Best Andy Chavez Podcasts (2024)

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Diving in the Wreckage - Independence, Decadence, and Renewal w/ C. Derick Varn 1:00:54

1h ago1:00:54

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Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do? This is an extended preview of the compl…

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BONUS: Theory of the YoungHegelianE-Girl 9:23

4d ago9:23

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Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of Hegel For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Matthew Donovan's review…

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E258 - Populaire Frontin' 2: Melon Pilled w/ Henry Wallis 1:21:41

8d ago1:21:41

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Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block? Support the show at http://patreon.com/the…

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E257 - Joe vs. the Volcano w/ Phil Neel & Nick Chavez (Part 1) 1:08:03

16d ago1:08:03

1:08:03

Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing. In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visi…

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Somtimes I Hate You - Episode 227 - He Sneezed His Guts Out 1:05:47

18d ago1:05:47

1:05:47

Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This week Andy and Viktor talk about Macho Man Randy Savage’s Slim Jim mascot successor. Andy complains about getting through Elden Ring to get to the DLC, so instead he just goes on and on about how good The Witcher 3 still is. Viktor asks Andy to be his best man, which inclu…

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BONUS: Cancel All Workers w/ Minion Death Cult 7:40

18d ago7:40

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The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it. For the full episode, all other bonus content, and Discord access, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Check out Sean's other appearance on MDC this week Support MDC on patreon…

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&&&RMED LOVE - Jack Scott, Bill Walton, the SLA, and the Athletic Revolution 1:31:01

20d ago1:31:01

1:31:01

&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army. For all our bonus content and access to our Discord community support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Jack Scott: https://www.abebo…

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E256: IVF or IMF w/ Jason Smith 55:38

27d ago55:38

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Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left. Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this …

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Sometimes I Hate You - Episode 226 - This Gas Station Egg Is So Delectable 1:19:30

1M ago1:19:30

1:19:30

Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. In this Episode Andy and Viktor realize Cicada are really weird little bugs while we describe their effects on Texan life. Andy tells Viktor his deepest darkest breakfast secrets. Andy’s whole family had a ailments through the father’s day weekend. We also learn about a dude f…

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E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler 45:02

1M ago45:02

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Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler For the full episode, Discord access, and all our bonus content, support the show at http:///patreon.com/theantifada The Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bo…

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E254 - Climate Adorno w/ Jacob Blumenfeld 1:08:34

1M ago1:08:34

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We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair? https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline Climate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-867…

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Sometimes I Hate You - Episode 225 - Yall Got Those Pregnant Cow Gloves 1:04:13

2M ago1:04:13

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Welcome to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This week Viktor and Andy talk about the newest coolest Monster Energy Drink based event. Monster Energy Drink is currently running Monster Gear, a giveaway where you can scan your Monster Energy Drink receipts and use the points to purchase items from their shop. Andy picked up th…

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E253 - Populaire Frontin' w/ Henry Wallis 1:35:26

2M ago1:35:26

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Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections. Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular Front Macron and Lula support billionaire tax:…

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Boundless and Bottomless Seas: "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin (Episode 5) 15:55

2M ago15:55

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Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it." In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All…

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E252 - Exiting the Star Wars Castle 53:32

2M ago53:32

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NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show. Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZ Labor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.h…

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Sometimes I Hate You - Episode 224 - My House Is Hauted By Wasps 59:25

2M ago59:25

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Welcome back to another episdoe of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This week Andy and Viktor really just explore their relationship with liquids and their partner’s lack there of. Andy may or may not be Jealous that Viktor has a friend who is letting him read a book he’s writing. Andy wants to write a book, how dare he. Only person that ever …

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E251 - Is Hamas Vegan? 1:04:13

2M ago1:04:13

1:04:13

Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and antisemitism in light of the new movement. For the full episode, all bonus content, and access to ongoing discussion and debate in our Discord community, support the show at http://p…

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BONUS: Mad Max Anarchism 10:07

2M ago10:07

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For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarch…

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E250: La CUNY Lucha Continúa w/ Carolyn Hietter & Ian J. Seda-Irizarry 1:10:36

2M ago1:10:36

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Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois…

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Sometimes I Hate You - Episode 223 - Sleep Walking, Sleep Talking, Sleep Eating and Sleep Terrors 1:09:44

3M ago1:09:44

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Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This week Viktor and Andy really come out swinging by talking about server maintenance. Andy also complains about the total loss of Fallout 3 progress after falling in love with the game over the last month. Viktor trys yet again to sell you and Andy that Dragon’s Dogma is a g…

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Diving into the Wreckage: Specters of Left Melancholia w/ C. Derick Varn 58:34

3M ago58:34

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It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade. What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various politic…

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E249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid Kane 56:30

3M ago56:30

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Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the …

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Somtimes I Hate You - Episode 222 - Like Yakuza And Skyrim Had A Baby 57:14

3M ago57:14

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Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This is a nostalgic ass episode with Andy and Viktor. Andy tells us about some of his favorite toys from 1999 which were actually just ID badges for characters form Star Wars The Phantom Menace. Andy analyzes his feelings for videe game Fallout 3 like 16 years after first disc…

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E248 - Grossman's Revenge w/ Ted Reese 54:44

3M ago54:44

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Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese, to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All. How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us understand the economics and politics of this current moment? In what ways are crisis tendencies affecting the United States and the UK? What type of program should socialists offer as…

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ARMED LOVE 10 - The Cultural Revolution w/ Ralf Ruckus 1:47:28

3M ago1:47:28

1:47:28

For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and complete the revolutionary vision of Mao. The result was a seizure of power by the PLA and an estimated 2.8 million death betwe…

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Sometimes I Hate You - Episode 221 - That Security Guard Had The Softest Hands 1:09:34

4M ago1:09:34

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Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. In this episode Andy and Viktor agree that if its hit and run on a highway when no one is around, it never really happened. Viktor tells about the dead body he found and Andy tells us about the first live music he’s seen in over a year. If you haven’t before, for the love of a…

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E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien 52:46

3M ago52:46

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We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions Join our Discord community by signing up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/theantifada Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlO…

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Somtimes I Hate You - Episode 220 - Are Zabrak Black With Red Tattoos, Or Red With Black Tattoos? 1:02:45

4M ago1:02:45

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Welcome back to another episode of your favorite comedy variety podcast. This week Andy and Viktor find out what happened to their pets who actually did go off to a farm. Andy tells us about the dramatic conclusion of novel The Only Good Indians, this time a lot of it takes place in a makeshift sweat lodge made of old jackets. Viktor breaks down th…

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E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal (first half) 58:24

4M ago58:24

58:24

Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Empire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreo…

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