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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.
Episodes
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MAGA Communism: Opportunism, Social Chauvinism, and Terminally Online Tailism
Alyson and Breht reflect on the recent online stir caused by "MAGA Communism" and analyze the ideas of some of its main represenatives and proponents. Together…
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Papa & Boy: Children, Parents, and the Cruelties of Class Society
Shawn and Aaron from Srsly Wrong join Breht to discuss their brand new animated series exclusively on MEANS TV, "Papa & Boy". Topics discussed included 90s…
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The Worker's Front of Ukraine (ML) on the Russian-Ukraine War
Breht is joined by members of the Workers' Front of Ukraine - a Marxist-Leninist organization based in Ukraine. We discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, the…
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Teachers Under Attack by the Far Right: The Gabriel Gipe Interview
Former high school teacher, Gabriel Gipe, joins the show to tell his story of being set up and targeted by the right-wing organization Project Veritas, the…
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Che Guevara: Revolutionary Hero (Life, Legacy, and Theory)
This is the audio from a full video put out by Paul Connolly over at the YouTube channel "Marxist Paul" on the life, legacy, and theory of Che Guevara. Watch…
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GH Teaser: Booker Omole (Communist Party of Kenya) on China and Africa
Breht askes Booker Omole from the Communist Party of Kenya about China and its role in Africa; particularly as compared to the United States and Europe. Listen…
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The French Revolution
Stella joins Breht to discuss (and put a unique communist spin) on the great French Revolution! Together, they discuss the conditions that led to the…
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When the Balkans were Red: Reflections on Yugoslavia w/ Yugopnik
Yugopnik joins Breht to talk about political development, philosophy, Yugoslavia, Tito, the Balkans today, the Russia-Ukraine War, perceptions of the US, and…
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The Noam Chomsky Interview w/ Vijay Prashad (Guerrilla History)
The Guerrilla History hosts talk with Professor Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad about the topics in their brand new book The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya…
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Taiwan: Pelosi's Visit, Xi's Response, and US Brinkmanship
Danny Haiphong returns to Rev Left, this time to discuss Taiwan, China, Pelosi' recent visit, US imperial goals in the region, and much more! Support Danny's…
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Feminist Analysis: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Fascism
Tai Lee joins Breht to lay out a feminist analysis of modern fascism and to assert the importance of keeping a robust proletarian feminism at the center of our…
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Psychodrama: J.L. Moreno, Psychosociology, and Marxism
Walter Logeman joins Breht to discuss the work of psychosociologist, psychiatrist and founder of psychodrama J.L. Moreno. We discuss his unique approach to…
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Intro to German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel
Matthew Segall is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He joins Breht…
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The Richard Wolff Interview: Imperialism, Inflation, and the Mechanics of Capital (GH Teaser)
Listen to the entire interview with Prof. Richard Wolff by subscribing to Guerrilla History on your preferred podcast app -- or find it here…
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RIBPP Update: Rashid's Cancer Diagnosis, Mass Work, and Carceral Cruelty
Comrade Garlic joins the Show to discuss Kevin Rashid Johnson's cancer diagnosis and struggle for adequate care within the brutal carceral system, a lack of…
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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Mat Callahan joins the show to discuss his recent project "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation" - a book, an album, and a documentary - wherein he and his team…
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Waking Up Through Meditation: Embarking on the Pathless Path
Lauritz Marquardt (aka Conscious Development on YT) returns to the show to discuss meditation, Buddhist practice, offer tips and advice, and much more. Find…
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Mass Struggle: Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line
Mass Struggle Linktree: https://linktr.ee/massstruggle Here's the chapter: https://massline.info/mlms/mlch04.htm Here's the book…
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Learning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
Todd McGowan returns to the show, this time to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Breht and Todd explore many of his core…
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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, is out from…
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[RE-RELEASE] SCOTUS, The Anti-Choice Onslaught and American Institutional Decay
The Supreme Court is an anti-democratic, hyper-reactionary institution, totally free from any semblence of accountability. It is nothing more than another arm…
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[GUERRILLA HISTORY] Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a very special guest, Margrit Schiller! Margrit was associated early on with the Red Army Faction, before…
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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 of…
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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 lives, its…
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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 of…
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[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 shootings…
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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 ends up…
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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 colonialism and…
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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 capitalist…
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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 has been…
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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 here…
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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…
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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Intro to Political Economy
