Swampside Chats
"The best goddamn communist podcast, period."
—Tom O'Brien, From Alpha to Omega
This is Swampside Chats. The podcast where communists shoot the shit about current events, history, political economy, and theory.
"You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the Swamp. In fact, we think that the Swamp is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are 'free' to go where we please, free to fight not only against the Swamp, but also against those who are turning towards the Swamp!"
Latest episodes
Jul 7, 2019 • 1h 28min
#98 - "An American Utopia"
We sit down to discuss "An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army" by Fredric Jameson
Jun 25, 2019 • 48min
#97 - "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe"
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!
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Jun 9, 2019 • 55min
#96 - “The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre”
This week we sit down to discuss the Introduction to "The Golden Age of Soviet Theatre" by Michael Glenny.
May 29, 2019 • 1h 35min
HIGH THEORY 2 - "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement"
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.
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May 21, 2019 • 49min
#95 - "The Idea of History"
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!
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May 8, 2019 • 1h 7min
#94 - "Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World"
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
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Apr 30, 2019 • 1h 33min
#93 - "Towards a New Socialism"
We read two chapters from "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell, "The Commune" and "On Democracy."
Apr 20, 2019 • 1h 20min
#92 - In the Enemy Camp: "Left and Right"
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.
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Apr 15, 2019 • 57min
#91 - "The Separation of the Economic and the Political Under Capitalism"
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.
Apr 7, 2019 • 37sec
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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!
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