Swampside Chats

We spread 2015 queer malware "The Xenofeminist Manifesto" by Laboria Cuboniks

We sit down to discuss "The Communist Hypothesis" by Alain Badiou, both the 2008 essay (bit.ly/2uAsQxI) and the book.

We discuss Karl Liebknecht's 1907 piece "Militarism and Anti-Militarism"

We conclude our conversation on May 68.

Part one of a two part, free form conversation about May '68.

In this installment of our ongoing reading series "In the Enemy Camp" we look at far right political theorist Carl Schmitt's piece "Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty."

Recorded on 4/20, we spend our 50th episode discussing the relationship between drug criminalization and class, the nature of dialectics

We attempted to create a short bonus episode reacting to Alex Jones formally breaking with Trump over Syria. Along the way we get to discussing the Syrian conflict itself, the future of imperialism in the 21st century, and tackle a long overdue national conversation.

In a special bonus episode, the gang catches up on some viewer mail.

We sit down to discuss chapter 3 of Shulamith Firestone's "The Dialectic of Sex", "Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism"

In a brief news roundup, Rosa and Jake catch up on the West Virginia strike, Trump's tariffs and plans for North Korea, Dennis Rodman, China and more!

We sit down to discuss Hal Draper's essay from 1973, "Anatomy of the Micro-Sect."

We discuss "The Imposition of Sexual Morality" by Wilhelm Reich, from the collected essays "Sex-Pol: 1929-1934."

For the latest installment in our reading series In the Enemy Camp, we sit down to discuss the 1974 Julius Evola essay "Fascism Viewed from the Right." Along the way, we get around to discussing right wing self help schemes, and brainstorm a few of our own.

We sit down with Jean Allen to discuss his paper "Organizational Materialism: Considerations on Contemporary Leftism"

Ho ho ho! The Gang sits down for a year in review and just can't shake off that dystopian feeling.

We sit down to discuss the 1985 essay "The Paradox of Social Democracy: The American Case" by Robert Brenner

We discuss the Mario Mieli’s 1977 essay "Towards a Gay Communism" and find discover that everyone is trans and gay

In the most ambiguous installment of "In the Enemy Camp" yet, The Gang reads as much of French syndicalist Georges Sorel's infamous 1908 "Reflections on Violence" as they can stomach, then probes the relationship between myth, reason, and politics.

The Gang sits down to discuss "The Immediate Program of the Revolution" and "The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism" by Amadeo Bordiga.

We sit down to discuss the title essay from "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, and somewhere along the way get into a debate about anti-politics.

This week we sit down to discuss shenanigans at the LA Anarchist Bookfair, the November 4th antifa takeover, Kevin Spacey, the "terrorist attack" in New York, Osama Bin Laden's hentai stash, and the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

This week, the gang finishes their discussion on Hillel Ticktin's articles "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" and "The Class Structure of the USSR and the Elite". Contains a lazy synth instrumental version of the sad Nazbol anthem "Всё идет по плану" / "Everything Is Going According to Plan", a Гражданская оборона / Civil Defense song, by Lexi.

This week, the gang sits down to discuss Hillel Ticktin's articles "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" and "The Class Structure of the USSR and the Elite". Contains snippets of Tictkin's lectures "What about Russia?" and "Transition" from CPGB's Communist University.

This week, T he Gang finishes off Lenin's classic polemic against abstentionist political currents in the Communist International, "'Left Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder".