Swampside Chats

Hey y'all! We're back in the Enemy Camp and ‘cross the Mason-Dixon with C Derick Varn, where we sip on some sweet tea and take a gander at the 1854 reactionary tract "Sociology for the South" by George Fitzhugh. Marvel at what just might be the nuttiest Enemy Camp we ever did see—a Dixiecrat who defends slavery as a form of socialism. Finish the War of Northern Aggression! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://emancipation.network Read along with us: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W8RfRHMsWegBdVcNpelMBXkzkunX6moZ

The Gang takes a trip down memory lane to a simpler time—2007! We read “28 Theses on Class Society” by Friends of the Classless Society from the first issue of Kosmoprolet and discover what critical communist theory was like before the financial crisis. Nicht einen Schritt zurück! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

In the latest installment of our Not One Step Back reading series, we look at Domenico Losurdo's "Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism" and as a bonus we look at the RCP's "Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?" a piece (probably) written by Avakian himself.

This week we discuss two pieces by Amartya Sen: "Ingredients of Famine Analysis; Availability and Entitlements," and "Hunger and Public Action" the second one being co-written with Jean Dreze

Recorded a few weeks ago, we talk about Jeffrey Epstein and the then recent DSA convention.

We conclude our conversation with the General Intellect Unit on Stafford Beer's lecture series "Designing Freedom"

The Gang welcomes General Intellect Unit for the first part of our epic cybernetic Bonapartist adventure with Stafford Beer's 1973 lecture series "Designing Freedom". Not one step back! http://patreon.com/generalintellectunit http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://emancipation.network

We conclude our conversation on Mike Davis' latest book "Old Gods, New Enigmas."

For our 100th episode we look at the title essay from Mike Davis' latest book, "Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency."

This week, The Gang has their collective consciousness uploaded to a Bonapartist cloud where they'll be eternally on the forced march through James Steinhoff’s 2014 essay, “Transhumanism and Marxism”. Not one step back! http://patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat

We sit down to discuss "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army" by Fredric Jameson

The Gang gets spooooky on the forced march as we (finally) read a chapter of Silvia Federici's 1998 marxist feminist classic "Caliban and the Witch" entitled "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe". Not one step back, my little pretties! patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

This week we sit down to discuss the Introduction to "The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre" by Michael Glenny.

HIGH THEORY is the joint effort of The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped up in an enigma that is communization. Grant & Lexi visit Jamie, Sean & Andy in studio to interrogate the 2015 George Lucas Special Edition of the 1974 foundational communization text "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement", written (mostly) in 1969–72 (mostly) by Gilles Dauvé. Help us destroy the economy: patreon.com/theantifada patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang is back on the forced march of history with our most direct Bonapartist dictatorship ever, courtesy of returning guest Jean Allen of Opposition Radio. Under their sway, we’ve been seduced from proletarian materialism towards the highfalutin British Idealism of Robin George Collingwood, and we read the epilogue to the posthumous 1945 collection "The Idea of History". Not one step back, my good chap! https://soundcloud.com/rosa-luxemburg-443243978 patron.com/swampsidechats

The Gang is back on the forced march to the moshav of Silicon Valley’s latest guru, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. We picked up his 2016 book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” and read Part Two: “Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World”. !לא צעד אחד לאחור patreon.com/swampsidechats http://swampside.chat http://emancipation.network

We read two chapters from "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, "The Commune" and "On Democracy."

We're back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! This week, Derick & The Gang take on the arch anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard in his 1965 essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” and enter the libertarian Mirror Universe where left is right and right is left. Now accepting Bitcoin! patreon.com/swampsidechats

In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we tackle "The Separation of the Economic and Political Under Capitalism" by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

Special announcement: The Gang, From Alpha to Omega & General Intellect Unit have come together to create the Emancipation Network, a marxist podcast and research collective. Find us at http://emancipation.network!