In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Will Leslie convince Jamie that Buffy is good, actually, or will Joss Whedon's cringey dialogue turn her off to it forever?
VC theme by Intellectual Dark Wave
2020-04-24 16:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We subject our brain to more spiking as we read through some recent hits:
O'neill on Karen-Bashing: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/06/the-class-hatred-behind-karen-bas...
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the n...
2020-04-15 11:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Hope everybody is as safe and healthy as can be expected in the frightening time. Thanks, as always, for listening and supporting our show.
We've begun a new foray into live streaming on twitch.com! While we're still working out some of the kinks, we think this is a fun way t...
2020-04-08 16:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a Trash-a-Fada crossover extravaganza! We had a delightful discussion with Alice, Riley and Milo of TrashFuture about labour organising at the end of the world, and then we venture back into the mind of Toby Young ...
2020-04-08 16:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jacobin columnist and Four Futures: Life after Capitalism author Peter Frase indulges us in some speculation about the world of tomorrow--which will be anything but a return to "normal."
Those chang...
Amanda from Twitter Dot Com (@catcontentonly) was kind enough to break quarantine to sit down with Sean and discuss the politics of pandemic. How has the COVID-19 virus affected life in NYC? How seriously are people taking it compared to how seriously they should? How come our president is callin...
2020-03-25 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Teen Vogue politics editor Lucy Diavolo joins us to discuss what will hopefully be the story of this crisis: neighbors organizing themselves into mutual aid networks to support each other against the virus and the capitalist system's attempts to profit from the disorder. We talk about the concept...
2020-03-20 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second half of this two-part episode Nate and Sean conclude their discussion of the Coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis.
With people in the United States and around the world facing the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, we decided t...
2020-03-17 19:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In this two-part episode, we continue Antifada's #linegoesdown mini-series on capitalism in crisis.
With people in the United States and around the world facing the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, we decided to throw together an e...
2020-03-17 19:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
A wave of wildcat strikes, blockades, and general militant organizing is spreading the University of California system based on the demand that academic workers be paid a living wage. We're joined by three union members of UC Santa Cruz who were fired for refusing to turn in grades until their de...
2020-03-11 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang delves into some of the discourse around Bernie, Warren and "intersectionality" to figure out just what liberal pundits mean when they say that word.
Closing song: Kayla Nicole - Move Like A Snake
2020-03-06 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang is back with special guest Shuja Haider, @shujaxhaider, writer-at-large for Outline Magazine and contributing editor of Viewpoint.
We begin with an analysis of the political economy of coronavirus, then continue with a lengthy discussion of the Bernie Sanders campaign. (You know we...
2020-03-04 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie is joined by writer, musician, and leftist shitposter Hether Fortune (@hetherrfortune), formerly of the band Wax Idols, for a recap of their canvassing trip to New Hampshire, which involved seeing Bernie open for the...
2020-02-26 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jame speaks with Faye Ecklar (@FayeEcklar), co-founder and VP of the Socialist Rifle Association, about gun control, mutual aid, and why it's a good idea to have an armed left. Find your local SRA chapter at https://socialistra.org!...
2020-02-19 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss 'Blade' (1998) and 'Blade II.' (2002). 'Blade: Trinity' can go ice skate uphill.
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2020-02-14 23:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss 'Blade' (1998) and 'Blade II.' (2002). 'Blade: Trinity' can go ice skate uphill.
2020-02-14 23:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of the Antifada sideproject about space, sci-fi, the paranormal, and parapolitical, we talk to Joseph L Flatley -- the investigative journalist behind " 2020-02-12 10:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hate to break it to ya, but it's about time we talked about political economy. Oh you haven't read all three volumes? Do better.
Relative surplus value? We got that.
Organic composition of capital? We got that.
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall? You better beli...
2020-02-07 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hate to break it to ya, but it's about time we talked about political economy. Oh you haven't read all three volumes? Do better.
In the meantime, Dick and Nate from "A Present State of Relations" blog and Twitter Dot Com join Sean KB to give you all a little primer on those pes...
2020-02-05 22:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sean continue their discussion of utopian versus scientific socialism in the second half. As we move from the religious communalism of the medieval period to the secular socialism of the 19th century, the limitations of utopian socialism become more clear... and yet the desire to, say, g...
2020-01-31 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie is joined by Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir), esteemed host of Jacobin's The Dig (aka socialist NPR) to talk about his book " 2020-01-29 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of this extended episode on Utopian Socialism, Sean KB and Matt Christman examine the seeds of the socialist impulse from hobos to harlots to Hussites.
Where does the drive for an autonomous, collective communal existence come from? How has religion been a catalyst for env...
2020-01-24 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) of Struggle Session (@strugglesesh) joins Jamie to discuss South Korean filmmaker (and comrade) Bong Joon-ho's beautifully subversive upstairs-downstairs-downstairs parable "Parasite." Warning: contains spoilers!!!
Outro music: Queers - Like a Parasite
C...
2020-01-15 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We close out our three-part recap of the decade that was with 2015-now. Jake gives his grand unified theory of the black and blue dress (or is it white and gold?!). Rachel Dolezal. Trump's epic pwnage of Hillary Clinton and us, and the even more embarrassing rise of the #resistance. The libs go u...
2020-01-08 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ebola, the Fappening, ISIS, The Ice Bucket Challenge, #Doom. Simpler times: 2014!
2020-01-03 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Obamacare! Occupy! The Tea Party! Taylor Swift! ISIS!!!!!! An epochal Antifada spectacular! The whole crew + Jake and Simone take on the decade year by ye...
2020-01-01 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
HⒶ HⒶ HⒶ! Ⓐnti-Saint Nick here with an XMas Xpost of Andy and Sean's recent appearance on Minion Death Cult! Alex and Tony lead us in a reading of what is sure to become a holiday classic, a 2017 piece from the Boston Police Union magazine titled, "The Antifan Who Stole Christmas."
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2019-12-25 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer, translator, and historian of the revolutionary left Mitch Abidor joins Andy and Sean to discuss the life, legacy, and relevance of "The Bolshevik's Pet Anarchist" Victor Serge!
An illegalist anarchist turned anarcho-syndicalist, turned Bolshevik, turned left-oppositionist befo...
2019-12-18 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In episode 2 of @spaceprole's side project on contemporary and historical political issues in Latin America. This month we have Camilo Gómez, a Peruvian writer with bylines at Counterpunch and the Center for a Stateless Socie...
2019-12-16 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post