Podcast Episodes

Yugoslavia: Socialist Construction in the Balkans

In this episode, Aleksandra Kolaković joins Breht to discuss the history of socialist construction in the former Yugoslavia. We discuss the formation…

3 years, 9 months ago

Power Struggle: Hip Hop For the People!

Nomi (aka Power Struggle) from the Beatrock Music label, joins Breht to discuss his latest album "Aspirations", the role of hip hop in both of their …

3 years, 9 months ago

Deep Dive 5: Hegel and Deleuze on the Concept of Negation

In this fifth installment of the Dialects Deep Dive subseries, Matthew Furlong joins Breht once again - this time to discuss, at length, the concept …

3 years, 10 months ago

[UNLOCKED] American Carnage: Mass Shootings, Gun Policy, & Root Causes

Breht and Alyson discuss the recent barrage of mass shootings, how Marxists should think about these issues, what the root causes of american mass sh…

3 years, 10 months ago

Waste Colonialism, Recycling, & Microplastics

Jesi Taylor joins Breht to discuss waste management, how the racialized, colonial and imperialist world order dictates where certain kinds of trash e…

3 years, 10 months ago

US-Mexico Borderlands: War, Colonialism, and Imperial Formation

Professor Alex Avina returns to the show, this time to discuss the US-Mexico borderlands, its fascinating history, its deep relationship to coloniali…

3 years, 10 months ago

Red Hot Take: The American Ruling Class and Its Depravities

[ Edit: this was recorded hours BEFORE Biden invoked the Defense Production Act ]

Breht discusses the infant formula crisis and its relationship to c…

3 years, 10 months ago

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò joins Breht to discuss his book "Elite Capture". Together, they discuss what elite capture is, how the language of social justice h…

3 years, 10 months ago

The Anti-Choice Onslaught and American Institutional Decay

Red Menace Teaser: Alyson and Breht discuss the recent Supreme Court leak and the implications of Roe's dismantling...

Listen to the full episode he…

3 years, 10 months ago

The Wobblies: Breht Goes on NPR to talk about the IWW

Breht was invited onto the local NPR station in Omaha to discuss the classic documentary from 1979 "The Wobblies" to help promote its remastering and…

3 years, 11 months ago