The Antifada crew is back from vacation and ready to pop off once more. This week, we are joined by fellow Goth socialist podcaster Jake Flores (@feraljokes) for a discussion of comedy, politics, and the joys of amyl nitrate.

How has his now infamous visit from the DHS impacted Jake's comedy career? Is there such a thing as an objectively problematic joke? Which side of the rev will the Upright Citizens Brigade be fighting on? All this, plus Sean defends Comrade George Carlin from the attacks of snarky millennials.

Outro music: Vanilla Poppers - Holes the Goal

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In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained.

Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld?

Dialectics, baby!

In the second edition of The Antifada's new interview series, Andy interviews Matt and Vanessa from the Queens communist project Woodbine at one of their weekly Sunday dinners about building communism, populism, and the autonomism of street cats. Check out Woodbine at https://woodbine.website/ and the Liasons journal issue 1 at http://www.commonnotions.org/liaisons

Closing music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs

While on vacation last week, the Antifada crew decided to mix it up a little by each doing a standalone segment. For her contribution, Jamie spoke with her old friend Anna Barie a.k.a. Nora Singh of Los Angeles punk band Hit Bargain about life on the road, Situationism, and what it means to be the Gallagher of noise rock. Also: the naughty aughties, makin' babies, and is Lana del Rey a sign of the end times?

music: Hit Bargain - Capitulate Hit Bargain - Quiet Streets

Hit Bargain's debut full length Potential Maximizer is out now via Buzz Records. Stream and/or buy it here: hitbargain.bandcamp.com/album/potential-maximizer

This week on the Militant Minority Report, we get even more seditious than usual with the help of army resister Spenser Rapone (@punkproletarian).

Mike Ness of Social Distortion brings a smile to our faces. Spenser's journey from 18-year-old recruit to dank communist meme. The relationship between capitalism and imperialism: Is it even possible to oppose war without attacking the wage system? The pitfalls of knee-jerk anti-imperialism.

A comparative history of resistance and mutiny during the Vietnam War and Portugal's Carnation Revolution, the latter of which overthrew a fascist government with hardly any violence. Andy Stapp's heroic efforts to unionize the US Army in the Vietnam era. Will anyone pick up the mantel?

The military as potential — even essential — site of class struggle, and the various factors working for and against that. Could a revolution ever happen here in the dark heart of the American empire, and if so, what would it look like? Lastly and most importantly: Was Spenser just trolling or does he really think communism will win?

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After recording episode 18 with Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, Andy compelled us to engage with a previously unpublished work by J. Posadas called 'On the Function of the Joke and Irony in History' from 1976.

If you got the sense that Posadas was a little off from the ep, you ain't seen nothing yet! Enjoy as J-Rock confounds our minds, but stimulates our spirits, in a bizarrely translated analysis of the dialectical relationship between the class struggle and humor.

You'll get a bunch more confusion and even some personal tidbits on the ever-mysterious Comrade Communicator.

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After our intended guests fell through, we were surprised and pleased to be joined by Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, who was inspired to appear by the troubling news of Trump's weird Space Force proposal.

Seems dumb, but how about the extraterrestrial militarization of Ronny Raygun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfmVzHZvkc

Next, in a Marxist-Ufologist version of Crossfire, AP Andy faces off against our guest in ideological combat over the legacy and relevance of 20th-Century Argentine socialist thinker and head of the Latin American section of the 4th International, J Posadas. The situation gets tense between the two as the historical tradition of heterodox Trotskyism confronts the new synthesis of Comrade High Commander's Neo-Posadism.

Was Posadas a total wackjob or was there continuity between his ideas and the catastrophism of Leon Trotsky? Is the popularity of Internet Posadist memes a reflection of deeper world-historical forces or mere revisionism? How did Cuban Trotskyists under the influence of Posadas give birth to nuclear accelerationism? Will socialism arise out of proletarian self-organization or through the intervention of that vanguard that stands outside of history: the extraterrestrial Space Comrades?

Gang dives into the famous Posadas Flying Saucers communique: https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html

Andy counterposes his own Marxist-Ufology research: https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters?zd=1&zi=jg4c3k6q

As always on Antifada, the most pressing issues facing humanity are addressed: water-birth and the 'New Socialist Man'; poly-Posadism vs volcel-Socialism; first contact and Enemy Alien Propaganda; the abolition of time as a transitional program; proletarian prepperism; and the necessity of uniting with dolphins, our class brothers and sisters of the sea.

Stay tuned for a special bonus episode, for patrons only, of Real Posadas Hours with IWL-P's Comrade Communicator. And always remember: David Ickism and Alex Jones Thought are the Posadism of fools!

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Outro tracks: Posadist Rebel News 'The Might of Atoms' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu-WHQm9oms

Sun Ra and his Solar Orchestra 'UFO' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2q3dqOaMt0

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Email: intergalactic.workers@gmail.com