We're joined by Tom O'Brien from 'From Alpha to Omega' to break down another Not One Step Back listener request: "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" by the Group of International Communists.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm

#133 - Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (Part 1)

We are joined by Tiberius to discuss "Right to the City" from "Writings on Cities" by Henri Lefebvre.

#136 - "Right to the City"

We discuss another patron request, this time it's a two part essay by Robert Brenner, written as the Soviet Union was beginning to unravel: "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - The Roots of The Crisis."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2490-the-soviet-union-and-eastern-europe-the-roots-of-the-crisis

#138 - "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"

We are joined by guests Victoria and Gravesend for a News Roundup. Recorded in September, we reflected on the anniversary on 9/11, the Afghanistan pull out, and their implications for American Imperialism.

#141 - News Roundup

In light of recent developments in the housing market, we are starting another Close Reading series. This time, we are looking at "The Housing Question" by Frederick Engels.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/

#144 - "The Housing Question" Part 1

This episode we sit down to discuss the recent antiwork internet phenomenon, its detachment from its more pointed ideological origins, and the growth of online spaces where people vent their frustrations with the nature of contemporary work. This discussion was spurred by a recent appearance by an r/antiwork moderator on Fox News, that lead to a viral backlash against it that, by the time you're hearing this you may well have forgotten about. Joining us are a few ex-mods from the anti-work discord.

#145 - Antiwork

We sit down with special guest Viv, to tackle selections from History and Class Consciousness. In the episode, we struggle to get a handle on Lukacs and do justice to the complex (and problematic) theory and legacy of this figure.

#148 - Class Consciousness

We're joined by Rob Lucas to discuss two of his essays: "Error" and "Feeding the Infant"

https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/error.pdf

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#150 - "Error" and "Feeding the Infant" w/ Rob Lucas

We are joined by Jamie, a former member of the Canadian section of the IMT (International Marxist Tendency), to discuss the organization and a recent scandal within it, Trotskyism in general, and a few articles by Alan Woods.

"Alan Woods’ new year’s message 2022: I saw it in the movies "
https://www.marxist.com/alan-woods-new-year-s-message-2022-i-saw-it-in-the-movies.htm
"Marxism vs Identity Politics"
https://www.marxist.com/marxist-theory-and-the-struggle-against-alien-class-ideas.htm
"Trotsky’s suppressed letter: an introduction by Alan Woods"
https://www.marxist.com/trotsky-s-suppressed-letter-an-introduction-by-alan-woods.htm

#151 - The Joy of Sects VI: The IMT

This episode we are joined again by C Derick Varn for another holiday episode on Jean Baudrillard. With the post-modern fog of war surrounding conflicts like the Ukraine and Syria in mind, we decided to revisit his collection of essays first published in 1991 "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place." And what we found there was maybe less than what we were hoping for.

#152 - The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

Ezri and Jake revisit the selectorate theory of politics and discuss the first half of "The Logic of Political Survival" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow.

#153 - "The Logic of Political Survival" (Part 1)

We conclude our discussion of "The Logic of Political Survival" and touch a little bit on current events along the way.

#154 - The Logic of Political Survival (Part 2)

We are bringing back the Close Reading series. This time we are joined by Constance to tackle a much larger text: Critique of the Gotha Program. We are working off of the new edition published by Spectre. This episode we review the Gotha Program itself and the 1875 letter from Marx to Bracke concerning the "marginal notes" he sent for private circulation.

Letter from Marx to Bracke: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

#155 - Close Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (Prologue)

We begin our close examination of the Critique of the Gotha Program with Constance.

#156 - Close Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 1)

We continue our reading and analysis of the new translation of Critique of the Gotha Program with special guest Constance.

#157 - Close Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 2)

#158 - Close Reading: Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 3)

#159 - Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 4)

#160 - Critique of the Gotha Program (Part 5)

Swampside Chats rings in the new year with a visit to the fantastic land of Martinaise where we wake up disoriented in a hotel room and completely forget who we are. 

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The Martinaise Excursion

The Martinaise Excursion 1: Egoist Necktie

We continue our playthrough of Disco Elysium and existentially grapple with the game’s (now deprecated) dirtbag left voiceover era. 

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Swampside Elysium

The Martinaise Excursion 2: Felix Chanting “Right to Work”

We get nauseous talking to a bookshop owner during our playthrough of Disco Elysium.

The Martinaise Excursion 3: What Is Book?

The Gang goes full natlib with Chapter 3 of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness". We reluctantly acknowledge the role of a nationalist stage in historical development and marvel at his tragic predictions for developmental socialism. 
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm

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#69 - "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness"

The Gang courts Madame Guillotine In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! We read Joseph de Maistre’s metal af 1797 ur-reactionary tract “Considerations on France”.

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#70 - In the Enemy Camp: "Considerations on France"

The Gang is back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn to discuss "Prussianism and Socialism" (1919) by Oswald Spengler.

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#83 - In the Enemy Camp: "Prussianism and Socialism"

We revisit our first episode and reflect on the last two years of Trump's America.

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#85 - "The Swamp" Revisited

HIGH THEORY is the long-awaited collaboration between The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped in an enigma that is communization theory.

Breht of Revolutionary Left Radio joins Sean, Grant, Jake, Lexi & Rosa for an introductory episode grazing on the first five essays of Benjamin Noys' 2011 collection Communization and Its Discontents. Are we headed into the Enemy Camp in Marxian lambskin, or will we uphold this expensive French import as the next breakthrough in the immortal science?

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HIGH THEORY 1 - "Communization and Its Discontents"

We're back In the Enemy Camp with C Derick Varn! This week, Derick & The Gang take on the arch anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard in his 1965 essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty” and enter the libertarian Mirror Universe where left is right and right is left.

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#92 - In the Enemy Camp: "Left and Right"

HIGH THEORY is the joint effort of The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped up in an enigma that is communization.

Grant & Lexi visit Jamie, Sean & Andy in studio to interrogate the 2015 George Lucas Special Edition of the 1974 foundational communization text "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement", written (mostly) in 1969–72 (mostly) by Gilles Dauvé.

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HIGH THEORY 2 - "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement"

On A Very Special Episode of Swampside Chats, Jake, Ezri & Grant jack back into The Simulation with Jean Baudrillard for one last trio adventure in "The Divine Left", and come back one member short. Remember: if you die in The Simulation, you die in real life. 
 
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#126 - “The Divine Left”

We’re back In the Enemy Camp w/ C Derick Varn, and we would like to speak to the (((managers))). On the forced march from a generous patron, we read a mid-90s reactionary pseudo-class analysis from Pat Buchanan’s main man Sam Francis entitled “Leviathan and Its Enemies”, published in 2016. 

Special thanks to Stevie for additional editing. 

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#129 - In the Enemy Camp: “Leviathan and Its Enemies”

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