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Dec 26, 2017 • 1h 1min

#42 - A Very Swampy Christmas

Ho ho ho! The Gang sits down for a year in review and just can't shake off that dystopian feeling.
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Dec 18, 2017 • 1h 8min

#41 - "The Paradox of Social Democracy"

We sit down to discuss the 1985 essay "The Paradox of Social Democracy: The American Case" by Robert Brenner
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Dec 13, 2017 • 1h 27min

#40 - "Towards a Gay Communism"

We discuss the Mario Mieli’s 1977 essay "Towards a Gay Communism" and find discover that everyone is trans and gay
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Dec 1, 2017 • 1h 7min

#39 - In the Enemy Camp: "Reflections on Violence"

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.
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Nov 20, 2017 • 1h 7min

#38 - The Bordiga Experience

The Gang sits down to discuss "The Immediate Program of the Revolution" and "The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism" by Amadeo Bordiga.
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Nov 13, 2017 • 1h 20min

#37 - We Googled Murray Bookchin

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.
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Nov 8, 2017 • 1h 32min

#36 - News Roundup

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.
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Nov 3, 2017 • 34min

#35 - "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" (Part 2)

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.
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Oct 25, 2017 • 46min

#34 - "Towards a Political Economy of the USSR" (Part 1)

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.
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Oct 16, 2017 • 56min

#33 - "'Left Wing' Communism" (Part 2)

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".

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