In a world dominated by Capitalism, three intrepid Anarchist friends from the North Atlantic Archipelago (Ireland, Scotland and begrudgingly England) journey to find truth, socialism and a Zoom handle that doesn't involve poop. The Anomie co-hosts met a decade ago as student activists in the UK and have graduated to unemployed armchair academics in Dublin. Each week they (and a rotating third host) discuss a different topic from both a historical and ideological perspective and try and relat ...
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent, socialist republic encompassing all of I…
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The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK (Kurdish: پارتی کرێکارانی کوردستان / Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. Since 1984,…
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Formed in 1970, the Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle, and to remove Italy from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The organization attained notoriety in the 1970s and early 1980s with their violent acts of sabotage, bank robberies, the kneecapping of certain industrialists, factory owners, banke…
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The EZLN- Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [sapaˈtistas]), is a libertarian socialist political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. Since 1994, th…
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (aka. Tamil Tigers
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka. Its aim was to secure an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the north and east in response to the state policies of successive Sri Lankan governments that were widely considered to be discriminatory towards the minority Sri Lankan Tamil…
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The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
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The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major cities and inter…
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Rebels, Terrorists or freedom fighters?: The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
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In our first episode of Season 3 we begin our investigation of the role of armed groups in the furthering or failure of revolutionary politics with a look at the Islamic Resistance Movement aka. Hamas. The IRM is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military w…
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Long time no listen! Welcome back fellow anarchists and people looking for something boring to listen to help them overcome their insomnia. After a year of Covid, babies, and unemployment the anomie podcast is back for season 3. This season will be different to those that came before it as it will have an overarching theme and narrative that will l…
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Zack Snyder's Jockstrap: The hysteria of modern fandom and the death of Art
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In the final episode of season two we discuss the origins of the modern phenomenon of toxic fandom amongst supporters of Pop Sci-Fi and Fantasy movies and TV Shows. Is this simply an over exuberance for the narrative arc of Luke Skywalker or a sign of a deeply chaotic world that is funnelling people into a fantasy echo chamber where they can hide f…
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Craven New World Part 2: Why Science Fiction can no longer imagine a better future for us
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In the second part of our two-parter on science and technology we focus on the importance of science fiction in presenting an image of the future for society to either look forward to or fear. Science fiction once gave society hope that we were on the verge of a great leap forward in both science and human nature but in 2021 little of this optimism…
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Craven New World: Will advances in Technology make a better world possible or entrench existing class inequality?
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In this episode we look at the coming advances in technology (automation, AGI, gene editing, etc.) and whether this revolution will improve the lives of working people or simply give birth to a dystopian Bladerunner world. Please find below the articles we used to research this topic. https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-…
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UKrazy: Why England has become detached from reality
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In this episode we have an open discussion about why Britain (but really England) has- as the kids would say- gone batshit crazy over the last number of years. Each of our hosts will posit and argue a different crossing of the crazy Rubicon from the death of Diana Spencer, to the David Cameron dead pig scandal and the Brexit referendum vote of 2016…
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"Stupid is as stupid derp": Is the Human species too dumb to survive?
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In this week's episode we discuss the simple but rather alarming idea that humans (or many of them) are too stupid a species to prevent their own extinction by human induced climate change. While on the surface this seems a facetious question it actually involves a deep discussion of what "stupidity" is and whether we as a species can escape the ge…
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Alba Gu Bràth: The case for Scottish Independence
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After a run of polls showing a clear majority of respondents favoured Scottish Independence the topic that dominated our youthful student activism in Edinburgh a decade ago has re-emerged as a real threat to Tory dominance of the UK. In this episode we discuss the history, merits and challenges of said independence from a left wing perspective.…
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Gaming Stocks: The History of the Stock Market
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In this week's episode we discuss the recent Game Stop stock/RobinHood Trading App story in the context of the history of the Stock Market in general and the financialisation of the economy since the 1970s. How did one sector of the economy that employs only 4% of workers in the US economy come to dominate the socio-economic culture of the whole "w…
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"Robert Preston doesn't understand mirrors": Client Journalism and the Manufacturing of Consent in the UK media
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In this week's episode we explore the client journalism of the British press and how the media manufactures consent for the continuing rule of a corrupt and greedy English ruling elite. For those living outside Britain the behaviour of the British media is often astounding: Why do they defend the Tory government? Why do they ignore the huge wealth …
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The First Anarchist: A discussion of the ideas of Pierre-Josef Proudhon
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In this episode we go back to the 19th century origins of European Anarchism with the ideas of the first thinker to describe himself as an Anarchist, Proudhon. He is remembered today for such soundbites as "Property is theft" and "Anarchy is order" but few know that he first expressed so many of the views the Libertarian Left hold dear today. His w…
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Critical Thinking: How to stop sociopaths conning rubes
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In this week's episode we discuss the failure to teach critical thinking in schools and the current danger of non-reality based thinking amongst large sections of the population in America and the UK. Conspiracy theories and white supremacy were within living memory a fringe pursuit of a tiny minority. One week after the storming of the American Ca…
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The First Socialist Revolution! The Paris Commune of 1871
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In this episode we discuss the pivotal Paris Commune of 1871 and how it set the stage for 20th century revolutionary movements and in turn the reactionary responses of authoritarian governments to said movements. After a 5 month siege by the new German Empire Paris was radicalised by the collapse of the Second French Empire and the revolutionary vo…
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This week we round up some of the top stories we covered this past year, from the fall of Corbyn, the Irish election, (of course) the Covid Pandemic, the US Election and Brexit.
