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(preview) MAGA Communism: An Autopsy w/Gigi G

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🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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We're joined by Gigi Gi to discuss his article in Geese Magazine, An Autopsy of MAGA Communism: Into the Crisis of the so-called “American Communist Party” But first, what is a dignified amount of money for a 34 year old to live off of in NYC? Gigi's article: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/an-autopsy-of-maga-communism-into-the-crisis-of-the-so-called-american-communist-party For full episode and more subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

The problem is they don't understand America.

0:01.7

They understand Cuba fairly well.

0:03.7

But they don't understand that the political issues we're dealing with in America are the political

0:07.1

issues that communists have to actually address.

0:09.1

We can't set them aside.

0:10.6

We can't, through rhetoric, convince people to set them aside.

0:14.0

And even for the few that they have convinced to set aside, it's constantly causing

0:17.9

infighting and disagreements in their small group.

0:20.4

Yeah.

0:20.5

The political parties or sex that are founded and launched by media personalities don't have a great

0:29.8

track record at large. I mean, I don't want to disparage parties of the past that maybe started

0:35.1

as a newspaper and grew into effective outfits.

0:39.1

But in this case, the main three guys, we mentioned, are all streamers.

0:44.3

What is the class character in general of maga-communism and what can tell us about further

0:52.0

tensions that have come through just because of the nature of their work where they, you know, obviously I don't think you have to do content creation this way, even if you're a leftist, but they traffic in like very ad hominem attacks and interpersonal debate and, you know, it's like Opie and Anthony.

1:08.7

Like how has that affected the organization and what is its overall class character? Yes, I mean, it's like Opie and Anthony. Like, how, how has that affected the, the organization? And what is its overall class character?

1:13.4

I mean, the organization, because it organizes itself online and doesn't have sort of a guiding politics, whoever wants to call themselves a megacomunist is basically legitimate in doing so.

1:23.8

So, like, we put out a call for, for people to submit, submit like a response to the article we put out.

1:29.4

And we had just random people, I don't even know if they've got any relation whatsoever

1:32.9

in the mega-communist movement sitting us articles trying to defend it.

1:36.2

They don't have a party structure in any meaningful way.

1:40.2

They've kind of got like a nonprofit board type structure that keeps their sort of their own activity in an organized way.

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