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Swampside Chats#153 - "The Logic of Political Survival" (Part 1)Ezri and Jake revisit the selectorate theory of politics and discuss the first half of "The Logic of Political Survival" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow.2023-02-2854 min
Swampside Chats#130 - Century of the Self: The Meaning of Tony BlairWe conclude our discussion on the Adam Curtis essay film series and review part 4: "Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering."2021-01-051h 39
Swampside Chats#129 - In the Enemy Camp: “Leviathan and Its Enemies”We’re back In the Enemy Camp w/ C Derick Varn, and we would like to speak to the (((managers))). On the forced march from a generous patron, we read a mid-90s reactionary pseudo-class analysis from Pat Buchanan’s main man Sam Francis entitled “Leviathan and Its Enemies”, published in 2016.
Special thanks to Stevie for additional editing.
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Swampside Chats#128 - The Communist Party of New ZealandWe bring on Tyler from New Zealand to discuss the history of the party and class struggle in the 20th century there, with an eye towards examining the party's relationship to the native Māori people.2020-12-021h 36Swampside Chats#127 - Century of the Self: Kill the Cop in Your HeadWe talk about part 3 of the Adam Curtis video essay series.2020-11-241h 40Swampside Chats≋2≋0≋2≋1≋ ≋P≋a≋t≋r≋e≋o≋n≋ ≋U≋p≋d≋a≋t≋e≋new Patron tiers announced, starting 12 AM EST 1/1/2021
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Swampside Chats#126 - “The Divine Left”On A Very Special Episode of Swampside Chats, Jake, Ezri & Grant jack back into The Simulation with Jean Baudrillard for one last trio adventure in "The Divine Left", and come back one member short. Remember: if you die in The Simulation, you die in real life.
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Swampside Chats#125 - Century of the Self: The Freuds Meet CapitalJake and Ezri recap and discuss the first two episodes of Adam Curtis 2002 documentary essay series The Century of the Self: "Happiness Machines" and "The Engineering of Consent."2020-10-191h 42
Swampside Chats#124 - "The Human Use of Human Beings" (Part 3) w/ General Intellect UnitWe conclude our discussion with Shane & Kyle of G̸e̴n̶e̴r̷a̷l̸ ̸I̴n̴t̷e̶l̴l̷e̵c̵t̷ ̸U̷n̶i̶t̴ ̸r̷e̸t̴u̵r̴n̴ ̷t̸o̶ ̶c̵͈̅o̵̪̽ñ̶̠t̶̬̋i̸͍͛n̴̘͑u̶̺̚e̷̦̎ ̵̹̇ó̷̬u̵͖͑r̶̎͜ ̸͈̃N̷͍͋o̸̫̽r̸̻̈́b̶̫͝e̶̗͑ṙ̶̗t̷́͜ ̶̛͚Ẇ̷̦í̴͚e̴̬̊n̸̛͎ḙ̶͗r̷̗͑ ̸̦͂(̷̨̉1̴̛̫9̴̹̅5̴͓͑0̶̢̋)̸͉͠.̶̤̀ ̴̻̊d̵̝͋í̵̦s̷̟̃c̵̫̚u̷͍̐s̴͇̒ș̶͛ị̵͠o̴̺̓ń̴̞ ̸̪͠E̸̤̊d̶̤̒ǐ̶̭t̸̗́ỉ̷̧o̷̱̕n̵̯̚F̵̠̕i̵̳͒r̸̲͠s̴̺͋t ̴̫̮͗͌̿͆͝ŕ̸͈̪̝͙̘̈́ͅͅé̷̥̥̬̺̩͙̆͐̾̓͠d̵̢͚̗̞̫̑a̷͍͚̣͕̥̬̗̋̂͛͂c̵̛̥̯ͅt̴̛̬̞̘̦͕̦̏͌̃̓e̶̥̜͒̈́͜d̵̛͉͇̖̈́̏͋̄͋̔ ̷̧̘̮̖̫͆̔̄̈́̈́̆U̴̡̜̯̔̈́̒̕̚ṉ̵̖̗̙̦̎̉̈́̄̊i̶̢͊́͝t̴̻̫̦͖͚͌̆̇̆͝ẏ̴̰͊̾́̓̂̎ ̴̢̝̳̲͆̈͛̐Ḩ̸̼̗̗̲͇͖̾͝u̴̞͖͇̦͍̮̝͝m̸̥̤̩̩̿͜á̷̡̤̣̅̉͆̏ṇ̶̢̢͓͖̯̌͐̇̇̃̔ ̸̗̿́B̷̧̛̞̜͚̱̜́ͅě̸̹͙̋̒͊i̴͕͂̑n̸̡͙̬̋g̷̛̳̱̩̖̜̏̉͌̃͐̍͜s̸̳̟͖̀̄͛̾͋̑"̸̡͕̼̼̋̾͊ ̴͙͕̇̀̂H̶̙̺͗ű̴͙̪̭͊̐̈m̴̡͖̠̦̊̔̈́ā̸̳̞̞̼͂͊̇n̵͚̜͛̇͂̀̍̅ ̴̥͈͙̟̠̪͌̐Ư̵̩͎͕̊̅́̔͊̏s̸̝̽̉͗̈͗͑ȩ̵̳̲̥͐̆̊̀ ̴̮͖̲̦̜̀̾̈̔̈͋ǫ̸̥͔̫̦̐͐͒̊̒ͅf̷̢̛̹̹̝̫̱͛͠"̸̡̳̪̱̗͎̆̓̄̾̔͝ͅT̸̝̦͔̦̦̾͑̋́̄h̴̰͆̇̾̿́̉̚e̵̼̳̱̫͈͒̌̂̏̕ ̷̞̯̜͈̔̈́̍͛͠b̴̞͂y̷̟̲̘̓̀̔͊
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Swampside Chats#123 - "The Human Use of Human Beings" (Part 2) w/ General Intellect UnitKyle & Shane return to continue our discussion of the spicy First Edition of "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener (1950).
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Swampside Chats#122 - “The Human Use of Human Beings” (Part 1) w/ General Intellect UnitEmancipation Network comrades Shane & Kyle come chat with us about the second-ever book on cybernetics: "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener. The subversive First Edition had the FBI *knock knock* at the author’s door to revise the socialism out of it, so naturally, that's the version we read.
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Swampside Chats#121 - "Toward a New Beginning…” & "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party"In another installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we discuss two pieces by Hal Draper, "Toward a New Beginning, on Another Road," and "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party."2020-08-041h 30Swampside Chats#120 - CHOP Autopsy w/ CShow Notes by C:
Charleena Lyles, a pregnant black woman murdered in front of her children by Seattle Police in 2017;
here's a recent article about her family's demands as they seek justice for Charleena:
https://www.realchangenews.org/2020/06/24/seattle-police-killing-charleena-lyles-localizes-blacklives-protest-and-amasses-similar
Decriminalize Seattle
https://decriminalizeseattle.com/
Recall Durkan
https://www.recalldurkan.org/
No New Youth Jail
https://nonewyouthjail.com/
King County Equity Now:
https://www.kingcountyequitynow.com/
- Decrim Seattle one of the main coalitions fighting to defund Seattle Police Department
- Recall Durkan is the effort to recall the mayor
- No New Youth Jail I did not mention but meant...2020-07-1436 minSwampside Chats#119 - Swampside CHAZ w/ Ben LainJake and Ezri sit down with Ben Lain, who recently visited Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, to get his impressions and talk about the phenomenon of occupational protests.2020-06-241h 06
Swampside Chats#118 - The George Floyd Rebellion w/ ColeEzri and Jake sit down with listener Cole from Minneapolis to talk about the recent wave of riots, rebellions, and mutual aid efforts following the police murder of George Floyd.2020-06-171h 36
Swampside Chats#117 - Joy of Sects V: Red GuardsIn the latest installment of our Joy of Sects series, we sit down with Luke to talk about the Kansas City Red Guards.2020-06-101h 39
Swampside Chats#116 - “Ecology and Historical Materialism”We sit down to discuss "Ecology and Historical Materialism" by Jonathan Hughes.2020-05-201h 26
Swampside Chats#115 - Swamp Trek: "Past Tense (Part II)" w/ The AntifadaMay the Fourth Be With You as Jamie & Andy return to finish up a superior sci-fi saga: The Bell Riots! Find out what happens when you accidentally get Lenin killed and have to Riot. Strike. Riot your way back to the original timeline. Are you still watching? Put up a Vulcan salute and let's conclude our Netflix & chill lockdown with "Past Tense (Part II)"!2020-05-041h 09Swampside ChatsBonus - Corona CheckupRecorded on Sunday 3/29, we check in to see how everyone is doing and sort out our reactions to this new capitalist crisis.2020-04-071h 26
Swampside Chats#114 - Swamp Trek: "Past Tense (Part I)" w/ The AntifadaJust in time for a global Netflix-and-chill lockdown, Jamie & Andy join us on a watch-along commentary of the most communizer Deep Space Nine episode. Come travel back in time, burn down an Arby’s, and help us secure the space communist future we all deserve.
