This Wreckage

Happy Mischief Night! Andy is joined by Jon the Lit Crit Guy to discuss Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy BEETLEJUICE, well known for its titular imp and goth heroine, but far less for its themes of afterlife bureaucracy, rapacious capitalism, rural gentrification, and class conflict.

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Read an accompanying essay about Beetlejuice, Rural Gentrification, and insurrection at: https://gittlitz.substack.com/

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Jamie is joined by returning guests Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii), of Struggle Session and Vampire Castle, and Hether Fortune, formerly of Wax Idols and currently of Jamie's dreams, to talk about two very different horror movies: Zoom-based thriller (and first great film of the Covid era?) "Host" and 1992 cult classic "Society." Spoiler alert: there are no safe spaces, Zoom is even worse than you thought, and the rich are a race of slimy incest-monsters who just wanna get their shunt on. Happy sp00ky szn (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ)

Outro music: Richard Band - Re-Animator Theme

We read a review of Shrek 2 by the Maoist International Party - Amerika, paying close attention to their theory of "gender aristocracy", and discuss the role of ogre love in anti-imperialist struggle and revolution.

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Jamie, Andy and Sean are joined by political economist and author Pavlos Roufos to catch up Greece in the wake of the recent imprisonment of the leadership of the Golden Dawn fascist group and a return to the 'normalcy' of centrist governance.

We also discuss the aftermath of the viscous austerity imposed by the Troika, the nature of Syriza's capitulation, the migration crisis that still roils Greek society and some similarities between American and Greek far-right populism.

For a refresher, here is the previous episode we did with Pavlos (one of our favorites!) https://fans.fm/p/50i

Follow Pavlos - @PRoufos

Buy 'A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters' from Reaktion Books: https://bit.ly/3dJKLGO

Outro - Killah P - Α.ΛΗ.Τ.ΗΣ (Rest in power)