E257 - Joe vs. the Volcano w/ Phil Neel & Nick Chavez (Part 1)

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.

In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution.

Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory

Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c

Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite

Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf

Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en

Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/

TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/

Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire

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0:00.0	How's the old ILC going?
0:08.0	Really, man. It's going really great.
0:15.0	We just had a remote meeting with a bunch of different chapter people.
0:21.0	Arizona is going awesome.
0:23.0	Oh, that's awesome.
0:25.0	That's wonderful. Where in Arizona?
0:26.0	Are they?
0:27.0	Based around Phoenix, but there's some people like Spread,
0:30.0	because Arizona is so big, spread out around.
0:32.0	New York is going awesome. We've got people
0:38.7	going to Canada to set stuff up. Canadians coming here to meet.
0:43.1	Looks like in August, we're gonna try to start a Chicago chapter.
0:47.6	We got a lot of interest there.
0:49.3	And Melbourne, Australia just met the other day,
0:52.0	which is exciting.
0:53.0	Damn that's spreading pretty quick. Congrats that's that's really great.
0:57.0	Yeah it's pretty exciting.
0:59.0	The only thing is we don't you know it's like we don't really have the structure in place to be spread so
1:05.2	thin, so we're trying to figure out like what we're capable of right now in terms of spreading,
1:11.1	you know?
1:12.1	Yeah, like what do you, that's like you have all these people, it's like, all right, well, now what?
1:16.7	Yeah, then you gotta like figure out shit to do. We've found public events to be pretty successful so far, which keeps everybody with something
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