Swampside Chats

Swampside Chats

By Ezri xB & Jake VersoNews
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Swampside Chats episodes

  • #82 - Build-A-God Workshop
    This week, we read two essays on the early Bolshevik education minister Anatoly Lunacharsky: "
The Legacy of Lunacharsky and Aristic Freedom in the USSR" by Howard R Holter (1970) and Roland Boer's "Religion and Socialism: A.V. Lunacharsky and the God-Builders" (2014).
    Can we build god? Yes we can!
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    1 hr 7 min
  • #81 - "In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities"
    Recorded just before Christmas, we revisited the thought of the ultimate pessimist of post-modernism, Jean Baudrillard. We read In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978), along with “The Procession of Simulacra” and “On Nihilism” from Simulacra and Simulation (1981).
    Benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb!
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    1 hr 7 min
  • #80 - "Family Values"
    This week, an anonymous donor has put The Gang on the forced march through the first two chapters of Melinda Cooper’s 2017 book “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism". We take a look back at how a focus on the family survived the unraveling of the ultimate class compromise, and why it can never be the basis for socialism.
    Ни шагу назад!
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    52 min
  • #79 - Swamp Trek: "The Outcast"
    In the latest installment of Swamp Trek, we set genders to none! We welcome Chief Science Officer Sophia Dax back to the bridge to watch and talk over The Next Generation S05E17: “The Outcast”. We touch on non-binary xenogenitalia, douchey but solid Klingon bros, and the ultimate second-waver woke leviathan.
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    Watch Lexi & Sophia play games and flirt:
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    1 hr 11 min
  • Bonus - Marxist Center Conference
    Donald recently attended the Marxist Center Conference in Colorado and provides a report back. We go on to discuss the points of unity, and what significance this event may have for the American Marxist left.
    1 hr 31 min
  • #78 - A Dialectic About Nothing
    This week, The Gang gets subsumed to the value-form (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) as we read three essays by the late Canadian marxist Moishe Postone
:
    "Critique and Historical Transformation" (2004)
    "History and Helplessness" (2006)
    "Rethinking 'Capital' in Light of the 'Grudrisse'" (2008)
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    1 hr 9 min
  • Bonus - A Swampside Thanksgiving
    It's Thanksgiving yet again, and your favorite communist podcast is serving up a cornucopia of bullshit. Angela Nagle on borders, Mexicans against the caravan, climate hell and more!
    1 hr 11 min
  • #76 - "One-Dimensional Man"
    The Gang gets into the mindset of the NPCs, the sheeple, and other dupes of instrumental reason as they explore Herbert Marcuse's seminal work "One-Dimensional Man."
    1 hr 33 min

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