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Rev Left Radio
Discussing political philosophy, current events, activism, and the inevitable historical downfall of capitalism from a revolutionary leftist perspective.
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Marxist Film Analysis: Mad Max
The Film Vanguard reunites to analyze the Mad Max anthology Outro Song: Hostage Crisis w/ Chris Hannah of Propagandhi | Sole & DJ Pain1 Support the Show…
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Communist Study and the DPRK w/ Derek Ford
Derek is an organizer, communist thinker, and educational theorist who teaches classes in philosophy and history of education. He received his PhD in cultural…
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On Syria: Civil War and U.S. Imperialism
Rania Khalek is an independent journalist, writer, and political commentator. Khalek has written for a variety of publications, including The Nation, The…
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Deconstructing Liberal Intellectuals: Peterson, Harris, and Pinker
Aimee Terese (@AimeeTerese on twitter) joins Brett, all the way from Australia, to critically analyze the work of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Steven…
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Jon (AKA The Lit Crit Guy) joins Brett to discuss the 2009 book by Mark Fisher entitled "Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative" published by Zero Books…
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May 1968: An Uprising in France
Mitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive. He is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn. His previous books are…
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Irish Insurrection: The Easter Rising of 1916
Guest Brendan Leahy and host Breht O'Shea discuss the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland. Outro Music: "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" by The Wolfe Tones Reach us…
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In Defense of China as a Socialist State: An Interview with Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh is a Marxist, anti-imperialist writer and political analyst. He received his Juris Doctor in Law from the University of Western Ontario in 2014…
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Gloria La Riva: PSL, Anti-Imperialism, & the Future of the U.S. Left
Gloria La Riva joins Brett to discuss her experiences in Cuba and Venezuela, her personal relationship with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the importance of…
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Food Politics & Environmentalism: Climate Change, Hunger, & Veganism
Mexie joins Brett to discuss Veganism, Climate Change, artificial scarcity, hunger, and much much more! Mexie's YouTube channel can be found here…
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Continuity & Rupture: Maoism and the Science of Revolutionary Communism
J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in philosophy. He blogs regularly at…
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Rev Left Radio in Dialogue with Liberalism
Matthew Downhour, a liberal historian, joins Brett on Rev Left Radio to have a wide-ranging discussion/debate on the differences between liberalism and…
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Cuba Today: The Question of Markets, Reform, and the Future of Cuba
Andres Pertierra graudated in History from the University of Havana and currently works as a Legal Assistant at an immigration law firm in Washington, D.C. He…
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Community Organizing: Advice & Ideas w/ The Nebraska Left Coalition
Brett sits down with his fellow-organizer, friend, and comrade to discuss their experience organizing as the Nebraska Left Coalition. The point of this episode…
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Black Rose Anarchist Federation: Revolutionary Organizing
Black Rose Anarchist Federation is an organization of active revolutionaries who share common visions of a new world – a world where people collectively…
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Community Armed Self-Defense: Setting Sights on Liberation
Scott Crow is an American anarchist organizer, speaker and writer. A longtime activist, he is an advocate for the philosophies and politics of anarchism. In…
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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 as…
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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 state. She…
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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 researcher living…
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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 dissertation into a…
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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, and…
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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 descent and was…
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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 join Brett to…
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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…
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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 her…
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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 Brett to…
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Caliban and the Witch: An Interview with Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici is one of the most important political theorists alive today. Her landmark book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive…
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The Guillotine, Episode 2: GOP Tax Bill, Net Neutrality, Police Brutality, and the Informal Anarchist Federation
THIS IS THE LAST TIME AN EPISODE OF THE GUILLOTINE WILL BE AIRED ON REVOLUTIONARY LEFT RADIO. You can find The Guillotine podcast here…
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Gothic Marxism: The Horror Genre and the Monsters of Neoliberalism
TheLitCritGuy is a precariously employed, struggling academic and the internet's foremost literary critic, bringing literary theory and criticism to the widest…
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Marxism-Leninism: Anti-Imperialism, Scientific Socialism, and State Power
Amado Guzman and Matthew Carson join Brett to discuss the theory and praxis of Marxism-Leninism. Topics Include: Lenin's contributions to Marxism, Dialectical…
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From Diplomat to Anarchist: The State, War, and the Fight for a Better World
Carne Ross is a former British diplomat, and Middle East and WMD expert, who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the…
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Black Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe Samudzi
Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen…
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BRAND NEW SPIN-OFF PODCAST: The Guillotine, episode 1
