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full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-our-lives-121342801 Our guests from this week's AI episode stick around with Sean to continue the hijinks about our tech oligarchy and discuss the first couple of episodes of AppleTV's television show Severence about how working for a mid-20th century capitalist firm is creepy and kinda suss ngl....
Sean didn't have the guts to name this new podcast series about AI as Rax, Mattie and Jaya would have it: Unintelligent Fartelligence. Feel free to boo him in the comments. For the bonus episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism . For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage...
D-Rock and J-Bone are back to join us in a reading of the ICC 's classic essay about gangsta rap and Eminem: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/242_eminem.htm For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Song: Eminem - President Mathers...
Drawing from their own experiences of incarceration, authors Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell offer an unprecedented look inside New York's notorious Rikers Island jail in their compelling new book "City Time." They meticulously document how incarcerated people construct complex social systems and survival strategies within an environment defined by structural racism and institutional neglect. Through their intimate perspective as former detainees, they reveal the intricate unwritten rules, re...
Sean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost to history and the histories of Marxism. What is republicanism? What distinguishes it from liberalism? How did real...
Audio from a talk held by Woodbine 's December 22nd Research Group facilitated by Malek Rasamny and Arya Zahedi. What are the horizons, opportunities and challenges amidst the collapse of the Iranian-led order? Over the past few months Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza has more fully expanded into a regional conflict with what has been referred to as the “axis of resistance”, led by Iran. Its fall has been decisive, with the destruction of much of the senior leadership of Hezbollah, including t...
We talk about the Cybertruck psyop with Insurgent Notes , Race Traitor , and Hard Crackers vets John Garvey and Zhana Kurti. In the fun half, available to subscribers at http://patreon.com/theantifada , we read the prophecies of alien intervention and free energy by the Balkan Nostradamus Baba Vanga , and hear Sean's interpretation of Charli XCX's Brat. Song: Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals...
This is a short preview of the paywalled portion of the long discussion between Sean and Varn about the 2024 election and the end of the Long Twentieth Century. To access the entire audio file and a bunch more bonus content become a supporter of the show at www.patreon.com/theantifada in the New Year.
Stroky Sean and cancer-free Varn are reunited to dive back into the wreckage. This is part one of over three hours of conversation about just about everything under the sun (what happens when we take a several month break from these things) including political economy, current events, intra-Marxist rivalry and analysis. Mostly we bid adieu to the Long Twentieth Century. Turns out it expired for real this time not on 9/11/01 but 11/5/16. We are in a new epoch and its time to start acting like it!...
Music journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist . How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead? You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifada Links to Liz's work: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/...
Merry Christmas, everyone! This year, the Santifada is bringing you the same present as always: an episode about the themes of Jewish identity and antisemitism! We discuss Brady Corbet's new epic film, The Brutalist , starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in the absurd New World of America. In the first half of the episode, our brutalism scholar guests, Ross and Susannah, explain what brutalism is and how it relates—or doesn’t relate—to Br...
For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth ...
Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada...
Sean is BACK from hopital with Stroke Updates + Syria, South Korea, UHC Shooter and other political assassinations Listen to Part 2 and support Sean and the show by signing up at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: The Strokes - Reptilia (Stroked and Reverbed)
&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America , in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada...
Audio from our November 23rd event at Woodbine with Jamie Merchant about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline . He sketches the economic background of the rise of populist right internationally before we transition to questions about the current moment and WI2BD. Jamie Merchant is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club ( @ilcofchi ). excerpt: https://brooklynrail...
In Part II, Henry discusses the New International article Erasing the Pregnant as a way into talking about religious politics and secularism in regards to issues like abortion, death with dignity, Zionism, and sex. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada. We now offer a free membership tier and 7-day trials! Henry's Podcast with George Floyd's Pastor: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xiii-the-gospel-and-george-floyd Song: KRS-ONE - Why Is That?...
Henry's back for France Popular front updates to unveil his new journal, the New International ! From there, we discuss Andy and Varn's essay T he Undying Appeal of Brunch , and if it conflicts with the organizational method of Henry's Party, France Unbowed. For Part II of this episode and Discord access, support the show at: http://patreon.com/theantifada . We now have a free membership tier and 7-day trials! Follow New International on Twitter and BlueSky Follow Antifada on BlueSky New Interna...
Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century continue their reading of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory! This is the section where it becomes clear that Dugin uses a different intellectual framework about civilizations than left anti-imperialists. Patrons can listen to full episode here (we now offer free 7 day trials!): https://www.patreon.com/posts/boundless-and-114052745 See this episode and prior videos in this series on VarnVlog...
A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info ! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain's tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the second edition of the Housing Monster (with an intro by Sean! pre-order now from PM Press!). Show notes: https://schengen.news/spains-congress-approves-bill-to-cancel-golden-visa-program-...
On November 9th, 2024 the Independent Labor Club of NY hosted a panel at Woodbine in Ridgewood, Queens. Sean moderated this discussion between: Aaron Lelonde of the International Longshoremen's Association Sou Mi of WGA-East and Left Voice Gregory Butler of Int'l Union of Operating Engineers and Gangbox News Ellie Pfeffer of Maoist Communist Union, formerly of Amazonians United What accounts for the realignment seen in 2024? Did large swathes of workers (including Black and Hispanic) vote Trump ...
Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties. In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada , we plot THE RESISTANCE! Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid Kane Song: Los 3 de La Habana - Ca...
Sean and Andy are joined by Sean, prolific poster and blogge r and short fiction writer, to talk about the changes he has seen over the last decade as an expat worker in both mainland China and Hong Kong. What shifts in politics, the economy and social life has he seen? What is the material basis for Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign? In what ways is the 'reform and opening up' period of 'market Stalinism' similar to Tony Blair's New Labour Britain? What does the imperial and post-imperial g...
Sean is joined by labor activist and historian Jeff Schuhrke to discuss his new book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade out now from Verso Books. Why did American unions become a junior partner in US Empire during the Cold War ? How did anti-communists come to control US labor organizations in the 20th Century? What sort of high jinx were the AFL-CIO up to in Europe and the developing world? What did union activists do to expose this class collaborati...
Aidan Beatty , author of The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism joins us to trainspot the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist cult that was tight with Qaddafi, boasted Vanessa Redgrave as a member, and collapsed after the revelation of years of its leader's sexual abuse of membership. Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the bonus where we talk about Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, the shared historical dynamics of the Irish ...
Jason , Daniel, and Andy talk about Fight Club to celebrate to the 25th anniversary of the movie and the Battle of Seattle that followed it. We look at the history of the book and Chuck Palahniuk's situationist influence and his embrace of his rightwing fans, the Gen-X ennui behind the creation of Tyler Durden, the politics of Project Mayhem, and Marla Singer's character as the story's ethical core. The full episode is available for free at http://patreon.com/theantifada . Sign up to support the...
Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant ( @pathtopraxis ) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books , called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment. What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas li...
&nders Lee and AP &y guest on the Quorators podcast to field questions about UFOs, cyptids, Pompeii, and, of course, ampersands. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udhh_BrLui8
NEWS EP! We talk about the hurricane disaster, the Middle East disaster, the Ukraine disaster, and the Longshoremen's strike as a prelude to the war on Christmas. Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half! We look at a proletarian get-rich quick scheme, an LAPD robbery gone wrong, and speculate on the REAL reason the Feds are taking down Mayor Eric Adams. Organized abandonment & campaign strategy in Appalachia: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/30/helene-aft...
