The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
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In this episode we revisit the topic of Fully Automated Luxury Communism with our friend Annaliese. While we are already on the record opposing the viability and desirability of a socialism without sacrifice, we decided to make a few more critiques we didn't think of making last time, but we also talk a bit about what kinds of futures we would like to see, the nature of work and leisure time, and how much it would suck to have robots do everything.
Support the showepisode 6: Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part I)
We read and discussed Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with Adam from Red Library. This incredibly dense book was a wealth of theoretical and historical knowledge about one of our favorite subjects, Yugoslavia. The SFRY defies neat categorization and the more we learn about it the more questions we have about the process of transition to communism, workers' self management, radical democracy, markets, and state socialism...
episode 7: Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part II)
This week we continue our discussion of Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with our podcast network comrade, Adam from Red Library.
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episode 8: We Would Prefer Not To: Against a Politics of Catharsis- UNLOCKED
We had an episode planned where we were going to talk about the Bolsheviks and Early Soviet Law, but our main law dude (Steven from Supreme Leap Forward) got deathly ill and bailed on us. So, we are unlocked one of our Patreon episodes. Please forgive us, but trust that we have some good stuff coming up.
Sometimes doing something (anything!) is much worse than doing nothing; we really need to figure out when that is...
episode 9: Pashukanis and the Origins of Soviet Legal Theory (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)
Our good friend and regular contributor to the show, Steven, brings his legal expertise and knowledge of early soviet law history to this weeks episode. We discuss the Evgeny Pashukanis, Pytor Stuchka, and their contributions to legal theory in the days just after the revolution. There was a debate among legal theorists of the time about whether it is possible to construct a socialist legal system and how the law should be used in a socialist society...
episode 9: PATREON TEASER: Scattered Thoughts on Electoralism, Coronavirus, and What to Do Next With CPUSA Brad
Jenny, Chris, and Jason sat down with our friend, rank and file union organizer, and CPUSA member Brad to talk about electoralism and what the hell to do next.
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episode 10: Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (with Donald from Cosmonaut)
The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning.
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episode 11: Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (PART II) With Donald Parkinson
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episode 12: PATREON TEASER: Four Theses on the Comrade
This week, Jenny, Chris, and Jason read and discussed Jodi Dean's essay: The Four Theses on the Comrade.
A comrade is much more than an identity that one adopts. It is an ethos, an ideal for the collective reorganization of the world. We talk about how this is a concept that the left has abandoned and needs to find again.
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