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/swampsidechats http://emancipation.network Read along with us: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W8RfRHMs...
Oct 26, 2019•1 hr 9 min
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
Oct 08, 2019•57 min
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.
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 30 min
Recorded a few weeks ago, we talk about Jeffrey Epstein and the then recent DSA convention.
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 3 min
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
Sep 11, 2019•45 min
We conclude our conversation with the General Intellect Unit on Stafford Beer's lecture series "Designing Freedom"
Aug 31, 2019•58 min
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
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr
We conclude our conversation on Mike Davis' latest book "Old Gods, New Enigmas."
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 26 min
For our 100th episode we look at the title essay from Mike Davis' latest book, "Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency."
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 29 min
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
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr 6 min
We sit down to discuss "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army" by Fredric Jameson
Jul 07, 2019•1 hr 28 min
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
Jun 25, 2019•48 min
This week we sit down to discuss the Introduction to "The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre" by Michael Glenny.
Jun 09, 2019•55 min
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 destroy the economy: patreon.com/theantifada patreon.com/swampsidechats
May 29, 2019•1 hr 35 min
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 good chap! https://soundcloud.com/rosa-luxemburg-443243978 patron.com/swampsidechats
May 21, 2019•49 min
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
May 08, 2019•1 hr 7 min
We read two chapters from "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, "The Commune" and "On Democracy."
Apr 30, 2019•1 hr 33 min
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
Apr 20, 2019•1 hr 20 min
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.
Apr 15, 2019•57 min
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!
Apr 07, 2019•37 sec
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
Apr 01, 2019•49 min
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
Mar 19, 2019•1 hr 7 min
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
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 35 min
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
Mar 01, 2019•41 min
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
Feb 27, 2019•39 min
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
Feb 23, 2019•55 min
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 Marxian lambskin, or will we uphold this expensive French import as the next breakthrough in t...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 21 min
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
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 50 min
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
Jan 29, 2019•51 min
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
Jan 23, 2019•2 hr 2 min
