In this bonus, Sean and Tarence talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?
Beck - Sleeping Bag
2022-05-04 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly two years after the epic Trillbillies Workers Party crossover episode, Sean and Tarence decided to check in on how Giovanni Arrighi's historical schema is holding up. Then they throw in some Ellen Meiksins Wood and Andreas Malm for good measure. Also, what to make of the NatCon/Post-Left losers from the Vanity Fair art...
2022-05-04 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second part of our interview ben tells us more about his affinity for indigenous struggle, why he moved back to NY, his views on COVID mandates and public health, his hatred of Jerry Rubin, and if he beat up the MC5.
check out ben's art: 2022-04-29 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ben Morea is a founding member of Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, two 1960s revolutionary formations known as the most direct action-oriented wing of the youth revolutionary mo...
2022-04-27 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In their first ever CURRENT EVENTS episode, the Everybody Loves Communism crew of Jamie Peck, Aaron Thorpe (he's back, y'all!) and Jorge Rocha (@linegoesdown) take on various topics of the day, including Peter Thiel's Bitcoin meltdown and NYC mayor Eric ...
2022-04-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy discuss the new Apple TV show Severance. Spoilers throughout, of course!
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The crew talks about the Sunset Park shooting, Amazon unionization, global uprisings resulting from inflation and war, and getting various kinds of ill in Mexico.
Song - Macka B - Give the Workers
2022-04-13 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re going back to our supersoldier roots with Devin Zane Shaw, a professor of philosophy and the author of the book the Philosophy of Antifascism. We talk about the antifas...
2022-04-06 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For almost four years we've been speculating about the end of a certain period of history and hoo boy is it here!
Matt and Sean return to talk about the roots of this current turbulence: What are the forces aligned for and against the 'rules-based international order'? How has the calculus of the various ruling classes ...
2022-03-30 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Leslie (@leslieleeiii) discuss two more great vampire movies: Tom Holland's teen popcorn flick 'Fright Night' (1985) and Mel Brooks' classic horror-comedy starring Leslie Nielsen, 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It' (1995).
After the episode on Lenin's imperialism with Erin Hagood, we decided to get a different perspective on the Ukraine war and other current events with Australian anarchist-communist Matt Crossin (@MattCrossin).
How does Australia fit into the global economy and capitalist hegemony? What are the uses and limits of theorie...
2022-03-23 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy and Sean talk more with Erin Hagood of Platypus about our political horizons. Do we still need a Leninist party? Do the global wave of uprisings point towards revolution or the Democratic Party? Is Antifada Post-Left?
Platypus debate with Benedict Cryptofash - 2022-03-16 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy, Sean, and Platypus Erin Hagood go over the details of a historic panel on the crisis in Ukraine, then segue into the question of Lenin's definitions of imperialism and revolutionary defeatism and what clarity they offer today, if any.
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Lenin - 2022-03-16 10:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Events are moving rapidly and there are processes in motion that seem to be forging a new global order. The question is what kind?
Following up on last week's episode with Alex Gendler, Sean and Derick are back to continue the discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War. What are the geopolitics that led to this violent and t...
2022-03-09 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show and Ukrainian immigrant Alex Gendler (@achilleselbow) discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, situating it in its proper historical context before discussing more recent events. He also takes some time to debunk galaxy brain takes ...
2022-03-02 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Max Collins of '90s (and present day) alt-rock band Eve 6 (@Eve6) returns for a wide-ranging BONUS convo touching on music, religion, shitposting, and Max's hi-jinx with the guy from Third Eye Blind.
Andy and Sean discuss Putin vs. Ukraine vs. Brandon and the war's origins in the EuroMaidan uprising. If the left's revolutionary strategy is take public space and push towards militant result, are we not replicating the errors of Ukraine and Syria? Are the Canadian truckers doing essentially the same thing?
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Jamie and Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) round out the Valentine's Day-adjacent content by attempting to answer a listener's relationship question. They also talk designer babies and bio-mechanical wombs.
2022-02-18 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) stops by for some capital-d Discourse about the Superbowl, nostalgia, and the NFL's promise to "end systemic racism." Jamie and Aaron also discuss Larry David's crypto ad and REI's woke anti-union campaign.&nbs...
2022-02-16 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Eve 6 frontman and powerful poster Max Collins (@Eve6) stops by to discuss Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and "cancel culture"...but more importantly, how Spotify is fucking musicians out of rent money. What, if anything, can music fans do to help? Is Max the daddy that...
2022-02-09 17:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Clark Filio, producer of How To: With John Wilson, stays on to talk NFTs, crypto, CIA Anitfa vs. Nazi Apes, metaverse nikes, how to make it rich with NFT farts, and Jingle Berry.
Critique of crypto currency by Gegen Kapital und Nation: 2022-02-02 14:45:27 +0000 UTC
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Painter, arts worker organizer, and How To: With John Wilson producer Clark Filio talks to us about the world of art! What is an arts worker, why are they organizing, and ...
2022-02-02 10:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The long-awaited second installment of Diving Into The Wreckage, the VarnVlog/Antifada crossover series is here! This time, Sean and Derrick put on their doomer caps to discuss capitalism and global warming: Is there a way out within this mode of production? Why have emissions ramped up so much in our lifetimes? What kind of ...
2022-01-28 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and David Parsons, host of the excellent history podcast Nostalgia Trap, take a dive into the politics and ideology of fossil fuels through the lens of the 2005 George Clooney and Matt Damon film 'Syriana'. They go back to the 1990s and 2000s, especially the wake of 9/11 and the runup to the Afghanistan and Iraq in...
2022-01-26 15:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing our discussion from the main episode, we go deeper into the denialism mess with Pavlos and ask ourselves what COVID and society's response might tell us about a possible revolutionary horizon. How do approach the real issues in the world without seeing like a state? We also discuss a second article written by an It...
2022-01-19 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang is back with returning guest, Pavlos Roufos, for a spicy discussion about ever-contentious pandemic politics and how the left should relate to it:
Why has SARS-COVID 19 and the state response to it caused such an uproar in parts of Europe and t...
2022-01-19 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue our discussion on the J6 "insurrection" with a reading of a NYT piece about a shadowy rightwing group you may not have heard of... likely because it's all a grift.
the article: http...
On the one-year anniversary of the media spectacle that was the Jan 6 Capitol Hill 'insurrection,' the Antifada crew look back on what happened on that fateful day, how it compared to the George Floyd uprising, what's going on with liberal democracy, and how the anti-capitalist left should relate to all of it.
Out...
2022-01-12 21:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After the election of self-described libertarian socialist Gabriel Boric, we talk to Isabel from the Valparaiso anarchist assembly and Rara Senal anarchafeminist podcast network about the election, constitutional...
2022-01-05 16:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Were the Manson and Lyman families apocalyptic cults, misunderstood revolutionaries, or media distortions created to delegitimize the revolutionary communalism of the '60s? Parallax Views host 2021-12-22 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
