In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Will Leslie convince Jamie that Buffy is good, actually, or will Joss Whedon's cringey dialogue turn her off to it forever?
VC theme by Intellectual Dark Wave
2020-04-24 16:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We subject our brain to more spiking as we read through some recent hits:
O'neill on Karen-Bashing: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/06/the-class-hatred-behind-karen-bashing/
O'neill on Saville-Bashing: 2020-04-17 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the nanny state and denying the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. From there they formed the Institute of Ideas, a collection of tiny front groups that have helped them along to mainstream media prominence. But...
2020-04-15 11:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Hope everybody is as safe and healthy as can be expected in the frightening time. Thanks, as always, for listening and supporting our show.
We've begun a new foray into live streaming on twitch.com! While we're still working out some of the kinks, we think this is a fun way to make more content and stay connected during the pandemic.
At 3:00pm EST today, Sean will be joined by Dick and Nate - of #linegoesdown - for a special postmortem of Sandersism and a discussion...
2020-04-08 16:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a Trash-a-Fada crossover extravaganza! We had a delightful discussion with Alice, Riley and Milo of TrashFuture about labour organising at the end of the world, and then we venture back into the mind of Toby Young as he weighs the lives of the British public against a feather and decides if they live or die to appease the great and powerful Economy.
Listen to TF: 2020-04-08 16:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jacobin columnist and Four Futures: Life after Capitalism author Peter Frase indulges us in some speculation about the world of tomorrow--which will be anything but a return to "normal."
Those changes will be dependent on type of class and ideological struggles that emerge in the next several months. With exterminationism looming around the ideology of "scarcity and hierarchy," it is up to us to...
Amanda from Twitter Dot Com (@catcontentonly) was kind enough to break quarantine to sit down with Sean and discuss the politics of pandemic. How has the COVID-19 virus affected life in NYC? How seriously are people taking it compared to how seriously they should? How come our president is calling it The Chinese Virus? How is anti-Chinese xenophobia attached to the larger dynamic of power politics in a globalized capitalist world?
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Outro: Bob Dylan - ...
2020-03-25 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Teen Vogue politics editor Lucy Diavolo joins us to discuss what will hopefully be the story of this crisis: neighbors organizing themselves into mutual aid networks to support each other against the virus and the capitalist system's attempts to profit from the disorder. We talk about the concept of mutual aid historically, how it's emerged in the last 15 years in the front lines of disaster relief, and some of the new ways its emerging in these early days of the pandemic. There's a lot to co...
2020-03-20 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second half of this two-part episode Nate and Sean conclude their discussion of the Coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis.
With people in the United States and around the world facing the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, we decided to throw together an emergency podcast to try to analyze the political economy of this perilous moment.
Why is the Coronavirus a particularly capitalist plague? How has it ruptured communities an...
2020-03-17 19:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In this two-part episode, we continue Antifada's #linegoesdown mini-series on capitalism in crisis.
With people in the United States and around the world facing the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, we decided to throw together an emergency podcast to try to analyze the political economy of this perilous moment.
Why is the Coronavirus a particularly capitalist plague? How has it ruptured communities and economies across th...
2020-03-17 19:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
A wave of wildcat strikes, blockades, and general militant organizing is spreading the University of California system based on the demand that academic workers be paid a living wage. We're joined by three union members of UC Santa Cruz who were fired for refusing to turn in grades until their demands are met. We discuss the history of UC strikes starting with the 2009 occupations that were a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, how this struggle began, the meaning of Bernie's support, its ...
2020-03-11 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang delves into some of the discourse around Bernie, Warren and "intersectionality" to figure out just what liberal pundits mean when they say that word.
Closing song: Kayla Nicole - Move Like A Snake
2020-03-06 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang is back with special guest Shuja Haider, @shujaxhaider, writer-at-large for Outline Magazine and contributing editor of Viewpoint.
We begin with an analysis of the political economy of coronavirus, then continue with a lengthy discussion of the Bernie Sanders campaign. (You know we had to talk electoral politics eventually!) What kind of social forces are being brought together? What potentials might the campaign bring? What are the limits of electoralism and how does a robust ...
2020-03-04 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie is joined by writer, musician, and leftist shitposter Hether Fortune (@hetherrfortune), formerly of the band Wax Idols, for a recap of their canvassing trip to New Hampshire, which involved seeing Bernie open for the Strokes and starting a riot! Also: the state of the music biz, a bit of girl talk, and Hether spills the tea on why she quit White Lung.
Check out Hether's music at 2020-02-26 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jame speaks with Faye Ecklar (@FayeEcklar), co-founder and VP of the Socialist Rifle Association, about gun control, mutual aid, and why it's a good idea to have an armed left. Find your local SRA chapter at https://socialistra.org!
Closing song: Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton
2020-02-19 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss 'Blade' (1998) and 'Blade II.' (2002). 'Blade: Trinity' can go ice skate uphill.
