Swampside Chats

This week, we watch the 1988 season one finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Neutral Zone”, wherein one Chairman Picard explains space communism to some gnarly scrubs from the 90s. Chief Tom O'Brien of the good ship From Alpha to Omega joins us once again for our maiden voyage into pop culture commentary. Help us establish the United Federation of Planets! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.com/swampsidechats

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This week, we conclude our discussion with Tom O'Brien of From Alpha to Omega on L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory" by going off the rails and opening up a broader conversation about marxism and the philosophy of science. Help us turn the world upside-down! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

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This week, we welcome on Tom O'Brien of the legendary From Alpha to Omega podcast to discuss L. Randall Wray's 2015 book "Modern Money Theory". Help us turn the world upside-down! patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

We spread 2015 queer malware "The Xenofeminist Manifesto" by Laboria Cuboniks

We sit down to discuss "The Communist Hypothesis" by Alain Badiou, both the 2008 essay (bit.ly/2uAsQxI) and the book.

We discuss Karl Liebknecht's 1907 piece "Militarism and Anti-Militarism"

We conclude our conversation on May 68.

Part one of a two part, free form conversation about May '68.

In this installment of our ongoing reading series "In the Enemy Camp" we look at far right political theorist Carl Schmitt's piece "Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty."

Recorded on 4/20, we spend our 50th episode discussing the relationship between drug criminalization and class, the nature of dialectics

We attempted to create a short bonus episode reacting to Alex Jones formally breaking with Trump over Syria. Along the way we get to discussing the Syrian conflict itself, the future of imperialism in the 21st century, and tackle a long overdue national conversation.

In a special bonus episode, the gang catches up on some viewer mail.

We sit down to discuss chapter 3 of Shulamith Firestone's "The Dialectic of Sex", "Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism"

In a brief news roundup, Rosa and Jake catch up on the West Virginia strike, Trump's tariffs and plans for North Korea, Dennis Rodman, China and more!

We sit down to discuss Hal Draper's essay from 1973, "Anatomy of the Micro-Sect."

We discuss "The Imposition of Sexual Morality" by Wilhelm Reich, from the collected essays "Sex-Pol: 1929-1934."

For the latest installment in our reading series In the Enemy Camp, we sit down to discuss the 1974 Julius Evola essay "Fascism Viewed from the Right." Along the way, we get around to discussing right wing self help schemes, and brainstorm a few of our own.

We sit down with Jean Allen to discuss his paper "Organizational Materialism: Considerations on Contemporary Leftism"