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  • Episode 16: (((Globalist))) Uprisings w/ Brandon Jourdan
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    Jamie, Sean, and Andy are joined by militant documentarian Brandon Jourdan of globaluprisings.org.

    Brando discusses life as an expat, the indymedia network, and his four seconds of fame in Boots Riley's smash hit "Sorry to Bother You."

    The crew plays clips from Brando and his partner Marianne Maeckelbergh's films on uprisings in Spain, Turkey and the US. Does Brando see himself as part of these movements or just another slack jawed servant to the spectacle?

    The causes of, and potential solutions to, right-wing populism around the world. Fascists all have permanent clown wigs: why? Brando breaks down right-populism in the Netherlands and why Geert Wilders is a loser. Jamie and Sean's respective run-ins with Geert Wilders and Brexit-boy Boris Johnson.

    Sean goes on one of his trademark rants about why capitalism is in crisis and will stay that way for the rest of its (hopefully numbered) days.

    The limits of liberal multiculturalism. Jamie throws Queen Hill Dawg a rare bone. Adam Smith's theory of "truck, barter, and exchange" is #fakenews. SAD!

    Brando's sweeping vision for how we can BE THE REV and create a new world in 17 easy steps.

    Outro music: The Coup - "The Guillotine"

    Check out Brando's documentaries at globaluprisings.org

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  • Episode 15: Welfare Rights & Nutcrackers (& the Feminazis Who Love Them)
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    Gang talks Notorious F.F.P. (Francis Fox Piven) and Glen Beck's hate-on for her. Wilson breaks down the true origins and political economy of frozen, alcoholic street drinks. We all lament, as usual, that NYC is way lamer than it used to be. Jamie spills more tea on the neoliberal nightmare of Ozy Fest. More here: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/a-neoliberal-nightmare-at-ozy-fest-2018-702600/

    Gang gets down to the hidden history of the National Welfare Rights Organization of the 1960s-70s. How does capitalism shape the domestic sphere? How have people organized around reproductive labor? Should we demand wages for housework, or wages against housework?! Disruption of the status quo gets the goods off the shop floor, too!

    Valerie Solanas feminism vs. $hillary KKKlinton feminism. What's the deal with all this Universal Basic Income talk? Should we be afraid that our Silicon Valley overlords are talking about it, or can there be a left UBI that doesn't result in the Hunger Games? Sean rants about the calculation of human life in monetary terms. Jamie rants about how Laura Loomer deserves no respect, let alone any Jewish lawyer boyfriends. SW confesses to getting cockblocked by Marxist feminism on a romantic evening with a hot firefighter.

    The teaser for Acid Kitchen is live at https://youtu.be/UV8WpvJWa6s

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    Outro Music - Nina Simone "Ain't Got No / I Got Life" live in Watts 1969

    Episode art - Scum Calendar

  • Episode 14: Bowie/Musk 2020 w/ Niral Shah & Alex Gendler
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    This week we are joined by returning guest Niral Shah (@NiralShah) and Soviet agent Alex Gendler (@Achilleselbow) to talk music and Musk. (No Andy this week...he's away at commie camp polluting his mind with cultural Marxism.) Nazi numerology. Abolish ICE, but only after one last special deportation. Epic hangovers. A highbrow review of the David Bowie exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum with an emphasis on his coke spoon and dick. Bowie's cultural appropriation and whether the political economy of music can even produce rockstars anymore.

    This Week in Musk: our favorite extremely-online capitalist thinks every British expat in Thailand is a pedo. (Plausible, but problematic.) Free speech for the rich. Niral goes contrarian af and makes a rousing defense of Musk's merits. Alex recalls his time as a wealthy tech bro's garden hermit.

    Jamie reveals that Skrillex is a short, insecure nerd IRL. Our new Silicon Valley ruling class are all Skrillexes. Why is there an app to disrupt the key? Why? Why the FUCK? Jamie plays us out with a rousing rendition of Grimes' "Oblivious."

