Hello everybody and welcome to the Antifada. I'm Sean K. B. And I'm here as always with Andy folk. What's up now?

Hello, I never called me Andy before, but that's fine.

Well, you know, my old punk name.

Old names die hard, my friend.

Little Easter egg for the Fandies.

Yeah, for all the fandies.

I thought it was, I thought your name, your legal name was Antifada,

Andy.

Or Andy Fada.

I still, whenever I call myself by my legal name, which is Andy Gittlets, I still get people saying,

why are using that ridiculous pseudonym?

That's my name.

It's your goddamn name.

That's your publishing book name. But today you're Andy folks. Some days you're Andy Fada and always our guest today is Jamie Merchant who is a inveterate critic of political economy who lives in Chicago, whose works have appeared in the nation, the Baffler, and extensively under Paul Maddick Jr.'s editorship at the Brooklyn Rail.

It's hard to think of a person better suited to discuss the economy and our relationship to it,

since Jamie has made it his mission to critique the new technocratic economic nationalism that represents much of the political horizon of the social democratic left and increasingly the so-called dissident right.

Jamie Merchant, welcome to the show.

Good to be here, guys.

Thanks for having me.

It's our pleasure.

We should say right off the bat and we're not going to give to this topic any justice

There is a horrific attack going on in Gaza right now. It looks like war is broken out again between Hamas and the

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