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The Norman Yoke: How the Norman Ascendancy still rule England
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In this week's holiday spectacular we discuss the continuing power and sway of the English aristocracy in the UK and their links to the Norman conquest of 1066. Before the arrival of Duke William "The Basterd" England was a society of many landlowners and a tradition of elective kingship, the conquest changed that forever as William granted 95% of …
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The War of Error: A Retrospective on the "War on Terror"
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In this episode we have an open discussion of the US led "War on Terror" from its roots in the 1980s Reagan administration obsession with the Iranian Revolution and Tehran hostage crisis, to the date seared into many people's memories 11/09/2001, the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan (now the longest war in American history) and Iraq, and much mor…
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Celtic Communism: The Life and Legacy of James Connolly
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In this episode we focus on the intellectual father of Irish left and one of the founding figures of the Irish Republic, James Connolly. Born in poverty in an Irish slum in Edinburgh to famine refugee parents he experienced the reality of industrial capitalism from an early age. During a relatively short life of 48 years; he would help found the Sc…
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"Wha's a mada wit EU?": The Internal Atrophy of the European Community
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This week we take a look at the past, present and future of the European Union. Formed in the aftermath of the most violent wars in world history (the two World Wars) the European Economic Community sought to bind the nations of European in an economic and political union that would never again permit a World War to destroy the continent. 70 Years …
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Nietzsche's 12 Rules for Life as an Incel: Nihilism and the 21st Century
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In this week's episode we discuss Nihilism and the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche often seen as the father of the former. Nietzsche proclaimed that the coming of modernity had precipitated the Death of God and to some extent the history of the following century would be a history of humanity seeking for a new secular religion to fill the huge gap lef…
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Toxic Liberalism: The Professional Class at Prayer
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In this episode we have an open discussion about the nature and deep seated problems of modern Liberalism in the UK, America and Ireland. Born out of the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries Liberalism was for the most part a force for good as modern nation states were formed and the old feudal monarchies fell. 250 years later however Liberal…
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"We're All Boned!": The History of Civilisation Collapse
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In this week's episode we discuss the history of civilisation collapse from the Bronze Age, to the Roman Empire, to the potential collapse of our globalised world due to climate change. Over at least the last 3,000 years civilisations/ Empires have risen and fallen in a cyclical manner. In the case of most of these Empires a combination of ecologic…
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Legacy of the Irish Catholic Theocracy
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In this episode we take a look at the tragic and horrifying history of the Catholic theocracy that controlled Ireland between 1920s and 1980s. For vulnerable women and children this was a rule of terror as "fallen women" (women who had children outside of wedlock) were incarcerated in work camps called Magdalene Laundries, while their children were…
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Two Dementia Patients and an Election: American farce and coming civil war
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In this episode we focus on the coming American Election on 4th November but more importantly try to analyse the current state of the American Empire. Several weeks ago the Bad Faith Podcast debated with Noam Chomsky the merits or otherwise of not voting for Joe Biden in the coming election. We discuss the points made by both sides and attempt to p…
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Bob Hoskins' Thong : The Fetishisation of the Working Class.
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Hey up lads, this week we discuss how the working class of the UK are seen by the media and beyond. We talk about how you can be a landlord and still be counted as part of the proletariat, how politicians inauthentically represent themselves as authentic, and why Blur are so bad.
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The Yugoslavia effect: The coming disintegration of the United Kingdom
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This week we look at the parallel of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the current fracturing of the United Kingdom. In the space of 4 years a long established Union of 6 Republics (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Macedonia) collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Economic inequality and differing political cultures…
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The Posh Boy soufflé: Why the British Public School system dominates UK society
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In this episode we discuss the origins, day-to-day life and continuing influence of the British Public schools of Eton, Harrow, Winchester etc. over British society. Despite several decades of reform a large majority (70+ percent) of politicians, journalists, actors, military officers, and bankers in the UK come from the only 7% of the population t…
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The Spanish Revolution Part 3: What can the Left Learn from the defeat of 1939?
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In the last of our three part narrative of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War we reach the tragic and bloody end of the conflict in March 1939. After crushing the Anarchist Revolution in 1937 the Republican government of centrists and Stalinist backed Spanish Communists attempt to create a professional army to fight Franco but failed. Offensives …
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The Spanish Revolution Part 2: May Days 1937
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In this the second part of our trilogy of episodes on the Spanish Revolution and Civil War we focus on the key year of 1937. The year began in hope as tens of thousands of International volunteers came to fight for the Republic and succeeded in defending Madrid from the Fascists- who were in turn supported by the military might of Nazi Germany and …
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The Spanish Revolution Part 1: Barcelona 1936
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In the first of a three part series we will be focusing on the events that surrounded the beginning of the Spanish Revolution and convergent Civil War. During the episode we discuss the origins of the Falangist/ Catholic/ Military alliance and the CNT-FAI workers movement in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The long history of conserva…
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On this episode our bosom anarchist chums discuss the idea of work (aka. wage slavery) and whether there is an alternative to the 40 hour work week of "Bullshit Jobs" described by the late David Graeber in the form of Universal Basic Income or off-grid communes. Please find the articles we used to research this topic below: https://harpers.org/arch…
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This week our intrepid Anarchist chums discuss the CIA penned, Freedom Fighters Manual. A short guide to toppling the Nicaraguan Sandanistas airdropped into Nicaragua in the early 1980s. It was eventually published by the American press in 1984 and is today a subject of fun amongst various lefty nerds. During our discussion we touch on topics like …
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The Bearable Lightness of Anarchism: Why You Should Join the Official Anarchist Club
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Moving on from our previous episode where we discussed reasons to reject state-centred solutions to political problems, this week the gang are discussing positive reasons to adopt an anarchist approach. If people respond to your 100% legitimate complaints about contemporary politics with 'yeah? well what would you do?' - point them this way. We can…
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Today the gang discuss why the capitalism is not your friend despite its seductive tendrils giving you a full brain massage on a daily basis.
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This week we look at the culture surrounding the Soviet Union and how it is utilised today. Why are there so many young tankies? How do you get your uncle sent to the gulag? Was Mother Russia even ever communist at all? We answer all of these questions and more. Listen or be denounced!
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You Broke my Heart Fredo- Tax, Welfare and the Magic Money Tree
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This week we find ourselves moored in the U-bend of Ghislaine Maxwell's toilet waiting for our final confrontation with the evil Ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. Will we learn the secret of who killed him? Is there a global Illuminati? All these questions and more won't be answered. This week we will also look at the politics of social welfare. We explain…
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This week we interview two activists from Black Pride Ireland- Diana and Rayann- about racism in Ireland and Europe and how white supremacy infects all aspects of society. * We must apologise as the audio drops out at several points during the podcast. Please increase the volume to compensate.
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This weeks podcast finds us in the sewers beneath Ghislaine Maxwells prison, where we find the time to discuss the current state of Irish politics and examine an article by author of the book "Kill All Normies" Angela Nagle.
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The UK Labour Farty: Where 'GRASS'roots probably refers to snitches.
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This week two Scots (James, Will) and a Tan (Dan) discuss the history and contemporary politics of the UK (and Scottish) Labour Party. James presents his thesis that the Labour Party has never been a workers' party, was never constituted as a workers' party, nor has it been sincerely directed towards overthrowing capitalism. We discuss this idea al…
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In this episode we race across the Atlantic to intercept Ghost Jeffrey Epstein springing Ghislaine Maxwell from prison. During our journey we will discuss the realities, mythology and legacy of the Second World War.
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This week the gang discuss conspiracy theories and how they have taken over the world and driven us all mad...
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This week we find our gallant chums moored in Loch Ness trying to prevent the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein learning the secret of immortality. Will the Loch Ness Monster help us stop him? As always though we will be discussing an important topic: workers rights in the UK and the importance of unions.
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No Justice No Peace No Statues! (and Brendan O'Neill's five-head)
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In this week's episode we discuss the continuing Black Lives Matter demonstrations the CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone in Seattle and the felling of racist/ colonial statues around the world.
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This week we take another break from our Epstein hunt and do another deep dive on the thing that bonds us together- other than a Tug Boat- Anarchy. The gang discusses the meaning, history and practice of Anarchism and how it would function in the world today.
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In this special episode of the podcast we refrain from our usual Epstein related hi-jinks to do a deep dive on the events of the last week+ in American politics: The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the countrywide protests, the rioting and the government crackdown. We also will touch on how issues of race effect life int he UK and the…
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