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The State Between Us podcast

@thestatebetweenus.bsky.social
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The Looney Lorebase of the Long Red Scare Histories, interviews, games, news, and stuff like that. The very long histories of ruling class power, their fashy goons, and their idiotic and dangerous schemes to keep us all isolated, overworked, and sick.

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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 19h
Attention, listeners! Episode 40. "It's Killing Me. I Cannot Handle It": The Struggle of Rail Workers in Slovakia w/ Nina Nix. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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40. "It's Killing Me. I Cannot Handle It": The Struggle of Rail Workers in Slovakia w/ Nina Nix
Friend of the show, Nina Nix, introduces the hellish struggle of train...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part two of TSBU's History of Anarchism in China on patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs right now! Subscribe for free today! #anarchism #china #history #podcast
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 39. A History of Anarchism in China p.2: Good Guy Theory w/ Laura. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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39. A History of Anarchism in China p.2: Good Guy Theory w/ Laura
In the second half of Laura's two-part history of anarchism in China,...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Paris Tofu Grinder! Laura rejoins TSBU to discuss the history of Chinese anarchism in a two-part discussion. Check it out free at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 38. A History of Anarchism in China p.1: Paris Tofu Grinder w/ Laura. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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38. A History of Anarchism in China p.1: Paris Tofu Grinder w/ Laura
Laura rejoins The State Between Us to tell the story of anarchism in...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fritz learns about Marquis de Morès, a 19th century French aristocrat and degenerate gambler whose ridiculous misadventures and financial flops in the American West resulted in him failing his way into inventing fascism. patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs #France #USA #AmericanWest #podcast #fascism
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The French Cowboy and First Fash
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 37. Marquis de Morès Fails into Fascism, or, Real Nazis Wear Cowboy Hats [TEASER]. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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37. Marquis de Morès Fails into Fascism, or, Real Nazis Wear Cowboy Hats [TEASER]
Before the fash wore black shirts, they wore Buffalo Bill dusters and...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Great interview from @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social with the author of To Catch A Fascist. Interesting details here about the infiltration of Patriot Fail. Books sounds excellent ✊
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Chris Mathias on Antifa Infiltration of Patriot Front and Militant Antifascism Today | The Final Straw Radio
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 36. Another Biggest Lie: Six centuries of anti-Roma oppression in Europe, condensed.. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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36. Another Biggest Lie: Six centuries of anti-Roma oppression in Europe, condensed.
Following a recent attack against a Roma settlement in Slovakia, TSBU...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly hogtying all our bosses. Rest in Peace :(
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Here is an interview I did about the body of my work with Thiago Gama for the Brazilian platform @outraspalavras.net. The title is “The Ship: The Factory before the Factory.” You can read it in either Portuguese or (with Google translate) English. outraspalavras.net/historia-e-m...
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Rediker: o navio, a fábrica antes da fábrica | Outras Palavras
Historiador mostra como os grandes barcos a vela europeus foram tecnologias essenciais para o capitalismo. E a organização coletiva de marinheiros contra Estados e o capital no século XVII, que levou ...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode "The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly [TRAILER]. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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"The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly [TRAILER]
FULL FREE EPISODE at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs Author Joseph Kelly...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
can't wait for this
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Great interview with Joseph Kelly, author of 'The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915' published last month by @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs/posts/34-biggest-lie-w-166462656 (or wherever you get your podcasts)
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 34. "The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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34. "The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly
Author Joseph Kelly joins Fritz to discuss his new book, The Biggest...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amazing month on The State Between Us. A big thanks to @richardhames.bsky.social and @marcusrediker.bsky.social as well as the antifash rock band Widows of the Night for sharing your work and wisdom with us. Subscribe at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs for much more!
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Great month on The State Between Us #history #future #latinamerica #podcastclips #podcast
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@marcusrediker.bsky.social discusses how Benjamin Lay anticipated Marx's critique of commodity fetishism over a century before him. Check out the full ep on patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs! #Marx #Abolition #PodcastClips #History
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Marcus Rediker - Benjamin Lay anticipates Karl Marx 100 years early #marxism #karlmarx #slavery
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I could not ask for a better review! Thank you Marcus!
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hear TSBU's full interview with Marcus Rediker at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs Join for free today! This is a good one folks! We talk hydrarchy, the nautical core of the underground railroad, and the 18th century quaker Ben Lay, a man way ahead of his time!