Gabriel Bell is a good christian who did nothing wrong!
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http://patreon.com/swampsidechats2020-03-251h 05Swampside ChatsBonus - Super Tuesday Post-Mortem RoundupEmancipation Network and Zero Books present a roundtable discussion between Ben Burgis, C Derick Varn, From Alpha to Omega's Tom O'Brien and the cast of Swampside Chats on Bernout 20202020-03-052h 12
Swampside Chats#113 - "Modes of Production in a Materialist Conception of History"This week we sit down to discuss the Jairus Banaji essay "Modes of Production in a Materialist Conception of History" on some Not One Step Back! Also, Lexi passes on her symbiont to Ezri, who promptly injects soy into Grant's veins.
"Nothing's simple for Ezri. The computer asks me to identify myself and l have to think. l wake up and l don't know if l'm a man or a woman until l pull back the covers! l also have an unfortunate tendency to ramble."2020-03-051h 23
Swampside Chats#112 - "The Nature of Human Brain Work"We get some Big Brain with the first working class marxist philosopher and minter of the term 'dialectical materialism', Joseph Dietzgen, when we read his 1869 book "The Nature of Human Brain Work".
https://www.marxists.org/archive/dietzgen/1869/brain-work/index.htm
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Swampside Chats#111 - "A State Adequate to the Task"This week we sit down to discuss an interview from the second volume of the Chuang journal: "A State Adequate to the Task, Conversations with Lao Xie."
http://chuangcn.org/journal/two/an-adequate-state/2020-01-211h 59
Swampside Chats#110 - "A Clock Without a Spring" & "Theories of the Disintegration of the USSR"This week we look at two essays: "A Clock Without a Spring: Epitaph for the USSR" by Christopher Arthur and "Theories of Disintegration of the USSR" by Hillel Ticktin.
Arthur: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZFvL_QQ49ZFmY1xK2uzOT1g87EUMPMH/view?usp=drivesdk
Ticktin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J87_Z3mT_HMKDnRQzBwNt5R-VzCIcerc/view?usp=drivesdk2020-01-031h 01Swampside Chats#109 - Stalin Response w/ Sean (Sean's Russia Blog)This episode, we are truly on the forced march through a grueling three hour Stalin defense episode of Revolutionary Left Radio with some unreconstructed tankies. To help us recalibrate our communist compass, we welcome on Sean Guillory of the exemplary Sean’s Russia Blog to set the record straight on Stalin.
Ни шагу назад!
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Swampside Chats#108 - "The Green Book"Recorded on the anniversary of his death, we review The Green Book, by Muammar Gaddafi.
Read along with us: https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/gaddafi/index.htm
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Swampside Chats#107 - In the Enemy Camp: "Sociology for the South"Hey y'all! We're back in the Enemy Camp and ‘cross the Mason-Dixon with C Derick Varn, where we sip on some sweet tea and take a gander at the 1854 reactionary tract "Sociology for the South" by George Fitzhugh. Marvel at what just might be the nuttiest Enemy Camp we ever did see—a Dixiecrat who defends slavery as a form of socialism.
Finish the War of Northern Aggression!
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Swampside Chats#106 - "28 Theses on Class Society"The Gang takes a trip down memory lane to a simpler time—2007! We read “28 Theses on Class Society” by Friends of the Classless Society from the first issue of Kosmoprolet and discover what critical communist theory was like before the financial crisis.
Nicht einen Schritt zurück!
