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Episode 26 - The American Years of Lead? ft Matt Christman
🕑 Added 2021-09-06 11:17:28 +0000 UTC!PATREON EXCLUSIVE! We kick off our Season of the Witch miniseries with a look at the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, and for this one Mr Matt Christman (@cushbomb) of Chapo Trap House kindly stopped by to share some insight about the times. We talk about the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, Vietnam, Dustin Hoffman, and more. It's a tale of paranoia, class, acid fantasies, confused politics, poorly engineered bombs, and the brutal hammer of reality meeting the plate glass of idealism.
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Michael S. Judge
The deepest American political tradition, from conquistadores to Based Nationalism, is cosplaying
Hi. I'm late to the party on this one, but great episode that made clear several things that were nagging me but I just couldn't put my finger on despite how obvious they were. Thanks!
pinballa
Many thanks π
Just found out about this pod from the Brabant episodes- guess I know what I'm listening to in the gym for the next month
Anarchist Paul Bunyan
Absolutely fantastic evening episode. Can't wait for the paranoia to strike this season of the witch.
Ash
The dream.
Next up: a 69-part series with Felix Biederman about the deep politics of Metal Gear.
Jimothy Realname
Congrats on getting a Chapo, and the best Chapo at that! I listened to the episode on a bike ride, and when I got back I refreshed the page and you got 30 new patrons. You've hit the big time!
pinballa
My bad, of course they were all very different to WU, but some other radical groups operating at the time: Black Panther Party (β₯οΈ) Black Liberation Army (β₯οΈ) Symbionese Liberation Army The Family (not Manson) The Zebra Killers (ideologically motivated group of serial killers) FALN (Puerto Rican independence group) The United Freedom Front MIRA (another Puerto Rican group) There's a bunch of right-wing crazies who were active too, but I covered them in Amerikan Tabloid (in part 5 or 6, I forget).
Great episode! could you still share that list of 10 groups similar to the weather underground?
Quinn Molina
Dreams really do come true
The Return Of The Repressed
Much appreciated I'm on a longer train ride at the moment along the Sweden/Norwegian border so I'll have a listen to that at first to set the mood whilst looking at all the abandoned industry cities.
pinballa
That was Mario Savio, giving his "Machine Speech", December 1964. He was the leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement!
The Return Of The Repressed
Great speech bit before the intro song, may I ask by whom and when?
Melanie K.
Stoked for this one!!
Yes please
The mad lad did it!
@noam_praszky
YES! YES!
Stewart Robertson
The night of the Kings
Michael David
Hell yeah
