In this very special Antifada offering, Andy, Jamie and Sean are joined by your favorite sons: Matt Christman and Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House.

Gang begins by addressing the central questions of our hyper-digital age: what if God friended you on Facebook? Is QAnon just a benign hobby for bored Boomers? And, holy shit, what if GOD WAS QANON?

Matt, Virgil and Jamie reveal - for the very first time - their respective political tendencies. Everyone marvels at how high-T Jeb(!) managed to lose the primary despite the PR coup of offering a poorly branded guaca bowle.

Crew get knee-deep into Paul Schrader's 1978 classic "Blue Collar" starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel's genitalia. How does this movie about struggling union autoworkers help us understand the 70s as more than just bad hair and bell bottoms? (C.f. Jefferson Cowie's "Stayin' Alive" and the upcoming "Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts and Reason")

How did the "Golden Age" of US capitalism break down? How the hell did we end up in neoliberal hellworld when the 70s saw the most massive wildcat strike wave since the 30s? Why can't we return to decadent late social-democracy complete with coke benders, shag carpets to bang across, crushed velvet noodie posters and modernist chairs made to look like cocks'n'balls? Ugh.

After the depressing grind of Blue Collar, Matt suggests we lighten the mood with "Gung Ho" (1986) starring Michael Keaton. What's more uplifting after watching a film about declining racial solidarity among the US working class than one that uses stereotypes about the Japanese for cheap yuks? What's more laughable than watching a town full of autoworker rubes look to a washed up high school jock to solve their employment crisis?

In a startling twist, the entire crew turns on the American working class as the indolent, entitled chuds they are: you will all wear Ribbons of Shame in the highly disciplined and sadistic Japanese-dominated future!

Luckily, this week's viral wildcat video by a Hero of Socialist Labor saves us from going full MAGA. Spoiler: in the end our various tendencies are synthesized into Antoine Dangerfield Thought.

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Outro Music: Commodores "Machine Gun"

Intro Music: Original composition by Jamie Ingalls

Antifada logo: Debbie Allen @CVLTPARTY

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"

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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.

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

Episode art - Scum Calendar

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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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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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