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Swampside Chats#105 - "Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism"In the latest installment of our Not One Step Back reading series, we look at Domenico Losurdo's "Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism" and as a bonus we look at the RCP's "Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?" a piece (probably) written by Avakian himself.2019-09-251h 30
Swampside ChatsBonus - EpsteinisodeRecorded a few weeks ago, we talk about Jeffrey Epstein and the then recent DSA convention.2019-09-111h 02
Swampside Chats#104 - Sen on Famine AnalysisThis week we discuss two pieces by Amartya Sen: "Ingredients of Famine Analysis; Availability and Entitlements," and "Hunger and Public Action" the second one being co-written with Jean Dreze2019-09-1145 min
Swampside Chats#103 - "Designing Freedom" (Part 2) w/ General Intellect UnitWe conclude our conversation with the General Intellect Unit on Stafford Beer's lecture series "Designing Freedom"2019-08-3158 min
Swampside Chats#102 - "Designing Freedom" (Part 1) w/ General Intellect UnitThe Gang welcomes General Intellect Unit for the first part of our epic cybernetic Bonapartist adventure with Stafford Beer's 1973 lecture series "Designing Freedom".
Not one step back!
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Swampside Chats#101 - "Old Gods, New Enigmas" (Part 2)We conclude our conversation on Mike Davis' latest book "Old Gods, New Enigmas."2019-08-141h 25
Swampside Chats#100 - "Old Gods, New Enigmas"For our 100th episode we look at the title essay from Mike Davis' latest book, "Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency."2019-07-311h 29Swampside Chats#99 - "Transhumanism and Marxism"This week, The Gang has their collective consciousness uploaded to a Bonapartist cloud where they'll be eternally on the forced march through James Steinhoff’s 2014 essay, “Transhumanism and Marxism”.
Not one step back!
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Swampside Chats#98 - "An American Utopia"We sit down to discuss "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army" by Fredric Jameson2019-07-071h 28
Swampside Chats#97 - "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe"The Gang gets spooooky on the forced march as we (finally) read a chapter of Silvia Federici's 1998 marxist feminist classic "Caliban and the Witch" entitled "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe".
Not one step back, my little pretties!
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http://emancipation.network2019-06-2548 min
Swampside Chats#96 - “The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre”This week we sit down to discuss the Introduction to "The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre" by Michael Glenny.2019-06-0954 min
Swampside ChatsHIGH THEORY 2 - "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement"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", written (mostly) in 1969–72 (mostly) by Gilles Dauvé.
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patreon.com/swampsidechats2019-05-291h 34
Swampside Chats#95 - "The Idea of History"The Gang is back on the forced march of history with our most direct Bonapartist dictatorship ever, courtesy of returning guest Jean Allen of Opposition Radio. Under their sway, we’ve been seduced from proletarian materialism towards the highfalutin British Idealism of Robin George Collingwood, and we read the epilogue to the posthumous 1945 collection "The Idea of History".
Not one step back, my good chap!
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Swampside Chats#94 - "Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World"The Gang is back on the forced march to the moshav of Silicon Valley’s latest guru, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. We picked up his 2016 book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” and read Part Two: “Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World”.
!לא צעד אחד לאחור
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Swampside Chats#93 - "Towards a New Socialism"We read two chapters from "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, "The Commune" and "On Democracy."2019-04-301h 32
Swampside Chats#92 - In the Enemy Camp: "Left and Right"We're back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! This week, Derick & The Gang take on the arch anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard in his 1965 essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” and enter the libertarian Mirror Universe where left is right and right is left.
Now accepting Bitcoin!
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Swampside Chats#91 - "The Separation of the Economic and the Political Under Capitalism"In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we tackle "The Separation of the Economic and Political Under Capitalism" by Ellen Meiksins Wood.2019-04-1556 min
Swampside Chatsemancipation.networkSpecial announcement: The Gang, From Alpha to Omega & General Intellect Unit have come together to create the Emancipation Network, a marxist podcast and research collective. Find us at http://emancipation.network!2019-04-0700 min
Swampside Chats#90 - Uncontrollable SergeThis week, The Gang is back on the forced march at the generous gunpoint of our most loyal patrons. Victor R. has chosen two great pieces by the Belgian anarchist turned Bolshevik Victor Serge: “Planned Economies and Democracy” from 1944/5, and “Thirty Years After the Russian Revolution” from 1947.
