Ep 264: Endgame Two - 2 End, 2 Game w/ Jamie Merchant

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books, called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment.

What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas like economic nationalism spread and why has conspiracism racked the left and right in recent years? Why has a bipartisan consensus emerged around state industrial policy and beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy? And what might the left do about all this except tail the least worst elements of it? This, along with an update on Independent Labor Club of Chicago and how civil-social organizing might pose a path forward that doesn't end in WWIII or a Brave New World.

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

And stay tune for his 11/23 release event at https://www.woodbine.nyc/

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0:00.0	Hi everybody and welcome to the Anti-Thada episode 200 and a lot it's me Sean K B I'm here with AP Andy what's up Andy
0:18.0	let's go Mets let's go Mets just one seven three Grand Slam in the second inning.
0:24.4	Exciting time to be an Andy.
0:26.8	And me too.
0:28.3	I hope the Mets win.
0:29.6	I hope there's going to be a subway series.
0:31.2	I would love to see a subway series. Last time we had that was the year 2000. It was the dawn of a new epoch, the dawn of a new century.
0:40.0	Even a new millennium, if you will, and everything was looking so bright.
0:44.0	That's back when we were against globalization now we yearned for the return of the rules-based international order.
0:50.0	The dialect will at work.
0:53.2	On that note, we are here with a returning guest.
0:56.4	A good, good friend of the show,
0:58.6	doing some remarkable work.
1:00.4	Here to talk about the follow-up to his end game article in the Brooklyn Rail that is
1:06.8	Jamie Merchant. What's up Jamie? What is that guys? Good to be back.
1:12.0	Good to see you again.
1:13.0	The follow-up of course and I'm going to plug the living hell out of this book is from Reaction
1:19.4	Books, part of the Field Notes series with edited by Paul Maddick.
1:24.4	It's a complete book version.
1:26.0	It's an expansion upon the essay called Endgame, Economic Nationalism,
1:30.5	and Global Decline. Podcasts Privilege Andy and I were both. and
1:34.0	I were both able to get copies of this book.
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