Swampside Chats

May 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)"!

Recorded on Sunday 3/29, we check in to see how everyone is doing and sort out our reactions to this new capitalist crisis.

Just 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! http://patreon.com/theantifada http://patreon.com/swampsidechats

Emancipation 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 2020

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 cover...

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 SUPPORT SWAMPSIDE OR BE CURSED http://patreon.com/swampsidechats

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/

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=drivesdk

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! https://www.patreon.com/seansrussiablog https://www.patreon.com/swampsidec...

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 Help us buy off a hockey coach somewhere! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats

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! http://patreon.com/swamp...

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! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

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.

This 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 Dreze

Recorded a few weeks ago, we talk about Jeffrey Epstein and the then recent DSA convention.

We conclude our conversation with the General Intellect Unit on Stafford Beer's lecture series "Designing Freedom"

The 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! http://patreon.com/generalintellectunit http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://emancipation.network

We conclude our conversation on Mike Davis' latest book "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."

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! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat

We sit down to discuss "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army" by Fredric Jameson

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! patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

This week we sit down to discuss the Introduction to "The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre" by Michael Glenny.

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. Help us de...

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...