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This Wreckage

Episode 19: No War But The Class War w/ Spenser Rapone

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 β€’ 980 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Militant Minority Report, we get even more seditious than usual with the help of army resister Spenser Rapone (@punkproletarian).

Mike Ness of Social Distortion brings a smile to our faces. Spenser's journey from 18-year-old recruit to dank communist meme. The relationship between capitalism and imperialism: Is it even possible to oppose war without attacking the wage system? The pitfalls of knee-jerk anti-imperialism.

A comparative history of resistance and mutiny during the Vietnam War and Portugal's Carnation Revolution, the latter of which overthrew a fascist government with hardly any violence. Andy Stapp's heroic efforts to unionize the US Army in the Vietnam era. Will anyone pick up the mantel?

The military as potential β€” even essential β€” site of class struggle, and the various factors working for and against that. Could a revolution ever happen here in the dark heart of the American empire, and if so, what would it look like? Lastly and most importantly: Was Spenser just trolling or does he really think communism will win?

Check out Spenser's podcast, Eyes Left, at http://www.patreon.com/

Also, support his comrades at @dsaveterans

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The It is Sunday, August 19th, and this is the Antifada.

0:22.7

I am Sean K.B.

0:25.4

Broadcasting live from Left As Best Studio,

0:29.4

just steps from the industrial ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America

0:35.0

downtown Brooklyn USA.

0:38.0

Why are you doing this to me?

0:40.0

Just to troll you on your day off.

0:42.0

I feel like I'm back at work. Sorry. Do I not go to work enough for you?

0:46.0

In that J. J. Master, the Mastodon guy's voice?

0:50.0

What's the guy you say?

0:51.0

She said? Oh, John Benjamin.

0:55.0

The singer of Mount Macedon.

0:58.0

Oh, don't get me started on Macedon.

1:00.0

That's going to take me down a whole other road.

1:03.0

Do you like what you see America?

1:05.0

Take too. Look in the mirror, America.

1:07.0

Christ.

1:08.0

Do you like what you see?

1:09.0

It's the Communist Report

1:12.0

with Sean and Jamie and a P and D. And

1:16.6

recording live from Left His Best Studio.

1:20.2

Recording live from the People's Republic of newly liberated Left His Best Studios.

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