We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produ...
2023-11-22 06:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the pro...
2023-11-16 05:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Osaka, wrote some of the first English-langua...
2023-11-09 23:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
A chatty episode to break the hiatus. I discuss recent news of the new final solution being demoed by the Zionist entity in Gaza. These days I’m walking around with posture like a ballerina becau...
2023-10-18 13:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Family movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arg...
2023-08-18 04:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
How does an Indigenous-led movement rebuild in the wake of imperial decline? With the spectacular collapse of both Sassanian Persia and Byzantime Rome in 622 CE, a certain revolutionary communal mo...
2023-07-19 05:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Kinship in Heian Japan (roughly 800–1200 CE) was matrilocal, which means it was men who moved in with their wives’ families and lived largely under their control. Although already thoroughly pa...
2023-06-25 10:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa.
Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa.
Plague, famine, flood; nuclear holocaust, nuclear winter, global warming. Seen through a class lens, these existential threats to humanity are threats indeed, but they are ultimately threats direct...
2023-06-05 16:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue our free flowing conversation about our respective journeys as sketchy gaijin wandering in and out of the capitalist puppet states of East Asia and searching for ways to build the revol...
2023-05-18 03:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A newsy update on the non-release of the Abe Shinzō autopsy; the apparently accidental crash of a Japanese SDF helicopter which left multiple high-ranking military and intelligence officers dead i...
2023-04-28 11:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I interview Marcus of the podcast Return of the Repressed about his journey, partially with reference to Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Japan, 13th c.) and the Record of L...
2023-03-28 04:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a ramble through the diverse forest, plains, and mountainside biomes of a historic botanical garden here in Tokyo while discussing, among many other things, Gerald Horne’s fascinating fir...
2023-03-24 06:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 19th c., working backwards from Old Persian to Hittite to Amorite, modern scholars rediscovered the long-forgotten Semitic language Akkadian, and then an even older language, Sumerian. The l...
2023-03-11 02:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this ongoing series, we savor the weebery of the greatest weebs of history, pondering the roles they play in various regimes of class struggle including whiteness, patriarchy, capital, and data ...
2023-02-11 02:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The Rob Marshall–directed live-action Little Mermaid, which should be coming out this May, was buzzed up by a good old culture war psy-op of which the two sides were: 1. Errm, the real Little Mer...
2023-01-31 01:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We go long, looking at “progressive” settler idealism in Throeau and Walt Whitman, as well as a Japanese analogue, the romantic or naturalist novelist Kunikida Doppo. Connections are drawn to t...
2022-11-29 04:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Prez of the Minyan is here to discuss the dialectical deep history of fascism, starting with some readings from the Japanese far right and ranging back to Anglo settler colonialism, Iberian conquis...
2022-11-02 06:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The picaresque, a genre of satirical novel which is usually traced from Spain to Britain to America, where Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would be the best-known example, follows the adven...
2022-10-26 03:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Marcus’ travels around China and Europe, Daoist geomancy and natural foods, archaeobotany, the artefact versus the container, peoples’ archaeology and anti-malarial drugs during the Cultural Re...
2022-10-05 03:27:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The author of *Silence*, the famous novel of Japan’s early-modern persecution of Christianity recently adapted to the screen by Martin Scorsese (and actually drawing heavily on Graham Greene’s ...
2022-09-12 11:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In which Fergal revisits his old TradCath stomping grounds, discovers why so many of his old TradCath friends have now converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, and comes away with a deep appreciation for th...
2022-08-18 09:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
After my conversations with Keith Allen Dennis and Recluse of the Farm podcast, I...
2022-08-08 07:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostDear patrons, thank you always for your generous support: it means the world to me to know you find my ramblings worthwhile.
So, no big deal I hope, but I think I'm going to change my pseudon...
2022-07-24 12:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post
“According to the hospital, there were two bullet holes in the right front side of Mr. Abe’s neck, spaced about five centimeters apart. It appears that the bullets went into his body from his n...
2022-07-13 02:59:55 +0000 UTC View Post
My second conversation with Laihallll is followed by my own extended meditations on the secret society in prehistory and the present. I develop my hypothesis that the post-capitalist dystopia which...
2022-07-06 05:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s not every day that you get to learn about a whole new mode of production, or phase in the meta of class society—much less the earliest one that we are (possibly) able to reconstruct or lea...
2022-07-02 23:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 righteou...
2022-05-27 05:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-10 06:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post