All Episodes
Teach Me Communism — 217 episodes
Episode 208: The Finale
Episode 207: Chumbawamba
Episode 206: Shootin’ the Shit: International Electoral Woes
Class Announcement: 6-27-24
Episode 205: Communist Movie Night - Pom Poko
Episode 204: Shootin’ the Shit - The Shame Flag
Episode 203: France, May 1968
Episode 202: Shootin’ the Shit - It’s All Fanfic
Episode 201: Socialist Albania
Episode 200: Shootin’ the Shit - Cuban Summer Camp
Episode 199: Communist Movie Club - Starship Troopers
Episode 198: Shootin’ the Shit - Very Smart, Very Evil
Episode 197: The Jungle
Episode 196: Shootin’ the Shit - Shrimp Me Up, Brother!
Episode 195: Monk and Robot Series
Episode 194: Shootin’ the Shit - A Madman, An Imbecile, and a Bum
Episode 193: The Mongolian People’s Republic
Episode 192: Shootin’ the Shit - Edison’s Cool New Chair
Episode 191 - The Mongolian Revolution of 1921
Episode 190: Shootin’ the Shit - The People Churning Machine
Episode 189: Communist Movie Night - Red Dawn
Announcement: 2-22-24
Episode 188: Shootin’ the Shit - A Beautiful Quilt
Episode 187: Engels’ Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State Part 2
Episode 186: Engels’ Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Episode 185: Shootin’ the Shit - My Gun, My Flag, My Cheese
Episode 184: The Fate of Patrice Lumumba
Episode 183: Shootin’ the Shit - Buyer Beware
Episode 182: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Episode 181: Shootin’ the Shit - A Commune for Christmas
Episode 180: Star Trek Deep Space 9 - Bar Association
Episode 179: Communist Movie Night - The Wobblies
Episode 178: Shootin’ the Shit - How the Grinch Saved Communism
Episode 177: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
Episode 176: Shootin’ the Shit - Back of the Napkin Cosmology
Episode 175: Surveillance Capitalism, Pt. 2
Episode 174: Shootin’ the Shit: The Big One
Episode 173: Surveillance Capitalism, Pt. 1
Episode 172: Shootin’ the Shit - Bring Back Hecklers
Episode 171: Democratic Centralism - The Antis
Episode 170: A Rainbow of Scabs
Episode 169: Democratic Centralism - The Pros
Episode 168: Shootin’ the Shit - Little Red Classroom
Episode 167: The Second Red Scare
Episode 166: Shootin’ the Shit - Our Values at the Human Butcher Factory
Episode 165: Communist Movie Night - Newsies
Episode 164: Shootin’ the Shit - Little Arrow Airlines
Episode 163: Who Was Alexandra Kollontai?
Episode 162: Shootin’ the Shit - Tooth Metaphors
Episode 161: Listener Q&A 12
Episode 160: Shootin’ the Shit - The Ronald Reagan Memorial Toilet
Episode 159: Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
Episode 158: Shootin’ the Shit - Fat Spiderman
Episode 157: Hadestown
Episode 156: Shootin’ the Shit - I’m Over It
Episode 155: The Years of Lead
Episode 154: Capitalism Gonna Fuck Ya
Episode 153: George Orwell’s 1984
Announcement: 6-8-23
Episode 152: Shootin’ the Shit: One Good Coup Deserves Another
Episode 151: The South African Communist Party
Episode 150: Shootin’ the Shit - Transhumanist Space Communism
Episode 149: What Happened in the Hungarian Revolution?
Episode 148: Metaphors of Capitalism
Episode 147: Communist Movie Night - Total Recall
Episode 146: Shootin’ the Shit: Communist Utopia Hour
Episode 145: What is Trotskyism?
Episode 144: Shootin’ the Shit: The Lead Cloak
Episode 143: Listener Q&A 11
Episode 142: Shootin’ the Shit: Pickleball HOA
Episode 141: What Happened in the Iranian Coup of 1953?
Episode 140: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Pt. 2
Episode 139: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Pt. 1
Episode 138: The Nicaraguan Revolution, Pt. 2
Episode 137: The Nicaraguan Revolution, Part 1 [REUPLOAD]
Episode 136: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol.6
Episode 135: Communism in Nepal
Episode 134: Communist Movie Club - Dr. Strangelove
Episode 133: Who is Assata Shakur?
Announcement: 1-4-23
Episode 132: What Was The Sino-Soviet Split?
Episode 131: Who Were the Knights of Labor?
Episode 130: Communist Movie Night - Pride
Episode 129: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol. 5
Episode 128: Who Was Kwame Nkrumah?
Announcement: 11-21-22
Episode 127: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol.4
Episode 126: Social Reform or Revolution?
Episode 125: What is the Ciompi Revolt?
Episode 124: Listener Q&A 10
Episode 123: Agroecology in Cuba
Episode 122: The Coup
Episode 121: Intro to Ecocommunism
Episode 120: What’s up with Cambodia and the Khmer Rogue?
Episode 119: Communist Movie Club - Salt of the Earth
Episode 118: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol. 3
Episode 117: Blackshirts & Reds, Part 2
Episode 116: Blackshirts & Reds
Episode 115: Christine Takes a Quiz!
Episode 114: Christine’s Grab Bag
Episode 113: What Happened in the German Democratic Republic?
Announcement: 8-4-22
Episode 112: Communist Movie Club - Chicken Run
Episode 111: Listener Q&A 9
Episode 110: Who Was Joseph Stalin? Pt. 3
Episode 109: Who Was Joseph Stalin? Part 2
Episode 108: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol. 2
Episode 107: Who Was Joseph Stalin? Pt. 1
Episode 106: How Should Democracy Work?
