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Socialism Conference '26: Labor Day Weekend in Chicago!
Toward Indigenous Self-Determination: Fourth World Theory and Indigenous Marxism
Substance, Spirit, Struggle: From Spinoza through Hegel to Marx (and Beyond)
From Theory to Praxis: Lenin's Revolutionary Formula w/ Breht O'Shea
Practical Dialectics: The Dialectics of Everyday Life
Democratic Socialist Electoral Victories and the Implications for American Politics
Expropriate the Rich: Billionaire Rule, Class War, and the Socialist Solution
Empire in the Stars: Science Fiction, Ideology, and Colonialist-Imperialist Realism (Feat. The Left Page)
Announcement: Rev Left Summer Design & the Socialism Conference
Philosophy of Mind: Marxism, Materialism, and Dialectical Monism
Understanding Sudan: Revolution, Civil War, and the Fight for the Future
Marxist Feminism and the Socialist Left
[UNLOCKED] Alyson and Breht Answer Your Questions
All Too Human: Dr. John Ukadike on his Experiences in Emergency Medicine
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
UNLOCKED: Meister Eckhart, Christian Mysticism, and Buddhist Meditation
On Lebanon: Hezbollah, Faith, and the Struggle Against Zionism and Imperialism
Nonviolence is Violence Too (Pt. 2): We're All In the Gunk
Iran Will Not Bend The Knee: National Cohesion, The Axis of Resistance, and Decolonizing West Asia
Cuba After Castro
The Shadow and the Specter: Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, and Modern Politics
The Worldwide Family of Militant Women
From Palestine: Suffering, Dignity, & Resistance
Breaking the Spell: Patriarchy, Dismemberment, and Pure Awareness
China's Green Development: Anti-Imperialist and Socialist
A History of Iran-U.S. Relations
The Iran War: A Dialectical and Historical Materialist Analysis
The Bush Years: 9/11, War Crimes, and Economic Collapse
From Iran: Letter to the American People
Dialectics Without Destiny: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison
From Persia to Iran: Islam, Empire, and the Politics of West Asia
Unequal Exchange: The Engine of Modern Imperialism
War on the Iranian People and the American Mind (Workers' Lit & Rev Left Collab)
Iran Under Attack by the Fourth Reich
Guillotines for the Epstein Class
Nonviolence is Violence, Too: Somebody's Gotta Die
Manufacturing Syria: HTS, Rojava, Iran, and the Consequences of Regime Change
Minneapolis on Fire
The Political Economy of Love: Attention, Affection, & What Capitalism Can't Buy
Western Marxism and The Imperial Theory Industry
Solidarity With Children: Love, Autonomy, Parenting, and Innocence
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[BEST OF 2025] Farce, Finance & Fascism: Margaret Kimberley on Empire in Decay
On Venezuela... (with Guerrilla History and Red Menace)
[BEST OF 2025] On The Ground in Gaza: Serving the People in Palestine
[BEST OF 2025] The Sufi Path of Rumi: Islamic Mysticism and The Journey to Divine Love
[BEST OF 2025] Anti-Capitalist Parenting: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea (Upstream Podcast)
[BEST OF 2025] On Technofeudalism: Rent Seeking in Late Stage Monopoly Capitalism
[BEST OF 2025] Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview
Jesus Christ: The Revolutionary Mystic
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilizational Factors in CPC Governance
Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle Part 2: Labor Organizing, The Working Class, and Proletarian Internationalism
Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle: The Weather Underground, the Long 1960s, and the Fight for Liberation Today (Part 1)
[TEASER] The Anti-Human Nihilism of the Techno-Oligarchs
The Years of Lead in Italy: Strategy of Tension, Operation Gladio, & the Long 1970s
They Called Her Rebel: Speculative Fiction, Revolutionary Art, and the Politics of Imagination
UNLOCKED: Mamdani, Marijuana Dependency, and Unconditional Life Acceptance
Heidegger in Ruins: Philosophy, Fascism, and the Politics of Being
From Reagan to Trump: Neoliberalism, Class War, and American Decadence
Union Organizing, Islamic Faith, and the Collective Vision of Socialism
On Fatherhood: Parenting and Marriage in an Era of Uncertainty
Ceasefire in Gaza, The Monroe Doctrine Under Trump, and a US Economy on the Brink of Collapse
Discussing Popular Education and Social Movement Work (w/ Ultra-Red)
The State of the American Left (w/ How The Red Was Won)
Menace of our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
Rev Left Intervention: Help Get Food to Palestinians in Gaza! (REUPLOAD)
The Russian Revolution of 1917: The Bolshevik March to October
Socializing Sports: Reclaiming The Beautiful Game from Capital & Empire
On Technofeudalism: Rent Seeking in Late Stage Monopoly Capitalism
Building an Internationalist Left in a New Era of Global Politics (w/ Breht O'Shea – Rev Left Radio)
Breht Joins the Trades, Supports the Bolivarian Revolution, and Pops the AI Bubble...
Red Star Ministry: Marxism, Theology, & The Human Condition
Philosophy Series: Hegel, Marx, & Modern Life (Part 2)
Philosophy Series: Hegel, Marx, & Modern Life (Part 1)
The Power of Meditation (Teaser)
The Dialectical Inversion of Liberal Values: Freedom, Democracy, and The Contradictions of Capitalism
Springs of Revolution: The Revolutionary Left of the DSA Struggles to Shape the Organization
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People
Christianity and Communism with Southern Catholic Worker
Anti-Capitalist Parenting: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea (Upstream Podcast)
Fascism w/ American Characteristics (The Pokepreet Podcast Ft. Breht O'Shea)
OTU Under Attack by Landlord Lobby
Still Laundering Black Rage: DEI as Counterinsurgency
Farce, Finance & Fascism: Margaret Kimberley on Empire in Decay
Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview
Teaser: The Role of Labor in Human Evolution
Uprising in LA: ICE, Mass Deportations, and American Fascism
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Marxism 101: Intro to Historical Materialism (and the Necessity of Socialism)
The Congo: From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (Guerrilla History)
African Revolutions and Decolonization: Intro to Pan-Africanism (Guerrilla History)
Trotsky on Fascism (and Lessons for us Today)
The Current Political Moment, U.S. Imperial Decline, and Organizing a Revolutionary Vanguard Party
American Capitalism in Decay: An Analysis (Pokepreet X Rev Left)
Pure Excess: Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, and the Promise of More
Philosophy Series: Stoicism for Revolutionaries
Abolish the Death Penalty: Organizing toward Abolition
A World Order without Conscience: Imperialism, Islamophobia, and the Geopolitical Order (Introducing The Adnan Husain Show)
The Sufi Path of Rumi: Islamic Mysticism and The Journey to Divine Love
On The Ground in Gaza: Serving the People in Palestine
Red Hot Take: Dialectics at the Dawn of Techno-Feudalism
(UNLOCKED) Trump 2.0: Oligarchy Unleashed
The Nature of All Things: Spinoza's Philosophical Odyssey
Philosophy Series: Nietzsche and the Death of God
"Mirror" by Andrei Tarkovsky: Time, Memory, and Aesthetic Contemplation
City of Ashes: The Los Angeles Wildfires
On the Situation in Syria and its Implications for the Region
New Years Reflection: Reviewing 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025 & Beyond
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Upstream)
The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
The German Revolution
Red Hot Take: Deny, Defend, Depose...
Climate Vanguard: Organizing Toward a Livable Future
Philosophy Series: Marx on History, Communism, & Political Economy
Shattering the Spectacle: Trump, Kamala, and the 2024 Election
The Waiting Room of History... (Unlocked Patreon Teaser)
Capitalism: A Horror Story
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End The Housing Crisis
For Land: The Capitalist Mode of Production and the Sixth Mass Extinction Event
Yahya Sinwar: Living and Dying for National Liberation
Apartheid in the West Bank: Israeli Fascism, Settler Violence, & Palestinian Resilience
War in West Asia: When A Dying Settler Colony Lashes Out
Exploring Political Theory: Liberal Socialism
On Mysticism II: Enlightenment, Non-Duality, & Perennialism
Tenant Organizing with Omaha Tenants Union
Art for the People and the Maoist Communist Union
On The Ground In Gaza: Service as Solidarity
At Least the Pain is Cheap...
All Too Human: Christian's Struggle with Meth, Alcohol, & Incarceration
Revolutionary Strategy and the Industrial Proletariat
The Fight to Free The Pendleton 2!
"Ivan's Childhood" by Andrei Tarkovsky: The Children are Always Ours...
