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Dec 30, 2016 53 min

Episode 40: Antifa I

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This is not an hour of critique against antifa politics. It’s an attempt to discuss and frame the current time where one of the “teams” that is fighting for our attention happens to be the antifa team. This is more meta than not. There is a fight larger than this one. Where do we begin? Email us here. Tick Tock 0:00 Introduction to Julio 01:00 Introduction to the Topic 2:16 Umberto Eco & a literary approach to anti-fascism Fuck traditional values 5:14 Parallelism false and not – Politics 7:30 Is fascism on the rise? 10:30 Persuasion. Scott Adams & Joe Rogan (aka Dilbert and the bro on Trump) 19:50 Arguing value theory with nerds Julio makes valid point that I ignore 22:00 We are having a conversation about style 23:45 A Chicano context 26:00 What does victory look like? Kitchen table politics 28:30 talking about talking Is it a mistake to critique antifa on the Internet? F2F Conversations > Internet single issue politics vs maximalist 35:00 Black Rose Federation is mentioned in a story about “enemies” 42:00 If not the party then what? 46:30 http://www.daskeyboard.com/ 49:30 How do we have engaged conversations? Links Umberto Eco definition of fascism (1475)

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