Swampside Chats

Ho ho ho! The Gang sits down for a year in review and just can't shake off that dystopian feeling.

We sit down to discuss the 1985 essay "The Paradox of Social Democracy: The American Case" by Robert Brenner

We discuss the Mario Mieli’s 1977 essay "Towards a Gay Communism" and find discover that everyone is trans and gay

In the most ambiguous installment of "In the Enemy Camp" yet, The Gang reads as much of French syndicalist Georges Sorel's infamous 1908 "Reflections on Violence" as they can stomach, then probes the relationship between myth, reason, and politics.

The Gang sits down to discuss "The Immediate Program of the Revolution" and "The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism" by Amadeo Bordiga.

We sit down to discuss the title essay from "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, and somewhere along the way get into a debate about anti-politics.

This week we sit down to discuss shenanigans at the LA Anarchist Bookfair, the November 4th antifa takeover, Kevin Spacey, the "terrorist attack" in New York, Osama Bin Laden's hentai stash, and the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

This week, the gang finishes their discussion on Hillel Ticktin's articles "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" and "The Class Structure of the USSR and the Elite". Contains a lazy synth instrumental version of the sad Nazbol anthem "Всё идет по плану" / "Everything Is Going According to Plan", a Гражданская оборона / Civil Defense song, by Lexi.

This week, the gang sits down to discuss Hillel Ticktin's articles "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" and "The Class Structure of the USSR and the Elite". Contains snippets of Tictkin's lectures "What about Russia?" and "Transition" from CPGB's Communist University.

This week, T he Gang finishes off Lenin's classic polemic against abstentionist political currents in the Communist International, "'Left Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder".

We listen to noted hip hop rapper Eminem drop some truth bombs.

In the latest installment of our ongoing reading series "In the Enemy Camp" we look at excerpts from "The Fourth Political Theory" by famous Russian far right theorist Aleksandr Dugin.

This week, the gang sits down to discuss Lenin's classic polemic against abstentionist political currents in the Communist International, "'Left Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder".

This week we sit down to discuss the apocalypse, the recent storms, Kid Rock, and juggalos.

In the first installment of a new reading series "In the Enemy Camp" we sit down to discuss the essay "The Dark Enlightenment" by Nick Land.

For our third installment of The Joy of Sects, we present the second part of our conversation with C. Derick Varn about the Platypus Affiliated Society.

For our third installment of The Joy of Sects, we present the first part of our conversation with C. Derick Varn about the Platypus Affiliated Society.

This week, we discuss "Fascism / Antifascism" by Gilles Dauvé

This week, we conclude our conversation with fellow worker Nick, about the IWW, focusing on its present and future.

This week, we sit down to discuss the outcomes of the DSA and Marxist Center conferences, the tragedy of Venezuela, North Korean nuclear ambitions, and a forthcoming American Foxconn factory.