Ep 36: The Handmaid's Fail w/ Leslie Lee III

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Jamie and Sean are schooled by the master of critical analysis @leslieeiii from Struggle Session on what is good and what is not good about #resistance media in the age of Drumpf.

Join us as we dissect the dystopian world of The Handmaid's Tale, the ur-text of liberal anxiety around the impending neo-theocratic counter-revolution. How does the Hulu series stand up to Margaret Atwood's 1985 masterpiece? What does the show tell us about donut Twitter and Hillary dead-enders? Can anything be redeemed? Next, Leslie turns us onto some much more effective resistance in the form of the ongoing Purge film series. Is this universe a better representation of actually existing material/social conditions that lead to dystopia...or already have? Are the lessons better? And can Staten Island ever be the center of a cross-racial working class alliance to overthrow the capitalist system? Tune in to find out.

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Outro music: The Toasters - Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:13.0	We're on best is best. I'm Jamie Peck. I'm Sean K.B.
0:15.0	And we are here with a very, very special guest today.
0:18.0	Leslie the third of a great podcast called Struggle Session.
0:23.0	Thank you so much for having, happy to be here.
0:26.0	It's a real pleasure on this side because we have been Struggle Session fans for some time now
0:32.0	and it's really good to have you on we love
0:34.9	your work and we're gonna do some sort of I don't know media criticism ourselves.
0:39.8	Well here's the thing the reason I you know decided to come on your show is because I know this that you have been doing you know me
0:46.9	Critique from a leftist perspective and that's our gimmick so you need to I'm here to tell you that you need to find something.
0:55.0	Okay. So instead of like I thought you were going to say I'm going to teach you how to do it better
1:00.4	but instead you're protecting your terrain I I respect it I respect it well
1:05.0	listen this might be the last time we do it if you know you convince us maybe we'll
1:09.5	back off your turf so we'll see how it goes I should note that Andy is not here. He has actually moved into the
1:18.4	Casa de Ljantrozky in D. F. A. in order to practice his chattery because he was so inspired by the example set by Trotsky's
1:26.5	life story, which we discussed in the last episode.
1:29.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:30.0	He's going to become a full Chad.
1:32.8	He is going to dress in leather.
1:34.4	In fact, we saw some pictures already.
1:36.4	And he's going to try to find a Frida-Calo look-alike
1:39.7	to have passionate never nude sex with. Good luck Andy. Yeah good luck man we're we're all
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