This Machine Kills Fascists Radio: Recent Episodes
This Machine Kills Fascists
Based off of the world-famous Facebook page, This Machine Kills Fascists Radio is a politics and commentary podcast from a burned-out anti-fascist perspective. Join our two hosts and a menagerie of guests as they try to navigate the tricky waters of riffing and posting without incriminating each other or themselves.
hey everyone, new podcast episode up now, please let us know what you think (we have intro music now)
this time I'm not going to do a whole "works cited" thing as we tried to be a little less pretentious on this one and be more concerned with exchanging ideas about an actual problem facing the left: whether or not to vote or support social democrats.
I hope this is only the first of many such episodes we do. in this one, JD defends voting for Bernie Sanders and gives some of his reasons why (he also goes off on a couple tangents, it's a fun time). then I talk for a bit about what it's actually like to get your wish and put a socdem in office (with the obvious caveats of us being in very different contexts and so on) in relation to the case of #SamirFlores #JusticiaParaSamir #CancelenLaConsulta
sadly, I haven't found sources on Samir's case in english just yet. I'll keep a lookout and post them here when they're available.
cheers.
BACK FOR THE NEW YEAR, BABYYY
on this episode we attempt to address the very serious unfolding political crisis in Venezuela
then, as usual, we get sidetracked and talk about all sorts of shit, like Joseph Ratzinger, Fallout 4, Bolsonaro (and how his government is an open guardian of patriarchy), and so on
We do however give a quick look at the history of Venezuela. Not nearly a thorough as I would like but, still, a good start for us to get back to.
Works cited:
The Coup, My Favorite Mutiny (song), available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_gFyB6GnA
Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw
Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain (directors), The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (documentary), Vitagraph Films, Ireland, 2003, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c
Not directly cited but heavily influencing:
Cold and Dark Stars, “Critique of the Masculine Program, available here: https://colddarkstars.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/critique-of-the-masculine-program/
new ep out and we're hitting our stride
this one turned out to be very much focused on France: present, past (we go into 1968 although taking a detour by way of the lead up to it after WWII) and different takes on it and what it might mean in the context of recent developments in the Americas
next year we'll have a regular upload schedule we swear
Works Cited:
comité invisible, The Coming Insurrection [online], The Anarchist Library, uploaded May 11, 2009 [consulted December 14, 2018], available on: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
Gillo Pontecorvo (Director), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Algeria, Casbah Film.
Armando Ianucci (Director), The Death of Stalin (2017), England, Ukraine, Russia, Canal+.
Antonio Negri, “ANTONIO NEGRI ON THE YELLOW VESTS AND THE NEW WAVE OF FRENCH INSURRECTION” [online], Copyriot.com, uploaded December 9th 2018 [consulted December 14, 2018], available on: https://non.copyriot.com/antonio-negri-on-the-yellow-vests-and-the-new-wave-of-french-insurrection/
Carne Ross, “How to create a leaderless revolution and win lasting political change” [online], The Guardian, uploaded December 13th 2018 [consulted December 14, 2018], available on: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/13/leaderless-revolution-insurgency-gilet-jaunes-extinction-rebellion
Yanis Varoufakis, “My plan to revive Europe can succeed where Macron and Piketty failed” [online], The Guardian, uploaded December 13th 2018 [consulted December 14, 2018], available on: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/13/plan-europe-macron-piketty-green-new-deal-britain
Paradox Interactive, Stellaris, 2016, available on Steam
Guy Debord, “The Society of the Spectacle” [online], written 1967 [consulted December 14, 2018], available on: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
honestly this is our best one yet
we talk about a lot of stuff, like the history of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Central America in general, Abu Nidal, the War on Drugs, Iran, Liberation Theology, and the Popish Plot (you know, from the English Civil War)
check it out it was made with love
Works Cited:
Mao Tse-Tung, “Problems of War and Strategy” [online], November 6 1938 (uploaded 2004 [consulted November 30th 2018]), available on: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_12.htm
Trans Fiction Systems Inc., Hidden Agenda [online], 1988 [consulted November 29th 2018], available on: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/hidden-agenda-ge/play-ge
Gergorio Selser, “Honduras, portaviones terrestre de Estados Unidos, y también “Contralandia"”, Cuadernos Americanos. Segunda Época, Vol. 2, Mayo-Junio 1986, pages 54-71.
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America. Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1973, available on: http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf
Camilo Torres, El amor eficaz, América Libre, Buenos Aires, 2010, available on: https://loslibroslibres.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/camilo-torres-el-amor-eficaz-2010.pdf
in this episode we figure out Gritty
plus: the migrant caravan, Naxalites, Fallout: New Vegas, refugee organizing during the collapse, and the exact political character of eagles
it's a good one
Works cited:
Amarela Varela, "No es una caravana de migrantes, sino un nuevo movimiento social que camina por una vida vivible" [online], El Diario, published November 4th 2018 [consulted November 26th 2018], available on: https://www.eldiario.es/interferencias/Caravana_migrantes_6_832276775.html
Obsidian Entertainment, Fallout: New Vegas, Released October 9th 2011, available on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22380/Fallout_New_Vegas/
"Eagle of Saladin" (Wikipedia article): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_of_Saladin
jesus freak in the streets mao spontex in the sheets
Works Cited
Mao Tse-Tung, "On Contradiction", available on: http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/OC37.html
look man let's just go at it
otherwise it'll never happen
Works cited:
Lenin, What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement, "Chapter IV: The Amateurishness [translated by us as Artisanal Nature] of the Economists and an Organization of Revolutionaries", available on: www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/WD02ii.html
[Mistakenly attributed to Gramsci] Georgi Dimitrov, Against Fascism And War, [we couldn't find it online for free but Marxists.org has an archive of his writings: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/index.htm]
Damian Carrington, "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds" [online], The Guardian, October 30th 2018, available on: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds