We continue to check the decomposition of the spines of our favorite texts of Marx and Marxism with this short and practical discussion on value criticism and Moishe Postone's Time Labor and Social Domination
Previous episodes posted on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada
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Jake "Silly Socrates" Flores is back on the show to talk about his new podcast Why You Mad? and theories of comedy and class war.
But before that, we talk about something that's no laughing matter: the NYPD's permissive culture towards rapists a...
We talk about the pro-democracy struggle in Hong Kong with Nation and Lausan writer Wilfred Chan. From its history of struggling against British colonialism to its rejecti...
2020-07-29 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Politigram ethnographer Joshua Citarella shares his observations about the online post-left, particularly its zoomer base radicalized in 2016 meme wars. We discuss how important were memes to Trumps' victory, their political journey since then, and how the left can de/re-radicalize those committed to the violent right. Finally,...
2020-07-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Nate Postcyborg (@postcyborg), of #linegoesdown and TANC (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils), stops by to talk about the ongoing housing crisis and how it's being accelerated by Covid, and what tenants can do to fight back. Then the crew discuss the shadowy feds invading Portland, dropping fertility rates, the Mary Trump inte...
2020-07-22 14:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2/2 of the latest History is a Weapon concluding the discussion of parapolitics, paranoia and what lessons we should take from it (NOT EVERYTHING/EVERYONE IS AN OP.)
2020-07-17 09:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may know, Jamie's panel at the Socialism Conference, "Socialist Organizing and the Capitalist State," was postponed due to tech diffs. It will now be happening on Friday, July 17 at 7pm ET!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcb0if-s1mQ
2020-07-16 17:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
On this new installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean are joined by para-political expert Andy to talk about the political economy of intelligence and counterintelligence: How is this formation unique to capitalism and the bourgeois state? What is the connection between the deep state and anti-communism? What roles do organized crime and drug-running play? How powerful and pervasive is this apparatus?...
2020-07-15 22:55:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Brandon Sutton (@prettybadlefty), host of The Discourse podcast (@Th3Discourse), returns to discuss the important matters of the day, like Yeezy 2020 and Cats vs Hamilton. We also discuss the rebellion for black lives, radicalizing the libs, and why...
2020-07-08 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This has been postponed due to technical difficulties...to Friday, 7/17 at 7pm ET!
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcb0if-s1mQ
Jamie will be appearing on a panel at 2020-07-03 21:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie's DSA caucus Emerge is presenting their FIRST EVER outward-facing political education event TONIGHT, July 3rd, at 7pm ET, with the great Marxist historian Mike Davis. It will be moderated by past Antifada guests / Emerge comrades Justin Charles and Simone Norman and it's guaranteed be ...
2020-07-03 21:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Our guest this week is Nick Estes, citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of New Mexico, host of the Red Nation Podcast, and author of 2020-07-01 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss two coming-of-ageless films: Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (2008) and Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2012) aka Ladybird II. If you are turned as a teen, do you stay an asshole forever or do you eventually grow up? How is Sweden so lovely yet so terrifying? And why do vamps always say they can't be friends ...
2020-06-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
While the most riotous moments of the George Floyd Uprising have past, in parts of the country renewed attention to police tyranny continues to lead to clashes. LA Podcast co-host Scott Frazier joins us to talk about the struggle in Los Angeles, specifically against...
2020-06-24 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy speaks with Alex Edward (@flieldy), co-host of the Minion Death Cult podcast and Seattle resident, about life in the CHAZ/CHOP/Antifastan/Soyviet Union, providing fodder for the cursed boomer media of which Alex is normally but a passive connoisseur.
Jamie speaks with Matt Marciniec (2020-06-18 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In this very special edition of the Antifada, Jamie, Sean and Andy take questions from listeners. How do we envision a world without police? What will our lives be like after the rev? And what exactly went on at the parties Jamie used to throw?
Thanks x1000 to everyone for helping us keep this circus running.
Sorry if we didn't get to your question, we will hop on Twitch...
2020-06-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Around the world and back again, episode 100 of the Antifada! And what better circumstances under which to record an release than the largest national uprising in several generations?
Jamie, Sean and Andy analyze the revolt that has arisen since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis: the connection between the carceral state and crisis; the racial caste system that divides us a...
2020-06-10 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, supersoldiers.
At 6pm tomorrow, June 8th, the Antifada crew will be recording our 100th episode(!)
As we often do on milestone episodes, we will be taking questions from you, the listeners.
If you have anything you'd like to ask us, feel free to comment here or email us at antifadamindset@gmail.com.
Stay safe out there, everyone, and keep up the go...
2020-06-07 22:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded before things really popped off last week, Sean was joined by returning champion Andy Battle and co-host of Ironweeds podcast, David A Banks.
We hope this wide ranging discussion of capitalist space, de/unionization, de/industrialization, supply chains, gentrification, uneven development and class struggle will be an oasis of calm as you righteously take the streets where you are...
2020-06-03 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We Twitch streamed Friday afternoon to discuss the events Thursday night in Minneapolis with Ghetto News Network's Cole Cash, Leslie Lee III of Struggle Sessi...
2020-05-30 17:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostJoin Jamie, Sean and special guests as we discuss the insurrection in Minneapolis and the potentials/perils that face our movement in the coming weeks, months and years.
3PM Eastern Standard Time - twitch.tv./theantifada
Hope to see you there <3
2020-05-29 15:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Winnie Wong (@WaywardWinifred), former Senior Advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, stops by to talk anarchism, electoralism, & why Bernie didn't win. :( The gang also reminisces about New York nightlife (s/o Andrew WK) and Winnie tries to talk Jamie into running for office.
Outro music: Gang Gan...
2020-05-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
(CROSSPOST from Trillbillies Workers Party) Introducing Year Zero, a new miniseries on political economy hosted by Tarence. In this first episode we speak with Sean KB (@as_a_worker on twitter)from the Antifada podcast (@the_antifada) about what he terms The Thousand Year Stare: the specific feeling one unlocks by reading Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century." We'll be using the book ...
2020-05-25 16:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This edition of the Antifada sideproject on the paranormal, parapolitical, sci-fi conspiracy theories and space tackles the newest autonomous branch of the US Military: SPACE FORCE.
Is it some Trumpian flight-of-fancy, a Bezos/Musk money grab, or a doomsday plan for astro-nuclear American hegemony? I talk to Bruce K Gagnon, ...
Returning guest Hether Fortune (@hetherrfortune) joins Jamie for a super chill music and culture episode to get your mind off the ongoing apocalypse. After the prerequisite quar talk, the gals discuss kittens, Gary Busey, Lena Dunham, and the odious offspring of everyone's favorite thin-skinned billionaire and his biomec...
2020-05-20 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for Ultra-Left-Post-Posadist-Nihilist-Anarcho-Communist-comedy and politics. Hosts Jamie Peck and AP Andy look at the future of work at a rare moment when almost nobody is working. Magally Miranda surveys domestic work in the gig economy. 2020-05-13 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and Matt take a look around the American landscape - from the pandemic, to the economic collapse, to the failing political system - and discuss how the hell we got here and what the hell we might expect going forward.
Whether it's the coming climate disaster or the incipient crack-up of US power, one thing is for sure: there's no way out now but through it!
2020-05-11 15:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
3pm 5/8 we'll be talking the Law of the Fall of the Tendential Rate of Profit.
2020-05-08 17:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Sean speak with Asad Haider (@generalityiii), editor at Viewpoint Magazine and author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" about depoliticization, the left post-Bernie, and that eternal question, "what is to be done?" Contains spicy (read: nuanced and informed) takes on "mass politics" vs "...
2020-05-06 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
With China in the news we decided to dive deep into the history and political economy of East Asia with an eye towards how the fates of China and the United States became so intertwined:
Why did China decline as a historic world power? What role did imperialism play? Why was Japan's development different? How did the balance of class forces determine the unique road that China took to gre...
2020-04-29 14:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post