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Ep 128 - Thanks Obama w/ Aaron Thorpe & Andray Domise
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Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect s…
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BONUS - Electric Boogaloo w/ Shemon and Arturo
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Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war. What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture? Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to…
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Ep 127 - Riot Cars Go Vrrrrroom w/ Arturo & Shemon
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Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens. Stay tuned for Frida…
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Gen-X Ghost Stories w/ Douglas Lain (PREVIEW)
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Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path? For the full episode support us at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Closing song:…
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The 17th Nivôse of Donald J. Trump w/ Matt Christman (PREVIEW)
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Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond? For the full podcast and all our bonus material support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Also joining us was french-based comrade Henry…
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Ep 126 - Lasch Back w/ Douglas Lain
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The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background…
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Ep 125 - The Monster Enters w/ Mike Davis
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Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what should anti-capitalist organizers be focusing on goi…
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Ep 124 - On the Xmas Question w/ Dave Silverberg
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Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thes…
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Ep 123 - Trillbilly Elegy w/ Tarence Ray
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In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to. Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and…
A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more. Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund: atlsolidarity.org Donate to Dick's commissary fund…
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PREVIEW - C*mmunization Th**ry w/ Aaron Benanav
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Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment? Listen to the full episode by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada Outro: Rolling Stones…
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Ep 121 - Automation & The Future Of Work w/ Aaron Benanav
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Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "Automation and the Future of Work." While automation theorists predict that we are headed for a smooth transition to fully automated luxury communism (or is it partially automated poverty capitalism?) with a little help…
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Talkin' Tina 4 - Brazil's Nuts w/ Amauri Gonzo
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Our series about Latin America returns with an episode on Brazil with Amauri Gonzo of Brasil Wire, Ponte.org, and the Afita podcast. We cover a wide range of topics including riots against the murder of a black man last weekend on Black Consciousness Day, the regional elections, COVID vaccine drama, expectations of a Biden policy in Latin America, …
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Spine Check 5 - Marx before Marxism: Value, Price and Profit
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Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #heinrichtwitter and co-hosts of the Reel Abstractions podcast to discuss Karl (Heinrich) Marx's 1865 address to the 1st International called 'Value, Price and Profit.' As anti-Marxist communists steeped in Marxology, they help us confront this seem…
Jamie and Sean vibe on a number of topics, not limited to but including: feeling depressed, #DefundNYPD canvassing, and the latest bad discourse around "connecting with the working class." What's going to happen to millennials' politics when some of them inherit property? And a preview of a critique of democratic socialism. Donate to the Atlanta So…
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Spine Check 4 - Society of the Spectacle w/ Eric-John Russel (preview)
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The second half of our conversation with Eric-John Russel of Cured Quail about Society of the Spectacle. We define the spectacle, cover the abolition of time, do some close readings of some of the aphorisms, and talk about practical applications of the text For the full episode and access to all our bonus content, including History is a Weapon, Vam…
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Ep 119 - Merci bad coup w/ Eric-John Russel
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Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. After that Sean and Andy discuss Trump's low-energy coup attempt, especially why so many anticipated it and why it doesn't seem to be working. Support the Antifada b…
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Angry Workers Part II: Essential Workers and Insurrection
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In Part two of our discussion with the Angry Workers collective about their new book Class Power on Zero Hours, we talk about the new cycle of unrest spreading the world: riots against police brutality, racism, and renewed lockdowns in Europe. We close with a discussion of the tasks a workers' revolution will need to accomplish to succeed, and how …
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Ep 118 - Angery Worker Reacts Only w/ Angry Workers
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We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London. “We are publishing this book at a time when many on the left are licking their wounds, despondent at their missed opportunity to implement a socialist p…
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Proletkult 9 - The People's Beetlejuice w/ the Lit Crit Guy (PREVIEW)
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Happy Mischief Night! Andy is joined by Jon the Lit Crit Guy to discuss Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy BEETLEJUICE, well known for its titular imp and goth heroine, but far less for its themes of afterlife bureaucracy, rapacious capitalism, rural gentrification, and class conflict. For the full episode and all other bonus material, support the sho…
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Ep 117 - Talking Horror: 'Host' & 'Society' w/ Hether Fortune & Leslie Lee III
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It's the most wonderful time of the year! Jamie is joined by returning guests Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii), of Struggle Session and Vampire Castle, and Hether Fortune, formerly of Wax Idols and currently of Jamie's dreams, to talk about two very different horror movies: Zoom-based thriller (and first great film of the Covid era?) "Host" and 1992 …
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PREVIEW: Real Maoist Hours - Shrek vs. the Gender Bureaucracy
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We read a review of Shrek 2 by the Maoist International Party - Amerika, paying close attention to their theory of "gender aristocracy", and discuss the role of ogre love in anti-imperialist struggle and revolution. For the full episode, and all our bonus material, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada…
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Ep 116 - Apres Moi, Le Troika w/ Pavlos Roufos
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Jamie, Andy and Sean are joined by political economist and author Pavlos Roufos to catch up Greece in the wake of the recent imprisonment of the leadership of the Golden Dawn fascist group and a return to the 'normalcy' of centrist governance. We also discuss the aftermath of the viscous austerity imposed by the Troika, the nature of Syriza's capit…
Jamie and Sean continue the discussion of historical and contemporary left communism by addressing listener questions from Discord, Twitter, and elsewhere. For this bonus content, access to the Discord and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
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Ep 115 - Bi Donnie and the Supreme Infants
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First Sean and Jamie do a roundup of the news: Donnie is back and he appears to not be dead but bisexual; Dems get the Supreme Court they deserve and Sen Mike Lee outs himself as a Bordigist? Next Sean does a non-leftcom's guide to left communism: what is this thing? What's its relation to non-left communism? Wait how can communism be not left in t…
