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The Antifada

E256: IVF or IMF w/ Jason Smith

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.

Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?

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Check out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter

Referenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demography

Song: Dystopia - Population Birth Control

Transcript

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0:00.0

Single handling out the green transitions.

0:05.0

No, not in New Jersey in New York.

0:10.0

No, not in New Jersey in New York. Oh, it's in New Jersey, in New York.

0:13.0

In New York, okay.

0:15.0

Yeah, in Brooklyn specifically.

0:16.0

Yeah, single-handedly doing the green.

0:18.0

I tell you, it feels like more and more we need that green transition.

0:22.0

I was, uh, I don't know if you've heard we're any heat wave

0:24.8

again out here I've heard yeah and my I guess this is a start to the show welcome

0:31.2

everybody Jason Smith back for his third time I think at

0:34.0

this point you become our official political economy correspondent

0:38.2

I think they're well sorry I hate to tell you I don't know if it's three actually. I was thinking about this earlier. I think it might be two. I think that we might have had a, I could be totally wrong, but I thought we might have had an occasion that didn't happen or something like that. I know we done at least once. So maybe that

0:55.2

maybe that one appearance was so powerful it feels like a couple of them. But yeah

1:01.6

you're back and we're going to talk about demographic

1:04.1

transition we're going to talk about fertility we're going to talk about a Marxist

1:08.6

political economic analysis of this to try to get away from people like I don't know Alex Jones and

1:15.0

Elon Musk who are freaking out about this shit and all the you know post

1:19.7

fascists rising in Europe to deal with this shit. But yeah, no, on the green transition stuff,

1:24.4

Jacob had the space for all the place wrong. I'm working in New York right now. I'm working on the green

1:31.6

transition. It was so hot today out there and

1:35.4

unfortunately we have to record on a work night for me that our vibratory hammer we're

1:41.0

using this million dollar seven ton machine this powerful machine

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