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This Wreckage Podcast

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Communist Podcast with @seankb.bsky.social & @gittlitz.bsky.social weekly episodes on Wednesday Patreon.com/ThisWreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🗃️Why don't they make the whole commune out of the Black Box?🗃️ @dfmanufracture.bsky.social discusses his @htwvmag.bsky.social essay about the division of technical knowledge in capitalist reproduction, how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

Why don't they make the whole commune out of the Black Box? w/ Nick Chavez | This Wreckage

The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production. The essa

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i hope the listeners of @thiswreckage.bsky.social appreciate that for them i am currently listening to henry rollins do stand-up

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🏹BONUS: Paul Greengrass's The Uprising ⚔️ Ross Wolfe and Susannah Grossman Wolfe watch THE UPRISING to help us decide if it's faithful depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin Hood as anti-Trump cautionary tale www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

BONUS: Paul Greengrass's The Uprising w/ Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe | This Wreckage

An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump c

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

~E349: The Menace of Prosperity~ @as_a_worker talks with historian @dlondonwortel.bsky.social about his new book on NYC's economic development, particularly timely as Mamdani tries, within the bounds of political economy, to open up the 'fiscal imaginary' www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

The Menace of Prosperity w/ Daniel Wortel-London | This Wreckage

Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Strugg

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The Empire Never Ended @tenepod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had a great conversation with our friend @gittlitz.bsky.social of @thiswreckage.bsky.social !

391: The Umpire Never Ended with A. M. Gittlitz | The Empire Never Ended Podcast

TENEpod is joined by Andy from This Wreckage podcast to talk about sports and his recent book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Strugg

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

~E348: Was Dolly America A or B?~ Brooklyn v. Dallas. Brownstones v McMansions. The Braves v Savannah Bananas. @legoracers2.bsky.social & Jackson theorize a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B, and if they're leading us to civil war www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E348: Was Dolly Parton America A or America B? w/ Liam & Jackson | This Wreckage

Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas. The authors of "Alp

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🤿DITW: Only Black Pills🏚️ @seankb.bsky.social interviews @varnvlog.bsky.social back from tour, discuss DSA & prepolitics, climate crisis, Complexity theory, inability of US capitalists to get their shit together in the Trump era & much more www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

Diving into the Wreckage: Only Black Pills w/ C. Derick Varn | This Wreckage

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AM Gittlitz @gittlitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i'm doing THREE events in chicago this weekend, with @thiswreckage.bsky.social , @ilcofchi.bsky.social , The Beach (Beneath the Street) Social Center, and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social (And hmu if you're going to the Mets vs Sox game Sunday) Tix for fri: luma.com/tc972eyv

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚨E343: Trojan Shoot-and-Cry🚨 Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists ( @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe) review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, w/ help from the Adornos & Horkheimer www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E343: Trojan Shoot-and-Cry w/ Rax King, Ross Wolfe, Susannah Grossman Wolfe | This Wreckage

Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheime

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

~E342: Elves Against the Machine~ An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E342: Elves Against the Machine w/ Matthew Wolfe | This Wreckage

An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabo

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Catch them on tour this week! including saturday at Woodbine in Manhattan + Sunday, 7/26 5:00 PM at the Jersey Shore Arts Center with the NJ branch of the Independent Labor Club

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

~E341: The People are Not One~ @varnvlog.bsky.social and Daniel Tutt discuss their new book, a critique of populism offering their vision of path forward for the left www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E341: The People are Not One w/ Daniel Tutt, C. Derick Varn | This Wreckage

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ILC Chicago @ilcofchi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Join us in Chicago next month for a live podcast recording of This Wreckage, with Sean KB in conversation with Jamie Merchant about WORKING CLASS INDEPENDENCE ahead of another grueling election cycle. Get your tickets here: luma.com/tc972eyv @thiswreckage.bsky.social @jamiemerchant.bsky.social

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The hosts of @thiswreckage.bsky.social, A.M. Gittlitz & Sean KB, visited our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive

The Verso Archive featuring This Wreckage

The hosts of This Wreckage (A.M. Gittlitz & Sean KB) visit our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive, sharing memories of the Verso Loft and discussing some of the t...

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

~E339: Talkin' Slop~ A chat with @orangefreddyg.bsky.social about his path to becoming a Leftist and Antizionist Jewish comic and viral anti-Hasbara content creator for @trackaipac.com www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E339: Talkin' Slop w/ Freddy G | This Wreckage

A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac Check out Freddy and Ande

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

~E338: Arch Enemies~ @devintoshea.bsky.social stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet!—a history of America from the St Louis Commune to the Ferguson rebellion www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E338: Arch Enemies w/ Devin Thomas O'Shea | This Wreckage

Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Loui

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

~E337: Platnerpus Unaffiliated Society~ @seankb.bsky.social reports back on Labor Note drama! Then, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the prefix ULTRA www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

E337: Platnerpus Unaffiliated Society | This Wreckage

Sean reports back on Labor Note drama! Then, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the prefix ULTRA For a F

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

BONUS: Book of Revelations Part 1 @henryjwallis.bsky.social guides us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎠E333: Upstate Anarchist Bookfair🌀 Interviews from the @pmpress.bsky.social bookfair with Riot Act Books, Phoebe Wagner, Flock Off Ithaca, Warzone Distro, & Bolshevik Tendency, + a farewell to Ben Morea www.patreon.com/posts/e333-u...

E333: Upstate Anarchist Bookfair | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

~E332: Consumption Junction~ Nicolas D Villarreal, an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy, talks about his recent @cosmonautmag.bsky.social essay about how the State is saving capitalists from themselves www.patreon.com/posts/e332-c...

E332: Consumption Junction w/ Nicolas D Villarreal | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

~E331: LaRouche Bag~ We're joined by researcher @ajawoods.bsky.social to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West www.patreon.com/posts/e331-l...

E331: LaRouche Bag w/ A.J.A. Woods | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

👨‍🦰420 Special: Weeding out our Library🦝 @gittlitz.bsky.social & @andersleehere.bsky.social celebrate 420 by reading Walter Benjamin! First: Leon Wieseltier's preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" & a section of Berlin Childhood. www.patreon.com/posts/155773...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🥳E330: Summer of Ludd🧱 NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orban is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis. In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda www.patreon.com/posts/e330-s...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

*TOMORROW april 7 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...

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Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple: 9780593229453 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through...

This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

E329: Sun's Out, Bund's Out Catching up with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social about Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, available TODAY!! www.patreon.com/posts/e329-s...

E329: Sun's Out, Bund's Out w/ Molly Crabapple | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🏟️E328: METROPOLITANS release week!🐈‍⬛ @gittlitz.bsky.social talks to @tippingpitchespod.com and @rickpaulas.bsky.social's greenpoint history night about his new messianic-marxist history of the Mets www.patreon.com/posts/154237...

E328: METROPOLITANS release week! | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

👨‍⚕️E327: International Unrealism🇨🇺 Security/defense policy specialist @drkuba.bsky.social tells us who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine, how the media has gotten so bad, what divisions exist within the global ruling class, and much more! www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

&&& - Clim&te Defi&nce w/ Nate Smith We're joined by @climatedefiance.bsky.social and @xrglobal.bsky.social activist NATE SMITH to talk about dealing with FBI knocks, the use of humor in disruptive actions, anti-ginger racism, & much more! www.patreon.com/posts/clim-t...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

~E326: Kharg of War~ We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immanentizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can. www.patreon.com/posts/e326-k...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In Part 2 of the episode for subscribers, we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report by @manabovetown.bsky.social from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF www.patreon.com/posts/e325-p...

E325 (PART 2): Nick Land Acknowledgment w/ C. Derick Varn | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🥀BONUS: Smothering Heights🏚️ Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah Grossman Wolfe returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic Wuthering Heights! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🥀BONUS: Smothering Heights🏚️ Our gothic romance correspondent Susannah Grossman Wolfe (@diaeresismurder) returns to chat about Emerald Fennell's kinkified adaptation of the Brontë classic Wuthering Heights! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In Part 2 of the episode for subscribers, we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report by @manabovetown.bsky.social from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF www.patreon.com/posts/e325-p...

