Ep 135 - Don't Kronstadt me w/ Bini Adamczak
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Author Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of counterrevolution through the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the cult of Lenin, the Stalinist purges, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The book begs to ask how our revolutionary thinking is hindered by these tragedies, suggesting that things could have and may proceed differently in the future.
She also discusses her group Zero Covid, which criticizes the far-right and neoliberal approaches the pandemic. Follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/zeroCovid_DACH
Check out Bini's books:
On the Communism for Kids controversy: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Why-Conservatives-Are-Panicking-Over-a-Short-Story-About-Communism
And some of her writing:
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/Corona-Crisis-Governmentality
https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/field-notes/The-Future-of-the-Past
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Song: Matrosen von Kronstadt!
(a GDR rendition of the Soviet song "Forward, Red Marines!" about the events of the naval theater of the Russian Civil War, rewritten by Helmut Schinkel, to glorify the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Antifada. We're joined by the |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Antifada. We're joined by Beedia Damchek. She wrote a book you might have heard of from Bright Bart or Fox News called |
| 0:20.0 | Communism for Kids, which is a really great book for kids or for adults more for adults right would you say? |
| 0:25.6 | I would say more for adults but children read it to for sure. Yeah I mentioned that it had a little bit of controversy because Right Barton Fox News were saying |
| 0:36.2 | that MIT Press, who's the publisher of your new book that we'll be talking about today, was trying |
| 0:41.6 | to sell communism to kids and whenever Fox News or Bright Bart does |
| 0:46.8 | that that book becomes a bestseller so you got the the coming insurrection treatment the |
| 0:51.4 | full surrogacy now treatments and we I think |
| 0:55.2 | part of what we have to do today is figure out how to make some controversy |
| 0:59.8 | around yesterday's tomorrow so it we can sell some, move some units. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay, it's going to be your job. |
| 1:05.4 | Okay. |
| 1:06.8 | You don't have any ideas about what might freak out, Glenn Beck, or Tucker Carlson? |
| 1:12.2 | The thing is, you know, I have ambivalent feelings about this because like being attacked by right-wingers, |
| 1:19.0 | fascists and conservatives only if it's only, even if it's only even if it's only online it's not all all that comfortable you know |
| 1:26.7 | So of course there's some funny parts to it if you start reading the commentaries and start listening into the reviews, |
| 1:35.0 | but it's also not only comfortable, but can also be quite troubling. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, it's easy for me to say. You know, we get a little bit of that, but it's usually |
| 1:44.8 | Jamie. |
| 1:45.8 | It's usually focused on Jamie. |
| 1:46.8 | For some reason. |
| 1:47.8 | For some reason. |
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