We are introducing the first episode of a brand new spin-off podcast called The Guillotine. Brett from Revolutionary Left Radio and Dr. Bones from The Conjure…
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In Defense of Che Guevara: Analyzing his Life and Answering his Critics
Dr. Thoreau Redcrow is an American academic with a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis with a concentration in Global Conflict. Thoreau is a researcher who specializes…
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The Paris Commune: A Brief Blossoming of Proletarian Power
Mitchell Abidor is a leftist writer and translator. He is the principal French translator for the Marxist Internet Archive; Abidor has translated hundreds of…
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Marxist Film Analysis: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Halloween Special: The Revolutionary Left Radio's Film Vanguard applies Marxist film analysis to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Please support us on…
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21st Century Marxism: Neo-Marxism and the Value of Engels
Brendan Leahy is a local organizer and revolutionary thinker. He was featured on our Ideology Episode a few months back. He sits down with Brett to discuss…
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The Soviet Union: The Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin
Gregory Afinogenov received his PhD in History from Harvard University, and is now an assistant professor in Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University…
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Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi
Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue…
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Omaha To Denver: RevLeft Radio in Dialogue w/ Solecast
Brett travels to Denver to meet Sole from the Solecast IRL and have a discussion in Sole's home together. Topics include: their Podcasts and why they started…
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White Supremacy in the Confederacy: Monuments of Anti-Blackness
Tanesha Hudson is an activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. She joins Brett to talk about Charlottesville, Confederate statues, her personal experiences with…
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Leftist Podcasts, New Atheism, and the October Revolution (w/ Dan Arel)
Dan Arel is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author of The Secular Activist; and Parenting Without God. He has also written for The Hill, The New…
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Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI): Insurrectionary Political Violence
Content Warning: Descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Please be advised. NSA Disclaimer: Revolutionary Left Radio does not advocate the use of…
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Christian Socialism: The Fusion of Faith and Revolution
Matt Bernico is the assistant professor of Media Studies at Greenville College, where his teaching and research concerns cultural studies, media theory, and…
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The Mexican Revolution and The Zapatistas
Alexander Avina is an assistant professor of history at ASU. His research focuses on twentieth-century Mexico, primarily the post-1940 period. His first book…
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American Individualism and the Cultural Maintenance of Capitalism
David Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington's Creative Writing Program. His fiction, poetry, and literary and…
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Revolutionary Anarchism and Autonomous Anti-Capitalism
It's Going Down is a digital community center from anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements. Our mission is to provide a…
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Marxist Feminism: The Struggle Against Capitalist Patriarchal Hegemony
Raechel Anne Jolie is an educator, an activist, a yogi, a Media Studies PhD, a vegan, a podcaster, and a writer. Her writing has been featured in Bitch…
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Debate: Egoism vs Marxism
This is our first ever debate on the show: Egoism vs. Marxism featuring Comrade Dr. Bones on the Egoist side, and Comrade Phil on the Marxist side, with…
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Anti-Imperialism: Palestine, Venezuela, & the DPRK with Abby Martin
Abby Martin is an American journalist and presenter of The Empire Files, an investigative news program on the socialist state-funded satellite network teleSUR…
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Anti-Racist Action and the Struggle Against Fascism
Mic Crenshaw is a hip hop artist and co-founder of the Anti-Racist Action Network that arose and was active in the 80s and 90s. The ARA is an anti-fascist…
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Venezuela in Crisis: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution
Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher is an American political theorist, commentator, and activist. He is an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at…
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Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding
Dr. Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist, author, Revolutionary, and anarcho-primitivist thinker who urges us to examine civilization, its premises, its…
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In Defense Of Libertarian Marxism
The host of Rev Left Radio, Brett, goes on a Libertarian podcast to discuss and defend Marxism. Topics Include: Libertarian Marxism, Louie CK, Murray Bookchin…
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Egoist-Communism: Insurrectionism, Illegalism, And The Union Of Egoists W/ Dr. Bones
Dr. Bones is an Egoist, Communist, Insurrectionary Anarchist, Conjurer, and Gonzo Journalist. He joins Brett on the podcast to discuss his philosophy of…
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Refuting Common Arguments Against The Left
Kristy is a revolutionary organizer and co-founder of the leftist organization The Nebraska Left Coalition. Jeff is revolutionary union member and one of the…
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Appalachia: Class Struggle In Coal Country
Brett sits down with revolutionary organizer and Appalachian local Nic Smith to talk about the Appalachian working class and its history of class struggle…
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Interpreting 'Firefly': Libertarianism Vs. Anarchism w/ Dr. James Rocha
Dr. James Rocha is a professor of philosophy at Fresno State University. He wrote a paper entitled "The Black Reaching Out: An Anarchist Analysis of Firefly"…
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Dr. Redcrow Vs. Turkey/ISIS, Cuba, Trotsky, Hegel, and Q and A
This is a unique episode. We are releasing bonus content from our episode with Dr. Thoreau Redcrow and from our Maoism episode; this bonus content will be…
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Maoism: The Merging Of Theory And Praxis
The Red Plains Revolutionary Group is a multi-tendency communist organization with an intrinsically Maoist inflection. Brett sits down with members of the…