Building a People's Art: Vietnam, Socialist Realism and Cultural Revolution
Red Hot Take: The World on Fire
All Too Human: Tabitha's struggle with Alcohol and Depression
On Meditation (Patreon Teaser)
The Great Replacement Theory: Reactionary Politics & Racist Conspiracy Thinking
The Democrats War on Democracy & Trump's Brush with Death
Talking Marxism with the Proles
Historical Documents of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): A Collab between Guerrilla History and Iskra Books
Empty Spectacles and Heightening Contradictions
The Last Years of Karl Marx
Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, & Upheaval at the End of the 1970's
Modern China pt. 4: The Deng Reform Period to Today w/ Ken Hammond
My Struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Student Encampments for Palestine: An Interview with Student Organizers
Defending Socialism: A Logical Critique of Capitalism
Modern China Pt. 3: The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution w/ Ken Hammond
Dialectics Deep Dive: The Final Installment
Laundering Black Rage: Capitalism, Empire, and The Mechanics of Co-optation
"Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky: Modernity and The Sickness Unto Death
Students Revolt: Campus Uprisings for Palestine
Virtue Ethics, Passover Seder, Meditation, and Being in the 4th Dimension (Teaser)
Modern China Pt. 2: The Chinese Revolution & Civil War w/ Ken Hammond
All too Human: Niko's Struggle with Alcoholism
Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism
On Cuba and Haiti: The Fight for Liberation & Self-Determination in the Caribbean
Modern China Pt. 1: The Taiping & Boxer Rebellions w/ Ken Hammond
Take Back Your Life & Attention: Why You Should Quit Social Media
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
BRG Round 2: Fighting to Win...
"The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx
[UNLOCKED] Buddhist Perspectives: Self-Immolation and Political Struggle
Imperialism Abroad, Fascism at Home: GILEE, Cop City, & 1033 Program
The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist
Parting Ways (for now): Guerrilla History Bids Farewell to Breht & Dave
Man on Fire: Aaron Bushnell's Sacrifice for Palestine
The Ongoing Evolution of the Human Species (teaser)
On Mysticism: Ego, Suffering, & Love
Friends of the Congo: The Congolese Struggle for Self-Determination
Dialectics Deep Dive IIX: Contradiction and Overdetermination (Pt. 1)
W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction
"Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cosmic Exploration of the Human Psyche
[TEASER] Seeing Red: American Hypocrisy and Unfreedom
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Joy James on Du Bois, Liberation Struggles, & Revolutionary Love
UNLOCKED: Revolution and Resolutions
Kwame Nkrumah: The Great Pan-African Revolutionary Leader of Ghana
Napoleon: The Film, The Man, The History
Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler Colonialism, & Lessons for Palestine
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Les Misérables: Victor Hugo, Revolution, and French History
South African Apartheid: An Introduction
The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity
Decolonizing Palestine: Toward National Liberation in the Levant
Uprisings in the Sahel: AFRICOM, Neo-Colonial Imperialism, and Pan-African Liberation
Confronting Zionism: Exposing the Moral Bankruptcy of Liberal Intellectuals
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Free Palestine: The National Liberation Struggle against Zionism, Colonialism, and Apartheid
[UNLOCKED] Palestine on Fire II
Toward Liberation: Palestine on Fire
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The Principles of Communism: Friedrich Engels and Communist Political Theory
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Workers Fighting Back: The UAW Goes on Strike!
Confronting Neoclassical Economics
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Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
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A People's History of the New Deal w/ The Intervention
Vote No: UPS Struggle and Marxist Labor Organizing
The U.S. Military Empire: Earth's Greatest Enemy
Black Rose: Organizing Toward Revolution
Reflecting on Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, & The State" (pt. 3)
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Buddhism and Marxism w/ Della from Upstream
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America
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Islam and Anarchism with Mohamed Abdou
Islam and Marxism: A Brief Introduction
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Right Wing Moral Panic: "The Crisis of Masculinity"
On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Proletarian Feminism and its Discontents
Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression (1955-1972)
Religion and Marxism: Thinking Through the Human Condition
Crossing the Threshold: The Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction
The Red Battalion: Embedded with the New People's Army
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, & The State by Friedrich Engels (Pt. 1)
Peter Zeihan's Anti-China Fairy Tales & Lullabies
On Physical Education: Advice and Inspiration
All Too Human: Storytelling, Filmmaking, and Class Consciousness
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing
A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto
Approaching Organizing and Spirituality w/ Rev Left Radio
Corporate Crime & Class War: The Ohio Train Derailment
Dialectics & Liberation: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism
Texas and the Roots of U.S. Fascism w/ Gerald Horne
Big Announcement: Tripling Our Patreon Output + More
Soviet Georgia: Socialism, Stalin, and the Collapse of the USSR
Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Unlearning, Aesthetics, and the Sensations of Struggle
Approaching Marxism: Reductionism & Breakdown Theory
Louis Althusser: Marxist Theory and Philosophy
Transcending Capitalism: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism
Revolutionary-Guerrilla-Menace New Years Livestream!
