Podcast Episodes

[BEST OF 2025] The Sufi Path of Rumi: Islamic Mysticism and The Journey to Divine Love

Feb 17, 2025

Dr. Rory Dickson is a professor of Islamic Religion and Culture and author of several publications on Sufism, the mystical path within Islam. He joins Breht to have an incredibly deep…

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[BEST OF 2025] Anti-Capitalist Parenting: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea (Upstream Podcast)

Jun 25, 2025

One of the most radical things you can do is live your life in direct opposition to the forces that control our society. Not just fighting for policies or organizing your community, al…

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[BEST OF 2025] On Technofeudalism: Rent Seeking in Late Stage Monopoly Capitalism

Sep 10, 2025

Alyson and Breht critically engage with the concept of "technofeudalism" from a Marxist (and thus historical materialist) perspective, analyzing its origin and recent popularity, criti…

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[BEST OF 2025] Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview

Jun 16, 2025

In this episode, Alyson and Breht explore Friedrich Engels' Dialectics of Nature, a bold and underappreciated attempt to apply dialectical materialism to the natural sciences. Often di…

Published on 4 days, 1 hour ago

Jesus Christ: The Revolutionary Mystic

In this Christmas special, Alyson and Breht reinterpret Jesus through Jewish mysticism, Christian contemplative traditions, and Buddhist conceptions of Enlightenment, offering an understanding of his…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilizational Factors in CPC Governance

What does it really mean to speak of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"? Is it simply a matter of policy and political economy, or does it require grappling with thousands of years of civilizat…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle Part 2: Labor Organizing, The Working Class, and Proletarian Internationalism

Breht speaks with veteran organizer, revolutionary strategist, Elder of the movement, and author Eric Mann.

Together they discuss Eric's life and work, including his book on George Jackson, the Hard…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle: The Weather Underground, the Long 1960s, and the Fight for Liberation Today (Part 1)

Breht speaks with veteran organizer, revolutionary strategist, and author Eric Mann.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Mann reflects on his decades of struggle; from his early work with S…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

[TEASER] The Anti-Human Nihilism of the Techno-Oligarchs

This is a small snippet from a much larger patreon exclusive episode, which you can sign up for (and support the show in the process) here: www.patreon.com/revleftradio

Published on 1 month ago

The Years of Lead in Italy: Strategy of Tension, Operation Gladio, & the Long 1970s

Most people, even on the Left, only know fragments of Italy's "Years of Lead." This episode pulls the whole picture into focus: the mass worker upsurge after the boom years, the 1969 Piazza Fontana b…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago