Actress, comedienne and commie organizer Simone Norman (a.k.a. #praxis girl) joins us for a chat. We recap the DSA convention in Atlanta including resolutions on open borders, sex work decrim, and "Bernie or bust," and the manufactured drama that was clap-gate. Plus: Close The Camps NYC's non-violent direct action, white supremacist violence and its ...
2019-08-14 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On this month's episode of Vampire Castle, Leslie and Jamie talk about the TV series about the world's worst vampires, What We Do in the Shadows.
Intro: Intellectual Dark Wave - Vampire Castle
Outro: Norma Tanega - You're Dead
2019-08-09 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Flores spills more tea than the Sons of Liberty and Sean and Andy tackle the Manson family, parapolitics, Googling MKULTRA, and Quentin Tartufo's new film, Hollywood Dreams
Mostly based on Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the '60s by Tom O'Neil https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/tom-oneill/chaos/9780316477574/
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Jamie is joined by Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) from Struggle Session (@strugglesesh) to discuss Ari Aster's feel good hit of the summer. They also wax poetic on Tool guys, the golden ratio as applied to Kamala Harris, and the virtues of quitting your job.
Midsommar spoilers, obvi, so don't come crying to us!
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2019-07-31 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Socialist Ufologist MJ Banias exposes the truth about what's really going on at Area 51 and who the zoomer kyles are that claim they want to raid it. Afterwards he gives us an insider's look at the racism scandal within MUFON, the reactionary and liberatory aspects of paranormal phenomenon, and a hauntological deconstruction via Derrida of how UFOs are like communism.
More on MJ's work:
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A discussion on "Feminism for the 99% a Manifesto" with authors Cinzia Aruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya covering social reproduction theory, the practical shortcomings of vulgar class reductionism, and Ozy Fest 2019
Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2924-feminism-for-the-99
Closing music: Bush Tetras - Stand up and Fight
Communist greetings,
Hello everyone. First off I'd like to thank all of you for the support of The Antifada. It's been very heartening to get such great feedback for a project that I've put so much of my heart into. That people are willing to throw some dollars our way is amazing and I hope we've lived up to your expectations.
With that said, I'm announcing to that I'm taking an indefinite leave of absence from the show. It's best to get ahead of it anyways, since you've probably ...
2019-07-23 13:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy and Sean do a brocialism with Prank Stallone aka Chris James (@theCJS) joining to talk about screwing with right wing blowhards on the phone for the hahas. Thereafter we meander around a variety of topics including bike protests, RNC 2004 memories, the continuing Jeff Epstein affair, the escalating insanity of the migrant crisis. and the struggle against it.
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2019-07-17 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Andy interview three contributors to Commune Magazine's Summer issue. First we talk to Marxish Rock Critic Joshua Clover on Lil Nas X and its transgression of the color line. Then we chat with Michelle O'Brien about the Queer Liberation march for the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, family abolition, and what life will look like on the Queer Commune. Finally we talk to Commune editor Chloe Watlington on climate change, personal tragedy and mourning, and the existential need for commun...
2019-07-10 19:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Proletkult is a monthly semi-premium subseries of the Antifada that covers space, exobiology, the paranormal and parapolitical, futurism and sci-fi. In this episode we talk to Erik Davis on his new book that follows Phillip K. Dick, Terrence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilsons shamanic tightrope walking between science fiction and reality. At the end of the episode Andy reviews each episode of Black Mirror Season 5.
For Erik Davis's book, podcast, and archive visit:
2019-07-03 12:00:00 +0000 UTC
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@prettybadlefty returns to address past controversial statements regarding veganism, anime, cyclists, communism and 'class reductionism'.
2019-06-28 16:12:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Who better to pummel neoliberal common wisdom than the tribune of the swoletariat, @prettybadlefty?
We speak with Chad Vigorous about his ethnographic studies on white people music, the infuriating/depressing debate about what is or isn't a goddamn CONCENTRATION CAMP and liberalism's tendency toward rhetorical chicanery rather than actually addressing the issues surrounding class and race in US society.
CONTENT WARNING: electoral politics
Check out Chad's excellent podcast T...
2019-06-26 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the aftermath of Sophie's brutal Twitter ratioing (The Night of the Dirty Legs), Andy decided we should revisit the classic essay "Washing... or Brainwashing" from Crimethinc's in/famous 2000 book Days of War, Nights of Love. We discover that nobles are savage, washing your landlords' blood off your shirt is bourgeois and that deodorant is capitalism negging you.
Mostly we are just sober and dumb and talking about eating human shit.
2019-06-21 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sophie Weiner, night-editor of Splinter News and displaced poster, was back in NYC for a bit. We got her in studio to talk about politics in Australia and other oddities... for example, something good happened in Albany for once! We were also gifted with another lovely morsel of #content from media power couple Bari & Bill Weiss-Maher.
Mostly we had a fun discussion about electronic dance music (kids these days call it 'the raving') and how socialists can organize withi...
2019-06-19 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ur fave left logician is back to unpack some recent twitter dustups, the posturing 'rationalism' of Ayn Rand, BreadTube's first menchie in the Paper of Record, and the potentials/perils of deplatforming.