Is Marxism just Religion by Another Name?
Heavy Radicals REVISITED: US Maoists and the FBI (RU-RCP)
Politics in Command: Analyzing the Error of Economism
Against AFRICOM: US Imperialism in Africa
An Open-Ended Discussion about Mental Health
Marxist Theory: Engels, Lenin, and Dialectical Materialism
Virtue Ethics and The Quest for Character
Millennial Marxists
Red Hot Take: Combatting Liberalism on Russia, The US, and Cuba
Guerrilla History: Brazil on Fire - Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Future of Brazil
V.N. Voloshinov: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, and Ideology
Approaching Marxism: Base and Superstructure (Prolekult)
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women
Lyndon LaRouche: A Warning & Lesson For The Communist Left
Red Hot Shot: Equality of Opportunity Vs. Equality of Outcome
Red Hot Shot: From Each According to Their Ability, To Each According to Their Needs
MAGA Communism: Opportunism, Social Chauvinism, and Terminally Online Tailism
Papa & Boy: Children, Parents, and the Cruelties of Class Society
The Worker's Front of Ukraine (ML) on the Russian-Ukraine War
Teachers Under Attack by the Far Right: The Gabriel Gipe Interview
Che Guevara: Revolutionary Hero (Life, Legacy, and Theory)
GH Teaser: Booker Omole (Communist Party of Kenya) on China and Africa
The French Revolution
When the Balkans were Red: Reflections on Yugoslavia w/ Yugopnik
The Noam Chomsky Interview w/ Vijay Prashad (Guerrilla History)
Taiwan: Pelosi's Visit, Xi's Response, and US Brinkmanship
Feminist Analysis: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Fascism
Psychodrama: J.L. Moreno, Psychosociology, and Marxism
Intro to German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel
The Richard Wolff Interview: Imperialism, Inflation, and the Mechanics of Capital (GH Teaser)
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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Waking Up Through Meditation: Embarking on the Pathless Path
Mass Struggle: Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line
Learning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
[RE-RELEASE] SCOTUS, The Anti-Choice Onslaught and American Institutional Decay
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Yugoslavia: Socialist Construction in the Balkans
Power Struggle: Hip Hop For the People!
Deep Dive 5: Hegel and Deleuze on the Concept of Negation
[UNLOCKED] American Carnage: Mass Shootings, Gun Policy, & Root Causes
Waste Colonialism, Recycling, & Microplastics
US-Mexico Borderlands: War, Colonialism, and Imperial Formation
Red Hot Take: The American Ruling Class and Its Depravities
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Aleksandr Dugin: Traditionalism, Eurasianism, and Russian Nationalism
On Alcoholism: Addiction, Relapse, & Recovery
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Religious Mysticism and Political Criticism
The Primrose Path: Why Ukraine is the West's Fault (2015)
Brooklyn Eviction Defense: Tenant Organizing for the People
Toward a Revolutionary Feminism: a Continuum of Women's Work
Red Hot Take: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO
Our Transgender Comrades: Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Feminism, and Trans Liberation
The Deprogram: Marxism and Independent Left Media
Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Poor Proles Almanac: Collapse Narratives, Left Prepping, and Agroecology
German Philosophy: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, & Beyond
In Defense of Marxism w/ The Sensible Socialist
Walter Benjamin: Marxist Philosophy and Art Criticism
Reflections on Afghanistan: The Soviet Intervention (1979-1989)
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
bell hooks: In Her Own Words
Guerrilla History Teaser: 2021 Year in Review
Red Hot Take: Live a Life of Beauty, Service, & Compassion
St. Francis of Assisi: Patron Saint of Ecology & Brother to All Creation
Necrocapitalism Revisited: Marxism, Fascism, & Capitalist Crisis
Guerrilla History: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Ayahuasca w/ Joshua Kahn Russell
Contemplative Practice and Political Struggle
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Convincing Conservatives: Red States, Climate Change & Class Struggle
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Morning Riot: Left Media, Labor Unions, and Political Parties
Free Will: Determinism, Compatibilism, and Philosophy of Mind
Showing Solidarity: In Support of a Comrade in Need
Riding the Wave: Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist World System
Dismantling the Infrastructure of Ecocide: Toward a More Militant Climate Movement
Hammer and Camera: CHE (2008) Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling
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Restorative Agriculture: Gardening, Homesteading, & Permaculture
After Geoengineering: Carbon Removal and Social Transformation
On Patriotism...