[Originally released Feb 2021] In this episode of Red Menace, Alyson and Breht introduce the core concepts of Marxist political economy by an analysis of the…
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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Historical Materialism, Dialectics, & Political Economy
[Originally released Oct 2020] In this episode of our sister podcast "Red Menace", Alyson and Breht summarize and discuss the fundamental ideas, concepts, and…
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[BEST OF] All Power to the People: The Kevin Rashid Johnson Interview
[Originally released Apr 2021] Breht is joined by Kevin Rashid Johnson, the incarcerated Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary Intercommunalist Black…
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[BEST OF] Malcolm X
[Originally released Aug 2019] Chuka Ejeckam, a graduate student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, joins Breht to discuss the life…
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[BEST OF] Red Rosa: The Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
[Originally released Oct 2019] Kate Evans, the author and illustrator of "Red Rosa", a graphic novel about the life of Rosa Luxemburg, joins Breht to discuss…
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[BEST OF] Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution
[Originally released Jun 2018] Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese…
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[BEST OF] Defending Socialism: Human Nature and the Nightmare of History
[Originally released Jan 2021] Twitch streamer CommieCon interviews Breht on a wide range of topics, including common arguments against socialism and how to…
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[BEST OF] Defending Socialism: Debunking Anti-Communist Myths (w/ Radical Reflections)
[Originally released Sept 2019] David Swanson of Radical Reflections invites Breht on his show to tackle myths, lies, slanders, and popular criticisms wielded…
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[BEST OF] Defending Socialism: Deconstructing the "Communism Killed 100 Million" Lie
[Originally released Oct 2019] Alekx and Ethan from Proles of the Round Table podcast join Breht on this All Hallows Eve to deconstruct the myth and logic of…
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[BEST OF] The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin
[Originally released Feb 2018] Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The…
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[BEST OF] Continuity & Rupture: Maoism and the Science of Revolutionary Communism
[Originally released Mar 2018] J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in…
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[BEST OF] Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi
[Originally released Oct 2017] Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes…
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[BEST OF] The American Indian Movement (AIM)
[Orignally released Aug 2020] In this fascinating episode Nick Estes, Historian, author of "Our History is the Future" and co-founder of The Red Nation, joins…
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[BEST OF] Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee
[Originally released Jan 2018] Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of…
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[BEST OF] In Defense of Che Guevara: Analyzing his Life and Answering his Critics
[Originally released Nov 2017] Dr. Thoreau Redcrow is an American academic with a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis with a concentration in Global Conflict. Thoreau…
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[BEST OF] The Vietnam War
[Orginally released Nov 2018] Historian David Parsons joins Breht to talk about the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh, American Imperial War Crimes, Historical Memory…
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[BEST OF] State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
[Orignally released Oct 2018] Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution. Here is a previous show we…
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Best Of Rev Left Series: Intro Announcement
The month of April will be dedicated to a "Best of Rev Left" series! Every other day for the entire month, a classic Rev Left episode will be uploaded for your…
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Aleksandr Dugin: Traditionalism, Eurasianism, and Russian Nationalism
In this very special episode, Jules (@realjulestaylor) sits down with Brett (@RevLeftRadio) to have a long conversation about the Russian Nationalist…
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On Alcoholism: Addiction, Relapse, & Recovery
David Icenogle joins Breht to discuss his long struggle with alcoholism as well as his long and rocky road to sobriety and recovery. Together, they touch on…
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Process & Reality: Alfred North Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Organic Realism
Matthew Segall is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is an expert…
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Religious Mysticism and Political Criticism
Chase from Faith and Capital and Breht from Rev Left Radio discuss religious mysticism and the maoist method of criticism and self-criticism. In the end, they…
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The Primrose Path: Why Ukraine is the West's Fault (2015)
John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security…
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Brooklyn Eviction Defense: Tenant Organizing for the People
Members of Brooklyn Eviction Defense (BED) join Breht to discuss their organizing, housing justice, slumlords, the pandemic and moritoriums, what housing could…
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Toward a Revolutionary Feminism: a Continuum of Women's Work
Tai Lee joins the show to discuss feminist theory, marxist v. liberal feminism, patriarchal realism, gender abolition, historical and dialectical materialism…
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Red Hot Take: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO
In this episode, Breht (while acknowledging this is a fluid situation that can change on a dime) gives his thoughts on the recent invasion of Ukraine, the role…
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Our Transgender Comrades: Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Feminism, and Trans Liberation
On this episode of Red Menace, Alyson is joined by Rey and Esperanza to analyze transgender identity, struggle, and liberation through a principled Marxist…
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The Deprogram: Marxism and Independent Left Media
Breht was given the honor of being the *first ever guest* on The Deprogram podcast, a new(er) show hosted by Hakim, JT from Second Thought, and Yugopnik, all…