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Ep 140: 'Pushing" Biden to 'the Left' w/ Sean and Jamie Apr 21, 2021

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Ah, a good old fashion news ep with Sean and Jamie!

First, we've reached pretty pass when the Wall Street Journal is penning diatribes about woke capitalism. Is it true, as they contend, that big business is.. anti-capitalist? What does this even fucking mean?

Next, President Biden has passed $2 trillion in stimulus and proposed another $2 trillion in infrastructure spending. Did it work? Did 'we' push Biden 'to the left'? We break down the spending and talk about what it really means. (Spoiler: the left wing of capital is desparate)

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Outro: Novelist - Street Politician

ep 139 - Autism Abolition Month w/ Anders Lee Apr 14, 2021

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Andy and Anders have an intimate discussion about the history autism, starting in the coffeehouses of Red Vienna and ending in the imageboards of collapsing modernity. With a history rooted in eugenics, fascism, and neoliberalism, Anders questions the origins and continued necessity of the category while advocating for increased understanding and compassion for neurodivergency.

Follow Anders Lee and listen to Pod Damn America

Read his article "I Don't Believe in Autism": https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/i-dont-believe-in-autism/

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN): https://autisticadvocacy.org/

Check out Aspergers are Us on Netflix and HBO

Opening song: Autistic Youth - Stones

Closing: Autistic Youth - Not for Me

Ep 138 - Spring Break Forever w/ Jake Flores Apr 07, 2021

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Jamie, Sean and special guest Jake Flores (@feraljokes) of Pod Damn America (@PodDamnAmerica) get together to discuss Harmony Korine's seminal 2012 film Spring Breakers. We trust you've already seen this masterpiece, but in case you haven't, major spoilers ahead!

Outro: Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

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Antifada's History is a Weapon 10.2: 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW Apr 02, 2021

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HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?

The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?

Part 2 of 2.

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Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave

Suggested Readings:

Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View

Jainus Banaji - Theory as History

Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth

Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe

Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure

G.M. Tamas - Telling the Truth About Class

Antifada's History is a Weapon 10: 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW Mar 31, 2021

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HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?

This is an extended preview: become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this premium content and more

The second part will be out on Friday.

Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave

Ep 137 - Work Sucks (I Know) w/ Sarah Jaffe Mar 24, 2021

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Author and journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) joins Sean and Jamie to discuss her new book, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone." Antifada listeners know "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" is a dirty lie told by capitalists. But where did this idea come from? In this book, Jaffe traces the rise of "labor of love" ideology to the neoliberal turn of the 1970s, explains how it intersects with racism and sexism, shows how it damages workers, and lastly, gives some ideas for how to defeat it.

Buy the book: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/

Outro song: Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"

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Ep 136 - Insurrection (ft. Rihanna) w/ Phil A. Neel Mar 17, 2021

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In this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad. We discuss the particular geography of accumulation and exploitation that has created glittering global cities of commerce and finance, alongside impoverished and a dystopian far hinterland. We bring it up to the present with the political ramifications of this new landscape, how it reconfigures class struggle as seen in the Ferguson protests, last summer's insurrection and the waves of riots across the planet.

Outro: Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the Way you Lie

Buy the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html

Phil's article on the pandemic : https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Crowned-Plague

Nihilist Communism by Monsieur Dupont: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism.pdf

PREVIEW - Vampire Castle - Only Lovers Left Alive & A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Mar 12, 2021

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Jamie and Leslie are back with a hot, fresh VC to sink your teeth into! On this edition, they discuss Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampire slice-of-life movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013), as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire Western "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" (2014).

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Ep 135 - Don't Kronstadt me w/ Bini Adamczak Mar 10, 2021

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Author Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of counterrevolution through the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the cult of Lenin, the Stalinist purges, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The book begs to ask how our revolutionary thinking is hindered by these tragedies, suggesting that things could have and may proceed differently in the future.

She also discusses her group Zero Covid, which criticizes the far-right and neoliberal approaches the pandemic. Follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/zeroCovid_DACH

Check out Bini's books:

Communism for Kids

Yesterday's Tomorrow

On the Communism for Kids controversy: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Why-Conservatives-Are-Panicking-Over-a-Short-Story-About-Communism

And some of her writing:

https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/Corona-Crisis-Governmentality

https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/field-notes/The-Future-of-the-Past

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Song: Matrosen von Kronstadt!

(a GDR rendition of the Soviet song "Forward, Red Marines!" about the events of the naval theater of the Russian Civil War, rewritten by Helmut Schinkel, to glorify the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion)

Some of those things can never be discussed w/ Bradley Greene, Toussaint Losier (Bonus Preview) Mar 05, 2021

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After we ended the episode, Bradley Greene and Touissant Losier stayed on the line to talk more about some particularities of the film, including the shootout at 58th street and Calumet, Fred Hampton's time in Menard Prison, and the racist violence in Cairo, Illinois.

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