Podcast Episodes

Fascism in the USA: An Analysis & Strategies for Fighting Back

Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It(AK Press). His work…

7 years, 10 months ago

Communist Party Building and Combatting Bourgeois Individualism

Jodi Dean is an American political philosopher and professor in the Political Science department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York sta…

7 years, 10 months ago

The Politics of Friedrich Nietzsche: German Idealism, Nazism, and Freud

Wes Alwan is one fourth of The Partially Examined Life, a podcast and blog dedicated to studying and teaching philosophy. Wes is a writer and researc…

7 years, 10 months ago

Black Liberation and Bolshevism: Communists in the Civil Rights Movement

In 1991, Clarence Taylor received his PhD in American history and began teaching at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. He reworked his dissertat…

7 years, 11 months ago

The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin

Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation…

7 years, 11 months ago

Prison Abolitionism: Abolitionist Feminism and the Anarchist Black Cross

 Victoria Law, who is familiarly known as Vikki, is an anarchist activist, writer, freelance editor, photographer and mother. Law is of Chinese desce…

7 years, 11 months ago

The Black Panther Party

Authors of "When Theory Meets Practice: The Black Panther Party's Brief but Unignorable Four Years in Boston", Prasanna Rajaskearan and Joe Tache joi…

7 years, 11 months ago

Rebel Music, Communal Dancing, and the Class Politics of Movement

Born in Beijing and based in Berlin, Leo Zhao (AKA Dj Zhao) is a writer, revolutionary, rhythm ambassador, and musicologist, bringing a poly-cultural…

8 years ago

Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee

Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; known primarily for…

8 years ago

Trotskyism: The Red Army, Permanent Revolution, and the Left Opposition

Gabriel Radic is an organizer, student, boxer, and Trotskyist. He helped co-found the Colorado Springs Socialists organization.

Gabe sits down with B…

8 years ago