STRUGGLE SESSION S PRO
Struggle Session is hosted by Leslie Lee III (Jacobin Magazine, Japan Times, Pro Wrestling Is Art) and Jack. We talk video games, movies, TV, wrestling, comic books, music, anime, and all of your problematic faves.
We wade into the reactionary hellhole of modern America. Your unacceptable thoughts may have contaminated other generations who were too close to you. Struggle Session is the worlds finest politics and pop culture podcast. Host Jack Allison, Leslie Lee III with Emma Bowers and Shannon Strucci. Your family would be damned by the politically correct for the next three succeeding generations. Struggle Session Journey with us through the hellscape of American pop culture. But usually your punishment was to be sent to the gulags. The communist party god may forgive you, and let you go. Make sure you swear that you will never ever entertain a thought that is counter to the prevailing thoughts. Make sure you curse yourself and beg and please for forgiveness from the “proletariat” and the infallible communist party. No matter the charge was laid and you were automatically guilty. Or maybe you just ticked off the wrong person. Or maybe you didn’t make your quota on your work team. They came up with these charges because someone heard you complain that the government made mistakes. You would be subjected to “criticism/self criticism” time: they would criticize you and you were expected to agree with the mob and criticize yourself. They would scream at you that you were a “running dog of capitalism” or that you were an “imperialist” or that you were “rightist”. Of course your relatives and neighbors would join in, because they would not want to fall into disfavor with the politically correct mob.
There you and others equally accused of imaginary crimes were screamed at (and beaten) by the Red Guard. If the Red Guard (the youthful fans of Chairman Mao who believed in his infallibility) thought that you were “counterrevolutionary” or that you were not radical enough, they would surround your house and drag you out into the town square. During the Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966-1976), a favorite tactic of Mao’s fanatical followers was the “struggle session”. From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent Tom Wolfe-esque romp through the sacred spaces of.
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