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Cosmopod — 337 episodes
Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid
The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey
Interview: Oliver Larkin for Congress
The Last Soviet States? Scandinavian Social Democracy
An Arduous March: The Development of North Korea's Political Economy
Your Party Founding Conference: Fiasco or Triumph? [Stream audio]
Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism
The Border is a Mirror: Europe and the politics of migration with Iker Suarez
What Is Missing From Your Understanding of Revolutionary Democratic Centralism
Protest, Pop Culture and the Alt-Right: Jarrod Shanahan on a Decade of Upheaval
Towards 2026: The Fight for Recognition
D. R. Congo after Mobutu to the present with Jeremy Rich
Superman Through the Ages: Hero of the Zeitgeist
An Introduction To Kojin Karatani with Gabriel Tupinambá
How the US made Global Capitalism with Sam Gindin
City Time: Life as Political Prisoners on Rikers with Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell
The Contemporary Irish Left with Oisín Gilmore & David Landy
The German Left w/ Carlos from Licht & Luft
Tricontinentalism: North Korea in Havana & Georgetown with Moe Taylor
White Hoods and Pinkertons with Chad Pearson
Spanish Anarchism and the New Economy
Mexico 1920-40: Building the Revolutionary State
The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism by Aidan Beatty
Somalia: Colonialism, Socialism and War
Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack
Ba'ath and Ba'ath: Arab Socialism in Syria and Iraq
Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884-1921 with Tony Collins
Ending the One Party State: Reflections on Rhode Island Democratic Socialists of America
Pacific Gibraltar: A soft introduction to Hawai'i
The Italian Communist Party: From Resistance to Dissolution
The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes
Sports and Straight Edge in Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn
Nasserism and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Escaping the Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana
The Making of a Working Class Revolutionary: an Interview with Jerome Scott
Artificial Intelligence
The Frankfurt School in Context (1923-69)
Mining and the Environment with Martin Lallana
Jihadism and Military Juntas in the Sahel with Alexander Thurston
[REMASTER] Communism in the Colours of France: The French Communist Party (1920-2024)
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Letter: Llorente v. Schaeffer
Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement
The Korean Miracle's Rural Legacy
The Mexican Revolution
Seeds of Power: The Global Food System and The Green Revolution with Raj Patel
Just Another Kautsky Fan
Captives: the History of Rikers Island and New York City with Jarrod Shanahan
Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought with Bruno Leipold
Solidarność and the Polish People's Republic
The Algerian Revolution II (1965-99): Developmentalism, Marketization and War
Endless Muddle
Inside the CR-CPUSA/Red Guards: Cults, Violence and the Left
Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement with Chris Gilbert
A Participant's History of the Students for a Democratic Society with Gil Schaeffer
Race, Class and the Zionist State
Between Market and Plan: the Soviet Union in the Era of the NEP
The Wars of Reconstruction with Douglas Egerton
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with Matteo Capasso
The Algerian Revolution I (1954-65): Decolonization, Self-Management and Internationalism
Democratic Rights and Socialism
Migration as Economic Imperialism with Immanuel Ness
From Champion of the Oppressed to Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Who Took the Socialism Out of Superman?
A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time with Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek
Marxism and the Democratic Republic
Marxist Unity Group & the Democratic Socialists of America's National Convention
Czechoslovakia's Quest for Reform: Unraveling the Prague Spring
Labor Republicanism and the Freedom Question in 19th Century North America
Nurturing Minds, Uniting Movements: Exploring Political Education in the Communist Movement
There Is Never One Lamb Alone: On Finding Unity in Diversity
The Mexican Dirty War: From Cárdenas to Zapatismo with Adela Cedillo
The Contradictions and Confusions of "Democratic Socialism"
The World System and The Beautiful Game ⚽ with Sam Parry
The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
The U.S. Constitution and the Struggle for Democracy with Robert Ovetz
ACT UP, Fight Back
The People's Republic of Mozambique with Colin Darch
Socializing Care: Against Domestic Realism
Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism
The People's Republic of Bulgaria: From the Fields to the Cyberstars with Victor Petrov
Cop City will never be built with Kei and Leila
Letter: "Lines of flight" for undeniable problems
Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel
Letter: On Sortition and Democratic Decision-making
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization with Rodrigo Nunes
The Beijing Revolutionary Women's Conference of '49 with Elisabeth Armstrong
Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano's Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism
Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation
Cultivating the City with George Martin and Salvatore Engel
American Socialism from 1892 to 1908
H. T. Odum's Environment, Power and Society
Letter: MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention
Democracy and Socialism, the Two Edges of Marxism's Knife
Unite the Pro-Party Wing to Revolutionize the DSA!!
Marxist approaches to International Law with Robert Knox
Why Socialists Must Reject the Yimby-Nimby Binary
The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
The Problem of Unity
Montreal is an Island: 1968 and the Black International Left with David Austin
The Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism with Jesse Olsavsky
Naming The System
The Hungarian Tragedy of '56: Origins, Events and Consequences
To Talk of Organization - On Nunes' Neither Vertical nor Horizontal
Cuba in Africa with Piero Gleijeses
Knowledge: Power and Emancipation
The Twilight of the Sweatshop Age: Labor, Monopsony and Supply Chains with Ashok Kumar
Legislative Campaigns and Policy Feedback
The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain with Phil Burton-Cartledge
Coalitions of the Liberal and Socialist Left
Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism
Probabilistic Approaches to Political Economy and Labor with Machover, Farjoun & Zachariah
The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party with Barbara C. Allen
New York City Food Worker Organizing, 1912-37 with Kevin Bruce
Twilight of World Trotskyism with John Kelly
From Guerrilla Mime to Brecht & Ecology: An Interview with Ron G. Davis
Addiction is not a Crime
The Goal: Scientific Management, Lean and Safe Organizations
Larouche: a Warning for us All
Ecological Leninism with Kai Heron
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a "Democratic Road" to Socialism?
Stalin pt. 2: the Second World War, Reconstruction, and the Making of High Stalinism
Women, Life, Freedom: The Iranian Protests with Slingers Collective
From Petrograd to Shanghai: The Party and Mass Democracy in Lenin and Mao
Leon Trotsky and Cultural Revolution
A New Jihad: Afghanistan from 1992 to the Present
Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century
Science Fiction, Emancipation and Yugoslavia with Darko Suvin
Long, Queer Revolution
Disculpe, No Entiendo: Language Justice with Esme and Lizette
Under the Socialist Banner with Mike Taber
The Platform is the Message
The Tortoise and the Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution, and Socialism
Ireland: Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution with Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston
No End in Sight: On the War in Ukraine
Constructive Criticism: The Dialectics of Unity & Struggle
Christianity and the Revolutionary Origins of the Jesus Movement
Passing the Torch: The Art of Communist Mentorship
From Paris to Petrograd: State and Revolution in Practice
Roots of the Rank and File Strategy with Kim Moody
Value Chains, Supply Chains and Economic Imperialism with Intan Suwandi
[Audiobook] Karl Kautsky on Democracy & Republicanism: Part IV
Redefining Environmentalism: Unions, Workers and Nature with Chad Montrie
The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat
Stalin pt. 1: The Long Road to the Red Inquisition
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan: Origins to Collapse
[Audiobook] Karl Kautsky on Democracy & Republicanism: Part III
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science with Helena Sheehan
Socialism of the Oppressed: The Stakes of the Bowman Affair
Organizing The Social Care Factory: Careworkers, Houseworkers and the Women's Strike with Imogen Woods
[Audiobook] Karl Kautsky on Democracy & Republicanism: Part II
A Brief History of The Paris Commune with Carolyn Eichner
[Audiobook] Karl Kautsky on Democracy & Republicanism: Part I
Dissolving the People and Electing Another
Western Sahara: Colonialism, Settler-Colonialism and Resistance with Garazi Hach Embarek
Disarming the Magic Bullet
American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34) with Victor Devinatz
Which Way Forward for the Marxist Left?
The Farthest Promised Land: An Introduction to New Zealand's Political Economy
Beyond Son Nica: Revolutionary Popular Music in Sandinista Nicaragua with T.M. Scruggs
Why Machines Don't Create Value
The Historic Defeat of the Female Sex: Revisiting Engels' The Origin of the Family
Five Letters On Russia/Ukraine
The Eco-Centrist Movement: The Sierra Club & Earth First! with Keith Makoto Woodhouse
The Russian "Threat to Freedom & Democracy"
Understanding & Learning with the Working Class: Workers' Inquiry and Social Investigation
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem
From the Fields to the Stars!: Sputnik, Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination
Profits Beyond Reason and Reason Beyond Profit
Modes of Production and the Transition to Capitalism with Jairus Banaji
On the Stalin Question
The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village with Dongping Han
Historiography Wars: The French Revolution
The Colony Hates its Own Black People: Australian Indigenous Struggles with Boe & Kieran
Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
End of an Era: 30 Years After the Soviet Collapse
Bismarck, Browder, Biden: Joe's Hegemony versus Ours
The Dialectic of Assimilation
On the Giving of Orders: Power and Freedom in Democratic Organizations
Plowed Under: Communist Folk-Revival and Mid-Century Suppression with Aaron J. Leonard
The Counterinsurgency State
The History of Palestine Solidarity in the US with Michael Fischbach
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Nine
Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution: Communes and the Transition to Socialism with Chris and Cira
Class Struggle in the Carpenters Union with Art Francisco
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Eight
Zapatismo through Women's Eyes: Democracy, Autonomy and Liberation with Hilary Klein
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Seven
Socialist States and the Environment with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Six
Cambodia 1975-89: From Year Zero to Capitalism
The Worker and the Hydra: A Reply to Partisan Mag
Indigenous Flows of Resistance with Mike Gouldhawke
The Fight for a Marxist Program in the DSA
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Five
Untold Stories of the United Electrical Workers with Chris Townsend
To Hell With The American Gentry
The Value of Law: The Judiciary and the State with Mike Macnair
Trans-cending the Market: How Socialist Planning Can Meet the Needs of Transgender People
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Four
Class Struggle and Corporatism: A Brief History of Australian Colonialism
The Class Struggle in Afghanistan and its Future
The World-Ecology: Capitalism and Nature with Jason Moore
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Three
Imperialism in the 21st century with John Smith
Ten Theses on the Gender Question
Radical Approaches to Mental Health: Decolonial and Democratic Psychiatries with Sasha Durakov
Intro to Historical Materialism by Nikolai Bukharin
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter Two
The Practice of Marxist Psychoanalysis with Daniel Tutt
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Chapter One
Revisiting the Agrarian and National Questions with Paris Yeros
[Audiobook] Revolutionary Strategy - Preface & Introduction
Canadian Settler-Capitalism with Brendan and Tyler Shipley
Capitalism, Socialism and Subsistence in Laos with Boike Rehbein
Communism and the Disabled with Maddie and Jess
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Nine and Conclusion
Lifting the Double Burden: The Women's Movement under State Socialism
The Procedural is Political
Communists and the Miners' Upsurge with Mike Ely
Grenada: Volcanic Memories and Stone Legacies of Revolution with Shalini Puri
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Eight
Californian Dreams: Tech Utopia or Dystopia
The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party with Matt Rothwell
Vietnam: From National Liberation to Liberalization
Neither Intersectionality nor Economism: For a Genuine Class Politics
How Capitalism Produces Pandemics with Rob Wallace
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Seven
From Cochabamba to a People's Green New Deal with Max Ajl
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Invisible Empire: The Global Power of Finance with Tony Norfield
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Six
Constitution and Class Struggle in the Early American Republic with Matt Christman
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende's Chile with Raúl Espejo
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Five
Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Four
Trade Unionism and Identity in the Israeli State with Ehud Ein-Gil
On Winning and Losing
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Three
Building a Mass Tenants Movement with Stomp Out Slumlords
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter Two
Cuba: Past, Present, and Future with Helen Yaffe
A life in Marxist Economics and Education with Sam Bowles
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Chapter One
Organizing Amazon: AU's Shop Floor Alternative
Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults
Strikes & Boycotts: The Two Souls of the United Farm Workers with Frank Bardacke
[Audiobook] Lenin Rediscovered: Introduction
The Class Struggle in Contemporary China with Yueran Zhang
From Ruins to Ruins in East Germany
Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Ethiopia: From the '74 Revolution to the present with Ian Scott Horst
The Early Communist Women's Movement with Daria Dyakonova
Organizing our Organizations
Create a Mass Party!
Class and race in Israel/Palestine with Emmanuel Farjoun
Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate
A Marxist Education with Wayne Au
Beyond Work? The Shortcomings of Post-Work Politics
Reparations and Self-Determination: Loosening the Black-Belt
Republicanism and Freedom in Marx with William Clare Roberts
The origins of Matzpen: the Israeli Anti-Zionist New Left with Moshé Machover
The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky with Ben Lewis
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu
Holocaust Capitalism
An X-Ray of the Yugoslav Experiment in Self-Management
Radio Free Punjab
Attic Communists of the Netherlands
Driving in reverse: Prop 22 and AppBased Drivers' resistance with Boston Independent Drivers Guild
Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
Revisiting the Lysenko Affair
Revolutionary Discipline and Sobriety
The Tragedy of American Science with Cliff Conner
An Accumulation of Affect
Pull the Plugs? Labor, Power, and the Rise of Fossil Capitalism
Without a Party, We Have Nothing
Organizing the Oppressed with Mara & Janaya of Philly Socialists
Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The "Three-Line Struggle" in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward
Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz
Knowledge Democratization, Bourgeois Specialists and the Organization of Science in the Early Soviet Union
The Politics of Drugs and Harm Reduction with Michael Gilbert
Hold Your Fire!: A Warning to the Left
The Zhenotdel and Women's Emancipation in the Central Asian Republics with Anne McShane
Marxist Center Double Feature
No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy with Red Library
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Different Horizons of Science Fiction under Socialism with Virginia Conn
From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend
Che Guevara and the Economics of Socialist Transition
Capitalism in the Web of Life
Unmasking Social Construction with Djamil Lakhdar
Food, Capitalism and the Necessity of a Socialist Program
Protests, Guerillas and Revolution in Iran with Yassamine Mather
Building Camaraderie in the CPUSA, 1930-1950
Spontaneous Philosophy in Science and Activism
DSA Double Feature
Fascism Double Feature
Prefiguration and (Cosmic) Utopia with A. M. Gittlitz
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
Why Have a Political Program?
Articulating and Organizing the Social Body with Asad Haider
The USSR's Founding Mother
To Live and Die in Kerala
The Democratic Bolshevik
Komsomol Life: Interrogating the Soviet Young Communist League with Sean Guillory
The fight for a better end of the world
Historiography of the CPUSA with Josh Morris
Some Words of Advice for our Comrades in the Streets
Brick by Brick: An Appeal to Strength...and Hate Mail!
The Past and Future of Socialist Labor with Adolph Reed and Ed Bruno
Radio Free Seoul
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: A Discussion
"Left" Anti-Immigration: A Chauvinist Disorder
Progress of the Storm: Collaboration with Rev Left Radio
Christopher Caudwell and the Crisis in Physics: A Discussion
Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods
STEMbrain Socialism
Super Tuesday Special
Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates: A Discussion
Where Does Power Come From?
Carrying the Burden of Communist Man
Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition
From NPC to PMC
Stealing Fire From the Gods: Interview with Amelia Davenport
From Workers' Party to Workers' Republic
Degrees of Kevin Bacon from the PKK
A Conversation on the DSA Convention
Puerto Rico, Imperialism, and Protest w/ Hector Reyes
Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
Socialism & The U.S. Military w/ Ellie Bryant
Culture Beyond Capital: Art, Authenticity, and the 21st Century Workers' Movement
Communism & Republicanism