Episodes
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Nope / Tremors
We discuss the new Jordan Peele movie, Nope, which is kind of just the movie Tremors but in the sky.
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Dark Brandon 2024 Ain't Fair
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gender degree in your hand? A lesson in Modern Monetary Theory. Paying taxes to forgive others of their sin (of learning things). What's the deal with currency?
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Tales from the Crypto
Everything you ever wanted to know about cryptocurrency but were afraid to ask your friendly neighborhood marxist.
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Sheep In Wolves Clothing (w/ Jamal, Marco, and Conrad
Anarcho-Radlibs in the DSA debate the gender politics of hurricanes. Ontological tribalism, epistemic primitivism. Put the glasses on! Magical thinking. A snowflakes' chance in hell. Conservatives on the left. Black boxes and disembodied demons. Downwardly mobile millennials. Justice or revenge?...
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Who Are The Body Snatchers? (w/ Amy & Chet)
A world without emotions. DSA and the pod people of the new left. Is AOC a body snatcher? Is Bernie? Is Invasion of the Body Snatchers praxis? Can you body snatch the body snatchers? Plus, some cultural and political differences between 1956 and 1978. Adolph Reed, "The Whole Country is the...
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Karl's Ten Points (w/ Tony & Chet)
A spectre haunting your podcast stream. Karl Marx's ten-step program to becoming a better revolutionary. A dramatic reading of the Communist Manifesto. How the old left became the new left. Plus, the one weird trick capitalists don't want you to know about!
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Class Struggle in the Classroom (w/ Mr. Lee)
Teaching as a stand-up routine. Discipline and leadership. How the working class moves through institutions. Race in schools. Sports team comradery and class solidarity. Pedagogical tools to fight inequality.
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East Side Joy Ride (w/ Dan)
Driving through the forgotten parts of Chicago. Blues Brothers Jump the Draw Bridge. The day Dave Matthews pooped on Chicago (and was invited back). Designer hippies. Edward Vrdolyak's palace. The multi-ethnic working class. The Memorial Day Massacre (1937). The Martyrs in the Fight for…
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How To F*ck The Boss: Labor Organizing 2 (w/ Chris & Marco)
Discussing labor law, unionization, strikes, and the workplace. Links to free legal aid: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/ https://www.carpls.org/ Links to unionizing info: https://aflcio.org/formaunion https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union...
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How To F*ck The Boss: Labor Organizing 1(w/ Chris & Marco)
Discussing labor law, unionization, strikes, and the workplace. Links to free legal aid: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/ https://www.carpls.org/ Links to unionizing info: https://aflcio.org/formaunion https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union...
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How To F*ck The Boss: Evictions (w/ Chris & Marco)
Evictions, landlords, debt, and what you can do about it. Links to free legal aid: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/ https://www.carpls.org/
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What Does “中国” Mean? pt. 2 (w/ Chet)
Donald Trump teaches us how to love China. Socially communist but fiscally capitalist. Can Chinese billionaires defeat Slavoj Zizek in a wrestling match? Support Chet's audiobook project by becoming a patron at patreon.com/cozmun
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What Does “中国” Mean? pt. 1 (w/ Chet)
Donald Trump teaches us how to love China. Socially communist but fiscally capitalist. Can Chinese billionaires defeat Slavoj Zizek in a wrestling match? Support Chet's audiobook project by becoming a patron at patreon.com/cozmun
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Class Dismissed: Building a Constituency (w/ Nick)
The political history of Chicago public schools. White flights and civil rights. Fucking magnet schools, how do they work? Addition, subtraction, and integration. Neoliberal education reform, or, Who are the daddies and what do they do?
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Ethnic Fondue
Where you were when you heard Chauvin was convicted? A post covid left. Blaming a ghost and blaming the cops. Childhood in the empire. Action, Evil & the memory of Fluffy. The Turncoat Problem. No Hope, No Fear.
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Masculinity and Identity Management (w/ Amy and Jamal)
Separate but equal Zoom waiting rooms. Toxic masculinity. Learning how to identity as a tall man. Rachel Dolezal did nothing wrong.
