E262: Piratical Bordiga w/ Cosimo Pantaleoni & Ross Wolf

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

While Marxist friend and historian Cosimo Pataleoni was in town from Italy, Sean decided to bring along Ross Wolf to get a taste of some badass history of piracy. We discuss Cosimo's work on the Uskoks, Croatian rebel sailors of the early modern period, as a lens for understanding the rise of commercial capitalism, proletarianization, debt bondage, and incarceration on the frontiers and the high seas. How do Cosimo's studies-inspired by figures like Eric Hobsbawm, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker-help us understand the transition towards capitalism and, ultimately, how the transition towards communism might unfold?

In the second half we talk about Cosimo's Italian Bordigist futurism project N+1 (no, not that one) then speculate about Houthi rebels and Yemeni pirates, maritime multipolarity, the fetters that your home wifi imposes on production and why intellectual property and the internet have become the new frontier in capitalist development... and perhaps its overcoming?

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Song: Vandals - Pirate's Life

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0:00.0	Hi everybody. Welcome to the Antipada. We got a strong solo this week which is to say that Andy will not be appearing due to circumstances.
0:16.0	We're going to have some awesome guests though, one of whom you know and one of whom you're
0:19.5	going to be meeting for the first time.
0:22.0	But before we go into all that, very important, on
0:25.0	Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, September 29th. It's coming up from 2 to 4 PM.m. at the Chicago Public Library, West Loop Branch in Chicago, Chaytown, USA,
0:41.0	there is going to be the first public meeting of the Independent Labor Club of Chicago.
0:48.2	So if you're in that area, or if you're in that region, if you live in Illinois or any of the
0:52.1	surrounding areas.
0:53.6	Go on down to the West Loop Branch Public Library in Chicago,
0:58.4	2 to 4 p.m. Sunday the 29th and meet some great people including Jamie Merchant who's going to be involved
1:05.8	great get from you know him from the Brooklyn Rail and his political economy.
1:17.5	Now that that's out of the way, I'm happy to announce our two guests today. We have first off returning champion, many time returning champion,
1:22.3	I'd say maybe four or five, six times at this point.
1:25.2	We have Ross Wolf, hello.
1:27.1	Hey, how's it going guys?
1:28.9	Really, really good.
1:30.2	And we have for the first time ever, Kasimo Pantalyoni, who is visiting us
1:35.8	from the fair country of Italia?
1:38.7	Italy.
1:39.5	Thank you.
1:40.5	Happy to be here.
1:41.6	Thanks so much for being here.
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