This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

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#347
Friday · 22 min
LIVE in Chicago! w/ Jamie Merchant
Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention! For the full episode, including our panel with Jamie Merchant and 3 delegates from ILC locals, support us on patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Song: Chicago - Saturday in the Park
Monday · 1 hr 22 min
&&&bolish the NYPD? + RIP Vaneigem
&ers makes some recommendations for Mamdani's approach to the NYPD, &y recaps is Irish dérive, & we read together some excerpts from the recently departed Raoul Vaneigem &ers essay on police reform: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-needs-to-fire-jessica-tisch-but-who-will-he-replace-her-with & reply from Ant L.: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/letter-the-nypd-is-none-of-our-concern Basic Banalties: https://libcom.org/article/basic-banalities-parts-i-ii-raoul-vaneigem Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life Vaneigem's address to Greek anarchists in 2010: https://illwill.com/the-state-is-nothing-lets-be-everything Song: Pink Floyd - Time
#346
August 21 · 12 min
Mechanical Turks Against Empire
FOR THE FULL EPISODE, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage NEWS EP! We preview our coming events in Chicago and New York, and read about the United States' comic inability to make artillery shells. UPCOMING EVENTS: FRI 8/21 This Wreckage live event: https://luma.com/tc972eyv SAT 8/22 UFOlogy to the People event at the Beach: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachchicago/ SUN 8/23 Metropolitans event at Pilsen Community Books: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMgcU2GRvQ/ WEDS 8/26 Heatwave Magazine release party at Night Club 101 in Manhattan: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/heatwave-magazine-launch-night-club-101-tickets/15029603 Song: Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
August 19 · 1 hr 13 min
Diving into the Wreckage: Only Black Pills w/ C Derick Varn
The boys are back, Sean interviews Varn on his recent tour with Daniel Tutt, What did they learn and what did they see? Next is a segment about the DSA, its strategy and factions, present and future. What might we imagine coming of winning on the Democrat ballot line? In the bonus room we get real doomer talking about the climate crisis, Complexity theory, public/private debt, the inability of US capitalists to get their shit together and the vagaries of Trumpism. You'll want to stick around for the discussion of ILC, DSA and pre-politics. To check out this bonus content and much more become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage To watch this on video and get tons of great educational material become a supporter at www.patreon.com/varnvlog
#345
August 12 · 55 min
Real Workerist Hours w/ Billy and Greg
Sean (car painter) sits down with Billy OC (rod buster) and Gregory A. Butler (UBC retiree, IUOE member) to discuss the latter's new book The Workerist Manifesto. This is part 1 of a miniseries devoted to Greg's books, his news service Gangbox News and his many years of experience working in the trades and thinking about working class emancipation. Chicago: get tickets for the This Wreckage Live Show sponsored by ILC Chicago on Friday, August 21st https://luma.com/tc972eyv?lm_source=embed Song: Nourished by Time - Workers Interlude
#344
August 3 · 55 min
Left-Populist LARPing w/ Varn & Tutt (LIVE at Woodbine)
Audio from our live panel on Saturday, July 25 at Woodbine where we go deeper on Varn & Tutt's new book The People Are Not One, starting with some normie vs. Marxist LARPing and ending with a spirited Q&A featuring Ross Wolfe, Greg Butler, Platypus, Donald Parkinson, and more! For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage The event was sponsored by ILC of NYC Song: Run the Jewels - Goonies vs. E.T.
#343
July 27 · 58 min
Trojan Shoot-and-Cry w/ Rax King, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe
For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of the Enlightenment Song: Cream - Tale of Brave Odysseus
July 24 · 14 min
Reading Rubio's Cuba Report
Andy reads the 99 page State Department report: "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Episode with Blowback: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e324-blockade-w-149781067 2021 Cuban uprising episode: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/talkin-tina-of-76203208 Song: Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
#342
July 22 · 59 min
Elves Against the Machine w/ Matthew Wolfe
An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage Support DFW defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/ Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund Chopped Uncle Ted doc The Net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU Song: Iskra - Ash and Ruin
#341
July 17 · 43 min
The People are Not One w/ Daniel Tutt, C. Derick Varn
The authors of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism join us to discuss their intervention against the electoral-populist trajectory of the US left, their debate with Geese, and their solutions for reviving a Marxist left. SEE Derick Varn and Tutt on their For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Book Tour! Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM — RSVP Free Library of Philadelphia Baltimore — July 21 7:00 PM — RSVP: Red Emma’s Washington, DC — July 24 6:30 PM — RSVP: People’s Book New York — July 25 7:00 PM — RSVP: Woodbine with This Wreckage New Jersey - July 26 5:00 PM Jersey Shore Arts Center Geese debate: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/in-defense-of-left-populism-a-response-to-the-people-are-not-one?t=1 https://danieltutt.substack.com/p/the-people-are-not-enough?r=2m9aw&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true Marcuse essay: https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/70spubs/Marcuse1979Bahro.pdf Song: The Fall - A New Face in Hell
July 13 · 1 hr 7 min
ILC Assembly: The Queer Worker
