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

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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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

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

The AF crew takes on Jonathan Chait's recent word turd: the things he's wrong about re: "the radical left," as well as the things he's right about but which are actually fine. We discuss the latest labor uprisings in France and the ridiculous choice of Nazi lady vs. neoliberal POS...which leads to a spirited game of "fuck, marry, kill" complete with Justin Trudeau conspiracy theory. Finally we talk about the Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra for some reason.

Sorry for the poor sound quality and delayed release schedule. We were planning to add onto the episode but our new set-up sounds more DIY than we'd like it to, so...yeah.

Read Jamie's piece on the French election at Paste Magazine: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/beating-the-populist-right-with-the-neoliberal-cen.html

Intro: original theme by Jamie Ingalls Outro: California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys

Our friend and comrade Natasha Lennard joins us for a discussion themed around her forthcoming book with Brad Evans, "Violence: Humans in Dark Times."

Tash's thoughts on the royal wedding. The US media's problematic framing of the most recent killings in Gaza. Angela Davis on the violence of the status quo. The uncounted millions who've met premature deaths due to the predations of capitalism. The connection between racist police murders, private property and the capitalist state. Why simply reforming the police and prison system is not enough. What kind of violence should the left be willing to entertain in service of social change?

The depressing facts of social reproduction and the revolutionary possibilities of love. Are you a bad anarchist if you don't fuck everyone? The Antifada's first on-air marriage proposal!

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Intro music: original theme by Jamie Ingalls

End music: The Exploited - Sex and Violence

Jamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest direct action in solidarity with cafeteria workers (repped by UNITE HERE Local 100) and grad students (SENS-UAW). Later, back at the ranch, the gang contextualizes this occupation with some history of the modern university: its roots, its social function, and how it has developed as a site of struggle. What happened in the '70s and '80s that made college so expensive, yet also so necessary? The through-lines from the student occupations of the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Sean and Andy reminisce about their own college years and reveal how they met.

Sorry for the poor sound quality, it was our first time recording outside the studio!

Info on the current New School Occupation: https://www.facebook.com/occupiedcafeteria/ @NewSchoolReds

More on the '08-'11 occupations: http://reocuppied.wordpress.com

Intro music: original theme by Jamie Ingalls

Interstitial music: World/Inferno Friendship Society - Fiend in Wien

End music: Idles - Mother

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