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The Antifada

High Theory: Communization and its Discontents w/ Swampside Chats and Breht O'Shea

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Time to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O M M U N I Z A T I O N.

We use Ben Noys' critical compilation "Communization and Its Discontents" to dip our toes into the deep waters of current ultra-left thought on the crises of capitalism and its overcoming:

Has the development of bourgeois society utterly changed the terrain of struggle? Must the proletariat struggle not just against exploitation, but against its very existence as a class? Is there a need for a transitional stage between capitalism and communism, or is the creation of a classless society possible in the present moment?

Tl;dr - mixed reviews. If the content is too heavy or the jargon too jargon-y, feel free to ask for clarification by email, tweet or chat. Sean will be available on Saturday 5-8pm EST on the Antifada Discord to discuss.

Special thanks to Swampside Chats and Breht from RevLeft Radio/Red Menace for the great discussion!

Swamp fam: patreon.com/swampsidechats @swampsidechats

RevLeft fam: patreon.com/revleftradio @revleftradio

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we're live, airhorn, airhorn, airhorn, airhorn.

0:05.0

Poi, foa, foa, foa, foa.

0:08.0

Hello everybody out there.

0:10.0

This is Sean from the Antifada.

0:12.0

Today, we are trying something that has perhaps never been done before in the history of communist podcasts.

0:19.0

We are having a Manaja pod. This is a crossover between the Antipada and Hello Brett, the Revolutionary Left radio.

0:28.8

What's up, man? Yes, hello. Thank you for letting me in on this beautiful three way we find ourselves in the middle of.

0:34.7

I am Brett, the host of Revolutionary Left Radio and the co-host of our brand new show Red Menace.

0:42.0

People may be more or less familiar with the interview style of

0:45.6

Red Left radio, but since Red Menace is brand new, I'll just say that the goal of Red Menace is to take

0:52.0

communist theory and break it down to three parts to explain it,

0:57.2

to analyze it, and then to apply its lessons to our current conditions.

1:01.5

So our first work was on Angles, socialism, utopian,

1:05.7

and scientific, and we just released that,

1:08.0

and we're doing Lenin's imperialism next.

1:10.1

So it's really fun to tackle these essential works

1:12.4

of left-wing theory and then see how we can apply them to the situations we're in today.

1:16.4

So yeah, that's a little bit about me and my shows.

1:19.4

Awesome, good shit. And we have a bunch bunch a whole gang of swamp

1:24.4

so chats what's up guys

1:27.0

hey you'll find this is the biggest menage pod that you'll ever see because we've got

1:31.8

four count them four of the Swamp

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