Swampside Chats

The Gang is back on the forced march to the moshav of Silicon Valley’s latest guru, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. We picked up his 2016 book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” and read Part Two: “Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World”. !לא צעד אחד לאחור patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

We read two chapters from "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, "The Commune" and "On Democracy."

We're back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! This week, Derick & The Gang take on the arch anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard in his 1965 essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” and enter the libertarian Mirror Universe where left is right and right is left. Now accepting Bitcoin! patreon.com/swampsidechats

In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we tackle "The Separation of the Economic and Political Under Capitalism" by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

Special announcement: The Gang, From Alpha to Omega & General Intellect Unit have come together to create the Emancipation Network, a marxist podcast and research collective. Find us at http://emancipation.network!

This week, The Gang is back on the forced march at the generous gunpoint of our most loyal patrons. Victor R. has chosen two great pieces by the Belgian anarchist turned Bolshevik Victor Serge: “Planned Economies and Democracy” from 1944/5, and “Thirty Years After the Russian Revolution” from 1947. Ни шагу назад! patreon.com/soundcloud

In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" listener-requested reading series, we peruse a set of articles by Gar Alperovitz, titled "Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth". Make us read whatever you want! patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang continues our first Close Reading of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ "The Principles of Communism". Part 3 of 3 Uphold the teachings of Engels senpai! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

The Gang continues their first Close Reading! Join Grant and Lexi as they drift off to Jake's dulcet intoning of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ "The Principles of Communism", and wax counterfactual with us as we speculate on the possibility of communism in Engels' time. Part 2 of 3 Take a look, it's in a book! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

The Gang listens to Dianne Feinstein DESTROY libtard children with facts, logic, and over 400ppm of C02. We then ponder the implications of the Green New Deal. There are already a ton of takes on this and it's already down the internet memory hole, but we put our 2 cents in anyway. The power is yours! patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang dives into their first Close Reading! Jake reads every single word of Friedrich Engels' 1847 communist FAQ and "Manifesto" draft "The Principles of Communism" while Grant and Lexi join in to help update it. Part 1 of 3

HIGH THEORY is the long-awaited collaboration between The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped in an enigma that is communization theory. Breht of Revolutionary Left Radio joins Sean, Grant, Jake, Lexi & Rosa for an introductory episode grazing on the first five essays of Benjamin Noys' 2011 collection Communization and Its Discontents. Are we headed into the Enemy Camp in Ma...

We revisit our first episode and reflect on the last two years of Trump's America. Keep us going for another two years: patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang is put back on the forced march by an anonymous patron, this time through “Theses on the Syncretic Society” by the Romanian dissident Pavel Campeanu (aka Philipe García Casals) from 1980. We go down the ultimate 20th century rabbit hole: what does it mean to say these attempts at socialism were “premature”? Nici un pas înapoi! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

The Gang is back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn to discuss "Prussianism and Socialism" (1919) by Oswald Spengler. [insert decadence joke here]: patreon.com/swampsidechats

This week, we read two essays on the early Bolshevik education minister Anatoly Lunacharsky: "
The Legacy of Lunacharsky and Aristic Freedom in the USSR" by Howard R Holter (1970) and Roland Boer's "Religion and Socialism: A.V. Lunacharsky and the God-Builders" (2014). Can we build god? Yes we can! patreon.com/swampsidechats

Recorded just before Christmas, we revisited the thought of the ultimate pessimist of post-modernism, Jean Baudrillard. We read In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978), along with “The Procession of Simulacra” and “On Nihilism” from Simulacra and Simulation (1981). Benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb! patreon.com/swampsidechats

This week, an anonymous donor has put The Gang on the forced march through the first two chapters of Melinda Cooper’s 2017 book “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism". We take a look back at how a focus on the family survived the unraveling of the ultimate class compromise, and why it can never be the basis for socialism. Ни шагу назад! patreon.com/swampsidechats

In the latest installment of Swamp Trek, we set genders to none! We welcome Chief Science Officer Sophia Dax back to the bridge to watch and talk over The Next Generation S05E17: “The Outcast”. We touch on non-binary xenogenitalia, douchey but solid Klingon bros, and the ultimate second-waver woke leviathan. Help us crush gender once and for all by subscribing to our Patreon patreon.com/swampsidec...

Donald recently attended the Marxist Center Conference in Colorado and provides a report back. We go on to discuss the points of unity, and what significance this event may have for the American Marxist left.

This week, The Gang gets subsumed to the value-form (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) as we read three essays by the late Canadian marxist Moishe Postone
: "Critique and Historical Transformation" (2004) "History and Helplessness" (2006) "Rethinking 'Capital' in Light of the 'Grudrisse'" (2008) Donate to Swampside, yada yada, abolish the heteronomous dialectic: patreon.com/swampsidechat...

It's Thanksgiving yet again, and your favorite communist podcast is serving up a cornucopia of bullshit. Angela Nagle on borders, Mexicans against the caravan, climate hell and more!

Following up our conversation on Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man" we read Paul Mattick Sr's response, "One Dimensional Man in Class Society." Not One Step Back!

The Gang gets into the mindset of the NPCs, the sheeple, and other dupes of instrumental reason as they explore Herbert Marcuse's seminal work "One-Dimensional Man."

Recorded on October 28th, we talk Bolsonaro, the migrant caravan, right wing violence, and more!