Ни шагу назад!
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Swampside Chats#89 - "Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth"In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" listener-requested reading series, we peruse a set of articles by Gar Alperovitz, titled "Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth".
Make us read whatever you want!
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Swampside Chats#88 - Close Reading: "Principles of Communism" (Part 3)The Gang continues our first Close Reading of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ "The Principles of Communism". Part 3 of 3
Uphold the teachings of Engels senpai!
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Swampside Chats#87 - Close Reading: "Principles of Communism" (Part 2)The Gang continues their first Close Reading! Join Grant and Lexi as they drift off to Jake's dulcet intoning of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ "The Principles of Communism", and wax counterfactual with us as we speculate on the possibility of communism in Engels' time. Part 2 of 3
Take a look, it's in a book!
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Swampside ChatsBonus - Dianne Feinstein vs. YounglingsThe Gang listens to Dianne Feinstein DESTROY libtard children with facts, logic, and over 400ppm of C02. We then ponder the implications of the Green New Deal. There are already a ton of takes on this and it's already down the internet memory hole, but we put our 2 cents in anyway.
The power is yours!
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Swampside Chats#86 - Close Reading: "Principles of Communism" (Part 1)The Gang dives into their first Close Reading! Jake reads every single word of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ and "Manifesto" draft "The Principles of Communism" while Grant and Lexi join in to help update it. Part 1 of 32019-02-2354 min
Swampside ChatsHIGH THEORY 1 - "Communization and Its Discontents"HIGH THEORY is the long-awaited collaboration between The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped in an enigma that is communization theory.
Breht of Revolutionary Left Radio joins Sean, Grant, Jake, Lexi & Rosa for an introductory episode grazing on the first five essays of Benjamin Noys' 2011 collection Communization and Its Discontents. Are we headed into the Enemy Camp in Marxian lambskin, or will we uphold this expensive French import as the next breakthrough in the immortal science?
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Swampside Chats#85 - "The Swamp" RevisitedWe revisit our first episode and reflect on the last two years of Trump's America.
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Swampside Chats#84 - "Theses on the Syncretic Society"The Gang is put back on the forced march by an anonymous patron, this time through “Theses on the Syncretic Society” by the Romanian dissident Pavel Campeanu (aka Philipe García Casals) from 1980. We go down the ultimate 20th century rabbit hole: what does it mean to say these attempts at socialism were “premature”?
Nici un pas înapoi!
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Swampside Chats#83 - In the Enemy Camp: "Prussianism and Socialism"The Gang is back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn to discuss "Prussianism and Socialism" (1919) by Oswald Spengler.
[insert decadence joke here]:
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Swampside Chats#82 - Build-A-God WorkshopThis week, we read two essays on the early Bolshevik education minister Anatoly Lunacharsky: "
The Legacy of Lunacharsky and Aristic Freedom in the USSR" by Howard R Holter (1970) and Roland Boer's "Religion and Socialism: A.V. Lunacharsky and the God-Builders" (2014).
Can we build god? Yes we can!
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Swampside Chats#81 - "In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities"Recorded just before Christmas, we revisited the thought of the ultimate pessimist of post-modernism, Jean Baudrillard. We read In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978), along with “The Procession of Simulacra” and “On Nihilism” from Simulacra and Simulation (1981).
Benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb!
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Swampside Chats#80 - "Family Values"This week, an anonymous donor has put The Gang on the forced march through the first two chapters of Melinda Cooper’s 2017 book “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism". We take a look back at how a focus on the family survived the unraveling of the ultimate class compromise, and why it can never be the basis for socialism.
Ни шагу назад!
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Swampside Chats#79 - Swamp Trek: "The Outcast"In the latest installment of Swamp Trek, we set genders to none! We welcome Chief Science Officer Sophia Dax back to the bridge to watch and talk over The Next Generation S05E17: “The Outcast”. We touch on non-binary xenogenitalia, douchey but solid Klingon bros, and the ultimate second-waver woke leviathan.
