DISDAIN: An exploration into hate.
This album is a journey through all the hate I hold within me. Hate as a driving force for change, rather than as a tool for oppression.
I hate oppression, and I hate the oppressor. I have love for humanity and this planet, but not as we are now, and my hate drives me to contribute through my art to creating the world we deserve.
These 14 songs explore these feelings through my typical dark lense, from my perspective on religion and politics, to silence, to the planet, romance, interpersonal relationships, and life itself. I hate the hateful and I see no place in this world for people of that kind if we wish to live in a world that serves us all equitably.
I want you to feel angry, to feel hate, but I want you to direct it towards those who deserve it, those who oppress us. Not because someone is a different race, or sexuality, or gender from you. Not because of your ignorance and failure to understand. And if you do hate for those reasons, I want you to feel confronted. Hell, even if you don't I want you to feel confronted, because maybe then you will be driven to self reflection, and you can begin the work needed to become the person the world needs you to be.
Growth shouldn't stop until the day you die. We should always be striving to be better than we were yesterday. I'm just getting started and the path is long, but it's longer alone than it is together.

SWALLØWED BY THE VØID feat. SN3K

MØTHER

DISDAIN

ABHØRRENT feat. witchgaze

RIØT

WHAT DØ YØU STAND FØR?

ALØNE.

We're back with a long episode in two parts. 

In the first half, Pam, Natalie, and Ed reflect upon the closing plenary of the 2025 Platypus International Convention, "Is there a Left in the 21st Century?" which featured Andrew Hartman (author of Marx in America), Branko Marcetic (Democratic Socialists of America & Jacobin author), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), and Alex Higgins (Prometheus Journal). 

In the second half, Tamas and Andony sit down with Doug Lain to discuss his experience of the 80s and 90s counter-cultural Left, and possible parallels with our current moment. 

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Is there a Left in the 21st Century? (4/5/2025) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE0zr2hs8i4

SPS Intro to the Platypus International Convention 
https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/2025-convention

Platypus Summer 2025 Reading Group: Pre-Marxian Socialism
https://platypus1917.org/2025/05/22/summer-2025-readings-pre-marxian-socialism/

The Legacy of the 1980s (3/31/22) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG4uFkcNhHE
Why Does Society Have Politics? (4/5/25) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_-4JRdi6c
The Left in the 1980s (2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhtI3AfGjcY

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Original soundtracks by Tamas Vilaghy
Editing work by Michael Woodson
To learn more about Platypus, go to www.platypus1917.org

Ep 74: The Left in the 21st Century & Interview with Doug Lain

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 170

It is long past time we take a look at the Communist Manifesto (instead of just sending it to dubious Woke Right outlets and getting them to publish it: https://newdiscourses.com/2024/12/a-communist-manifesto-for-christian-nationalists-testing-the-woke-right/). Obviously, this infamous document (pdf: https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/manifesto/Manifesto.pdf) is not the beginning point of Communism, but is the beginning point of organized Communism, particularly of the Marxist type, which we have recently (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/06/communism-is-not-atheist) and thoroughly discussed. In this long-overdue episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two. In a subsequent episode (Volume Two in this mini-series) he will cover a later addition called "The Principles of Communism." There's a lot here, and you won't want to miss it.

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The Communist Manifesto, Volume One

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The commentary on the commentary on the Left.

Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.

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