U.S. Labor History: Militant Unions, Red Scares, and Class Struggle
"Code Red" for Humanity: The IPCC Report 2021
Understanding the South w/ Dixieland of the Proletariat
Turn Leftist Collab: On Democratic Socialism
A People's Green New Deal: Colonialism, Cochabamba, and Climate Change
Dialectics Deep Dive (pt. 3a): Spinoza On the Origin and Nature of Minds and Bodies
Dialectics Deep Dive (pt. 3b): Marshall McLuhan & the Medium-as-Message
John Berger and Marxist Art Criticism
Awakening from the Dream of Separateness
The Philosophy of Stoicism w/ Massimo Pigliucci
White Noise: Postmodern Lit, Consumer Culture, & Thanatophobia
Understanding Marx's Capital w/ Liberation School
Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism
Maoism, Black Nationalism, The US Left, and Our Scorching Future
Red Hot Take: Our Simmering Present and Our Boiling Future
Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Korean War and Korea's Struggle for Freedom
UFO's, The Pentagon, Space-Time, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai
The Imperialist Chain, Decolonization, and The Mass Line
Look for the Helpers: A Collaboration with Srsly Wrong and Mexie
Dialectics Deep Dive II: The Philosophy of Spinoza & God-as-Nature
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Our History Is the Future: The Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror
Guerrilla History Teaser: The One State Solution
Proletarian Feminism, Women's Liberation, and the Sex Trade
Zen Buddhism and Social Transformation
China, U.S. Imperialism, and the New Cold War
UNLOCKED: Afghanistan, The Chauvin Trial, and the Indian Covid Crisis
Understanding the Mechanics of Liberal Co-Option and Rhetoric
Dialectics Deep Dive: History & Philosophy of Dialectical Materialism
Dialectics & Psychedelics: Transformation and Social Struggles
Challenging Capitalism: Reading Michael Parenti on Marxism
The Greensboro Massacre of 1979
Early Christianity: Psychedelics, Ancient Greece, and the Emerging Church
White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
Socialist Feminism, Class Struggle, and the Cold War
The Art of Loving: Existential Alienation and the Nature of Love
The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne
On Being: Dismantling the Patriarchy, Inside and Out
Buddhist Enlightenment: Impermanence, No Self, and the Dark Night of the Soul
Carl Jung: Psychoanalysis, Analytical Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind
UPDATE on "Help if You Can..."
