Antifada's History is a Weapon 10 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman
Added 2021-03-31 12:42:02 +0000 UTCHIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?
The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?
Part 1 of 2. The second will be out on Friday
Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave
Suggested Readings:
Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View
Jainus Banaji - Theory as History
Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth
Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure
Comments
Albany is not Western NY. Great ep tho fellas
Andrew Nicholson
2021-04-05 16:02:41 +0000 UTC💕💕💕💕
Daniel E
2021-04-03 13:04:33 +0000 UTCthanks elizabeth! i almost did a post script about migrant labor and the worldwide crisis of peasant production, but decided it was too much. i have all this info knocking around in my head so maybe another ep sometime soon! good recommendations <3 sean
The Antifada
2021-04-03 02:52:13 +0000 UTCthat one is on the listeners, but i think it's possible to make this stuff even more accessible to laypeople if you have the time and inclination <3
The Antifada
2021-04-03 02:50:32 +0000 UTCsounds lit!
The Antifada
2021-04-03 02:49:26 +0000 UTCthanks! we always free them eventually
The Antifada
2021-04-03 02:48:45 +0000 UTCThanks so much for doing an epi on rural and agrarian class struggle! Your Upstate comrades are grateful! PS don't forget abt the Bracero program in terms of racialization of farm labor, post-war. Other reading suggestions... if you wanna go old school: the Lenin-Chayanov debate, Kautsky's Agrarian Question. For more recent debates on agrarian change and class struggle, see the (Marxist) Journal of Peasant Studies, Henry Bernstein, Phil McMichael, Eric Wolf, Harriette Friedman, Susan Mann... Happy to send pdfs. Cheers!
Elizabeth Pickard
2021-04-02 20:33:39 +0000 UTCExcellent! How do we turn those insights into persuasive rhetoric?
Tia Benedict
2021-04-02 20:24:02 +0000 UTCThere is a great B plotline in an early Dennis Hopper Western called Kid Blue, where this frontier town has a "petty commodity" factory. Most people in the town work there on an assembly line making little paper weight things. Warren Oates co stars, and his character's C plot line is wanting to take baths with Hopper, "like the ancient Greeks did".
Shane
2021-04-02 17:42:28 +0000 UTCI often lull about to some of our favorite voices...oscillating between, "so relaxing...zzz" and "wait what was that point I only heard half of and also dreamed about?"
Shane
2021-04-01 19:46:35 +0000 UTCBest series of podcasts ive listened to. Might have to burn them to a CD and start handing it out
Michael Smith
2021-04-01 13:33:46 +0000 UTCFell asleep during the first half (not bc the content isn’t interesting as hell - more so that I’m an exhausted dad who over ate and had a couple beers) and was startled awake to Matt yelling LIVE FREE OR DIE. Thanks for the wake up call. Great episode lads
JOE PHILLIPS
2021-04-01 01:24:43 +0000 UTCplz free this ep kings, everyone needs to hear this
Daniel E
2021-04-01 00:26:07 +0000 UTCThis conversation is so important, in my view, to understanding the current political, social, cultural landscape of the US. The recent episode interviewing the Phil A. Neel on his new book also addressed these issues in a dynamic way. Keep it up Antifada!
Leftovercraic
2021-03-31 18:59:18 +0000 UTCI cannot say enough about how incredible this series is!
Jilly
2021-03-31 16:42:59 +0000 UTCGreat listen as always, fellas
Rivieraa
2021-03-31 15:58:32 +0000 UTCsickoshahayes.jpeg
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2021-03-31 13:44:53 +0000 UTCLove this series
Elwyn
2021-03-31 13:28:35 +0000 UTCLETS FUCKIN GOOOOO. So excited for this
Sebastian Wittekindt
2021-03-31 12:59:41 +0000 UTC
