Coffee with Comrades

In this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I'm pleased to be joined by some intrepid comrades from Tallahassee collaborating on community gardening, building autonomy, and generating dual-power in our neighborhood.

• Live Oak Radical Ecology are on Twitter and Instagram. Donate to L.O.R.E.'s PayPal!
• Check out Ep. 39 and Ep. 40 of Coffee with Comrades for more context on Tallahassee's food systems.
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Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Which Side Are You On?" by Pete Seeger

- Outro: "Keeper of the Ecosystems" by MC Sole

This week, I sat down with Brandon, Jaiden, and Koi from the K'é Infoshop to talk about indigenous mutual aid, moving beyond anarchism, and kinship.

• Visit the K'é Infoshop's website, follow them on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook, and donate to their mutual aid efforts
• "In the Navajo Nation, anarchism has indigenous roots," The Nation, by Cecilia Nowell
• Election Spotify playlist put together by Rebel Steps
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• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
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• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Indomitable ft. Northern Cree Singers" by DJ Shub

- Outro: "Land Back ft. Boogey the Beat & Northern Voice" by A Tribe Called Red

This week, we share a special collaborative edition of Coffee with Comrades hosted by my friend, Jordan, who coordinates the programming for the Student Life Cinema at the ASLC. My colleague, Liz, and I sat down for a chat about queer horror, transphobia in the music industry, LGBTQ+ representation on the silverscreen, and the future of queer cinema.

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• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "Animals" by Architects
• Outro: "Selective Sacrifice" by Like Moths to Flames

We're back again with another episode of Coffee with Comrades. This week, we feature a collaborative episode with the Green & Red podcast on the history of street demonstrations. Plus, we talk about how you can do a street demo of your own!

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• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

Outro: "Zzzonked" by Enter Shikari

This week, Margaret Killjoy joins us for the hour to discuss her podcasts, fiction, and music. We spoke about Margaret's visionary fiction, how to write anarchist characters without being a polemic ideologue, the tension between survival and the creative work that makes life worth living, the dialectical nature of art and reality, and why death makes life precious.

• Follow Margaret on Twitter, visit her website, and support her on Patreon.
• Check out Nomadic War Machine on Bandcamp.
• Scope Feminazgul on Bandcamp.
• Peep Alsarath on Bancamp, too!
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Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "The Fields Lay Fallow" by Nomadic War Machine
• Outro: "Bury the Antlers with the Stag" by Feminazgul

This week, we're wrapping up the third installment of our mini-series on lefty ideologies by closing with what I suspect is the most radical, uncompromising horizon of revolutionary politics: anarchism.

As I've said on every single episode of this three part mini-series, don't take my word on what you're about to hear. I'm biased. I am an anarchist because I reckon that anarchy is the most dangerous and powerful idea in all of human history and that it is a material philosophy that has the potential to eradicate unnecessary human suffering and institute full communism for all living beings on this planet.

Also, if you think it would be helpful, you can check out the PowerPoints for each of these introductory philosophical episodes.

PowerPoints:

• Socialism
• Communism
• Anarchism

Notes:

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• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "Proudhon in Manhattan" by Wingnut Dishwashers Union
• Outro: "Anarchy, My Dear" by Say Anything

In this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, we continue our exploration of the three prevailing leftist tendencies with a discussion of the big, scary c-word: communism.

I said this last week and, doubtless, I'll say it again next Tuesday, but I wanna provide a quick caveat before we launch into today's edition of the program. A lot of people have a lot of different feelings and perspectives on what "socialism," "communism," and "anarchism" mean. Plenty of folks simply regurgitate whatever they hear on social media—for good or ill. Others actually take the time to read the theory. Some of those folks form their own perspectives and insights, while a good chunk of others just follow a party-line. Don't take my word for things here. This episode series is meant to serve as a very brief introduction to each of these rich, vast, and complex ideological positions. So, take everything I have to say here with a grain of salt, read and explore these theories for yourself, and—most importantly—use these ideas to improve the lives and material conditions of your friends, family, neighbors, and comrades.

That said, this discussion of communism did get the stamp-of-approval from one of my Marxist-Leninist comrades so, take that for whatever it's worth.

Also, if you think it would be helpful, you can check out the PowerPoints for each of these introductory philosophical episodes.

PowerPoints:

• Socialism
• Communism
• Anarchism

Notes:

• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "The Red Flag" by Billy Bragg
• Outro: "Common People" by Street Dogs

So, a lot of listeners who're new to left politics have asked us in the past to do introductions to the major theoretical and ideological positions on the broad left. The good news is we've done just that! Last year, I sat down with some friends and comrades in the Center for Participant Education to outline, in broad strokes, the differences between socialism, communism, and anarchism. What you'll hear today is the first of those dialogues. This edition of the podcast is all about the economics, politics, and philosophical perspectives of socialism as it is broadly construed. I talk about Marxism, labor, and try to distinguish socialism from communism.

Keep in mind, this is all coming from someone who falls pretty firmly into anarchic tendencies, so take everything I have to say with a grain of salt. I encourage you, first and foremost, to investigate different positions on the revolutionary left for yourself and think critically about these ideas so that you can come up with you own convictions and conceptions. Just the same, I hope this mini-series paints each of these distinct philosophies in a fair, clear, and concise light so that you can hopefully begin to understand and distinguish the differences between these complex and complicated philosophies.

Also, if you think it would be helpful, you can check out the PowerPoints for each of these introductory philosophical episodes.

PowerPoints:

• Socialism
• Communism
• Anarchism

Notes:

• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "R.E.D." by A Tribe Called Red
• Outro: "Work Song" by Hozier

This week, I am joined by two lovely guests: Soph and Izzy. I wanted to check in with two of the coolest kids I know to get a new perspective on the world. While I obviously think it's valuable to listen to authors and journalists, musicians and community-organizers, or chat with other podcasters, I think it's equally important to elevate the imaginations, passions, and perceptions of younger generations. To get those viewpoints on the program, I sat down with my partner Megan's two kids, Soph and Izzy.

In this episode, we chat about raising chickens, climate change, bees and trees and penguins, boring liberal black lives matter protests, homeschooling, COVID-19, and so much more. I think this is definitely a unique episode, so it may not be for everyone, but I found our conversation immensely edifying and I hope you will, too.

• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "Burn the House Down" by AJR
• Outro: "Dove and Fist" by Stick to Your Guns

This week, I'm pleased to be joined by the lovely Vicky Osterweil, author of the new book In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the inextricable nature of class and race, the abolition of whiteness as a necessary step for police and prison abolition, the efficacy of riots, and why joy is what scares cops and politicians the most whenever the looting starts.

• Follow Vicky on Twitter and pick up a copy of her book.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "Start a Riot" by Duckwrth, Shaboozey
• Outro: "Blue Lies" by Year of the Knife