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Episode 360: Helmsmen of Brixton (Patreon)

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2024-03-07 14:51:16
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We take a look at the insane Comrade Bala of the Workers Institute of Marxism-Leninism-MZT, heart attack satellites, the limits of sectarianism, Harry Potter, and slavery. A case of anti-revisionism gone terribly wrong.

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Ryan Fox

Have a wonderful day everyone

J98

Poop

Donnie Ka

Unrelated but I'd love for Liz to start a basketball podcast (and have Skap Attack on, because why not)

seth

happy thursday all

JB Bowser

Cue the “Pork Dukes-Marxist Leninist Feminist” haha

Phil Darovic

Glad to hear Liz is so pro-gong now. Second era of the post-gong age.

Josh Evans

If you go to protests/left events in London you do occasionally come across people handing out leaflets on this guy and how he's been falsely imprisoned by the British state.

Emma

all I want is Freak Beat all the time thank you 🙏

Michael S. Judge

yyyyyeahhhh Rosalyn, yyyyyyah're the gel fuh me

eggs_mayhem

The ppl demand the Austin Powers cryo chamber in the studio!

dompling

Yeah there is one lady who is at almost every big (and sometimes even small) demos and it's really sad that now she's just handing out leaflets about his memory when at least previously she was doing justice for Comrade Bala ones when he was still alive and in prison

dompling

As in she was one of his victims

Jack

The Children of Jack Acid

It probably just took her some time to warm up to their albums before 1973's Angel's Egg, which was their last album before getting kind of famous, just due to the massive success of other Space Rock and progressive rock albums who blew up with the advent of Virgin Records and the massive success of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

Phil Darovic

That was my hypothesis as well

TrueAnonPod

This is like someone comin into the McDonald’s you work at and telling your smartest coworker they should work at Wendy’s right in front of your mother fucking face!

DRS

Brace should be there as well and we can watch his basketball IQ grow. That might honestly be interesting.

Blank

Cointelpro op trying to sew division among our beloved hosts. Wendy’s is objectively better tho

Tom Clarke

As Lenin said, left wing communism is “an infantile disorder”.

Blank

7 mins in and I realize no one is coming to correct Brace’s pronunciation of Kerala and it’s going to be repeated several times 😱

Phillip Harris

Addicted To Freaks is a t shirt idea just laying there

Carl Jones

Gimme that 12 part series on the history of Trotskyism. The world must know how politically poor the loser leftism of Trotskyism is.

Jack

pausing the pod to say: if you guys don't buy the Austin Powers Cryo Chamber, then what the fuck am I giving you my money for???

Barnabas

PLEASE do the insane communist party eps

OtherRussert

Aww snap! Young Chomsky with the Unix zinger!

SCB

Hardest working pod in the game, I swear

TrueAnonPod

You can pronounce a name any way you’d like

Blank

Brace you’re right Lse was founded by Fabians

M S

brace needs a mao suit

Blank

Facts

MoldyTolge

It took working with a Marathi guy for me to figure out how to say it.

MojoMan

Seriously, why would anyone care about this leftist cult leader ?

Cameron

do the psl next

Zach Young

I don’t have a Mao poster yet but I have a gaddafi holographic stamp collection that makes a small piece

MoldyTolge

GET THE CRYO CHAMBER QUIT JACKIN US AROUND

Carver Eller

Would love to listen to a series of literally any length on inter/intra party breaks in the global communist movement. I still don't really understand the important parts of the eras between leaders of the USSR or china, like how was kruschev's vision different from stalin's, and then how all of these interacted with the 3rd world

NYCM&AHole

Damn this is brain worm central.

demisays

more eps like this pls

M S

audibly gasped when they said LOTR lmfaoooo

Pearl

omg finally !!!

Randy Hendrickson

What is going on in the background at 6:18? Everyone OK there?

Orlagh Rae

My friends have met josie at various protests in London, she's still out there giving out leaflets defending him :/

jrab

Joseph Vissarionovich Biden

BeanCurd

How do you square "be normal" with "Stalin was good"?

NickCaveAndTheSadGreebs

enjoyed the CPGB talk - i had a relative who wrote and published a pamphlet criticising the revisionist stance of the party (i think this was prompted by the partys stance on the intervention in czechoslovakia in '68) and the 'British Road to Socialism', and i managed to buy a copy online. he was also deported from america in the pre-mccarthy years for labour organising and organised the first strike at battersea power station in london, which led to the daily mail calling him 'the most hated man in britain'. cool guy

Danny

who’s got a reading rec for why the Hungarian rebellion was bad, bc I’ve only read more councilist stuff that insists it was the second coming of the soviets.

