It Can Be Done

This was a presentation Phil and Sloce gave about organizing with Richmond City Workers and SEIU 512 on 06/08/2022.  Thank you to The Virginia Worker for organizing this event. Please plan to come to City Hall on Monday, June 27th, at 5:30 pm to meet and rally with Richmond City Workers and community supporters before we go to the City Council Meeting. There is an opportunity for Richmond City Workers to make history and WIN Collective Bargaining Rights! We need a STRONG showing to keep our movement for our union alive. There's a role for everyone, from speaking in public comment or cheerleading our crew to wearing a t-shirt or holding a sign--it's all hands on deck!

Just the guys hanging out talking about guy stuff like: The Princess Diaries, Metal, going Sarah Koenig on one of our twitter followers, and yes the film Morbius.  

Returning champion Big Dave (@BoomGoesTheDave) is on the pod to discuss Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. We discuss social chauvinism, opportunism, and fools that follow those paths.

We are listenening to Faith No More ranking our favorite Richmond mascots, and going over some recent news in Virginia.  Songs: Faith No More - RV John Zorn - Naked City Danny Brown - Scrap or Die Faith No More - Easy Articles: Bill to make catalytic converter thefts a felony passes Virginia House Virginia lawmakers OK lifting ban on facial technology use  

Our guest this episode is Mike Davis. Scholar, author, organizer, activist, and once upon a time "the last living socialist in America", best known for his works City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and many others.  We talked about the exurbs, rural america, the challenges that lay ahead, organizing around them, and why the left shouldn't cede anger at the state of things.

We are joined by our good comrade Meadow to discuss the booklet “Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man” by the Andrea Wolf Institute.  This text combines the ideology of the Kurdish Freedom Movement with other work on critical masculinity. This was a wonderful and enlightening conversation, and I think it is an excellent follow up to our episode on Friedrich Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.    Outro: Feminazgûl - In the Shadow of Dead Gods  

The most diabolical haters this side of the James have convened to cast hate upon Adam McKay's "Don't Look Up". We are joined on this episode by the illustrious @ripleyisgay from Take Off Your Pod and Cast It and the acclaimed @artichokeheartd.  Intro: The Redskins  - It Can Be Done Outro: Despise You - Fear's Song

Get your jokes in: we talked Trotsky. We welcome back Big Dave (@BoomGoesTheDave) from Communist League of Richmond (@RVACommunists) to talk about Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution. We read 1905's Results and Prospects and 1931 Permanent Revolution and talk about it's implications for organizing today in a thoughtful way that isn't dogmatic. In fact, you should retweet all of our episodes with that exact phrase. Do it. We need a win.

In this It Can Be Done classic episode, the boys discuss Chapter 1 of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What Is Property? What value does Proudhon's work have for today's leftists?  What would it be like if Proudhon were in our house right now?  Outro: Property Is Theft by T.S.O.L.

We are joined by our comrade and friend Katherine Donnally (@kbdonnally) from @DSARichmond to discuss Friedrich Engles's The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State and more specifically the origin of patriarchy. Outro: I'm Civilized by Menace

For this edition of ICBD Radio we share some of our favorite goth cowboy and spooky western music. The Mercy Seat - Johnny Cash Ramblin' Man - Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys Gin House Blues - Nina Simone Do You Believe in the Westworld (7") - Theatre of Hate Chest Fever - The Band Long Black Veil - Mike Ness The Ballad of Hollis Brown - The Stooges St. John the Gambler - Townes Van Zandt Diggin' Up Bones - Randy Travis Boone - Black Lips Stranger in Our Town - The Gun Club Nimrod's Son - Pixies Man in Black - Johnny Cash Ohio River Boat Song - Palace Music The Disarming Smile - World / Inferno Friendship Society Death is not the end - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

On this edition of ICBD Radio we are joined by our friend Skip to talk about some working class American roots music.  Track List: Lead Belly - The Midnight Special Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Roscoe Holcomb - The Hills of Mexico Lily Mae Ledford - Johnson Boys Mischief Brew - The Midnight Special 2002 Elizabeth Cotten and Brenda Evans - Shake Sugaree Bessie Smith - You've Been a Good Ole Wagon

In this episode we are joined by our friend and comrade, chicken (aka @regulardeadbeat), to read through Mao's Combat Liberalism.  We had a lot of fun with this text and we became better communists because of it. Find the text here: Combat Liberalism Outro: Phil Ochs - Love me I'm a Liberal

