)
1:42:13
1:42:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:42:13
In which Fergal revisits his old TradCath stomping grounds, discovers why so many of his old TradCath friends have now converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, and comes away with a deep appreciation for the contribution made to ideas of revolutionary transformation of society, universal human brotherhood, and scientific knowledge of history, by the Jewish …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Hearts and Minds: Imamura Eiji, “Travelling Companion” (Changchun, 1938); Chae Manshik, “Mr. Pang” (Seoul, 1946) [PREVIEW]
37:02
37:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
37:02
After my conversations with Keith Allen Dennis and Recluse of the Farm podcast, I keep thinking how it’s the second-string fascists, the Nazi and Japanese imperial collaborators of Ukraine and Korea, who go on to be the absolute MVPs of the Cold War–era fascist international. Operating from the American puppet ROK and the Ukranian diaspora, this pa…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Shotgun Blues: The Abe Shinzō Assassination
1:00:35
1:00:35
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:35
“According to the hospital, there were two bullet holes in the right front side of Mr. Abe’s neck, spaced about five centimeters apart. It appears that the bullets went into his body from his neck, damaging his heart and the large arteries in his chest. Doctors say a large hole had been opened in the wall of his heart. On his left shoulder there wa…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
w/ Laihall: Combat Techno-Transegalitarianism [PREVIEW]
16:51
16:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
16:51
My second conversation with Laihallll is followed by my own extended meditations on the secret society in prehistory and the present. I develop my hypothesis that the post-capitalist dystopia which the ruling class are currently ushering us into may be most accurately described as not techno-feudalism but rather techno-transegalitarianism. Indeed, …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
w/ Laihall: The Secret of Societies (Brian Hayden, The Power of Ritual in Prehistory, NW Turtle Island, 2018)
2:17:49
2:17:49
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
2:17:49
It’s not every day that you get to learn about a whole new mode of production, or phase in the meta of class society—much less the earliest one that we are (possibly) able to reconstruct or learn anything about—but here we are. Coordinating with anthropological data (problematically enough collected by and for settlers during the narrow window in w…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Thulêan Kewpie Doll ET: Doraemon’s Little Star Wars (1985/2022) [PREVIEW]
22:38
22:38
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
22:38
Doraemon: Nobita’s Little Star Wars (1985) was a masterpiece of late–Cold War bourgeois libertarian mythmaking: the kids of the Doraemon world join a miniature alien race in a righteous struggle for liberty from a totalitarian (aggressively Soviet-coded) regime, using Doraemon’s shrink ray to move back and forth between branded action figure size a…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Turning the Wheel of the Dialectic: Bhagavad Gītā (India, after 5 c. BCE); Ajith, “A Critique of Brahmanist Ethics”
1:54:43
1:54:43
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:54:43
We have seen how D.T. Suzuki’s take on zen was a very modern thing, tailor made in Illinois as a bourgeois ideology. This time, under the guidance of Ajith’s dialectical materialist critique of Brahmanism, we take up the Bhagavad Gītā (India, post 5th c. BCE), especially its modern bourgeois idealist interpretations as represented by Tilak’s Gītā R…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Liberality of Evil: there’s a right way and a wrong way to wither away (Ariyoshi Sawako, “Village of Eguchi,” 1958) [PREVIEW]
26:36
26:36
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
26:36
Meditations on the differences between some similar things that we can’t afford to get twisted. Unprincipled opportunism, idealist insistence that revolutionary organizing always be only prefigurative of stateless, classless society—and meanwhile outright manifestations of reactionary class power are something we can just wink at slyly because we’r…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Azov vs. the Orcs: a dialectical demonology of whiteness (Amadís de Gaula, James Connolly, Einsatzgruppen)
1:55:32
1:55:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:55:32
The historical symbolism of the Zelyonka industrial dye attack—by which members of the Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine claim to be marking their victims, whether they be Roma or other central Asian peoples or just supposed Russophiles, as “orcs” tainted by Asiatic racial contagion—lies in the orcos of Spanish chivalric fantasy, the true inspiration …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Zen was made up by a guy in Illinois: D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus [PREVIEW]
17:48
17:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
17:48
As Anglo-American capitalism swept across the globe in the nineteenth century, the school of Japanese Buddhism most closely associated with the thoroughly discredited feudal government, Zen, was struggling to rebrand. Meanwhile, Paul Carus, a German immigrant serving as court philosopher to a zinc magnate in LaSalle, Illinois, published a book iden…
…
continue reading
A more newsy, free-flowing episode. I see many socialists confused by paired spectacles of astroturfed extremism and carefully misdirected popular energy: caravans of hooting hollering settler hogs on the one side, caravans of moozlamic hispanic terrorists on the other. I’m pretty sure the plan is to numb you to the current violence of bio-gladio, …
…
continue reading