Revisiting the Assassination of Fred Hampton: New FOIA Docs, COINTELPRO, and the "Black Messiah"
Understanding The Reactionary Mind: Right-Wing Conspiracy Thinking
The Ministry for the Future: Climate Change, Sci Fi, and our Near Future
The Fundamentals of Marxism: Intro to Political Economy
Depression, Anxiety, and Turning Suffering into Compassion
Confronting Antisemitism and the Fascist Far Right
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
Red Hot Take: The Fascist Riot on Capitol Hill
Defending Socialism: Human Nature and the Nightmare of History
Sufism: Islamic Mysticism and the Annihilation of Self in God
Lady Sings the Blues: The Life and Art of Billie Holiday
John Brown: Man on Fire
Red Menace Teaser: QAnon and the Shattered American Mind
Guerrilla History Teaser: Why Turkey Is Authoritarian w/ Halil Karaveli
Buddhist Philosophy: The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path
Blood in my Eye: On Fascism and Class Warfare
Guerrilla History: Washington Bullets w/ Vijay Prashad
Red Hot Take: Election Week in America
Blood in my Eye: The Black Colony, Revolutionary Strategy, and Dual Power
Unemployment In America: Political Economy, Crisis, and Full Employment
The Folk Singers & The Bureau: The FBI, Folk Artists, & the Communist Party USA
Liberation Theology: Jesus Christ and the Fight for Human Emancipation
The Pandemic in Prisons: Covid-19, Repression, and the Carceral State
Policing Black Lives: State Violence and Systemic Racism in Canada
The Fundamentals of Marxism: Historical Materialism, Dialectics, & Political Economy
Analyzing Dystopian Fiction: Ideology, Orwell, and our Haunted Futures
The Life of Varavara Rao: Indian Poet, Revolutionary, and Political Prisoner
The Principal Contradiction: Applying Dialectical Materialism
The Young Lords: A Radical History
The Science of Covid-19: Immunobiology, Virology, and Pandemic Politics
Red Menace Teaser: The American Death Cult
Uprising in Omaha: James Scurlock, OPD Violence, and Abolition Research
The American Indian Movement (AIM)
A Philosophy of Antifascism: Existentialism, Decolonization, & The Three-Way Fight
Dockworker Power: Racial Justice, Class Struggle, and Proletarian Internationalism
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Critique of Dialectical Reason
The Battle of Blair Mountain
Unity and Struggle (pt. 5): Wage Labor and White Supremacy
Michael Brooks: Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism
Mind & Nature: Dialectics, Evolution, and Eco-Marxism
Maoism in India: The Naxalites
Necrocapitalism: Plague, Ideology, & the Murderous Logic of Capital
Challenging Capitalism: Envisioning a Socialist Workplace
Understanding Maoism: Critique of Maoist Reason
From the River to the Sea: The Palestinian Liberation Struggle
The Haitian Revolution
Toward Abolition: Building a World Without Police or Prisons
Red Menace Teaser: Rebellion in a Police State
Paying Tribute to Radical Voices of Black Liberation
Student Organizing, Modi's Government, and Indian Communism
Disability Justice, Covid-19, and Black Lives Matter
America on Fire
Socialism & The System: Interview w/ NY State Senator Julia Salazar
Unity & Struggle (pt. 4): Race, Alienation, & Double Consciousness
Posadism: Trotskyism, Latin American Communism, and... Aliens
WHOA: Serving the People and Applying the Mass Line
China, Covid-19, and the New Cold War
Psychedelics and the Self: Exploring Human Consciousness
Progress of the Storm: A Collaboration with Cosmonaut Magazine
Maoism in the Philippines: The CPP and Protracted People's War
Organizing in a Pandemic: NYC Housing Justice and Fighting Cuomo
Organizing in a Pandemic: Rebel Steps and Rent Strikes!
Marx in Soho: What if Marx Came Back?
Postmodern Conservatism: Reactionary Politics in Late Capitalism
Estranged Labor: Karl Marx on Alienation
Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
Thinking Through The Crisis: Coronavirus, Capitalism, and The Future
History of the IWW: Militant Unionism, Wobblie Internationalism, & Class War
UNLOCKED: COVID-19, Contradictions, and the Dictatorship of Capital
Walter Rodney: Marxist Radical, Guerrilla Intellectual, & Pan-African Martyr
Unity and Struggle (Pt. 3) : Slavery, Capitalism, and Wage Labor
Thinking Through Electoralism: Bernie Sanders and Class Struggle
Simone Weil: French Philosopher, Christian Mystic, & Anti-Fascist Radical
Mind & Nature: Meditation, Psychedelics, and Eco-Grief
Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Organic Intellectuals, & Italian Fascism
UNLOCKED: Bernie, Impeachment, & Breht's Winter Camping Trip
Demarcation and Demystification: Marxist Philosophy and its Limits
Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
The Life of Sitting Bull: An Oral History
Nina Simone: The Revolutionary High Priestess of Soul
Red Menace: The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Reflecting on the UK Election: Corbyn, Brexit, and Neoliberal Centrism
Irish Republican Army: Anti-Imperialism, Guerrilla Warfare, and National Liberation
American Exceptionalism and Innocence: Liberal Ideology and American Creation Myths
Očhéthi Šakówiŋ: A History of the Lakota and Dakota People
Unity & Struggle (Pt.2): Primitive Accumulation and the Social Construction of Race
Huey P. Newton Gun Club - Alpha Company: Self-Defense and Community Organizing
Unity & Struggle (Pt.1): Race & Capitalism, Unitary Theory, and Frantz Fanon
Marxist Humanism: Alienation, Subjectivity, and Class Society
Defending Socialism: Deconstructing the "Communism Killed 100 Million" Lie
17N: Marxist Guerrilla Warfare in Greece
Hegelian Dialectics: Contradiction, Marxism, & the Freudian Unconscious
Red Rosa: The Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Red Rosa: The Political and Economic Theories of Rosa Luxemburg
Red Hot Take: What If Bernie Wins?
The Red Army Faction: Marxist Guerrilla Warfare in West Germany
Against Dystopia: Imagining a Better World (w/ Little Red School House)
Defending Socialism: Debunking Anti-Communist Myths (w/ Radical Reflections)
Black Bolshevik: The Life of Harry Haywood
The Austerity Apparatus w/ J-Moufawad Paul
Marxism-Leninism in Dialogue with Libertarian Socialism (ft. Srsly Wrong)
Left Communism: Pannekoek, Bordiga, Luxemburg, & Mattick
Protect Ihumātao: Māori Indigeneity and the Fight Against Colonialism
Alienation, Marxist Humanism, and the Digital Media Landscape w/ Douglas Rushkoff
Malcolm X
Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism
The Midwest Left Assembly
Capitalist Chaos and Crimes: The Great Recession of 2008
Red Hot Take: DON'T TALK TO COPS!
Organizing Tenants & Fighting Landlords: Omaha Tenants United
"No God Nor Country": Radical Rap in the Anthropocene (ft. Sole)
Team Human: Technology, Markets, and Alienation
The Handmaid's Tale: Feminism, Fascism, & The Fractured Self
Nicaraguan Revolution: The Sandinistas, The Contras, & The CIA
Debating Scientific Socialism (Ft. Srsly Wrong & Alyson Escalante)
Means TV: Anti-Capitalist and Worker-Owned
In Dialogue With Anarchism: Anarchopac
Regeneration: The Real Movement - Against The Solidarity Economy
Red Menace: "What Is To Be Done?" - Lenin
In Dialogue with Anarchism: Working Class History
Regeneration: Goodbye Revolution?
Western Tools of Imperial Plunder: The IMF & the World Bank
The MOVE Bombing and Mumia Abu-Jamal
Red Hot Take: "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming"
Nikolai Bukharin: Bolshevism, The Right Opposition, & the NEP
Rebellious Mourning: Grief, Death, and Communal Resistance
Women Behind the Iron Curtain: Socialism, Feminism, & Soviet Power
The Life and Legacy of Fred Hampton
A Coup in Venezuela: Imperialism, Fascism, and Class War
RED MENACE DEBUT - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
Drugs & Addiction Pt. 2: Organizing Toward Harm Reduction
This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism as Science
Drugs, Addiction, and Social Conditions
Motherhood and Radical Parenting Under Late Capitalism
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Thomas Sankara: "The Che of Africa" and Marxist Martyr
Methods Devour Themselves: Science Fiction & Political Philosphy
Historical Materialism: A Marxist Theory of History
Redneck Revolt and the John Brown Gun Club
Settler Colonialism and Decolonization: An Anarchist Perspective
Settler Colonialism and Decolonization: A Communist Perspective
Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, and... Metamodernism?
Battleground Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, the Military Dictatorship, & Fascism
The Vietnam War
Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, & Existentialism (w/ Existential Comics)
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The Film Vanguard: Easy Rider (1969)
Socialist Rifle Association: Firearms Education, Mutual Aid, & Disaster Relief
Big Announcement! - Plus: A Response to Joe Rogan Regarding Socialism
The Marxist Center: Base-Building Toward Dual Power
Polynesian Politics: Māori Indigenous History & Marxist Prison Abolition
The History of Fascism (feat. Yale Historian Dr. John Merriman)
Marxist Film Analysis: RoboCop (1987)
Disability Justice and Liberation w/ Lateef McLeod
The Spanish Civil War
Comedy in a Police State: ICE, SESTA-FOSTA, Stand-Up, & U.S. Culture
Gender Abolition, Michel Foucault, and Marxism-Leninism
Capitalism vs. Freedom: Confronting Right Libertarianism
The U.S. Left & the Future of Capitalism w/ The Antifada
Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War On America's Maoists (1968-1980)
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution
Chilean Coup of 1973: Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, & the CIA
Political Comedy, Online Discourse, Utopianism, and Jeff Bezos
On Mass: Maoism, Hip Hop, & Black Panther
Marxist Film Analysis: Mad Max
Communist Study and the DPRK w/ Derek Ford
On Syria: Civil War and U.S. Imperialism
Deconstructing Liberal Intellectuals: Peterson, Harris, and Pinker
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
May 1968: An Uprising in France
Irish Insurrection: The Easter Rising of 1916
In Defense of China as a Socialist State: An Interview with Ajit Singh
Gloria La Riva: PSL, Anti-Imperialism, & the Future of the U.S. Left
Food Politics & Environmentalism: Climate Change, Hunger, & Veganism
Continuity & Rupture: Maoism and the Science of Revolutionary Communism
Rev Left Radio in Dialogue with Liberalism
Cuba Today: The Question of Markets, Reform, and the Future of Cuba
Community Organizing: Advice & Ideas w/ The Nebraska Left Coalition
Black Rose Anarchist Federation: Revolutionary Organizing
Community Armed Self-Defense: Setting Sights on Liberation
Fascism in the USA: An Analysis & Strategies for Fighting Back
Communist Party Building and Combatting Bourgeois Individualism
The Politics of Friedrich Nietzsche: German Idealism, Nazism, and Freud
Black Liberation and Bolshevism: Communists in the Civil Rights Movement
The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin
Prison Abolitionism: Abolitionist Feminism and the Anarchist Black Cross
The Black Panther Party
Rebel Music, Communal Dancing, and the Class Politics of Movement
Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee
Trotskyism: The Red Army, Permanent Revolution, and the Left Opposition
Caliban and the Witch: An Interview with Silvia Federici
The Guillotine, Episode 2: GOP Tax Bill, Net Neutrality, Police Brutality, and the Informal Anarchist Federation
Gothic Marxism: The Horror Genre and the Monsters of Neoliberalism
Marxism-Leninism: Anti-Imperialism, Scientific Socialism, and State Power
From Diplomat to Anarchist: The State, War, and the Fight for a Better World
Black Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe Samudzi
BRAND NEW SPIN-OFF PODCAST: The Guillotine, episode 1
In Defense of Che Guevara: Analyzing his Life and Answering his Critics
The Paris Commune: A Brief Blossoming of Proletarian Power
Marxist Film Analysis: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
21st Century Marxism: Neo-Marxism and the Value of Engels
The Soviet Union: The Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin
Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi
Omaha To Denver: RevLeft Radio in Dialogue w/ Solecast
White Supremacy in the Confederacy: Monuments of Anti-Blackness
Leftist Podcasts, New Atheism, and the October Revolution (w/ Dan Arel)
Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI): Insurrectionary Political Violence
Christian Socialism: The Fusion of Faith and Revolution
The Mexican Revolution and The Zapatistas
American Individualism and the Cultural Maintenance of Capitalism
Revolutionary Anarchism and Autonomous Anti-Capitalism
Marxist Feminism: The Struggle Against Capitalist Patriarchal Hegemony
Anti-Imperialism: Palestine, Venezuela, & the DPRK with Abby Martin
Anti-Racist Action and the Struggle Against Fascism
Venezuela in Crisis: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution
Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding
In Defense Of Libertarian Marxism
Egoist-Communism: Insurrectionism, Illegalism, And The Union Of Egoists W/ Dr. Bones
Refuting Common Arguments Against The Left
Appalachia: Class Struggle In Coal Country
Interpreting 'Firefly': Libertarianism Vs. Anarchism w/ Dr. James Rocha
Dr. Redcrow Vs. Turkey/ISIS, Cuba, Trotsky, Hegel, and Q and A
Maoism: The Merging Of Theory And Praxis
Anarchism: Philosophy and History (with Dr. Mark Bray)
The Failures And The Future Of The Democratic Party
The Kurds and the Rojavan Revolution w/ Dr. Thoreau Redcrow
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution
Hip Hop and Race Part 2
Hip Hop, Race, and Intersectionality (Pt. 1)
Gentrification and Policing
Ideology: Capitalism and Liberal Culture
Resistance in the 60s with Dr. Doug Paterson
Intersectionality: Identity Politics and Class Consciousness.
Q and A
A Vision of a Socialist Workplace and Economy