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  • Episode 13: Janus & Juice w/ Aaron Petcoff
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    After a relaxing day drinking nutcrackers at the beach, Aaron of the ISO and the Antifada crew hit the studio to podcast and chill. Our hate was impure. Then things went horribly wrong.

    We start on a bright enough note with DSA's Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory in the BX/QNS primary. The usual back and forth about leftists and electoralism yada yada yada.

    Next, the destruction of Weird NYC. The structurally reactionary nature of the judiciary. Jamie gets livid over the crisis pregnancy center decision, but not before she is possessed by the ghost of Alex Jones.

    Fucking scab-ass Mark Janus. (FUCK YOU!)

    Gems: David Axelrod's mustache is the perfect implement for toilet cleaning; Shane Smith's mansion as union propaganda; Adderall as cure for absolute surplus value; witch circles; Seymour Hersh collaborating with Brazzers.

    It was a wild ride and maybe our favorite ep yet!

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  • The U.S. Left & the Future of Capitalism w/ Revolutionary Left Radio
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    Brett from Revolutionary Left Radio and The Guillotine joins The Antifada in a special collaborative episode to discuss the current state of the US left and the future of global capitalism!

    We had a blast talking with our new friend and comrade. If you dig the unabashedly anti-capitalist Antifada, you'll be sure to enjoy Brett's open-minded (but critical and uncompromising) discussions on politics, economics and culture. We hope this is the first of two, three, many cooperative endeavors with RevLeft!

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    Outro music: Slow Down Ghandi by Sage Francis

  • Episode 11, part 2: The Left's Identity Crisis w/Justin Charles (Teaser)
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    We finish out our discussion on race, identity politics, organizing, and DSA. Then the crew punches left by dragging on socialist thinker Elon Musk.

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  • Episode 11, part 2: The Left's Identity Crisis w/Justin Charles
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  • Episode 11, part 1: The Left's Identity Crisis w/Justin Charles
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    In part one of a monster episode, we sit down with Justin Charles of North Brooklyn DSA and the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus. Sean is scarred by a perilous bus journey. Rachel Maddow and the libs freak out about potential peace (oh no!) on the Korean Peninsula. Democrats 'Russia Russia Russia' themselves into becoming the NatSec party. Who cares if 81% of South Koreans want an end to the war? (Not the lamestream media!)

    Super deep dive: where does 'identity politics' come from? Does the left foster conflict between racial groups as per weeping moron Jordan Peterson, or is 'race' a historically constructed category with no basis in biology? Jamie explains the Marxist concept of 'real abstraction'.

    Justin on how the term 'identity politics' was created by the black, lesbian Marxists of the Combahee River Collective in 1977. The gang then traces — with help from Adolph Reed and the Fields sisters — how this radical conception was watered down into neoliberal diversity capitalism.

    How does the left avoid 'bad' idpol? What structures should socialist organizations put in place to ensure that racialized and gendered domination is not reproduced within our movement? Is the AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus a bourgeois radlib beachhead destined to undermine the Democratic Socialists of America? (Spoiler alert: nah.)

    Part two will further the conversation by addressing critiques of the caucus before it degenerates into dragging on Elon Musk's utopian anarchist turn.

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    Reed articles referenced:

    leftbusinessobserver.com/Antiracism.html

    libcom.org/library/marx-race-neoliberalism-adolph-reed-jr

    Outro music:

    "The Underside of Power" - Algiers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZXzmM1smM

  • Episode 10: Patron Q&A #1 (Teaser)
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    On this special premium episode of the Antifada, we take a bunch of questions from our Patreon subscribers. Is it better to forward left politics through the lens of material self-interest or notions of collectivity? What's the best first wave goth band? Which was our favorite revolutionary movement? What's the political economy of the "Handmaid's Tale"? What reformist policy is the best "tip of the spear" towards growing the socialist base? Why the fuck do you call your show The Antifada? Does Maine suck or not? All is revealed within, so if you're not a subscriber sign up today and hear us blab on about how much of a hack Jim Morrison was and how Toussaint L'Ouverture was the best bourgeois revolutionary QED. Outro: “We Hunger” - Azar Swan

  • Episode 10: Patron Q&A #1
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