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Swampside ChatsBonus - Marxist Center ConferenceDonald recently attended the Marxist Center Conference in Colorado and provides a report back. We go on to discuss the points of unity, and what significance this event may have for the American Marxist left.2018-12-121h 30
Swampside Chats#78 - A Dialectic About NothingThis week, The Gang gets subsumed to the value-form (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) as we read three essays by the late Canadian marxist Moishe Postone
:
"Critique and Historical Transformation" (2004)
"History and Helplessness" (2006)
"Rethinking 'Capital' in Light of the 'Grudrisse'" (2008)
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Swampside ChatsBonus - A Swampside ThanksgivingIt's Thanksgiving yet again, and your favorite communist podcast is serving up a cornucopia of bullshit. Angela Nagle on borders, Mexicans against the caravan, climate hell and more!2018-11-221h 10
Swampside Chats#77 - "One Dimensional Man In Class Society"Following up our conversation on Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man" we read Paul Mattick Sr's response, "One Dimensional Man in Class Society." Not One Step Back!2018-11-2055 min
Swampside Chats#76 - "One-Dimensional Man"The Gang gets into the mindset of the NPCs, the sheeple, and other dupes of instrumental reason as they explore Herbert Marcuse's seminal work "One-Dimensional Man."2018-11-111h 32
Swampside ChatsBonus - News RoundupRecorded on October 28th, we talk Bolsonaro, the migrant caravan, right wing violence, and more!2018-11-031h 14
Swampside Chats#75 - "The Shining Path and the Future of Peru"The Gang upholds Gonzalo Thought when we tackle "The Shining Path and the Future of Peru", a RAND Corporation report by Gordon McCormick in 1990 on the Peruvian Maoist insurgency led by Abimael Gúzman aka Comrade Gonzalo.
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Swampside Chats#74 - "Democracy at Work"The Gang seizes the means of craft beer production with a forced march into chapters 3–5 of Richard D. Wolff's 2012 book "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism". Not One Step Back!
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Swampside ChatsBonus - IPCC ReportThe Gang responds to the grim findings of the UN Climate Report. Jake becomes a prepper, Lexi becomes a Sorelian, Donald doubles down on Leninism, Rosa rages against the dying of the light, and some of that rage ends up landing on Grant.2018-10-191h 01
Swampside Chats#73 - "The Alternative In Eastern Europe"The Gang sits down to discuss the 1977 essay version of "The Alternative in Eastern Europe" by Rudolf Bahro.
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Swampside Chats#72 - "Marx and the Earth"In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" reading series, we take a listener recommendation and look at the introduction to "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett.
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Swampside Chats#71 - "Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History"The Gang reads Part 4 of Samir Amin's 1988 classic '"Eurocentrism", "Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History and a Non-Eurocentric View of Social Theory". Amin's radical revision of historical materialism impresses the hell out of everyone.
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Swampside Chats#70 - In the Enemy Camp: "Considerations on France"The Gang courts Madame Guillotine In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! We read Joseph de Maistre’s metal af 1797 ur-reactionary tract “Considerations on France”.
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Swampside Chats#69 - "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness"The Gang goes full natlib with Chapter 3 of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness". We reluctantly acknowledge the role of a nationalist stage in historical development and marvel at his tragic predictions for developmental socialism.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm
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Swampside Chats#68 - "Socialist Humanism"This week we read the 1957 piece by E.P. Thompson, "Socialist Humanism: An Epistle to the Philistines."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1957/sochum.htm2018-09-111h 21
Swampside Chats#67 - On Practice and ContradictionNext in our "dialectics by politicians" series, The Gang Lives Like Him! with Mao Zedong's "On Practice" and "On Contradiction" from 1937.
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Swampside ChatsBonus - Poststructuralism, Hippies, and DecadenceIn this bonus episode we saddle up to our armchairs to discuss two bizarre contemporary cases of leftish delusion: the Avital Ronell scandal and the rise of transformational festivals.2018-08-291h 26
Swampside Chats#66 - The Joy of Sects IV: Redneck RevoltWe sit down with Sophia from Redneck Revolt to discuss the origins of the organization, how best to counter the far right, the rise of fascism, gun culture and more.2018-08-291h 21
Swampside Chats#65 - "Dialectical and Historical Materialism"The Gang goes straight to the Gulag when we take a magic mustache ride with 1938's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" from the "History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)", better known by its subtitle as the "Short Course". Did we mention it's written by Stalin? We read Stalin this week.
