We continue our discussion with Tom O'Brien about "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" by the Group of International Communists. https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
We're joined by Tom O'Brien from 'From Alpha to Omega' to break down another Not One Step Back listener request: "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" by the Group of International Communists. https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
We conclude our conversation with listener Nick about Erica Benner's "Really Existing Nationalisms." https://www.versobooks.com/books/2672-really-existing-nationalisms
Listener Nick joins us to tackle Erica Benner’s 1995 Marxian treatise on nationality and nationalist politics, “Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels”. http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network
We conclude our discussion on the Adam Curtis essay film series and review part 4: "Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering."
We’re back In the Enemy Camp w/ C Derick Varn, and we would like to speak to the (((managers))). On the forced march from a generous patron, we read a mid-90s reactionary pseudo-class analysis from Pat Buchanan’s main man Sam Francis entitled “Leviathan and Its Enemies”, published in 2016. Special thanks to Stevie for additional editing. http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://emancipation.network
We bring on Tyler from New Zealand to discuss the history of the party and class struggle in the 20th century there, with an eye towards examining the party's relationship to the native Māori people.
We talk about part 3 of the Adam Curtis video essay series.
new Patron tiers announced, starting 12 AM EST 1/1/2021 $1/mo: Discord access $5/mo: live-streamed recordings & early episodes $10/mo: monthly reading group $25/mo: custom episodes (we will read 10 pages per month subscribed) you have just under 2 months to take advantage of the old custom episode rate! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats
On A Very Special Episode of Swampside Chats, Jake, Ezri & Grant jack back into The Simulation with Jean Baudrillard for one last trio adventure in "The Divine Left", and come back one member short. Remember: if you die in The Simulation, you die in real life. http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network
Jake and Ezri recap and discuss the first two episodes of Adam Curtis 2002 documentary essay series The Century of the Self: "Happiness Machines" and "The Engineering of Consent."
We conclude our discussion with Shane & Kyle of G̸e̴n̶e̴r̷a̷l̸ ̸I̴n̴t̷e̶l̴l̷e̵c̵t̷ ̸U̷n̶i̶t̴ ̸r̷e̸t̴u̵r̴n̴ ̷t̸o̶ ̶c̵͈̅o̵̪̽ñ̶̠t̶̬̋i̸͍͛n̴̘͑u̶̺̚e̷̦̎ ̵̹̇ó̷̬u̵͖͑r̶̎͜ ̸͈̃N̷͍͋o̸̫̽r̸̻̈́b̶̫͝e̶̗͑ṙ̶̗t̷́͜ ̶̛͚Ẇ̷̦í̴͚e̴̬̊n̸̛͎ḙ̶͗r̷̗͑ ̸̦͂(̷̨̉1̴̛̫9̴̹̅5̴͓͑0̶̢̋)̸͉͠.̶̤̀ ̴̻̊d̵̝͋í̵̦s̷̟̃c̵̫̚u̷͍̐s̴͇̒ș̶͛ị̵͠o̴̺̓ń̴̞ ̸̪͠E̸̤̊d̶̤̒ǐ̶̭t̸̗́ỉ̷̧o̷̱̕n̵̯̚F̵̠̕i̵̳͒r̸̲͠s̴̺͋t ̴̫̮͗͌̿͆͝ŕ̸͈̪̝͙̘̈́ͅͅé̷̥̥̬̺̩͙̆͐̾̓͠d̵̢͚̗̞̫̑a̷͍͚̣͕̥̬̗̋̂͛͂c̵̛̥̯ͅt̴̛̬̞̘̦͕̦̏͌̃̓e̶̥̜͒̈́͜d̵̛͉͇̖̈́̏͋̄͋̔ ̷̧̘̮̖̫͆̔̄̈́̈́̆U̴̡̜̯̔̈́̒̕̚ṉ̵̖̗̙̦̎̉̈́̄̊i̶̢͊́͝t̴̻̫̦͖͚͌̆̇̆͝ẏ̴...
Kyle & Shane return to continue our discussion of the spicy First Edition of "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener (1950). http://patreon.com/generalintellectunit http://patreon.com/swampsidechats PDF of the rare First Edition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h589Ul_c7ZsTjUl5kRraMDEVPwmy5d7K/view?usp=drivesdk
Emancipation Network comrades Shane & Kyle come chat with us about the second-ever book on cybernetics: "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener. The subversive First Edition had the FBI *knock knock* at the author’s door to revise the socialism out of it, so naturally, that's the version we read. http://patreon.com/generalintellectunit http://patreon.com/swampsidechats PDF of the rare First Edition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h589Ul_c7ZsTjUl5kRraMDEVPwmy5d7K/view?usp=drivesdk...
In another installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we discuss two pieces by Hal Draper, "Toward a New Beginning, on Another Road," and "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party."
Show Notes by C: Charleena Lyles, a pregnant black woman murdered in front of her children by Seattle Police in 2017; here's a recent article about her family's demands as they seek justice for Charleena: https://www.realchangenews.org/2020/06/24/seattle-police-killing-charleena-lyles-localizes-blacklives-protest-and-amasses-similar Decriminalize Seattle https://decriminalizeseattle.com/ Recall Durkan https://www.recalldurkan.org/ No New Youth Jail https://nonewyouthjail.com/ King County Equity ...
Jake and Ezri sit down with Ben Lain, who recently visited Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, to get his impressions and talk about the phenomenon of occupational protests.
Ezri and Jake sit down with listener Cole from Minneapolis to talk about the recent wave of riots, rebellions, and mutual aid efforts following the police murder of George Floyd.
In the latest installment of our Joy of Sects series, we sit down with Luke to talk about the Kansas City Red Guards.
We sit down to discuss "Ecology and Historical Materialism" by Jonathan Hughes.
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 covers! l also have an unfortunate tendency to ramble."
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/swampsidechats
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
