Swampside Chats

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."

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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 Now: https://www.kingcountyequitynow.com/ - Decrim Seattle one of the main coalitions fighting to defund Seattle Police Department - Recall Durkan is the effort to recall the mayor - No New Youth Jail I did not mention but meant to - it's what it sounds like - King County Equity Now is a coalition that includes the Africa Town initiative(s) I mentioned

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