MoldyTolge

27 minutes in and not a single reference to HBO’s Ballers starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

jrab

Never MOVE to the compound

Smooth Shrek

I want more eps like these and anything else about freaky communist shit. Nothing disgusts me more as a communist than the lewd depravity and insanity of communists.

snapplepeachtea

ok im pretty ignorant on the subject, but what have trotskyists done that is egregiously bad? besides being annoying contrarians, i dont get the impression they were ever a real threat to lenin or stalin so why the hate...? lol

Smooth Shrek

Because my fave dead revolutionary didn’t like that dead revolutionary so we must continue to fight about it for ever and ever

jrab

Well, you’re windy and wild Got the blues in your shoes Bang a gong Get it on

Ian Fletcher

Love the Episode. Please do Posadas next!

Jack

to be a communist is to be fallen. all that remains is blame

Donnie Ka

NBA’s CointelPro 99

Nick

“a lot of these people are unwell” does seem to be a running theme huh

ggmacd

austin powers waking up from the cryo chamber and being visibly disappointed when he's told the soviets lost the cold war planted a seed in my young mind

Gordon Schmidt

You guys should look into the Worker's Revolutionary Party. They were a Trotskyist group, came from some of the same milieu as Lyndon Larouche(both learned from James P Cannon, I believe). They're most notable for their ties to Gaddafi, Saddam, and Vannessa Redgrave as well as the fact that their leader, Gerry Healey, was basically the Harvey Weinstein of Trotskyism. A real monster.

ResilientBastard

Stalin approved of the British Road to Socialism lol

jay alan

Big bala out here just ruining cool things.

CJ

Just before Brace said it I was thinking we need some full Commie history episodes surely?!

MitchyWitchy

Wtf was the name of the SF bookstore again? I can’t be bothered to go through the whole episode again to find it.

Swimaroo

Brace has confirmed he's a fan of The Apothecary Diaries.

Pearl

yeah it’s rlly sad

MATT TRIANO

What IS this story. Just what is it.

ray hafez

I remember reading about this in the newspaper on the tube to school back in the day, and thinking it had some relevance to Marxism. Glad to have it finally cleared up for me. (Iss furrsday innit!)

Graham Hoese

Gonna try the satellite thing in paternity court.

Kiel Cone

Or maybe Lenin was a dictator who regimented workers into forms of production they wouldn’t consent to on their own — hence they didn’t own the means of production and Lenin was some shitty state capitalist.

CJ

Bolerium Books

Internet Lefty

Is Comrade Bala in your dream blunt rotation too?

Tryg

I lived in Streatham for a couple of years, just over the hill from Brixton. And, I have to say, this is probably NOT the weirdest shit to have happened in that part of the world. Thanks for doing a dive on this. It always confused me. Probably because my mind isn't attuned with the right satellite. I'm tuned in to the... Bom. Bom. Bom. Satellite of ❤️

Katherine

I swear I have deeper and more insightful takes on this episode but I am dying at BB’s pronunciation of the Thames! 😆 😹

CJ

I love when an episode’s moral is “be normal”

Marcus

I will be pretty disappointed if the Austin Powers cryo chamber isn't acquired. What is this $5 going towards if not that?

Corey Reynolds

No Liz. Not all of us know about the Maoist teens in Paris. Some of us went to public school in the south. I’d def like to hear a 12 part series on Trotsky

Brian Long

Love when Brace does accents

Drew

Eunuchs > UNIX

B JAMBOR

I recommend the podcasts rev left radio (and the others under that blanket—red menace and guerilla history), also politics in command! A lot of really informative and interesting stuff pertaining to lefty theory and thought

Knicks Fan 1000

I walk up to Liz and Brace in a dazzling fashion, whist the song Norwegian Wood plays from the jbl speaker affixed to my pants. I give the gentleman and the gentlelady a curtsy then ask... Comrades, care for a delta 8 gummy?

jrab

Red Guards Austin Powers

бог-белка

I'm at 1:06 hearing the description of JACKIE and all I can think of is how much it sounds like VALIS

original gay pussy eatah

This whole episode had the vibe of listening to a really deep and specific YouTube video about the lore around the Tribunal and Dagoth Ur in Morrowind and I didn’t really get it but I liked it and yall did a good job

Dan

Anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninist parties in the west have a tendency to deteriorate into historical societies at best, cults at worst;I say this as an Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist. This is why it is so important to have an actionable political program, and to stay grounded in the struggle of the working class.

Julian Drummond

I used to volunteer with a small group that had me stand on the street and try to get people to donate in exchange for a NATLFED calendar

The Children of Jack Acid

Does the Pretty Things' "£.s.d" count as Freakbeat? Actually I don't care if it is or not. I just wanted to talk about it. And now I have.

Kai

Contemporary Marxist leninism IS a historical Idol worship program and no amount of "Anti-Revisionism" or "Actionable programs" will change it nor make you more connected to the working class

M.K.

No

Kevin Jones

Apparently. I can't really take listening to American lefties talk about the wonders of Stalinism while sat safely enjoying luxuries of hyper-capitalist New York 70 years later. Especially when their last episode was purely obsession with the British Royal Family and celebrity tittle tattle.

Kevin Jones

You can't get more normal than the Cultural Revolution.

