Podcast Episodes

No Republic is Safe That Tolerates a Privileged Class: On Marxist Republicanism

Season 5 Episode 5

We return to the concept of the republic, this time with our comrade Brad who is a member of the CPUSA, a union activist, and first class republic re…

3 years ago

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Patreon Preview: A Failed Empire

Season 5

This week we're discussing  A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev which is a not very good book that advances a …

3 years, 1 month ago

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No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism -- Part I

Season 5 Episode 4

No Royal Road is back!
Varn joins Chris and Jason to discuss Evegny Morozov's  "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." This is the first of what will pr…

3 years, 1 month ago

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The Dialectics of Wood Law: Marxism and Natural Law with Steven

Season 5 Episode 3

Steven from Supreme Leap Forward is back and this time he's bringing his thoughts on natural law. For this weeks episode we read from Olúfémi Táíwò's…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Patreon Preview: Laboratory of Socialist Development

Season 5

Happy New Year and welcome to a new series where Chris talks about books he read in grad school. This week we are reading and discussing Laboratory o…

3 years, 1 month ago

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The Boys Win the Culture War- With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict

Season 5 Episode 2

We got together with our old friend and comrade from the Trot sect days to talk about why it is that the nominally socialist left is so obsessed with…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Unimaginable Horrors and the Terrors of the Global (Liquid Fear Part II)

Season 5 Episode 1

Happy December, I just finished my semester and finally got around to mastering this episode that we recorded a couple months ago.  We are revisiting…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Patreon Preview: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal (Part III)

Season 5

We are back with part three of our discussion of Rodrigo Nunes' new book on Verso. This week we talk about chapters three and four.

Head over to our…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Four Regrettable Years

Season 4 Episode 22

We just turned four!

Looks like we have successfully fooled you into listening to us for another year. In honor of exiting the anal stage and enter…

3 years, 3 months ago

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Meming Prometheus and the Continuing Tragedy of the Worker (II of II)

Season 4 Episode 21

This week we continued our discussion of The Tragedy of the Worker by the Salvage Collective and discussed the implications of looming climate collap…

3 years, 4 months ago

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