Episode 105: What is Fascism?
Episode 104: Anarchy, by Errico Malatesta
Episode 103: Shootin’ the Shit, Vol. 1
Episode 102: Who Was John Brown?
Episode 101: Who Was Paul Robeson?
Episode 100: Communist Movie Club - The Young Karl Marx
Episode 99: Who Was Julius Nyerere?
Episode 98: The Conquest of Hawaii
Episode 97: Food and Capitalism, Part 2
Episode 96: Food and Capitalism, Part 1
Episode 95: Listener Q&A 8
Episode 94: The Quiet Year
Episode 93: The Rise of the Labour Party in the UK
Episode 92: MOVE Philadelphia
Episode 91: What Was the First Red Scare?
Episode 90: Mao’s Combat Liberalism
Episode 89: What Happened in the Chilean Coup of 1973?
Episode 88: Who Were The Luddites?
Episode 87: Communist Movie Club - Don’t Look Up
Episode 86: The Socialist History of Yugoslavia, Part2
Episode 85: The Socialist History of Yugoslavia, Part 1
Episode 84: Who Was Itō Noe?
Episode 83: Communist Move Club - Reds
Episode 82: Who Were The Diggers?
Episode 81: Animal Farm
Episode 80: Who Was William Morris?
Episode 79: Who Were the Almanac Singers?
Episode 78: What Happened in the Soviet Afghan War?
Episode 77: Listener Q&A 7
Episode 76: What‘s a Co-Op?
Episode 75: What Does Witchcraft Have to Do with Marxism?
Episode 74: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
Episode 73: Is Star Trek Communist? Part 2
Episode 72: Is Star Trek Communist? Part 1
Episode 71: The Conquest of Bread, Part 2
Episode 70: The Conquest of Bread, Part 1
Episode 69: Socialist Republic of Vietnam Part 2
Episode 68: What are the Origins of Labor Day?
Class Announcement
Episode 67: Socialist Republic of Vietnam Part 1
Episode 66: Communist Movie Night: Brazil
Episode 65: Who Was Huey Long?
Episode 64: Listener Q&A 6
Episode 63: Disability and the Left
Episode 62: What Happened in the Mexican Revolution?
Episode 61: Communist Movie Night - Harlan County, USA
Episode 60: What Would Education Be Like Under Communism?
Episode 59: The Dispossessed
Episode 58: What Was the Bay of Pigs?
Episode 57: Who Was Thomas Sankara?
Episode 56: What was the Federal Art Project
Episode 55: What Happened in the Spanish Civil War?
Episode 54: Listener Q&A 5
Episode 53: Communist Movie Night - Manufacturing Consent
Episode 52: What's up with Irish Socialism? Part 2
Episode 51: Who Is Angela Davis?
Episode 50: What Was Operation Condor?
Episode 49: Anti-fatness, Capitalism, and the Left
Episode 48: What Happened in the Paris Commune?
Episode 47: The State and Revolution
Episode 46: Communist Movie Night - Sorry to Bother You
Episode 45: What Type of Anarchist Are You?
Episode 44: Who Was Mao Zedong? Part 2
Episode 43: Who Was Mao Zedong? Part 1
Episode 42: How Do You Convert A Liberal?
Episode 41: Communist Movie Night - Judas and the Black Messiah
Episode 40: What Happened in the Irish Revolution? Part 1
Episode 39: A Brief History of Texas Communes
Episode 38: What's the Problem with Charity?
Episode 37: Open Veins of Latin America (Part Two)
Episode 36: Open Veins of Latin America (Part One)
Episode 35: Listener Q&A 4
Episode 34: Who Was Vladimir Lenin?
Episode 33 - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Part Two)
Episode 32 - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Part One)
Episode 31: Communist Movie Night- Snowpiercer
Episode 30: What is the Kerala Model?
Episode 29: What Was the Black Panther Party About?
Episode 28: Are Small Businesses Good?
Episode 27: Queer Theory in Communism
Episode 26: Communist Movie Night - The Death of Stalin
Episode 25: Election Night in Communist America
Episode 24: Socialist Parties in the U.S. Part Two
Episode 23: Video Games from a Leftist Perspective
Episode 22: Listener Q&A 3
Episode 21: Who Was Che Guevara?
Episode 20 - Debate Night in Communist America
Episode 19 - What's Up with UBI?
Episode 18: What is Russian Constructivism?
Episode 17 - Early Socialist Parties in the U.S. - REUPLOAD
Bonus: Who the Heck is Noam Chomsky?
Episode 16: Listener Q&A 2
Episode 15: Communist Movie Night - Robocop
Episode 14: Women in Leftism - Emma Goldman
Episode 13: What's So Good About Capitalism Anyway?
Episode 12: What Was Life Like in the Soviet Union?
Episode 11: What Would Happen to Artists Under Communism? (Part Two)
Episode 10: What Would Happen to Artists Under Communism? (Part One)
Episode 9: Listener Q&A
Episode 8: What is a Right to Work State?
Episode 7: Communist Movie Night - Trumbo
Episode 6: What Type of Leftist Are You?
Episode 5: Are Landlords Bad?
Episode 4: What Happened in the Russian Revolution?
Class Discussion: On Police Violence
Episode 3: What's Even in the Communist Manifesto? (Part 2)
Episode 2: What's Even in the Communist Manifesto? (Part 1)
Episode 1: What's the Difference Between Socialism and Communism?