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Post-peasant communism | New episodes every other Friday
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Where we read through some critiques of the Fundamental Principles & the GIC, discuss what defines a mode of production, and what it means for that production to be stable and reactive.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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📺 You can now watch our INDEP talk, where we introduce the basic ideas of our group: anti-sectarianism, Marxism, cybernetics, planning, democracy and... solarpunk! 🌞
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INDEP online Talk with CibCom - on Cybernetics, Planning and Democracy
YouTube video by INDEP - Network for Democratic Economic Planning
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November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Yes the world is falling apart but the dodgers are this close to proving hilferding right!!
November 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In no way did the dodgers deserve that lmao
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Where we read some James Connolly, discuss his way of viewing Marxism as a method not a dogma, and talk all about the Irish flag.
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
thoroughly enjoying watching the dodgers ruin baseball rn
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Two years on from October 7th, we dive into the history of Palestine as experienced by its people, as well as the political economy of Israel and its occupation.
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Where we read Communism & Strategy by Isabelle Garo and consider her reinterpretation of Marx, specifically the Critique of the Gotha Program, and hassle the post-Marxists.
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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In which we read a history of American Evangelicalism and its tenuous relationship with intellectualism. Why did American Protestantism evolve into such a bizarre collection of denominations? What role did they play in America's bourgeois revolution? What's next?
September 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Where we take a bit of a break, watch Hypernormalisation and mull over what it has to say about culture and collective politics in an age where everyone is clearly lying about everything.
August 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Where we attempt to answer the age-old question "why is the American working class different?"
August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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In which we return to Agroecology; why it's one of the better models for sustainable agriculture, why it meshes so well with systems theory and socialism, and how our diets and ways of laboring would need to change if we're serious about saving our ecology.
July 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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In which we talk about the USSR and are introduced to the idea of a "non-mode" of production. Does a mode have to be stable and capable of reproducing itself on its own? What does that mean for the transition to communism?

Let us know when you have the answer.
July 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In which we read Jasper Bernes' The Future of Revolution and talked about communization, critiques of the GIK, and the difference between the "Test of value" and a fully functioning communist society.
June 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Where we rewatch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as a jumping off point to discuss the now well and truly dead progressive bourgeois approach to climate activism, what a socialist climate pedagogy might look like, and the cultural zeitgeist of the Bush years.
June 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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In which is suss out the possible points of agreement & disagreement for a Marxist/Anarchist solidarity, banter about how anarchism has changed over history, and question both sides' theories of the state.
May 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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In which we read Henry Heller as he makes the case for the transition to capitalism as a process and not event, and as such defends the idea that the English, Dutch and French revolutions were not only all bourgeois but capitalist too.

Take that political marxists!
May 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Really great stuff - plants the seed for what an emancipatory science might look like while remaining firmly rooted in our present stagnation.

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The Black Lamp
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April 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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In which we read the second part of Chuang's economic history of China and discuss the transition to capitalism, how to talk about transitions between modes, so-called "non-modes" of production and much more.
April 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Where we read a piece by our friends over at @critisticuffs.org about Trump and imperialism and have our biannual current events discussion.

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132. Peace for our Time | Critisticuffs
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April 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Where we read Rodrigo Nunes' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and talk about what organizing means today, cybernetics and our memories of Occupy.
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131. Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal | Rodrigo Nunes
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March 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Baseball 👍
March 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM