Diving into the Wreckage 7.2: Principles and Heuristics w/ C Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW

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Sean KB and AP Andy

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.

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0:00.0	Welcome folks diving into the wreckage 7.2 principles and heuristics.
0:16.0	We will one day come back to all the debt crises including apparently the United States.
0:23.4	Yes.
0:25.0	I want, I'm sitting here as we again,
0:28.5	as we're always waiting for the other shoe to drop,
0:30.9	but I'm thinking about the massive amounts of research and the massive
0:34.4	amount of content that we put out on that series and every time I read the news I
0:38.4	keep thinking to myself all of that time all that energy all that analysis is going to be vindicated we are going to be able to use that
0:47.0	hopefully in a way that like we're looking at real time as the I think the the self-imposed bomb that's just sitting on the you I like it
0:58.5	what's weird about the US is it's in a very real sense like we are North America, not just the United States, but North America is food and energy secure if it wants to be.
1:10.0	It's not because it takes pace in the international market.
1:13.0	We wouldn't be able to maintain all of our advanced
1:16.6	technological infrastructure because we need lithium and like.
1:20.5	Sure.
1:21.2	But they're opening a couple of mines in Canada and the United States were right I mean there is
1:25.5	clearly a big shift coming to re-partially because we all know from Aaron Benny's
1:34.4	it's not going to come back the way it was you're never gonna have
1:38.0	you never gonna have Fordism again right but the the corporate industry, they want it to come back.
1:49.2	The problem that we're seeing, you know, and maybe this can take us into some of our positive heuristics, but the problem that we're seeing in our current instantiation of capital is that there is no incentive until things get really bad for anyone outside of the state to
2:09.6	reinvest and productive capital and we really see it not so much in the US but in the UK
2:15.4	like like I was talking to Stephen about Trum Lee or Stephen aboutzram Lee and he was talking about you know like why don't we ever talk about
2:28.6	the historic commission of the bourgeoisie and I said like like it's failed but I started thinking about why it's failed in this I was getting into like
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