Follow Ben @BenBurgis
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Outro - Elliot Smith: Either/Or
2019-06-14 14:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Ben Burgis, author of 'Give Them an Argument' from Zero Books, stops by the studio to discuss the use and abuse of logic: why we can't cede this terrain to right-wing ghouls; how we can better argue for a better world; and how Karl Marx could be the messiest bitch of the 19th century while remaining logically sound.
Plus, the return of This Week in Musk where we trace the travails of our century's most insufferable ruling class twit. Enjoy!
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2019-06-12 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In episode 2 of PROLETKULT Andy, Jamie, and Sean continue to talk with Anna Merlan about her new book: REPUBLIC OF LIES, specifically the chapter about UFO Politics. Jamie and Sean reveal their believer power levels, Andy and Anna propose a theory for the Navy UFO flap, and we talk about the culture of the Mutual UFO Network, strange southwest desert stories, and the Son of the Godhead himself, David Icke.
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Bezos vs. Musk feud:
2019-06-07 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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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.
The text:
2019-06-05 10:20:59 +0000 UTC
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You wanted a denouement? Here's your goddamn denouement.
Matt and Sean finish this extended look into the 1970s by answering the questions: Why did Carterism (spoiler alert!) fall apart over its internal contradictions? Where have the politics of personal virtue taken us? Why was Reagan the man of the hour and why was Clintonism his enduring achievement? How did neoliberalism become the economic consensus and what the hell is happening now that its entire political and economic edifice ...
2019-06-03 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of Vampire Castle Jamie and Leslie discuss two vampire westerns: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and John Carpenter's Vampires.
2019-05-31 16:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The Illuminati are back, baby! This week, the crew is joined by Anna Merlan (@annamerlan), author of "Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power," to discuss where all these conspiracy theories came from and how to defeat #fakenews once and for all.
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2019-05-29 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The boys are back! This History Is A Weapon is so massive (and inebriated) that we had to break it into two parts.
In this installment, Matt and Sean shoot a little shit about the radical geography of Europe before we plunge into the pool of disco and despair that was the 1970s: how the global crisis upended the 'Golden Age' of American capitalism, how Richard Nixon rode a wave of aggrievement to become the voice of a 'silent majority' in backlash, and how the uneasy alliance betw...
2019-05-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy is back from presenting on Posadas at Cuba's first Trotsky conference and Red May in Seattle with four interviews: Isbel Diaz Torres from the anarchist biblioteca ABRA in Cuba; Simon Rodriguez from Partido Socialismo y Libertad of Venezuela, part of the left-opposition to Maduro; a producer of the audio zine podcast Resonance Audio, and Phillip Wohlstetter of Red May--who wraps everything up with his story of backp...
2019-05-22 17:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In which Sam returns to discuss with us our worst apartment experiences. Includes attempted murder, Great Americans and Lindsay Lohan's cocaine.
2019-05-17 09:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Samuel Stein, author of 'Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State' from Verso Books, comes on the pod to explain why neoliberalism will have us all living in pods if we don't do something about the global housing crisis.
We discuss the rise of the FIRE sector. We demystify the concept of gentrification. We isolate the fundamental contradictions of housing as a commodity. We unpack the ways in which even the most well-meaning progressive politicians and planners are utterly...
2019-05-16 09:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus, we debut a new parody song by Katie Halper (@kthalps) with an assist from Jamie. We also discuss the garbage musical Rent (and how its composer stole queer radical valor), New York machine politics, why it's good to talk about Biden's boundary issues even though they're the least of his crimes, and the populist potential of #metoo. Everyone talks really fast and interrupts each other. Sean ends with a too-hot-to-handle take on Kurt Cobain.
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2019-05-10 14:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite the best efforts of the failing MSM (sad!) Jamie is still out there dunking on bourgeois propaganda in the Guardian.
2019-05-09 20:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Doyenne of the podcast left, @kthalps, joins Jamie and Sean to discuss 1990s nostalgia. Mostly we come up with reasons why the decade actually kinda sucked and brought us to the mess we're in today. We also make some indecent proposals to famous people, discuss Juanita Broaddrick and fill a heaping mug with Laura Loomer tears.
With Andy in Cuba we recorded a lot of material so expect a big, fat bonus later this week!
Friday, May 10th Jamie guests at the Katie Halper/Struggle Sessi...
2019-05-08 15:30:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Every get the feeling that YouTube is a cesspool of corporate propaganda and right-wing nuttery? You're not wrong. Thankfully, the left is fighting back in myriad ways.
We are joined by content-craftspersons The Serfs, Non-Compete and Nick from Means Media to discuss how online got so fashy, what we can do to compete with Prager U (and a million other jerks) on the Tube and how left media can break from our capitalist overlords with new cooperative platforms.
The Serfs - 2019-05-03 15:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
You got your History is Weapon with Sean KB... you got your upcoming series The Vampire's Castle with Jamie Peck... and now we are proud to present the first installment of AP Andy's new Proletkult! This irregularly published Antifada series will cover ufological happenings, the paranormal/parapolitical, left futurism and science fiction.
After some fresh Space News on the Israeli moonlanding fail, Andy is joined by Stephanie Monohan (@shdwbxng) to discuss her recent presentation ...
2019-04-28 22:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post