E325 (PART 2): Nick Land Acknowledgment w/ C. Derick Varn | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

~E325: The Tariff Rift~ News ep! We talk striking nurses, MLBPA drama, SCOTUS vs POTUS, the changing tactics of ICE, looksmaxxing, and more with our cool Social Studies teacher, future governor of New York, the Sigma Marxist, @varnvlog.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/e325-t...

E325: The Tariff Rift w/ C. Derick Varn (PART 1) | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

☮️ARMED LOVE 14: Sixties Surrealism🔫 @abigailsusik.bsky.social discusses the resurgence of surrealism among the IWW and NYC anarchists in the sixties, how these groups foretold the New Left and punk, and why we lack a revolutionary avant-garde today www.patreon.com/posts/armed-...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

☮️ARMED LOVE 14: Sixties Surrealism🔫 @abigailsusik.bsky.social discusses the resurgence of surrealism among the IWW and NYC anarchists in the sixties, how these groups foretold the New Left and punk, and why we lack a revolutionary avant-garde today www.patreon.com/posts/armed-...

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AM Gittlitz @gittlitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

DitW: The Dam Breaks in 2026 @varnvlog.bsky.social & @seankb.bsky.social tackle the 'Epstein Files': How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? www.patreon.com/posts/ditw-d...

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ILC Chicago @ilcofchi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

ILC Chicago members were featured on the This Wreckage podcast this week! They discussed ICE, strikes, the concept of pre-politics, and more. If you're not a patron but would like to listen to the full/paywall free version, DM us! @thiswreckage.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/e323-c...

E323: Chai El See w/ Chicago Independent Labor Club | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

~E324: Blockade Party~ Noah Kulwin & Brendan James of Blowback Pod report back from their trip to Colombia and Cuba, and how nations under the Donroe Doctrine gun are organizing to fight back free: rss.com/podcasts/the... extended: www.patreon.com/posts/e324-b...

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The hosts of Blowback Podcast report back from Colombia and Cuba!For an extended version of this episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckageIn Bogota, they attended a conference of th...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

🤿Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis After Another🏚️ @as_a_worker and @varnvlog talk DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and Colin Drumm. + in the fun half, Varn's recent ascension to DSA Gadfly! www.patreon.com/posts/146392...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

~E319: Good and Evil~ @as_a_worker is drunk and angry www.patreon.com/posts/147772...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

E318: Au Revoir Simón Quick react to Trump's first regime change, and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution. www.patreon.com/posts/e318-a...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

🤿Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis After Another🏚️ @as_a_worker and @varnvlog talk DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and Colin Drumm. + in the fun half, Varn's recent ascension to DSA Gadfly! www.patreon.com/posts/146392...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

☠️E317: Year of the Youthquakes☠️ We talk about Adrian Wohlleben's essay Revolts Without Revolution from @illwill.bsky.social, which updates his memetic theory of previous uprisings for a year of uncoordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs. www.patreon.com/posts/e317-y...

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Jack Bratich, author of ON MICROFASCISM, was recently on @thiswreckage.bsky.social. Tune in to hear him chat about the concept of "microfascism." ⚡️ buff.ly/zFktBC9

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

~E316: The Bovine of Western Civilization~ NEWS ep. We talk about the WB buyout, Trump's National Security manifesto, the recent @endnotesjournal.bsky.social essay about ICE and mass migration, Death By Lightning, and bid farewell to Asad Haider www.patreon.com/posts/e316-b...

E316: The Bovine of Western Civilization | This Wreckage

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

&&&: DSA Drama & Conan Watching @gittlitz.bsky.social & @andersleehere.bsky.social discuss Zohran on NYPD reforms & meetings with Trump & the Satmar community. In the 2nd half, we watch some old Conan bits & interviews audio: www.patreon.com/posts/dsa-dr... video: www.patreon.com/posts/dsa-dr...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

E314: ☠️Microfascist Machines🔬 @commonnotions.bsky.social author Jack Z. Bratich chats about "microfascism," a Deleuzian concept looking at fascist impulses from below that manifest in far-right groupuscles, the manosphere, and stochastic terror www.patreon.com/posts/e314-m...

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This Wreckage Podcast @thiswreckage.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

🧌E312: We Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy🧪 We talk about the romantic and Promethean themes of Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and decide: Worth it and/or woke? www.patreon.com/posts/e312-w...

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