Love listening to Christman on basically any topic. Great talk. 👍

Empire creates artificial scarcity to gain cheap labour and soldiers through poverty and desperation. India, Scotland and Ireland have not had famines since the fall of the British Empire. The empire was full of Scottish, Indian and Irish troops and labour. During every famine in the British Raj, India was producing more food than any other nation and the food was shipped out of the ports while the locals starved. Also in Scotland and Ireland the forced over production of a single crop left them vulnerable to mass crop failures. similar to what happens in the sugar colonies like Puerto Rico and Fiji today.

man as someone not as educated as these two they make it easy to understand while giving knowledgeable info. FEEL BETTER MATT

Yo Jaimie pull up that chart about 18th century nail prices

I'm here from a Bad Faith podcast on Jan. 25, 2021 and I liked what Sean KB had to say - so I searched and found that he had a conversation with Matt Christman (and I'm a big Cushvlog fan) - I have to say, I've heard some great interviews with Christman and "Useful Idiots" and Katie Halper, etc., however, in THIS interview with Sean KB, they are clearly very comfortable with one another and so the ideas flow very freely - EXCELLENT WORK - thank you!

This was great more christman talks are needed in 2023

1:13:36 Not acid...cancer. Matt was very on point by mentioning integration. Like cancer, capitalism co-opts its surroundings into itself. The landscape is not destroyed by it, the landscape BECOMES it.

Certainly like the Jamesonian plea to imagine a future, along with strategy and tactics to get there. To replace neoliberalism without falling prey to nationalist, isolationist, techno-imperialism.

This is fucking excellent and deserves far more views, amazing work

Outstanding work fellas

I love how they're thinking about Hell on Earth in the feudalism section here 4 years before making it

The US had an incredible labor struggle that was extremely violent and revolutionary. It was a beautiful example of how Marxists, anarchists (there was little to no difference then as anarchists joined C/SP's and were Marxists technically anyway and Marxists were more focused on direct action and organizing and they largely both advocated the same tactics) and even less radical elements could function as a unit and effect real change. From what I can tell all ended with the rise of the USSR (which caused rifts and gave reactionaries an example to point at), the US socialist and communist parties adopting Leninism, aligning themselves with the Soviet Union long after many had abandoned hope for the revolution and purging the members who didn't tow the line which is probably the single thing that caused the most fracturing and hyper sectarianism, a sustained and all consuming propaganda, misinformation, sabatoge and destruction campaign that became explicit in 1919 with the First Red Scare but that started long before and continues to today with fascistic myth building/maintenance, distraction, culture wars and class collaboration. It's amazing because the bloody and frequently brutal struggle didn't seem to be the main factor. It was sectarianism and other internal conflicts that made it to where even people of identical ideology couldn't agree on enough to function, multiple wars that drained the proletariat and lumpenproletarian classes, examples of what was happening in other parts of the world where CP's had seized power and all the conflict, starvation and violence filtered through reactionary propaganda, quality of life increasing dramatically right after a time of soaring patriotism that even caused the most ardent revolutionaries the world over made shit calls (WWII), the fear of losing said victories of the New Deal and quality of life increases, and a concerted overt and covert effort to brainwash people from birth and dismantle organs of worker power via the state, which seems highly unconstitutional. There's just so much that lead to the US worker movement dying and much of the working class and poor population taking on very reactionary views and identifying with the state and capitalism. I think Chomsky and others have documented the phenomena well in the concept of "totalitarian 'free' societies". The US culturally functions something like a cult and follows the B.I.T.E model pretty goddamn brilliantly lol. But that cultural totalitarianism, the dominant realism and ideological shift played and undeniably massive role in both the decline of class struggle and party politics. But as far as why there was never a major party I guess it's largely due to the fact that the worker movement was much more focused on direct struggle and less with party politics. I think it's pretty clear that a left/worker party never would've really had a chance to begin with given the power dynamics of the US state and how city and state level was much more successful despite the odds. There have been dozens of em and they never went anywhere. If they had they'd likely be just as corrupted by their element as the European parties. This was mad interesting 👍✊👊✌

Holy shit this is a great talk. Good shit bois

This is something I've wondered about for years and years, the more I've learned about the extent of socialist traditions and working class militancy in US history. I'm curious you don't include Longism and Teddy Roosevelt and the Bullmoose party in this account. Where do they fit in, or don't they?

My brother had a good number of those Civil War cards growing up.

Matt had a panini prism Robert E Lee rookie card

I think Matt just made it clear that Civil War reenactment nerds are history cosplayers. Matt found his anime in the Civil War

I think Pinkertons has a heavy hand in blame.

I hate rogan but i would listen to it if felix is on.

Love this discussion. Could you do something to your mic setup or your levels? It's really hard to listen to this podcast you two constantly switching from being super loud to super quiet because you moved your face away from the mic.

I'd like to apologize again for not continuing to listen to the podcast where they discuss that. I've been up on kratom for two days and am looking for an app that can help me

Who's 'the boss' they reference as the opening music fades in? I can't make it out

I would like to apologize for my previous comment. I just took way too much cbd and i'm out of my head. That's no excuse though, and I will recommit to self work. The insurance company I work for has a great mindfulness program and I will seriously look into it. thanks

Chapo in da house!

@1:22:00 That's called "Skynet"... not a good idea.

What book is Matt is talking about from 1906 at around 45:00?

This rocks

Hey what's the episode where they talk about 70s movies? What one was interesting.

A mystery? Violence

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The uk Labour Party is no longer a workers party.

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