Audio from June 27, 2026 ILC of NYC panel and town hall event for pride month on LGBTQ workers self-organizing, past and present. Watch and subscribe on ILC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfkabZCR04&t=4s With the increase in anti-LGBTQ (and especially anti-trans) sentiment among American legislators, the Independent Labor Club views it as pressing to host a public conversation on issues facing LGBTQ workers. We are inviting historians and organizers in order to discuss the history of autonomous struggles and what lessons can the working class at large learn from their efforts. Featured Panelists: Maggie Schreiner (CUNY Grad Center) Garrison Davis (It Could Happen Here) April M. (Reform and Revolution DSA) Carla González (CUNY Grad Center) Moderated by Matt Brim (College of Staten Island)
#340
July 10 · 24 min
Well There's Your Snafu
NEWS EP! Andy's reportback from Summer of Ludd! Sean on the 42nd Street building collapse and its YIMBY origins! Finally, the war's back on. But did it ever end? For the full episode, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Brooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm Our visit to the Verso Archive. Use WRECKAGE at checkout for 50% off the books we mention: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-archive-featuring-this-wreckage Summer of Ludd schedule: https://buttondown.com/nycofftech/archive/summer-of-ludd-schedule/ Charming 42nd St man: https://x.com/thisismeryan13/status/2074530438035435827 Former Pfizer hq collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/midtown-development-pfizer-headquarters.html https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/08/nyregion/nyc-midtown-building-collapse CIA-backed drone attacks target Russian energy: https://www.ft.com/content/d0f82c05-c35f-4e0f-b452-f61dc8a7e697?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html Song: The Ramones - 53rd and 3rd
#339
July 6 · 1 hr 1 min
Talkin' Slop w/ Freddy G
A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac Check out Freddy and Anders' DSA-benefit comedy show: @paidprotestcomedy Some of his vids: Birthright https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVtPlwiuC7/ Watermelon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU7Op2hYC1/ Pod Save America: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNxxXahCbg/ Land Auction: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZIviHVtxnv/ With Jacob berger: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSkspoRzUW/ Song: Yung Lean - Metallic Intuition
#338
June 29 · 1 hr 6 min
Arch Enemies w/ Devin Thomas O'Shea
Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Peter Thiel's Dialog leak: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/ Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind
#337
June 24 · 53 min
Platnerpus Unaffiliated Society
Sean reports back on Labor Note drama! In the fun half, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage to hear it! For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html Check out geese: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028 https://www.geesemag.com/articles/the-direction-of-determination Platner video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMLrU8mI9A Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund Song: New Order - Ultraviolence
June 19 · 16 min
Book of Revelation Part 2
Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION! We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage song: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
June 17 · 59 min
Notes on Labor Notes 1 w/ Independent Labor Club of Chicago
Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to. Whither the Teamsters for a Democratic Union? Whither the labor movement? Is there a future for the types of left labor reform movements that Labor Notes calls for? Sean, Hope and Jamie Merchant give their assessment of the good, bad and ugly at the conference including those topic which remained unaddressed but hung in the air. To support our work become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: Neil Young - This Note's For You
June 17 · 58 min
Notes on Labor Notes 2 w/ Joyce from Teamsters Mobilize and ILC Chicago
The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's adversarial stance towards the reigning Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership. Tune in to next week's new episode where Andy and Sean break down the counterprogramming event that occurred outside LN2026 featuring supporters of TM, Spartacists League and the leftcom group International Communist Party. Become a supporter of our work at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage song: Neil Young - This Note's For You
June 3 · 57 min
E336 - The Nine Rigors w/ Rax King
Sean is joined by favorite guest and wife Rax King to discuss her upcoming essay in journalism cooperative Flaming Hydra on why organizing in the food service industry is so difficult but also so vital. What will it take for labor to break through in this industry? What can restaurant work teach us about labor in general? Why are these restaurant owners always clenching their jaws and sweating so much? Answers to these questions, an introduction to Rax's patented Nine Rigors system of becoming a human, an old fashioned gripezone and more on this special, last minute episode. To support our work and get access to all our bonus material become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage Check out Rax King's excellent newsletter for all her great writings: https://www.patreon.com/c/raxkingisdead/home Come see Rax in person in NYC for the Veiled Prophet event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-veiled-prophet-nyc-book-event-tickets-1990109537198
May 27 · 55 min
Diving into the Wreckage: Welcome to the Summer w/ C Derick Varn
As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tuned! To listen to the entire episode including the bonus section become a supporter of our show at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage To watch the video of this whole episode become a supporter of C Derick Varn at www.patreon.com/varnvlog Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqRb6xYtEQ https://www.cio.com/article/4131876/data-center-capex-to-hit-1-7-trillion-by-2030-due-to-ai-boom.html

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