Swampside Chats

This week, The Gang is back on the forced march at the generous gunpoint of our most loyal patrons. Victor R. has chosen two great pieces by the Belgian anarchist turned Bolshevik Victor Serge: “Planned Economies and Democracy” from 1944/5, and “Thirty Years After the Russian Revolution” from 1947. Ни шагу назад! patreon.com/soundcloud

In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" listener-requested reading series, we peruse a set of articles by Gar Alperovitz, titled "Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth". Make us read whatever you want! patreon.com/swampsidechats

This podcast episode continues the close reading of Engels' "Principles of Communism" and discusses topics such as nationalization, the impact of communism on a global scale, Eastern and Western Germany's relationship dynamics, Marxist feminism and sex work, unintended consequences of socialism, and the advantages and role of the bourgeoisie in the social revolution.

Join Grant and Lexi as they analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution, discuss the relationship between private property and politics, explore resource allocation efficiency, compare industrialist North and agrarian slave economy, and discuss motivations of the proletariat to transition to communism.

The Gang listens to Dianne Feinstein DESTROY libtard children with facts, logic, and over 400ppm of C02. We then ponder the implications of the Green New Deal. There are already a ton of takes on this and it's already down the internet memory hole, but we put our 2 cents in anyway. The power is yours! patreon.com/swampsidechats

Friedrich Engels, author of 'The Principles of Communism,' discusses the definition of communism and its aim to organize society for the freedom of every member. They explore the sale of labor, exploitation of petty bourgeois workers, and the transition to capitalism. The chapter also delves into the differences between proletarians and slaves, as well as capitalism's plausible deniability and the challenges in recognizing its impact on society.

HIGH THEORY is the long-awaited collaboration between The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped in an enigma that is communization theory. Breht of Revolutionary Left Radio joins Sean, Grant, Jake, Lexi & Rosa for an introductory episode grazing on the first five essays of Benjamin Noys' 2011 collection Communization and Its Discontents. Are we headed into the Enemy Camp in Marxian lambskin, or will we uphold this expensive French import as the next breakthrough in the immortal science? Help abolish our proletarian condition: patreon.com/theantifada patreon.com/revleftradio patreon.com/swampsidechats

We revisit our first episode and reflect on the last two years of Trump's America. Keep us going for another two years: patreon.com/swampsidechats

The Gang is put back on the forced march by an anonymous patron, this time through “Theses on the Syncretic Society” by the Romanian dissident Pavel Campeanu (aka Philipe García Casals) from 1980. We go down the ultimate 20th century rabbit hole: what does it mean to say these attempts at socialism were “premature”? Nici un pas înapoi! patreon.com/swampsidechats paypal.me/swampsidechats

The Gang is back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn to discuss "Prussianism and Socialism" (1919) by Oswald Spengler. [insert decadence joke here]: patreon.com/swampsidechats