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2020-02-14 23:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss 'Blade' (1998) and 'Blade II.' (2002). 'Blade: Trinity' can go ice skate uphill.
2020-02-14 23:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the Antifada sideproject about space, sci-fi, the paranormal, and parapolitical, we talk to Joseph L Flatley -- the investigative journalist behind "The So-Called Prophet from Pittsburgh" podcast.
Through interviews with ex-members, Flatley provides new details about Gabriel of Urantia and his small UFO apocal...
2020-02-12 10:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hate to break it to ya, but it's about time we talked about political economy. Oh you haven't read all three volumes? Do better.
Relative surplus value? We got that.
Organic composition of capital? We got that.
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall? You better believe we got #linegoesdown
This is the first of an ongoing series in which you will hear smart and funny people try to explain to you why capitalism is just complete and utter dogshit. This is the...
2020-02-07 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hate to break it to ya, but it's about time we talked about political economy. Oh you haven't read all three volumes? Do better.
In the meantime, Dick and Nate from "A Present State of Relations" blog and Twitter Dot Com join Sean KB to give you all a little primer on those pesky laws of motion of capital.
Relative surplus value? We got that.
Organic composition of capital? We got that.
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall? You better believe we go...
2020-02-05 22:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sean continue their discussion of utopian versus scientific socialism in the second half. As we move from the religious communalism of the medieval period to the secular socialism of the 19th century, the limitations of utopian socialism become more clear... and yet the desire to, say, go back to the land... or occupy wall street continue. How do we break from the cycle and build a concrete utopia that can last?
2020-01-31 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie is joined by Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir), esteemed host of Jacobin's The Dig (aka socialist NPR) to talk about his book "All-American Nativism: How The Bipartisan War On Immigrants Explains Politics As We Know It." In an effort to explain how we got orange man, Denvir traces the history of anti-immigrant politics i...
2020-01-29 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of this extended episode on Utopian Socialism, Sean KB and Matt Christman examine the seeds of the socialist impulse from hobos to harlots to Hussites.
Where does the drive for an autonomous, collective communal existence come from? How has religion been a catalyst for envisioning utopia in heaven and on earth? In what ways did Christianity and capitalism give rise to the fractious movements that challenged the entire social order? And how did these revolts prefigure t...
2020-01-24 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) of Struggle Session (@strugglesesh) joins Jamie to discuss South Korean filmmaker (and comrade) Bong Joon-ho's beautifully subversive upstairs-downstairs-downstairs parable "Parasite." Warning: contains spoilers!!!
Outro music: Queers - Like a Parasite
Check out Struggle Session at patreon.com/strugglesession
2020-01-15 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We close out our three-part recap of the decade that was with 2015-now. Jake gives his grand unified theory of the black and blue dress (or is it white and gold?!). Rachel Dolezal. Trump's epic pwnage of Hillary Clinton and us, and the even more embarrassing rise of the #resistance. The libs go un poco loco. Mask off time. The gang gets sincere. And more.
Thanks for all your support this decade, fam!
Closing song: Drake - Headlines
2020-01-08 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ebola, the Fappening, ISIS, The Ice Bucket Challenge, #Doom. Simpler times: 2014!
2020-01-03 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Obamacare! Occupy! The Tea Party! Taylor Swift! ISIS!!!!!! An epochal Antifada spectacular! The whole crew + Jake and Simone take on the decade year by year. In Part 1 we go from 2009-2013. Simone's 2014 will be released Friday, and we get caught up with the rest next Wednesday.
Closing song: Kanye West, Jay Z - No Church in the Wild
HⒶ HⒶ HⒶ! Ⓐnti-Saint Nick here with an XMas Xpost of Andy and Sean's recent appearance on Minion Death Cult! Alex and Tony lead us in a reading of what is sure to become a holiday classic, a 2017 piece from the Boston Police Union magazine titled, "The Antifan Who Stole Christmas."
"A reaction to the enormous anti-racist Boston protest held directly after Charlottesville, "The Antifan" chronicles a pesky critter who wishes to destroy the town of Bhlueville and their holiday cele...
2019-12-25 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer, translator, and historian of the revolutionary left Mitch Abidor joins Andy and Sean to discuss the life, legacy, and relevance of "The Bolshevik's Pet Anarchist" Victor Serge!
An illegalist anarchist turned anarcho-syndicalist, turned Bolshevik, turned left-oppositionist before being completely blackpilled, Serge is a rare example of a revolutionary who jumped from tendency to tendency while still maintaining his principals. Abidor and Richard Greenman recently translated...
2019-12-18 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In episode 2 of @spaceprole's side project on contemporary and historical political issues in Latin America. This month we have Camilo Gómez, a Peruvian writer with bylines at Counterpunch and the Center for a Stateless Society, and the host of the History and Politics podcast.
We discuss how the lavajato spilled into Peru, making anti-corruption a focus of the upcoming legislative elections. Gomez goes into d...
2019-12-16 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post