For a New Communist Party
“The left’s embrace of cultural individualism has made it critical of discipline and collectivity. But that’s just a capitalist sellout. That is actually not a left position at all.”
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This is Hell!
This is Hell! Radio has been broadcasting and podcasting from Chicago and “manufacturing dissent” since 1996. Between 2014 and 2021, Antidote Zine transcribed over two hundred of their in-depth interviews with scholars, activists, revolutionaries, and journalists on a variety of topics. This is of course only a tiny fraction of the fascinating material they have released, and still release on a regular basis.
Original audio and links to the show’s website are included in each post. Support This Is Hell! on their patronage site! And let us know if there are additional interviews of theirs you would like to see here in text form: antidote[at]riseup[dot]net.
Exposing the Chicago Police’s Cover-Up Culture
The code of silence, this narrative control that the department exercises, includes the press. The press, as a general matter, publishes the police blotter.
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Building Paradise in Hell
“The sooner we confront our situation and realize that there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the difficult task of adapting with moral humility to our new reality.”
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Counter-Stories Against Robot Dystopia
“Other traditions in our history can allow us to tell counter-stories, to narrate our world in ways that resist and refuse dominant narratives that have horrible effects on people.”
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(Terror) Warning: Angry Teenagers
Does understanding ISIS as a dynamic vanguard attractive to rebellious, thrill-seeking youth make it more, or less, scary?
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The Fight to Expose Closed Systems of Brutality
People have had to struggle, have had to mount a movement, because the police fights tooth and nail against any monitoring.”
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A Different Kind of American Revolution
We always think of the war. But the war masks and hides the revolution. Those aren’t the same. You can have a revolution without a war.
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We Are Not Afraid
Persecution by the state keeps people on edge, which is one of the reasons people are so afraid to speak out. The fact that some are doing so now is really remarkable.”
Reinventing Digital Media
“There’s so much that could be done that’s more unconventional.”
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Neoliberalism’s Fatal Faith in Debt Fiction
When Smith and Mill and the classical economists talked about ‘free’ markets, they meant an economy free of rent, free of interest, free of parasitism. Today in the United States, the whole idea is that a free market is free for the parasites.
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