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Swampside ChatsBonus - A Spectre is Haunting The ViewRecorded a few weeks ago, the gang reacted to a clip of the women on The View discussing the merits of socialism, which led to a conversation about the nature of the transition to communism, social mediation under high communism, and the ethics of killing the children of royalty.2018-08-1548 min
Swampside Chats#64 - "The Law of Capitalist Breakdown"This week, in our first fan-dictated reading, we discuss "The Law of Capitalist Breakdown", the second chapter of Henryk Grossman's 1929 crisis theory classic "The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System". Not one step back, comrades!
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Swampside Chats#63 - The Decline of Science and Capitalism (Part 2)This week, The Gang concludes our conversation with Amir from Cold and Dark Stars (colddarkstars.wordpress.com). We discuss electoral strategy, objective class interests, and 'small government socialism'.
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Swampside Chats#62 - The Decline of Science and Capitalism (Part 1)This week, The Gang welcomes Amir from the fantastic marxist science blog Cold and Dark Stars to discuss prospects for a new marxist philosophy of science, popularization of scientific socialism, and a better version of the old "decadence of capitalism" thesis. The posts we have in mind are "The Decline of Science, the Decline of Capitalism", "Ergodicity as the Solution for the Decline of Science", and "Crisis Theory" from http://colddarkstars.wordpress.com
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Swampside Chats#61 - In the Enemy Camp: Uncle Ted's Excellent AdventureThe Gang ❤️s the 90s, revisiting Gen X post-left icon Theodore "The Unabomber" Kaczynski. Touching only briefly on his hit single, we get into some deep cuts from the 'Zynski catalog: "The Truth About Primitive Life", "The System's Neatest Trick" (2008), and the Twitter-sourced epistle "Letter to a Young Revolutionary" (2018).
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marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question
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Swampside Chats#59 - Swamp Trek: "The Neutral Zone"This week, we watch the 1988 season one finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Neutral Zone”, wherein one Chairman Picard explains space communism to some gnarly scrubs from the 90s. Chief Tom O'Brien of the good ship From Alpha to Omega joins us once again for our maiden voyage into pop culture commentary.
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Swampside Chats#58 - "Modern Money Theory" (Part 2)This week, we conclude our discussion with Tom O'Brien of From Alpha to Omega on L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory" by going off the rails and opening up a broader conversation about marxism and the philosophy of science.
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Swampside Chats#57 - "Modern Money Theory" (Part 1)This week, we welcome on Tom O'Brien of the legendary From Alpha to Omega podcast to discuss L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory".
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Swampside Chats#56 - "The Xenofeminist Manifesto"We spread 2015 queer malware "The Xenofeminist Manifesto" by Laboria Cuboniks2018-06-151h 10
Swampside Chats#55 - "The Communist Hypothesis"We sit down to discuss "The Communist Hypothesis" by Alain Badiou, both the 2008 essay (bit.ly/2uAsQxI) and the book.2018-06-101h 20
Swampside Chats#54 - "Militarism and Anti-Militarism"We discuss Karl Liebknecht's 1907 piece "Militarism and Anti-Militarism"2018-05-2148 min
Swampside Chats#53 - May '68 Revisited (Part 2)We conclude our conversation on May 68.2018-05-1748 min
Swampside Chats#47 - News RoundupIn a brief news roundup, Rosa and Jake catch up on the West Virginia strike, Trump's tariffs and plans for North Korea, Dennis Rodman, China and more!2018-03-1440 minSwampside Chats#15 - "The American Revolution"#15 - "The American Revolution" by Ezri xB & Jake Verso2017-05-151h 02
Swampside Chats#14 - "The Transitional Program"This week Lexi and Jake sit down to discuss "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International" aka "The Transitional Program" by Leon Trotsky2017-05-071h 07
The Orb: A Star Trek Deep Space Nine PodcastThe Orb 82: Kai BenDeep Space Nine Season Eight.
The finale of DS9 ended with the crew becoming scattered, Sisko in the Celestial Temple, and a feeling of complete and utter change. But what if the plan had been for eight seasons? What if the writers had 26 more episodes to continue the story they had begun? In this episode of The Orb hosts Christopher Jones and Matthew Rushing imagine what would have happened with Sisko, Odo, Jake, the O’Briens, the station, the Federation and more.
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Christopher Jones and Matthew Rushing
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