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Obama, or the Passion of the Lorax
On the politics of speaking for the trees. Some lessons from MC Hammer's financial advisor. Riding on Obama's bootstraps all the way to the Netflix production office.
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The Military-Diversity Complex (w/ Timothy)
Diversity in the military. Recruiting the poor to fight the war. Don't ask, don't tell, and don't forget to like and subscribe. Infrastructure, jobs, and all that boring stuff the army could do. Plus, would a universal prison conscription allow us to all see each other as beautiful, complicated...
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You Are Not A Loan (w/ Jen from the Chicago Debt Collective)
Jen Lezan joins us to discuss her work with the Chicago Debt Collective, the politics of debt, and why there's nothing more dangerous than a hopeless man. If you'd like to check it out, here is a link to the next Chicago chapter meeting set for Tuesday April 13th at 7PM CST:...
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Neoliberal Gender and the National Question (w/ Chet and Marco)
The Ecuadorian elections and foreign intervention. Left Neoliberalism, the Warren complex, and the Pink Tide. Anadolu Arauz and Pablo 'Yaku' Perez. Ecosocialism. Identity and dollarization. Patriotism? Yes! It's like that old song: "1-800-588-2300 Empire Today..." Chet's youtube channel:...
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The Path To A Worker's Party (w/ Jamal)
Points of personal privilege. Holding politicians accountable. The red-left and blue-left. The patronage problem. Pitching Hasbro for Duopoly, the board game where no one ever wins.
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Conspiracy Theories (w/ Tamara)
Exploring the difference between conspiracy and skepticism. The paranoiac's worldview. A vulgar attempt to think the totality of capitalist relations. Sponsored by The Illuminati and the Flat Earth Society.
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Game Schlop: The Socialist Business Model (w/ Jamal)
A definitive list of your favorite authoritarian communist dictators. Sa-looting your shorts. Socialist hedge funds. The stock market is a game that workers are not allowed to play. Let's all get Vanilla Ice back on the Billboard 200.
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Intersectional Imperialism w/Marco (Don’t be afraid, be a friend!)
Taking offense as a political weapon. An encyclopedia of useful terms: nationalism, neoliberalism, multiculturalism, liberalism, the end of history. The university discourse is the leading cause of brain injury.
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We're Storming the Capitol! (It's a Revolution)
In the words of Baked Alaska, we heard there was a coo going on. The PMC return. Forgiving auto loans to prove how much we care about workers. Normalizing spitting on politicians. Sometimes you have to love your bully to destroy your enemy.
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Buyer's Remorse
Chicago Socialist Alternative. Lenin, Trotsky, and MMT. Tito and Keynes. A healthy dose of group think and cognitive dissonance. An unhealthy dose of Disappointed Manager Syndrome.
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18 Million Millionaires (w/ Jesse)
Everything you wanted to know about millionaires but were afraid to ask. Mandatory dating in South Korea. Supporting your local small business. Creating a more inclusive housing community for the rich. Buy Jesse's record: https://psychologymachine.bandcamp.com/releases
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The PMC Blues, pt. II
The cannibalistic buffet of nature. The cultish identity character of the left. Joe Biden's Labor Secretary. A sponsorship from Nike. It's not our responsibility to teach you anything.
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The PMC Blues
The difference between class and identity. Professional Managerial Class disgust. Is student loan forgiveness disadvantageous to the working class? Doing drugs does not make you cool.
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White Trash
An intimate look at trailer parks. An unlikely alliance among poor whites and poor blacks. Some thoughts on nu metal and gangster rap. Insane Clown Posse's gang of juggalos.
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Fascism and Neo-Feudalism
The bullet or the gas. The failure of industrial imperialism. Educated serfs, pirate landlords, and the racist rabble. We are going to live forever in a cryochamber.
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Political Psychology 101
Diagnosing the disorders of the left and the right. Political aesthetics. Resurrecting Hubert Humphrey. A visit from Ted Kaczynski.
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Friends and Enemas
The first episode, complete with technical difficulties. Welcoming the third term of Barack Obama, or maybe George Bush. The lived experience of being eaten by wolves. The red left and blue left. Dick Cheney will never die.
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