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PODCAST

The Kingless Generation

Fergal Schmudlach

A podcast on the deep history of class struggle, paleo-parapolitics, and the demonology of capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thulêan Kewpie Doll ET: Doraemon’s Little Star Wars...

The Kingless Generation ·

2022/05/27

Doraemon: Nobita’s Little Star Wars (1985) was a masterpiece of late–Cold War bourgeois libertarian mythmaking: the kids of the Doraemon world join a miniature alien race in a righteous struggle for liberty from a totalitarian (aggressively Soviet-coded) regime, using Doraemon’s shrink ray to move back and forth between branded action figure size and regular size to bring about the triumphant end of history—and maybe even record a cool home movie on their consumer electronics while Mom works on

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1:54:43

Turning the Wheel of the Dialectic: Bhagavad Gītā...

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2022/05/10

We have seen how D.T. Suzuki’s take on zen was a very modern thing, tailor made in Illinois as a bourgeois ideology. This time, under the guidance of Ajith’s dialectical materialist critique of Brahmanism, we take up the Bhagavad Gītā (India, post 5th c. BCE), especially its modern bourgeois idealist interpretations as represented by Tilak’s Gītā Rahasya, a foundational text for India’s comprador Brahman classes and their English masters. We notice here the emphasis on karma yoga, the spiritual

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26:36

The Liberality of Evil: there’s a right way and a...

The Kingless Generation ·

2022/04/27

Meditations on the differences between some similar things that we can’t afford to get twisted. Unprincipled opportunism, idealist insistence that revolutionary organizing always be only prefigurative of stateless, classless society—and meanwhile outright manifestations of reactionary class power are something we can just wink at slyly because we’re good-hearted, tolerant, liberal sophisticates. Ariyoshi Sawako’s story is a Rockefeller Foundation-funded magnum opus of postwar class collaborationism,

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1:55:32

Azov vs. the Orcs: a dialectical demonology of...

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2022/04/07

The historical symbolism of the Zelyonka industrial dye attack—by which members of the Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine claim to be marking their victims, whether they be Roma or other central Asian peoples or just supposed Russophiles, as “orcs” tainted by Asiatic racial contagion—lies in the orcos of Spanish chivalric fantasy, the true inspiration for Tolkien’s hordes of Mordor besieging the holy city, surely much more than Beowulf as is often claimed. A kind of dialectical demonology of

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17:48

Zen was made up by a guy in Illinois: D.T. Suzuki &...

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2022/03/08

As Anglo-American capitalism swept across the globe in the nineteenth century, the school of Japanese Buddhism most closely associated with the thoroughly discredited feudal government, Zen, was struggling to rebrand. Meanwhile, Paul Carus, a German immigrant serving as court philosopher to a zinc magnate in LaSalle, Illinois, published a book identifying Buddhism as a possible source for the “Religion of Science” purified of all superstitions, which he believed must become the ideology of modern,

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1:07:44

Light and Air for the Proletariat

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2022/03/04

A more newsy, free-flowing episode. I see many socialists confused by paired spectacles of astroturfed extremism and carefully misdirected popular energy: caravans of hooting hollering settler hogs on the one side, caravans of moozlamic hispanic terrorists on the other. I’m pretty sure the plan is to numb you to the current violence of bio-gladio, and the climate massacres to come, by convincing you that any given authoritarian crackdown is only going to hit the invading “caravan” who fall on the

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33:50

w/ Khālid ibn Yaʿqūb: Idolatry, Semiotics & the Self...

The Kingless Generation ·

2022/03/03

A wide-ranging conversation on historical comparative psychology, spirituality, and leftist politics, with Khalid ibn Yaʿqūb, co-host of the Subliminal Jihad podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:09:22

The First Private Property: Mother (Sumer, 3 m. BCE);...

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2022/02/03

The first private property was the body of the woman, with the historic defeat of the female sex and the birth of the father. We catch fleeting glimpses of the extended clan (gens) family as it existed right down to the 20th century among human beings outside class society, then examine the unexpectedly cucked “traditional” family, a perversion of human community specialised to pass down private property and bring class power to bear on its members at the expense of authentic kinship. Like prisons

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13:14

Combat Parasocialism: Book of Thoth (Egypt, 300 BCE –...

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/12/28

With the internet, every ordinary social interaction is now subject to counterinsurgency tactics like COINTELPRO and GLADIO. In places like Vietnam, Kenya, and Ireland, counterinsurgency strategists have allowedthe working class to organize while embedding agents within their orgsand also encapsulating these orgs within controlled structures, so that they may be manipulated, frustrated, and even misdirected to cause general chaos and drive society as a whole further toward authoritarianism. Today

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1:13:21

Marx failed to consider: Ishikawa Jun, “Jesus of the...

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/12/10

It’s bourgeois liberal literature versus the actual history of worker and peasant struggle, as we contrast Ishikawa Jun’s very anti-human view of the unwashed masses of postwar Tokyo, with the economy of autonomous workers’ councils that seized the means of production and traded their products to feed the people for two years until they were finally crushed by a retrenched Japanese bourgeoisie, MacArthur’s occupation government, and the opportunist faction of the Japanese Communist Party. Hosted on

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17:33

Rule by Causing to Speak: Discourses of the Eloquent...

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2021/11/24

From the 20th c. BCE, discourses on truth and justice delivered by a peasant who has been robbed by a dishonest official. This leads us into meditations on the class basis of the State, discourses of class compromise, and finally the way that class rule can operate not only by speaking to its subjects or by silencing dissenting views but also by making them speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:30

Thought Living and Dead and the Mass Line

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/11/17

A little supplement to yesterday’s episode, as my new more spontaneous and hopefully sustainable format may I fear have left some things unsaid and invited misunderstanding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:40:21

Revisionist Buddhism: Nihon ryōi ki (Japan, 9th c.)

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/11/16

A kind of critical support or supportive criticism of the parapolitics left, particularly what we might call the vampire hunter faction, as we take a look at Buddhist folk tales from early–Heian-period Japan, a time and place where the Abrahamic worldview has no purchase but we still see religious ideology working within class struggle and relations of production in a variety of ways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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7:49

Capitalist Modernity: Kobayashi Takiji (Japan, 1930)...

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/09/29

Japanese Proletarian writer Kobayashi Takiji takes us into class consciousness, gendered violence, wage labor, the commodity, even the revolutionary potential of the working class, all through the eyes of a child, in the short story “Comrade Taguchi’s Sorrow.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:28:34

White Devils: Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (Morocco, al-ʾAndalus,...

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/08/31

A wander through the hall of mirrors that produced white supremacy, anti-blackness, and the demonic expansion of capital networks in the wake of the “re”conquista of Spain, the crusades, and the age of European exploration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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10:07

Silk Road: Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Iran, China, India),...

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/08/17

We take a tour of the Silk Road, where merchant capital moved and grew value between the ancient empires of China, India, and the newly formed Muslim world, with its roots in nomadism and trade and frontier relationships with nomads, including future “white people” like the Viking Rus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:08:36

Ancient Empires: Cain & Abel (Hebrew/Greek, 3rd c....

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/08/05

In ancient myths from opposite sides of the globe, we find ancestral memories of the violent conspiracy that gave birth to class society, and we also trace the growth of cosmologies of good and evil through class struggle and the growth of the great ancient empires: do we live in a cosmic empire? A cosmic insurgency? A cosmic counter-insurgency? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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10:36

The Grain State: Sheep and Grain (Sumer, 22nd c....

The Kingless Generation ·

2021/08/03

We get an intimate view of the transition to the grain state, straight out of Sumer (modern-day Iraq) in the 22nd century BCE, and compare it to one of the last defenders of the grain state, Aizawa Seishisai in 19th-c. CE Japan, Aristotle in 4th-c. BCE Greece, and current events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:00:28

The Hypostasis of the Archons: Human history as the...

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2021/07/30

A quick ramble through the deep history of class struggle. We rise like Mary Magdalene through the heavenly spheres and meet each of the demonic rulers and powers of the air which we must organize to defeat as we build the Kingless Generation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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