Eric Murphy

Yes!! Do a communist history mini series.it would be Soo helpful in trying to parce out all the hullabaloo

Tom Clarke

Maybe in America. The party I'm a member of pursues a marxist-leninist agenda (mostly) and has seats in parliament. That said, class consciousness has shrunk desperately in all western countries.

Anon Ibid

Didnt expect it to became the PKD book Valis... and lotr. Harry Potter was too much tho.

Scott

Rare YC needle drop

Andy Martinez

Would love more episodes about communism/communist history

jugsdotgov

when you consider that the pre-distressed Prada carhartt jacket is also retailing for 6800 dollars, it seems like an amazing deal for a cryochamber

Gato gris

Anyone who thinks “Stalinism” is a political ideology I immediately reject anything they say after that word

Gato gris

Brace and liv need to get on rev left or red menace frfr

Alex

Would love a history of insane communist parties

RoyRogercFreely

I was so bored omg but yall are funny so I stayed

Anon Ibid

Yall should do an episode on Raelism and find out whatever happened to that little girl they cloned in international waters

Donna Oakes-Munro

Sounds more like let a thousand hand grenades explode.

Rory

Brace confusing Indian style Zuckerberg for Chinese has brought great dishonor

wonderfell

Y’all should an ep on the growing but wacky PSL or weirdness in American Trotskyism in general

allie

Have you guys ever done an episode on Daylife Army?

creepytwig

Plsss do episodes on Trotskyism so I can have any fucking idea what people are arguing about on Twitter

Doc Adna

Just gonna put it out there, numerology/palm reading etc is a big feature of life in south-south Asia, it's not like a fringe thing

Blank

Wait another Netflix doc on the problem teen industry just dropped and it’s still not The Game by TA? 🥺

Blank

This one discusses synanon and the game! Really curious for brace and Liz’s take on it

John H

Aragon = Iberian kindgdom; Aragorn = Vigo Morgenstern

Dave

Richard Gere looks too much like Jeffrey Epstein, it makes his movies unwatchabler.

Aiden

What’s the point of paying this subscription if you won’t buy the cryopod? FUCK

Culture, Power, Politics

Guys the account of British post-war history on here is just totally, embarrassingly wrong.

chorchy

Then elaborate

chorchy

Everyone in the comments advertise which genre of communist I should be

Dave-O

If Brace says perish one more time I quit

jrab

Eragon = failed LOTR knockoff franchise

Jennifer Hammerhead

I've been going through some personal shit lately and have been having a hard time focusing on anything but I find Liz's voice very soothing so despite processing basically zero of the information of this episode I really appreciated listening. Helped distract me from my problems lol

MojoMan

Yes, I’m and ‘ol Geezer, but I’d swear Liz is the daughter of Barbara Feldman Agent 99 from the “Get Smart” Series. Told you I was old. I too just find her voice tonality in an ocean of “voice fry, Valley Girl, and “Fundie Baby Voice” of Sen. Katie Britt a soothing oasis. Still she is a wonderfully brilliant well read commentator on the insanity of our times and not so distant past…

MojoMan

Oh, please have Yanis Varifoukis on the pod. He will bring y’all up to speed.

chorchy

Thanks looking into it 🔎

LET ME DELETE MY ACCOUNT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

Hard to believe a seemingly Untouchable hyper capitalist media strata (Snoop, Jay Z, Puff... etc.). thats selling a lifestyle that essentially gets black men jailed and ruins black communities via music and video media, gangs, and young men being rappers drug dealers and pro hyper capitalists. How doesnt this end in people seeing their only outlet as such, and it creates a problem in black communities The Up In Smoke tour video is cool as hell. Right?

Axo

I'm all for learning about trotskyism but I can't help but think that it might be too verbose for a podcast... might I suggest some sort of newsletter instead?

BeanCurd

I'll ride for the New Left (up through '68). It's because of them we have wise-cracking communist podcasts in the 21c

Phelan Deimos

Are they talking about the surgery where Pronce Andrew had his ability to sweat restored?

Tim Regan

Was everything Stalin did great?

Ian :3

The rare YC intro drop 👀‼️

Ian :3

I love you

Reece Coren

love when brace gets a little goofy

Ben Green

Jem go on TrueAnon

evan

pretty siked to start accusing the homies of “splittist activities” now

August West

I would LOVE a series on the history of Trotskyism and also more weird communist splinter group stuff. Still very confused on what the Avakianites whole deal is

Eric Sutter

I would love to hear more history of crank psycho communist offshoots. (As a communist)

Izzi Sneider

please do an episode on Alan Woods of the IMT/ RCA/ RCI, more people need to know the weird type of shit this dude is on

juche_music

Yeah, I also want more bizarre party history, including the Trot deep-dive.

Mubar

Uhh can ya direct me on that?

JDF

Sectariana bayyybeee let’s go

Jason

Yung Chomsky proving he's the only left podcaster in the universe who knows how to pronounce "diminutive" @ 53:20!

Jason

YC: Please also talk to your folk (i.e., all left podders) about "remuneration."

bungo

Love how quick Liz is to correct mispronunciations while also butchering "internecine " repeatedly