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Back to SearchPATREON TEASER: The Red Jacobins and the Thermidor of 1921
Season 1
Check out some Real Nerd Hours when Chris and Jason have a discussion about a not very well known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written …
6 years, 6 months ago
No One is Bored, Everything is Boring, Everyone is Anxious
Season 1 Episode 30
"Perhaps the feeling most characteristic of our current moment is a mixture of boredom and compulsion. Even though we recognise that they are boring,…
6 years, 6 months ago
Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part II
Season 1 Episode 29
This week we dive in to the second part of our two part collaboration with Adam from Red Library, who hosts s a great podcast that analyzes and discu…
6 years, 7 months ago
Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part I
Season 1 Episode 28
Red Library is a great podcast that analyzes and discusses important works of Marxist (and other leftist) literature, and we are big fans. So, we are…
6 years, 7 months ago
PATREON TEASER: Goodbye Lenin: Melancholic Thoughts
Season 1
We decided that a good companion to our episode about Melancholia and Organized Pessimism would be a rare recording with all of us (except Kevin) in …
6 years, 7 months ago
Children of the Counterrevolution
Season 1 Episode 27
When we were kids: history ended, the Christian right launched an all out assault on the gains of the 1960s/70s, the liberals launched an all out ass…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out: Pessimisms and Optimisms of Intellect and Will
Season 1 Episode 26
We received a really thoughtful and challenging question/comment from one of our Patrons and we decided to give it the attention it deserves, in the …
6 years, 8 months ago
Scattered Thoughts on Melancholia and the Organization of Pessimism
Season 1 Episode 25
We read a bunch of stuff about Walter Benjamin and Enzo Traverso and tried to have a conversation about it.
We've only managed to reinforce the idea…
6 years, 8 months ago
Marxism & Religion & Everything Else & Religion, With C. Derick Varn
Season 1 Episode 24
We sat down with C. Derick Varn and solved all the problems that are currently ailing the left. We reconciled the divergent currents of Marxism and w…
6 years, 9 months ago
PATREON TEASER: Many Roads To Socialism? The Early Comintern Debates On ”Workers Governments”
Season 1
After our Socialism From Below episode, Jason and Chris thought they could have used more time to talk about the 4th Comintern congress and the quest…
6 years, 9 months ago