- Jun 26, 201900:00:0001:37:36
Who better to pummel neoliberal common wisdom than the tribune of the swoletariat, @prettybadlefty? We speak with Chad Vigorous about his ethnographic studies on white people music, the infuriating/depressing debate about what is or isn't a goddamn CONCENTRATION CAMP, and liberalism's tendency toward rhetorical chicanery rather than actually addressing the issues surrounding class and race in US society.
CONTENT WARNING: electoral politics
Check out Chad's excellent podcast The Discourse: https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse/
Not that he needs more followers, but @prettybadlefty
Music: Chumbawumba - The Day the Nazi Died
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- Jun 21, 2019Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Jun 21, 201900:0002:30
In the aftermath of Sophie's brutal Twitter ratioing (The Night of the Dirty Legs), Andy decided we should revisit the classic essay "Washing... or Brainwashing" from Crimethinc's in/famous 2000 book Days of War, Nights of Love. We discover that nobles are savage, washing your landlords' blood off your shirt is bourgeois and that deodorant is capitalism negging you.
Mostly we are just sober and dumb and talking about eating human shit.
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- Jun 19, 201900:00:0001:21:24
Sophie Weiner, night-editor of Splinter News and displaced poster, was back in NYC for a bit. We got her in studio to talk about politics in Australia and other oddities... for example, something good happened in Albany for once! We were also gifted with another lovely morsel of #content from media power couple Bari & Bill Weiss-Maher.
Mostly we had a fun discussion about electronic dance music (kids these days call it 'the raving') and how socialists can organize within the scene while inspiring our politics with the libratory potentials of it. All of this, of course, is anticipation of this week's publication of Sophie and Zoe Beery's new anti-capitalist dance music zine... PLURletariat. Enjoy!
Check out Plurletariat: https://plurletariat.net/
Follow Sophie & Zoe's zine @plurletariat
If you live in the NYC-area you can attend the launch party: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1277798
Note: All proceeds will go to No More Dysphoria whose goal is to help transgender, non binary, and gender non conforming individuals pay for different parts of their transitions: https://nomoredysphoria.com/
Support Chelsea Manning as she resists state repression: https://xychelsea.is/
Music: Doom Mekanik - Muscle by Muscle Julien Andrea - Sacrifice of Love
- Jun 14, 201900:0001:54
Ur fave left logician is back to unpack some recent twitter dustups, the posturing 'rationalism' of Ayn Rand, BreadTube's first menchie in the Paper of Record, and the potentials/perils of deplatforming.
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- Jun 12, 201900:00:0001:21:16
Ben Burgis, author of 'Give Them an Argument' from Zero Books, stops by the studio to discuss the use and abuse of logic: why we can't cede this terrain to right-wing ghouls; how we can better argue for a better world; and how Karl Marx could be the messiest bitch of the 19th century while remaining logically sound.
Plus, the return of This Week in Musk where we trace the travails of our century's most insufferable ruling class twit. Enjoy!
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Buy the book! http://bit.ly/2IaedHR
Outro: The Orphans - Buy Your Logic
- Jun 7, 201900:0002:06
In episode 2 of PROLETKULT Andy, Jamie, and Sean continue to talk with Anna Merlan about her new book: REPUBLIC OF LIES, specifically the chapter about UFO Politics. Jamie and Sean reveal their believer power levels, Andy and Anna propose a theory for the Navy UFO flap, and we talk about the culture of the Mutual UFO Network, strange southwest desert stories, and the Son of the Godhead himself, David Icke.
Show notes: Bezos vs. Musk feud: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-feud-rivals-spacex-blue-origin-2019-5
Bezos's O'Neill Colonies: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/oneill-colonies-a-decades-long-dream-for-settling-space https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/05/space-colony-design-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-oneill-colonies/589294/
Musk's Starlink and Starship: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/amazon-makes-several-start-up-investments-revenue-growth-slows.html https://www.geekwire.com/2019/spacex-reports-raising-billion-dollars-starlink-starship-space-projects/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/elon-musk-spacex-starship-moon-mars/
Last Podcast on the Left's series on the Skinwalker Ranch: https://soundcloud.com/lastpodcastontheleft/episode-352-skinwalker-ranch-part-i-the-utah-flap Republic of Lies: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250159052
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- Jun 5, 201900:00:0001:34:57
HIGH THEORY is the joint effort of The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped up in an enigma that is communization.Grant & Lexi visit Jamie, Sean & Andy in studio to interrogate the 2015 George Lucas Special Edition of the 1974 foundational communization text "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement", aka THE MOON BOOK, by Gilles Dauve and Francois Martin.
The text: https://libcom.org/library/eclipse-re-emergence-communist-movement
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- Jun 3, 201900:0004:28
You wanted a denouement? Here's your goddamn denouement.
Matt and Sean finish this extended look into the 1970s by answering the questions: Why did Carterism (spoiler alert!) fall apart over its internal contradictions? Where have the politics of personal virtue taken us? Why was Reagan the man of the hour and why was Clintonism his enduring achievement? How did neoliberalism become the economic consensus and what the hell is happening now that its entire political and economic edifice is collapsing?
All will be revealed herein. The boys may have been tipsy off Tecate, but you'll need to pack that bong for a big old rip as 500 years of systemic cycles of accumulation are synthesized to make sense of this current pivotal decade that echoes so much of what happened in the '70s.
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