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Marcus Rediker joins TSBU to talk the genius of liberation, the motely Atlantic Proletariat, and an 18th-cent. Quaker named Ben Lay w/ a radical critique of capitalism and a dramatic theatricality that was way ahead of his time! #abolition #liberation #USHistory #podcast @marcusrediker.bsky.social
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33. World-Historical Mischief w/ Marcus Rediker | The State Between Us
Fritz's favorite historian, Marcus Rediker, joins The State Between Us to unearth long-lost nautical stories of bold and brilliant people li
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 33. World-Historical Mischief w/ Marcus Rediker. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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33. World-Historical Mischief w/ Marcus Rediker
Fritz's favorite historian, Marcus Rediker, joins The State Between Us...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New trailer up for episode 32 - Pranking Fascists in the Salvadoran Civil War with Sal Ibarra of the new anti-fascist rock band Widows of the Night! Check em out and hear the whole episode at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs! Like and share and subscribe and wander and be a little better everyday!
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Pranking Fascists in the Salvadoran Civil War w/ Sal Ibarra of Widows of the Night
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 32. Pranking Fascists in the Salvadoran Civil War w/ Sal Ibarra of Widows of the Night. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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32. Pranking Fascists in the Salvadoran Civil War w/ Sal Ibarra of Widows of the Night
Fritz's old friend, Salvador Ibarra of the new anti-fascist rock band...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trailer for my enlightening discussion with Richard Hames of #novaramedia on critical collapsology! [episode 31]. Check out the full thing at patreon.com/thestatebetweenus!
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Collapse and the Communist Core w/ Richard Hames of #NovaraMedia [ep31] #collapse #future #podcast
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Direct link to my interview on collapse and critical collapsology with @richardhames.bsky.social here! Enjoy and share with your comrades and enemies alike! If we're goin' down, we're all goin' down together!
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31. Collapse and the Communist Core w/ Richard Hames of Novara Media | The State Between Us
Stepping away for a moment from his Novara Media series, Do Your Own Research, Richard Hames joins Fritz to explain the study of "Critical C
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New free episode out! Listen to my interview with Richard Hames @richardhames.bsky.social of @novaramedia.com 's excellent series "Do Your Own Research". We talk 'collapse' and the critical study of it, the limits of past studies of collapse, scales and comparisons, and our "communist core".
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 31. Collapse and the Communist Core w/ Richard Hames of Novara Media. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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31. Collapse and the Communist Core w/ Richard Hames of Novara Media
Stepping away for a moment from his Novara Media series, Do Your Own...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's all about that Vril-Power... Hear the whole story by joining patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs today-ish...?
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New Patreon Episode up reviewing the proto-fash fic book that inspired Blavatsky's theosophy and plenty of weird woo like hollow earth and UFO mythology, Vril: The Coming Race by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1871. Patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs #Theosophy #SciFiFantasy #ScienceFiction #podcast #UFO
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Vril: The Coming Race (1871) - TSBU episode Trailer #vril #theosophy #fiction #scifi #podcast
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New Free Episode! Revenge of the WASP II looks into the woo-woo foundations of the #Amerifash 's perennial interest in UFO/UAPs as either mechanical or spiritual phenomena, and what that lineage says about #TuckerCarlson and #JDVAnce 's post- #MAGA ambitions... patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 29. Revenge of the WASP II: UFOs and that Old-Money Woo. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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29. Revenge of the WASP II: UFOs and that Old-Money Woo
Fritz, still worried about what Tucker Carlson and JD Vance have in...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Great week to become a Patron of TSBU! Sunday the 24th, Ashley Nguyen and Nick Graf will be joining us LIVE to take patron questions and comments; patrons of certain membership tiers can join and contribute to the discussion live on Patreon and Discord! To learn more: patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Almost a year ago, TSBU released episode 1 on the Manhattan Conspiracy of 1741 inspired by The Many Headed Hydra (Beacon,2000) by @marcusrediker.bsky.social & Peter Linebaugh (literally my favorite book! Get it!). Have a listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/1-welc...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Just discovered @thecrumbling.bsky.social and enjoying their series going after capitalist libertarianism. Check 'em out!
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The Crumbling E20 - Libertarianism P1 - Mercantile? I'm MercanTIRED of This | The Crumbling
The Crumbling E20 - Libertarianism P1 - Mercantile? I'm MercanTIRED of This by The Crumbling on Patreon. Join The Crumbling 's community for exclusive content and updates.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen
From 1984 to '85, both sides of the Tug Fork river on the West Virginia...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In this episode on the Massey Coal War of '84, we briefly touch on an older war between coal miners and their bosses in the very same area (around Matewan, WV). To hear more about that 1920 struggle, @workingclasshistory.com's episodes are HIGHLY recommended! Also, the Mine Wars Museum in Matewan! 🥰
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28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen | The State Between Us
28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen by The State Between Us on Patreon. Join The State Between Us's community for exclusive content and updat...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ep 28 trailer features labor historian and organizer Ashley Nguyen on the 1984 Massey Coal Strike and the elaborate counterinsurgency (w/ green berets & snipers) that the UMWA stood its ground against ✊⛏️ Hear it at: www.patreon.com/thestatebetw... #Appalachia #Coal #ClassWar #podcast #laborhistory
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The only LARPers not actually LARPing that day...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Great story this week by @nickgiraffe.bsky.social about the Legion taking over Mosinee, WI on May Day, 1950 and turning it into the "United Soviet States of America". Featuring high-effort pageantry, borscht lines, public mock executions, and even a couple of mysterious casualties...
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27. May Day, 1950: When the USSR Invaded Wisconsin w/ Nick Graf | The State Between Us
27. May Day, 1950: When the USSR Invaded Wisconsin w/ Nick Graf by The State Between Us on Patreon. Join The State Between Us's community for exclusive content and updates.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
so, pro. :)
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Truth! If anyone wants a really nice preview of what's inside, check out our interview with him. He rules. www.patreon.com/posts/151253...
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21. Smedley Butler and the Invention of America w/ Jonathan M. Katz | The State Between Us
21. Smedley Butler and the Invention of America w/ Jonathan M. Katz by The State Between Us on Patreon. Join The State Between Us's community for exclusive content and updates.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hear the full story now at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs. Join for free and share this episode with your cool friends.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Attention, listeners! Episode 27. May Day, 1950: When the USSR Invaded Wisconsin w/ Nick Graf. Check out patreon.com/thestatebetweenus for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events!
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27. May Day, 1950: When the USSR Invaded Wisconsin w/ Nick Graf
Researcher Nick Graf joins The State Between Us to talk about the...
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
@nickgiraffe.bsky.social In 1950, the American Legion organized a "high-effort LARP", transforming Mosinee, WI into the the "United Soviet States of America", complete with borscht, detention camps, and mock executions on "Red Square". #ushistory #mayday #redscare #uspolitics #socialism
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
evil never dies
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
7/7 (Thread) #MayDay To learn more about this, check out patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs, and/or read Sarah Lyons Watts' 1992 book, Order Against Chaos. Check out episode about Pullman and the origins of the National Association of Manufactures here! Subscribe for free and share it if you liked it!
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20. The National Association of Manufacturers: Pullman Town, Festoons, and Corporatism | The State Between Us
20. The National Association of Manufacturers: Pullman Town, Festoons, and Corporatism by The State Between Us on Patreon. Join The State Between Us's community for exclusive content and updates.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
6/7 (Thread) #MayDay
Though he had tried so hard to be a "good worker" for the old GMA, Gompers and his AFL were now the prime targets of National Association of Manufacturers, ensuring that his corporatist efforts at compromise would become what they were always destined to be, a floormat for Capital. NAM advocated for the federal government to deal with labor the same way they had dealt with indigenous resistance in the past, stomping them out, destroying their places of community, and 'civilizing them' through technical schools. All the while, they were building the new 'Science of Management' to break down existing relationships of skill-transmission and rob talented workers of their shop-floor authority.

Over time, the NAM learned to cool its fire and brimstone rhetoric, at least in its more public facing circles, and farm-out their gospel by backing the theo-fascist Spiritual Mobilizers of Reverend Fifield in the 1930s, the conspira-brained Capitalist Jesus of Robert Welch’s John Birch Society in the 1950s, and then finally in the infamous Moral Majority co-founded by Tim LaHaye as the '70s bled into the '80s.
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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
5/7 (Thread) #MayDay
The National Association of Manufactures was aware that, even though the General Association of Managers had won the battle in 1886, they struggled to hold popular opinion on their side. The brutality of the GMA ultimately worked against them, creating new generations of workers who saw their bosses and owners for what they were, tyrants. NAM president, David M. Parry put it like this:
"Organized labor owes its present power mainly to the support of public opinion. A propaganda for evil is to be neutralized only by a propaganda for good...We have been intimidated by a handful of anarchists and so-called labor leaders, it is now time to settle this issue once and for all!"

From its high-rise HQ overlooking Broadway in Manhattan, NAM began working priests, media people, teachers, and so-called 'citizens alliances'. They created a new theological object, "The Great Manufacturer", and refit Christianity for its Americanist future. They pioneered mass mailing, opinion polling, and even held what they called "revival meetings" that blended religiosity and capitalism into holistic sense of "Americanism". By 1906, NAM dwarfed the old GMA, controlling upwards of $22 billion in collective capital.
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