Our anon homie Gaye Step Dad comes on the show finally! We talk about the tendency that Step Dad calls "anarchoid neoliberalism," the deliberate incoherence of prison abolitionists, Zero Books publisher Doug Lain's terrible take down video of the Marxist anti-left critique (Aimee, Benedict Cryptofash and otherwise), the new issue of E-flux which is published by transgender "Marxist-feminist" academic McKenzie Wark and the erosion of intellectual thought in America, and we end on an interesting discussion about the ideological contradictions and inconsistencies amongst the people that have been labeled "post-left." In short, the post-left is comprised of both ortho marxists/left coms (like Adam and Step Dad) and paleconservative social democrats (like Ben). Can these disparities be reconciled to remain a political force? Can we all remain the best of friends? Ya goddamn right we can!

Stepdad on twitter: https://twitter.com/GayeStepdad

Image: still from Luchino Visconti's 'The Damned'

LINKS:

Doug Lain "takes down" the anti-left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPX21fRqhKY

McKenzie Wark 'The Cis Gaze and its Other': https://www.e-flux.com/journal/117/387134/the-cis-gaze-and-its-others-for-shola/

Debord on Bakunin and anarchism: https://radicalarchives.org/2010/06/13/guy-debord-on-anarchism/

Based Polemics (w/ Gaye Step Dad)

"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electro- dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

This podcast System of Systems, the audio misinformation arm of Safety Propaganda, is hosted by writer/artist Adam Lehrer and artist Matthew Denicola. Conform – it's pervasive. A virus. A pandemic. How can we inoculate against it?

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Based Polemics (w/ Gaye Step Dad)

System of Systems (by Safety Propaganda)