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The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth orbit. Could his and Bezos's fantasies of colonies on the moon, Mars, or in asteroid belts be far behind?

If so, what happened to the late-2010s enthusiasm for "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism"? Is the left now anti-space, and is that position leaving the future entirely in the hands of capitalists and imperialist states? In her new essay for Strange Matters, Valentine argues we should begin strategizing for this new era so we don't get stranded from Elysium.

Guest co-host Nick Chavez gives the engineer's perspective, and describes his critique of ME Obrien and Eman Abdelhadi's vision of expropriating a SpaceX-like factory in their speculative novel Everything for Everyone.

Beka Valentine's essay in Strange Matters: https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/

Inside Musk's Starfactory: https://wccftech.com/spacex-is-using-robots-to-make-starship-rockets-in-texas-shows-footage/

Nick Chavez's review of Everything for Everyone: https://designformanufracture.com/2023/01/25/review-everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072-by-m-e-obrien-and-eman-abdelhadi/

Don't Let Them Leave! zine: https://ia903003.us.archive.org/20/items/dontletthemleave/Dont-Let-Them-Leave-zine-unimposed%20.pdf

Past episodes of Proletkult: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87627 Song - Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings.

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Sean is BACK from hopital with Stroke Updates + Syria, South Korea, UHC Shooter and other political assassinations

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Song: The Strokes - Reptilia (Stroked and Reverbed)

&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America, in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished.

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Audio from our November 23rd event at Woodbine with Jamie Merchant about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. He sketches the economic background of the rise of populist right internationally before we transition to questions about the current moment and WI2BD.

Jamie Merchant is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club (@ilcofchi).

excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/

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Thanks to Mike, Peter, and Chris from ILC NYC for the recording!

Song: Natalie Merchant - This House is on Fire

In Part II, Henry discusses the New International article Erasing the Pregnant as a way into talking about religious politics and secularism in regards to issues like abortion, death with dignity, Zionism, and sex.

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Henry's Podcast with George Floyd's Pastor: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xiii-the-gospel-and-george-floyd

Song: KRS-ONE - Why Is That?

Henry's back for France Popular front updates to unveil his new journal, the New International!

From there, we discuss Andy and Varn's essay The Undying Appeal of Brunch, and if it conflicts with the organizational method of Henry's Party, France Unbowed.

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Follow Antifada on BlueSky New International editorial note: https://newintermag.com/our-goal/

Long-read on France Unbowed: https://newintermag.com/communism-lives-in-the-france-unbowed/

Henry's write-up on France Unbowed's structure: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs2eG-GfiFTkXuXxPxJaJb9JDaAa7S9TD0rLuLLC-XI/edit?usp=sharing

Kristin Ross on the Commune Form: https://illwill.com/a-common-horizon-for-situated-struggles

Henry's podcast episode on Citizen Marx: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xxiv-citizen-marx

Song: X - Year One

Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century continue their reading of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory!

This is the section where it becomes clear that Dugin uses a different intellectual framework about civilizations than left anti-imperialists.

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See this episode and prior videos in this series on VarnVlog

A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain's tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the second edition of the Housing Monster (with an intro by Sean! pre-order now from PM Press!).

Show notes:

https://schengen.news/spains-congress-approves-bill-to-cancel-golden-visa-program-in-january-2025/

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/spain-sanchez-psoe-vox-eu-elections

Housing Monster PDF: https://www.prole.info/pdfs/thm_english.pdf

All other prole.info material: www.prole.info

B on Twitter: https://x.com/@proledotinfo

Jazz and Blues Radio show from Ben Kritikos

https://buenavida.co.uk/red-white-blues/ Lazo Edicioneshttps://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/

Cuadernos de Negaciónhttps://cuadernosdenegacion.blogspot.com/

Song: Waka Flocka Flame - I Remember

On November 9th, 2024 the Independent Labor Club of NY hosted a panel at Woodbine in Ridgewood, Queens. Sean moderated this discussion between:

• Aaron Lelonde of the International Longshoremen's Association
• Sou Mi of WGA-East and Left Voice
• Gregory Butler of Int'l Union of Operating Engineers and Gangbox News
• Ellie Pfeffer of Maoist Communist Union, formerly of Amazonians United

What accounts for the realignment seen in 2024? Did large swathes of workers (including Black and Hispanic) vote Trump solely from racism and misogyny? What was the role of organized labor in the recent election? What effects might the results of the election have on the prospects for organizing labor in the future?

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The event was held @woodbine.nyc in Ridgewood, Queens Saturday November 9th. Contribute to Woodbine's Fall Fundraiser drive.

Song - Capital STEEZ x Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics

Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties.

In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we plot THE RESISTANCE!

Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid Kane

Song: Los 3 de La Habana - Cancion de Trump