Armed Love 2 - Acid Fascism w/ JG Michael (Part 2)
Added 2021-12-22 11:00:04 +0000 UTCWe continue our discussion of Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism with the story of the Lyman Family--a folk music collective turned into a creepy cult of astrology-obsessed devotees to a toothless harmonica-playing manchild. Afterwards we discuss cults today--why they are so intriguing in popular culture yet seem to be on the decline. Finally we talk about acid. If it's a CIA psyop, does that mean we shouldn't take it?
The second episode of a series on the revolutionary counterculture of the '60s! Listen to the first with Peter Coyote here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57554185
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Music:
Jim Kweskin Jug Band - Back in the Saddle
Jim Kweskin Jug Band - Old Black Joe
The Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Comments
Gravel gang did qanon
Bil
2021-12-26 08:36:05 +0000 UTCI love the antifada so much!
Bil
2021-12-26 08:24:25 +0000 UTCI actually kinda like some of the Lyman Family music, if I may be honest. This one CD from the 90s, Birth, has some cuts with a very Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 vibe. Indeed when I ordered a CD of it from some guy in LA, he invited me to the Jim Kweskin 'annual concert' mentioned here. Also sprinkled his email with factoids about Lyman's purposely mixing his harmonica louder than Lisa Kindred on the American Avatar album and the subsequent fallout. Also, in case anyone is curious, the article by Bruce Chatwin I always found to be an evocative take on the hostile atmosphere of Fort Hill from the perspective of an interloper (rather than a sensationalist rolling stone journo). The fact that most of them became wealthy landscapers is both sort of funny and understandable all things considered.
Theophylact Pay (née Buy)
2021-12-23 20:22:17 +0000 UTCTo Andy's question about tankies in parties, I think there are more than a few "Stalinists" in parties who are well adjusted enough to just lay low and know when to press the gas or the brakes.
GolfBaller
2021-12-23 04:08:14 +0000 UTCThanks for having this discussion about intercommunalism and "revolutionary" land projects. I appreciate the guests' sticking up for the use of land projects as bases for training and capacity building. I understand the marxist doctrinaire critique of these projects as not truly revolutionary and only carving out a space within capitalism (basically an updated 'sack of potatoes' argument) if they are not antagonistic to the state, but I think there are a lot of factors that have come to pass since Marx was formulating that makes this tactic as viable as urban organizing now, namely impending climate disaster and increased tech access in rural spaces. Would love to hear more arguments and theory for and against inter/communalism and communization praxis in the modern day. Thanks for doing this and putting these convos in a format I can listen to while I ca' canny at my job :)
Kin
2021-12-22 21:26:35 +0000 UTC
