Swampside Chats

The Gang upholds Gonzalo Thought when we tackle "The Shining Path and the Future of Peru", a RAND Corporation report by Gordon McCormick in 1990 on the Peruvian Maoist insurgency led by Abimael Gúzman aka Comrade Gonzalo. Push it to the limit! patreon.com/swampsidechats

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The Gang seizes the means of craft beer production with a forced march into chapters 3–5 of Richard D. Wolff's 2012 book "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism". Not One Step Back! Take the fast track to an FBI watchlist! patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang responds to the grim findings of the UN Climate Report. Jake becomes a prepper, Lexi becomes a Sorelian, Donald doubles down on Leninism, Rosa rages against the dying of the light, and some of that rage ends up landing on Grant.

The Gang sits down to discuss the 1977 essay version of "The Alternative in Eastern Europe" by Rudolf Bahro. Help us turn the world upside down! patreon.com/swampsidechats

In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" reading series, we take a listener recommendation and look at the introduction to "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett. Make us read cool stuff at metaphorical gunpoint! patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang reads Part 4 of Samir Amin's 1988 classic '"Eurocentrism", "Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History and a Non-Eurocentric View of Social Theory". Amin's radical revision of historical materialism impresses the hell out of everyone. Help us turn the world upside down…literally! patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang courts Madame Guillotine In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! We read Joseph de Maistre’s metal af 1797 ur-reactionary tract “Considerations on France”. Help us drive down demand for powdered wigs! patreon.com/swampsidechats patreon.com/symptomaticredness

The Gang goes full natlib with Chapter 3 of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness". We reluctantly acknowledge the role of a nationalist stage in historical development and marvel at his tragic predictions for developmental socialism. https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm Help us turn the world upside down! patreon.com/swamp...

This week we read the 1957 piece by E.P. Thompson, "Socialist Humanism: An Epistle to the Philistines." https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1957/sochum.htm

Next in our "dialectics by politicians" series, The Gang Lives Like Him! with Mao Zedong's "On Practice" and "On Contradiction" from 1937. Ascend to a new paradigm of the immortal science with our new Discord! For just $1/mo or more, get this and other dialectical goodies for voluntarily requisitioning funds to the world party's provisional coordinating committee. patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal...

We sit down with Sophia from Redneck Revolt to discuss the origins of the organization, how best to counter the far right, the rise of fascism, gun culture and more.

In this bonus episode we saddle up to our armchairs to discuss two bizarre contemporary cases of leftish delusion: the Avital Ronell scandal and the rise of transformational festivals.

The Gang goes straight to the Gulag when we take a magic mustache ride with 1938's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" from the "History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)", better known by its subtitle as the "Short Course". Did we mention it's written by Stalin? We read Stalin this week. Help us get dizzy with success! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

This week, in our first fan-dictated reading, we discuss "The Law of Capitalist Breakdown", the second chapter of Henryk Grossman's 1929 crisis theory classic "The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System". Not one step back, comrades! Force us to read stuff! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

Recorded a few weeks ago, the gang reacted to a clip of the women on The View discussing the merits of socialism, which led to a conversation about the nature of the transition to communism, social mediation under high communism, and the ethics of killing the children of royalty.

This week, The Gang concludes our conversation with Amir from Cold and Dark Stars (colddarkstars.wordpress.com). We discuss electoral strategy, objective class interests, and 'small government socialism'. Help us uphold the immortal science! patreon.com/colddarkstars patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

This week, The Gang welcomes Amir from the fantastic marxist science blog Cold and Dark Stars to discuss prospects for a new marxist philosophy of science, popularization of scientific socialism, and a better version of the old "decadence of capitalism" thesis. The posts we have in mind are "The Decline of Science, the Decline of Capitalism", "Ergodicity as the Solution for the Decline of Science"...

The Gang ❤️s the 90s, revisiting Gen X post-left icon Theodore "The Unabomber" Kaczynski. Touching only briefly on his hit single, we get into some deep cuts from the 'Zynski catalog: "The Truth About Primitive Life", "The System's Neatest Trick" (2008), and the Twitter-sourced epistle "Letter to a Young Revolutionary" (2018). tinyurl.com/y9m8j8d4 tinyurl.com/y9pcqqju Help us turn the world upside...

The Gang discusses Rosa Luxemburg's 1909 article series on "The National Question and Autonomy". marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question Donate and help us turn the world upside down: patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

This week, we watch the 1988 season one finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Neutral Zone”, wherein one Chairman Picard explains space communism to some gnarly scrubs from the 90s. Chief Tom O'Brien of the good ship From Alpha to Omega joins us once again for our maiden voyage into pop culture commentary. Help us establish the United Federation of Planets! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patr...

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This week, we conclude our discussion with Tom O'Brien of From Alpha to Omega on L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory" by going off the rails and opening up a broader conversation about marxism and the philosophy of science. Help us turn the world upside-down! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

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This week, we welcome on Tom O'Brien of the legendary From Alpha to Omega podcast to discuss L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory". Help us turn the world upside-down! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats