Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing. In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution. Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory Phil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1c Phil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-Komite Guido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdf Starosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=en Some background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/ TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/ Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire