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2) Medieval Times Punishment (Episode 8)

3) Trippy Sticks (Episode 15)

In the newest installment of the Nights at the Quarancinema series, we covered what may be one of the most Hog Planet movies of all time: Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja. This is more than just a simple excuse for Sam to spew his usual vegetarian nonsense. Joining us are Kevin (@kevinjunha) and JR (@carl-marks), real-life Marxists who help us unpack the way that the movie strips away the layers obscuring the social relations endemic to the meatpacking industry. We also dove deep into the way that the movie explores concepts such as use-value and exchange value, globalization, and eco-terrorism.

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Show Notez:

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/big-agribusiness-finance-farming/

https://theoutline.com/post/8633/smithfield-pork-tar-heel-north-carolina-industrial-farms-lawsuits

Check out JR's work at Cosmonaut Magazine (@CosmonautMag), Here’s an abridged version of the Cosmonaut mission statement:

Direct action after direct action, dedicated leftists put their bodies on the line without anything resembling a convincing vision of a better world. This is no one individual’s failure, but an inevitable result of the collapse of working-class power and socialist politics in the late 20th century. Communism—the vision of humanity emancipated from class society—is generally disregarded as a fantasy, or even as undesirable in principle. At best it is the silent God of a negative theology, a desperate mantra of abstract negation with no plausible hope to be found in the existing tendencies of capitalist society. Consigned by post-structuralism and marginalist economics to an obsolete micro-niche in humanities departments, academic marxism—even on the rare occasion it can genuinely help us understand the world—is as detached from the goal of classless society on paper as it is in reality. A leftist politics this disoriented is about as likely to achieve basic democratic reforms as it is to implement a world socialist republic.

It is necessary for Marxists of all backgrounds and skills to develop intellectual institutions independent of academia, wherein communists can develop their vision, strategy, and overall critique of capitalist society. Cosmonaut aims to be one of (what should be) many different platforms of debate, where scientific socialists can develop an analysis of history, critique the prevailing ideological “common sense” of our time, and conceive a programmatic communist politics relevant to our circumstance.

We seek to develop a Marxism for the 21st century which will be based on a scientific inquiry of history and present conditions through a process of collective discussion and debate, not dogma based on fidelity to what this or that Great Man said so many years ago. Our organizing principles are internationalism over all standing armies and borders; building class-independent, democratic institutions; and a vision of a future where the world is a classless community of humanity, finally free of exploitation and oppression—communism.

Happy Fathers Day

Here's the first of our reissues of our favorite story segments from the archives.

1) The Rubber Raft Odyssey (episode 25)

2) Sam eats at Comet Ping Pong (episode 9)

3) Journey To The DEA Mueseum (episode 37)

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As promised, here is Sam's solo commentary of Hannah Gadsby's newest Netflix comedy special Douglas.

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In anticipation of Sam’s upcoming blockbuster commentary track for Hannah Gadsby’s newest special Douglas, we are re-releasing segments we did in Episodes 30 and 39. In these back episodes, we respectively discussed Nanette with Rachey and Gadsby’s romantic partner Jill Soloway’s book She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. It is crucial to note that our critiques of Gadsby’s special Nanette are not intended to minimize the trauma Gadsby recounts within it, nor are they intended to diminish the brutality of homophobia. These are sensitive and serious topics that we do not want to dismiss flippantly, so we zeroed in on its relation to comedy and the discourse around it.

We also do not fault anyone who connected with Gadsby’s work on a personal level, and our criticisms of the special should not be interpreted as any kind of attack on anyone on that level. Art, especially when it is released on Netflix, is created for public consumption, and it should inspire constructive intellectual discussion and debate, which is why we chose to cover it. But we do not want any of our critiques to be taken as an attack against or rejection of the ongoing struggle for equity and fairness with regards to women, victims of sexual assault and the LGBTQ community. We proudly support the following organizations doing crucial work to advance the cause of equity for marginalized people, and we want to shout them out and encourage donations here:

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Denizens of Hog Planet, we have a brand spanking new entry for our Quarancinema series: Rachey joins Sam to discuss the millennial rom-com Lovebirds, starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani. Despite the fact that this content is directly marketed to us, we did not enjoy it.

We recorded this episode prior to the ACAB Spring and ongoing demonstrations, so hopefully this isn’t too disappointing and you can enjoy a nice respite from wall-to-wall uprising coverage.

Black Lives Matter

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Sam's solo episode reporting on protests in Washington DC and how this moment feels different.

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Dan only because Sam had gone to bed already

4am unedited monologue, live to tape

I talk about what I saw at the Barclays center protest and the events of the past few days in our failed empire

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