Ep 93: How Trotsky got Sp!ked w/ Trash Future
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the nanny state and denying the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. From there they formed the Institute of Ideas, a collection of tiny front groups that have helped them along to mainstream media prominence. But to what ends? We offer a range of theories.
Listen this Friday for a Bonus Real Sp!ked hours to hear some hot takes on goths, Karen-bashing, and Jimmy Saville.
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Jenny Turner's fantastic essay on Institute of Ideas: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
Account of RCP's political shift in the eighties: https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-revolutionary-communist-party-living-marxism-and-the-road-to-free-speech-absolutism/
Brendan on Dave Rubin calling himself a Marxist Libertarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUjZd63z9U
Songs: Whistling in the Dark and Come out Fighting by Easterhouse
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| 0:00.0 | Good. |
| 0:01.0 | No. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, he was in, uh, he was in a band with, I think his sister called The Dow. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:09.0 | Anyway, now that he can't like be totally on board with Bernie anymore. The Dow is gonna reform. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, didn't they have a pitch fork review that was pretty good? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.0 | They got like a lot of music as the weird thing. |
| 0:22.8 | That guy is full of surprises. |
| 0:25.2 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, I have no idea what he's going to be like in six months time. |
| 0:29.6 | There's a hidden arc of like political operators being like silently proficient at like |
| 0:35.4 | musical styles that we could pick up on but I think Peter Dow's life story might be |
| 0:41.3 | one of the most fascinating ones like starting as a child |
| 0:44.2 | soldier in Lebanon and then progressing to like what was he in a new wave band? |
| 0:49.6 | And then he became a child soldier for Hillary. Right. |
| 0:54.0 | But we don't have to speculate. |
| 0:57.0 | We can just get him on the show. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, that's true. |
| 0:59.0 | You would totally come on. |
| 1:00.0 | Let's see that. |
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