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Swampside Chats
By Ezri xB & Jake VersoNews
Swampside Chats episodes
- #75 - "The Shining Path and the Future of Peru"The Gang upholds Gonzalo Thought when we tackle "The Shining Path and the Future of Peru", a RAND Corporation report by Gordon McCormick in 1990 on the Peruvian Maoist insurgency led by Abimael Gúzman aka Comrade Gonzalo.Push it to the limit!patreon.com/swampsidechats1 hr 4 min
- Ｎ♢Ｔ░♢ＮΞ░ＳＴΣＰ░Ｂ▲ＣＫ！░ＵＰＤΛＴΞNew donation rules for custom episodes: starting in January, the price doubles to $60 per episode. Any donation or subscription that starts in 2018 gets the old price of $30.patreon.com/swampsidechatsPayPal.me/swampsidechats2 min
- #74 - "Democracy at Work"The Gang seizes the means of craft beer production with a forced march into chapters 3–5 of Richard D. Wolff's 2012 book "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism". Not One Step Back!Take the fast track to an FBI watchlist!patreon.com/swampsidechats1 hr 2 min
- Bonus - IPCC ReportThe Gang responds to the grim findings of the UN Climate Report. Jake becomes a prepper, Lexi becomes a Sorelian, Donald doubles down on Leninism, Rosa rages against the dying of the light, and some of that rage ends up landing on Grant.1 hr 2 min
- #73 - "The Alternative In Eastern Europe"The Gang sits down to discuss the 1977 essay version of "The Alternative in Eastern Europe" by Rudolf Bahro.Help us turn the world upside down!patreon.com/swampsidechats1 hr 18 min
- #72 - "Marx and the Earth"In the latest installment of our "Not One Step Back!" reading series, we take a listener recommendation and look at the introduction to "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett.Make us read cool stuff at metaphorical gunpoint!patreon.com/swampsidechats1 hr 23 min
- #71 - "Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History"The Gang reads Part 4 of Samir Amin's 1988 classic '"Eurocentrism", "Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History and a Non-Eurocentric View of Social Theory". Amin's radical revision of historical materialism impresses the hell out of everyone.Help us turn the world upside down…literally!patreon.com/swampsidechats1 hr 9 min
- #70 - In the Enemy Camp: "Considerations on France"The Gang courts Madame Guillotine In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! We read Joseph de Maistre’s metal af 1797 ur-reactionary tract “Considerations on France”.Help us drive down demand for powdered wigs!patreon.com/swampsidechatspatreon.com/symptomaticredness1 hr 31 min
- #69 - "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness"The Gang goes full natlib with Chapter 3 of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness". We reluctantly acknowledge the role of a nationalist stage in historical development and marvel at his tragic predictions for developmental socialism.https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htmHelp us turn the world upside down!patreon.com/swampsidechatspaypal.me/swampsidechats1 hr 7 min
- #68 - "Socialist Humanism"This week we read the 1957 piece by E.P. Thompson, "Socialist Humanism: An Epistle to the Philistines."https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1957/sochum.htm1 hr 22 min
About Swampside Chats
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"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!"