QAA Podcast - Premium Episode 90: Posadism, Dolphins & Aliens feat AM Gittlitz (Sample)

Episode Date: August 29, 2020

J Posadas is a major South American Trotskyite figure of the 50s and 60s who is currently experiencing a semi-ironic revival due to his esoteric beliefs about extraterrestrials and dolphins. Despite visions of a cosmic left, the Posadists devolved into a cult living on a compound with their leader birthing a "star child". Writing our main segment and then guesting on the podcast this week: A.M. Gittlitz, author of 'I Want to Believe: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism' (also known as Andy from the Antifada podcast). ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Gittlitz: https://twitter.com/spaceprole Listen to the Antifada: https://twitter.com/the_antifada Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com Episode Music is by Various Artists on Doom Chakra Tapes (https://doomchakrataptes.bandcamp.com) and Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com)

What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome listener to the 90th premium chapter of the Q&Nan anonymous podcast, the Pasadism Extraterrestrials and Dolphins episode. As always, we're your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View. Today we are covering Jay Pazadas, and his Argentine

communist movement, Pasadism. Pisadas and his followers stood out for their novel take on utopianism, extraterrestrials, and dolphins, which they integrated into their working-class ideology. Pazadas once played a prominent role in 50s and 60s Latin American Trotskyism, but by his death in 1981, Pazardism had become little more than a cult vulnerable to a variety of brainworms. To get to the bottom of this rabbit hole, our guest this week is A.M. Gitlitz, the author of I Want to Believe, J. Pesadas, UFOs, and a

Apocalypse Communism. In the first for the podcast, AM actually guest wrote our main segment to give you the most informed take possible on this fascinating and colorful subject, and we'll be interviewing him afterwards to go deeper. So here's what he had to say to introduce Pizzadism in today's context. For decades, Pissadas was remembered only by a few rival Trotsky's for his extreme catastrophism and other bizarre features, most notably his appeals to solidarity with extraterrestrials and dolphins. In the 2000s, when the youth returned to the streets to protest globalization and imperialist wars, rumors of Pasadis spread among leftist train spotters in remote regions of the internet, are merging into the meme mainstream during the political chaos of

2016. Today he has been rehabilitated as one of the most recognizable names in the Trotskyist canon, at times even rivaling the inventor of the historical dustbin himself, Leon Trotsky. To this generation of semi-ironic revolutionaries, Pasadis is the folkloric forefather of cosmic socialism, a patron saint of maniacal hope against rational hopelessness, whose futurist strain of apocalyptic communism and radical xenophilia represents a synthesis of barbarism and socialism, tragedy and farce. Jay Posades, the father of Pasadus. Jay Posadas was born Homero Romulo Frasnelli Christali in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Yeah, that's a lot of names. A lot of flourish. It was on the summer day of January 20th, 19th. It's important to note that this was a summer day for two reasons. One because the southern hemispheric summer attracted millions of immigrants from Europe to work year-round, making Argentina's population about half foreign-born by the 20th century, and because seven-year-old Posada's earliest memories were watching a near revolution on the hot streets of Buenos Aires in January of 2019.

The Kristali parents were shoemakers from the south of Italy. When they arrived in Buenos Aires, they joined the Federation Obrera Regional de Argentina, an explicitly revolutionary anarchist communist union that between 1900 and 1910 was the center of the workers' movement. The culmination of their efforts to establish Argentina not as a capitalist nation-state, but as a communist region run by workers' councils, was extinguished before the young Homo Christali's eyes when gendarmes fired on the crowd and patriotic mobs attacked Jewish and Catalan areas in the city in a counter-revolutionary wave, today known as the Semana Trajica,

the tragic week. Despite the defeat, Kristali lived the rest of his life believing that the workers would one day triumph, and the revolutionary wave that began in Russia in 1917 would spread worldwide. He spent his youth singing protest songs in a local choir or solo in the popular tango style for cookies and croissants. We made songs, mostly attacks, complaints, protests, mostly about the trash, because the trash was never taken out and the people loved it. Yeah, real down-to-earth issue, a real local kind of problem. That's right, the trash is not.

I'm not getting fucking taken out by these corrupt bastards. Why are the politicians not talking about the trash? Imagine QAnon trying to settle for something that pedestrian and normal. To be like fill in the potholes or, you know, whatever, like fund our schools better. They did do that. Forget it. Remember when there was that, like, right-wing dude who went around just, like, cleaning up trash and, like, Chicago and shit? And he was like, hmm, I'm cleaning up Chicago's trash because they won't do it.

Right, right. These filthy liberal cities. He dropped out of school after two years to pursue a career in professional soccer. Eventually, he became a backup midfielder for, Esugantes La Plata in 1928, one of the great teams in the rapidly professionalizing sport. Tight. In 1930, a strike led by anarchist soccer players led to the formalization of the league. So anarchists are making the league's formal in 1930s soccer, Argentina.

Are creating structure to the league. Homero did not make the cut and was forced to return to his old neighborhood, a celebrity, although a poor one. He took up a job as a metal worker until he lost two fingers on a mechanical lathe. He then made ends meet doing odd jobs and distributing the. youth section of the Socialist Party's newspaper. Eventually, Christali worked his way up and became the secretary of his local chapter. One of the initiatives of the socialist youth at the time was supporting the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War, which included liberals, communists, and anarchists against

the anti-democratic forces of General Franco, with support from the fascists and Hitler. According to a song he wrote on the subject, he was summoned to Buenos Aires Café to meet with a group then calling themselves the Bolshevik Leninists, soon to be known as the Trotskyist. At the time, they were a thoroughly bourgeois bohemian group of surrealist poets. modernist artists and Hegelian philosophers. And in Christali, they saw an exit to distance themselves from the working class. After proving himself loyal, they sent him to the interior of the country, Cordoba, to organize a shoemaker's union.

He survived for months on stolen meals from the hospital while he agitated and pamphleteered outside the union gates, eventually succeeding in organizing a massive union that went on strike in 1937. In the course of the strike, he found love, Candida Previterra. He proposed to her in a cafe. We had 10 cents. We drank one coffee between. us he said in place of a ring he offered her trotsky's transitional program look this is what i struggle

for this is the objective of my life he told her i have many things to learn we are going to be very hungry we are going to be persecuted they can kill us but we must live for this there are many things that i don't understand that i don't know but we are going to learn along the way i invite you to live with me for this this is the objective of my life shortly afterwards he wrote his first political pamphlet, revolutionary youth or patriotic youth, a criticism of the anti-fascism of the socialist youth movement on the eve of World War II. You have been listening to a sample of a premium episode of QAnon Anonymous. We don't run any advertising on the show, and we'd like to keep it that way.

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