Our friend Big Dave from Communist League of Richmond stops by to go through Lenin's What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement You can find Communist League of Richmond on  Facebook Twitter and at communistleaguerichmond@gmail.com 

We will be back next week with the theory episodes next week, but for now please enjoy another edition of It Can Be Done Radio. Tracks: Slash 'N' Burn - Manic Street Preachers Proletarian Hop - Randy Money is King - Leyla McCalla Po Lazarus - James Carter and the Prisoners A Sunrise Before - Bambu Deny Everything - Circle Jerks Spotify Playlist  

The boys talk a bit about the track suits they wish they could wear.

We sit down with Bobby Egger from Vinyl Conflict to talk about what record store day is like for independent record stores, Vinyl Conflict's decision to no longer participate in record store day, and the overall struggle against major label tyranny. Vinyl Conflict on Twitter Vinyl Conflict in Instagram Outro Music: Left Cross - Siegebreaker  We also use the song Documentary Dark by Serge Quadrado from the Free Music Archive

In this episode we speak with two of our Jewish Anarchist friends about the “Black Banner” movement in Białystok, and how anarchist organizing can be used by you and your neighbors. Texts: From the history of the anarchist “Black Banner” movement in Białystok Blessed is the Flame Son of Saul directed by László Nemes

In this episode all the ICBD boys do a little snus and talk about everything from disney bounding to Joe Dallesandro's large role in music history.

On this ICBD episode Patrick (@HSHS_Miller), Phil (@grilled peppers), and Sloce (@meatshowerky)are talking Kropotkin's "Worker's Organization". But in true It Can Be Done fashion, it turns into slander and some literary stuff. We talk about cereal. Kropotkin: Workers' Organization (Part 1) Kropotkin: Workers' Organization (Part 2)

We're taking a break from reading this week, and instead we are discussing some of our favorite songs. The Dicks - Hate the Police billy woods - A Day in a Week in a Year Dropkick Murphys - Workers Song Johnny Cash - San Quentin (live) Sonic Youth - Kissability Chumbawamba - Invasion ICBD Radio Playlist on Spotify  

On this episode, the It Can Be Done crew (@hshs_miller, @grilled_peppers, @meatshowerky) invites on Austin Gonzalez, Democratic Socialists of America steering member and one of three hosts of our cousin pod Machete Y Mate, to talk George Ciccarello-Maher's Building the Commune and Venezuela's communes, an under discussed project in the US Left. You can find Austin online @Gaius_Gracchus_ and Machete Y Mate wherever you get It Can Be Done. Outro music: PSUV - Chavez Vive! La Lucha Sigue! Text: Building the Commune Radical Democracy in Venezuela Photo by Eduardo Acevedo

In a special weekend bonus episode, Patrick (@hshs_miller) is joined by special guest A.M. Gittlitz (@spaceprole) of The Antifada (@the_antifada) podcast to talk about the recent death of Pete Ventantonio AKA Jack Terricloth, the enigmatic leader of the anarcho-punk-rock-orchestra, The World/Inferno Friendship Society. We discuss the revolutionary potential of The Scene and punk in general, shows turning into riots, autonomous zones, and lessons learned from punk, The Scene, and Jack Terricloth himself. Links: Pod Damn America Episode: https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-worldinferno-friendship-society-w-am-gittlitz-ted-leo Death of an Anarchist: https://hardcrackers.com/jack_terricloth/  Andy's Newsletter: https://gittlitz.substack.com/  Me and the Mad Monkettes: https://youtu.be/psvN9SoSZhQ     Peter Ventantonio, Rest in Power.

On this episode, Patrick (@hshs_miller), Phil (@grilled_peppers), and Sloce (@meatshowerky) sit down and discuss Chairman Mao's essay “Where Do Correct Ideas Come From”. We also talk about how stupid we were when we were kids. Probably because we didn't read Chairman Mao.

On our inaugural episode, Phil (@grilled_peppers), Patrick (@hshs_miller) and Sloce (@meatshowerky) talk about baby Marx's letter to Arnold Ruge, the co-editor of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals). In 7 words, he introduced a philosophical project that would take over his and, frankly, million of lives: Marxism, a ruthless criticism of, well, everything existing.