- May 11, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- May 11, 202000:0013:14
Sean and Matt take a look around the American landscape - from the pandemic, to the economic collapse, to the failing political system - and discuss how the hell we got here and what the hell we might expect going forward.
Whether it's the coming climate disaster or the incipient crack-up of US power, one thing is for sure: there's no way out now but through it!
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- May 6, 202000:00:0001:31:17
Jamie and Sean speak with Asad Haider (@generalityiii), editor at Viewpoint Magazine and author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" about depoliticization, the left post-Bernie, and that eternal question, "what is to be done?" Contains spicy (read: nuanced and informed) takes on "mass politics" vs "subcultural politics," the necessity of abolishing markets, the party question, and our favorite thing besides communism, punk rock.
Further reading:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/03/16/what-is-political-power/
https://dsaemerge.org/reflections-on-bernies-loss/
Jamie and Andy will be moderating a panel for Red May (virtual edition) entitled "Corona Virus and the Future of Work" w/ Aaron Benanav, Magally Miranda and Annie McClanahan on Thursday, May 7 at 9pm ET! Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0m0_CwVDzM
Outro music: The Ramones - "I'm Against It"
- Apr 29, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Apr 24, 202000:0000:56
In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock this and all other premium content!
- Apr 24, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Apr 22, 202000:0053:13
To celebrate the release this week of AP Andy's I WANT TO BELIEVE: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, we've unlocked one of our favorite bonus episodes from 2018. Along with head propagandist of the Intergalactic Workers' League - Posadist, Comrade Communicator, we read one of Posadas's unpublished essays that Andy discovered in archives: "On the Function of the Joke in History."
Antifada fans can get a 20% discount on the book using code POSADAS20 from the Pluto Website.
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- Apr 17, 202000:0007:09
We subject our brains to more Sp!king as we read through some recent hits.
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- Apr 17, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Apr 15, 202000:00:0001:27:41
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the nanny state and denying the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. From there they formed the Institute of Ideas, a collection of tiny front groups that have helped them along to mainstream media prominence. But to what ends? We offer a range of theories.
Listen this Friday for a Bonus Real Sp!ked hours to hear some hot takes on goths, Karen-bashing, and Jimmy Saville.
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Jenny Turner's fantastic essay on Institute of Ideas: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
Account of RCP's political shift in the eighties: https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-revolutionary-communist-party-living-marxism-and-the-road-to-free-speech-absolutism/
Brendan on Dave Rubin calling himself a Marxist Libertarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUjZd63z9U
Songs: Whistling in the Dark and Come out Fighting by Easterhouse
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