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Antifada ft. Will Menaker: Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism w/ Kim Stanley Robinson Feb 28, 2019

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Are you a nerd like us? Do you read stories about robots and space, while also pondering a socialist future? Well, do we have an interview for you...

Fellow science fiction fanatic Will Menaker joins Sean and Jamie for an extended discussion with one of our favorite utopian futurists, Kim Stanley Robinson. Come for the revolutionary potentialities of the post-capitalist imaginary and stay for the psychedelic polyamory!

Outro - Hawkwind: Space is Deep

@willmenaker (still buy the book: https://bit.ly/2BSI6cg)

KSR's official website: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/

Suggested reading: EVERYTHING but especially the Mars Trilogy

KSR in Commune Mag: https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/

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High Theory: Communization and its Discontents w/ Swampside Chats and Breht O'Shea Feb 23, 2019

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Time to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O M M U N I Z A T I O N.

We use Ben Noys' critical compilation "Communization and Its Discontents" to dip our toes into the deep waters of current ultra-left thought on the crises of capitalism and its overcoming:

Has the development of bourgeois society utterly changed the terrain of struggle? Must the proletariat struggle not just against exploitation, but against its very existence as a class? Is there a need for a transitional stage between capitalism and communism, or is the creation of a classless society possible in the present moment?

Tl;dr - mixed reviews. If the content is too heavy or the jargon too jargon-y, feel free to ask for clarification by email, tweet or chat. Sean will be available on Saturday 5-8pm EST on the Antifada Discord to discuss.

Special thanks to Swampside Chats and Breht from RevLeft Radio/Red Menace for the great discussion!

Swamp fam: patreon.com/swampsidechats @swampsidechats

RevLeft fam: patreon.com/revleftradio @revleftradio

PREVIEW: The Pam Anderson Node w/ Corey Pein Feb 19, 2019

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@CoreyPein sticks around to discuss The Californian Ideology, Baywatch & Julian Assange.

Then we do a textual analysis of a LA Times puff piece about Instagram-ready, curated co-living complete with app-based solutions to modern living in (ugh...) The Node. Forget the chore-wheel, this is hellworld baby!

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Ep 38: Off With Their Hogs! w/ Corey Pein Feb 13, 2019

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Author, journalist and cat dad @coreypein joins us to gives us some important updates on what he described in last year's excellent 'Live Work Work Work Die': the hyper-capitalist hellscape of Silicon Valley, the over-under on a big Bezos hog reveal, the dark powers that our new tech overlords hold over our of lives, and how we might fight back against them!

Buy the book (maybe not from Amazon): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627794855

Outro: JJ Doom - BOOKHEAD

Bonus with Corey forthcoming! Become a patron for more content, access to our Discord and more: www.patreon.com/theantifada

BONUS: Beach, Bookchin, Blair, and Bears (Preview) Feb 11, 2019

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AP Andy comes across a fellow radical exile Blair Taylor washed ashore on a beach in Nayarit, Mexico. The two post-anarchists discuss the life and work of curmudgeonly communalist Murray Bookchin as they watch dolphins frolicking in the sunset. Topics include radical muncipalism, Bookchin's concepts of democracy and citizenship, Blair's Institute for Social Ecology and the formation of the Symbiosis network with DSA-LSC, Black Socialists, Cooperation Jackson, the PKK and Rojava, Bookchin's criticism of Bernie Sanders, and others, and what sort of kinky things the old man was getting up to in Vermont.

Show Notes: ISE: http://social-ecology.org

Symbiosis Network: https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/

Demand Utopia: http://demandutopia.net

Blair Taylor's three Bookchin starter texts: What is Communalism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-what-is-communalism Post Scarcity Anarchism: https://libcom.org/files/Post-Scarcity%20Anarchism%20-%20Murray%20Bookchin.pdf

"The Next Revolution" by Blair Taylor and Debbie Bookchin: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1777-the-next-revolution

Closing music: BearForce1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM

Ep 37: All in the Antifada Family w/ The Supersoldiers Feb 06, 2019

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A bunch of our die-hard listeners were in NYC, so we decided to have as many people as would possibly fit in the studio come on the show. Why the hell not?

Collectively, we get at the heart the Putin problem and... SING SONGS!

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Ep 36: The Handmaid's Fail w/ Leslie Lee III Jan 30, 2019

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Jamie and Sean are schooled by the master of critical analysis @leslieeiii from Struggle Session on what is good and what is not good about #resistance media in the age of Drumpf.

Join us as we dissect the dystopian world of The Handmaid's Tale, the ur-text of liberal anxiety around the impending neo-theocratic counter-revolution. How does the Hulu series stand up to Margaret Atwood's 1985 masterpiece? What does the show tell us about donut Twitter and Hillary dead-enders? Can anything be redeemed? Next, Leslie turns us onto some much more effective resistance in the form of the ongoing Purge film series. Is this universe a better representation of actually existing material/social conditions that lead to dystopia...or already have? Are the lessons better? And can Staten Island ever be the center of a cross-racial working class alliance to overthrow the capitalist system? Tune in to find out.

Check out Leslie's podcast at patreon.com/strugglesession

Outro music: The Toasters - Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down

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Antifada's History is a Weapon #2 w/ Matt Christman Jan 23, 2019

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AP Andy is in Mexico researching Posadism. Jamie is wherever goth socialists go to do goth-soc things. So Sean KB recorded an ep with fellow history nerd, Matt Christman of The Chapo Trap House, who is similarly tyrannized by the weight of dead generations.

The question: Why, of all advanced capitalist countries, is the United States unique in its historical failure to form a bone-fide Labour/Socialist party organically tied to the union movement as an institutionalized political expression of working class interests? The answers may surprise you.

The Antifada is an ultraleft-wrecker podcast of which History is a Weapon is an ongoing series. To support our subversion of American values and get a lot of cool stuff in return (bonus episodes, stickers, discords!) subscribe today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

You can likewise support Matt Christman's excellent comedy/politics podcast at www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse and find him on twitter @cushbomb

Closing music: ＢｉｌｌｙＪｏｅｌ－ＷｅＤｉｄｎ＇ｔＳｔａｒｔｔｈｅＦｉｒｅ（Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ）

PREVIEW: It's Beddie Bye Time, Trotsky Jan 18, 2019

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Alright, so Jamie left everyone hanging with that inside joke in the main episode... but behind the wall Alex Gendler and Antifada can tell stories about Hasidic craigslist subs who only want to show the hog, cult party Jim Jones cosplay and romantic sex-slave encounters. We should really only make this bonus available to the $100 paypig tier patrons, but those worms don't even deserve that shit.

Oh yeah, we also do a Real Trotsky-Train Hours where the man himself describes his Cossack-destroying, Knight Rider-esque Chad train that won the Russian Civil War.

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Outro - Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf

Episode 35: Leon Thotsky w/ Alex Gendler Jan 16, 2019

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CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Russian state television created an 8-part miniseries on the life of Leon Trotsky in which he spends half the screen time violently fucking on a war train dressed like a revolutionary leather daddy. And that's the least revisionist aspect of this stunningly anti-Semitic and reactionary tour-de-force.

Alex Gendler, who grew up in the waning years of the USSR, puts this objet d'art into the context of Putin's neoliberal, authoritarian Russia while the rest of us ponder how one man could lay so much pipe and still have time to plot an entire revolution.

Outro - The O'Jays: Love Train

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