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The Crushing Despair of Class Society

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Gamified Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism w/ Max Haiven
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[TEASER] Cuba Ep. 11: Actually Existing Ecology w/ Henry Hakamäki & Salvatore Engels-Di Mauro
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[UNLOCKED] Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology w/ Henry Hakamäki & Salvatore Engels-Di Mauro
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The Cultural Cold War: Folk Music and Communism w/ Carsie Blanton
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[TEASER] China Ep. 11: Tibet w/ Ken Hammond

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Venezuela Ep. 7: On Ascending a High Mountain w/ Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert
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[TEASER] Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology w/ Henry Hakamäki & Salvatore Engels-Di Mauro

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Cuba Ep. 10: Cuba after Castro w/ Abby Martin

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[TEASER] China Ep. 10: The Dialectics of Chinese Labor w/ Immanuel Ness

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Cuba Ep 9: Conjuring up the Red Menace w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly

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[TEASER] Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

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Sudan Ep. 1: The Unconscious Revolution w/ Mohamed Khougali

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[TEASER] 250 Years of Bourgeois Democracy w/ August Nimtz

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The Democratic Party w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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[TEASER] Iran Ep. 5: Is the US-Iran Deal a Trap for Iran? w/ Elina Xenophontos

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Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Economics w/ Gregg Castro

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[TEASER] China Ep. 9: Taiwan w/ Charles Xu and Feiyang Sun

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The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar w/ Fadhel Kaboub

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[TEASER] Cuba Ep. 8: Lessons from the Fall of the USSR w/ Helen Yaffe

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Cuba Ep. 7: How Cuban Socialism Works w/ Helen Yaffe

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[TEASER] Cuba Ep. 6: The Political Thought of Fidel Castro w/ Renzo Llorente

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Cuba Ep. 5: Under Siege w/ Manolo De Los Santos & Liz Oliva Fernández

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[TEASER] The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism w/ Torkil Lauesen

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A Socialist California w/ Ramsey Robinson

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[UNLOCKED] Palestine Ep. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel

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[TEASER] Iran Ep. 4: Towards a Multipolar World / Matteo Capasso

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Cuba Ep. 4: Counterrevolution w/ Renzo Llorente

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[TEASER] Palestine Ep. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel

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Cuba Ep. 3: Che Guevara and the Building of Socialism w/ Helen Yaffe

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[UNLOCKED] Lebanon Ep. 1: Resisting Occupation w/ Hussein Assaf

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Iran Ep. 3: The Empire vs. Iran w/ Bikrum Gill

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[UNLOCKED] Atlantic Slavery and the Plantation System w/ David McNally

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Cuba Ep. 2: ¡Viva la Revolución! w/ Manolo De Los Santos

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[TEASER] The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism w/ Kristen Ghodsee

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The Intellectual World War w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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[TEASER] Iran Ep. 2: The Impacts of Economic Strangulation w/ Elina Xenophontos

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[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 6: The Empire Strikes w/ José Luis Granados Ceja and Andreína Chávez

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Cuba Ep. 1: Before the Revolution w/ Manolo De Los Santos

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[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 4: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara w/ Amber Murrey

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US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 2: Zionism w/ Jeff Schuhrke (Palestine Ep. 16)

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[UNLOCKED] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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[BONUS] The Turn of the Year (or A Solstice Celebration) w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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[TEASER] Reconnecting to the Land and to Place

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US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 1: the War Against Communism w/ Jeff Schuhrke

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[TEASER] Mexico Ep. 2: Morena and The Fourth Transformation w/ Stephanie Weatherbee Brito

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A World out of Balance: Introducing Doughnut 3.0 w/ Andrew Fanning

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[TEASER] Mexico Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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From the Frontlines: Tenant Organizing w/ Josh Poe and Tara Raghuveer

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[TEASER] Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century w/ John Smith

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China Ep. 8: Mao Zedong and Maoism with Yueran Zhang

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[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 4: The Empire vs. Venezuela w/ Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza and Saheli Chowdhury

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Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée Parrique

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[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 3: Sanctions as Economic Warfare w/ Cira Pascual Marquina

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Migration as Economic Imperialism w/ Immanuel Ness

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[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 2: Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism w/ Chris Gilbert

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 5: Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis w/ Jo delAmor

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 3: Hyperimperialism and the Fight for Sovereignty w/ Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 4: Midwifery and Birthing w/ Robina Khalid

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[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Vijay Prashad

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Palestine Ep. 15: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla w/ Chris Smalls & Huwaida Arraf

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[TEASER] China Ep. 7: A Socialist Response to the COVID Pandemic w/ Creighton Ward, Kevin Li, and Alessandro Zancan

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Marx's Capital Vol. 2 w/ Richard Wolff and Shahram Azhar

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[TEASER] Third Worldism and the Bandung Spirit w/ Pranay Somayajula

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NATO Pt. 2: The Long War on the Third World w/ Pawel Wargan

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 2: A View from Within w/ Inem Richardson

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NATO Pt. 1: An Anti-Imperialist Introduction w/ Elina Xenophontos

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[TEASER] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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Iran Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Séamus Malekafzali [BONUS]

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 3: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea

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[TEASER] China Ep. 6: The Long Transition Towards Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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[UNLOCKED] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka

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How to Fall in Love with the Future w/ Rob Hopkins

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the Family w/ Kristen Ghodsee

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[TEASER] The Imperial Boomerang w/ Julian Go

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From the Frontlines: Organizing Against Amazon w/ Chris Smalls and Mars Verrone

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[TEASER] China Ep. 5: Towards an Ecological Civilization w/ Tings Chak

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A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations w/ Vijay Prashad

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[TEASER] How Fascism Works

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From the Frontlines: State Repression and Anti-Imperialist Organizing w/ Calla Walsh

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[TEASER] China Ep. 4: Unlearning Anti-China Propaganda w/ Li Jingjing

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Marx's Capital Vol. 1 w/ David Smith

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[UNLOCKED] China Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel

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[TEASER] China Ep. 3: Bourgeois Democracy vs Socialist Democracy w/ Vijay Prashad

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Marxism for the Masses w/ Savannah from All Power Books

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[TEASER] China Ep. 2: Socialist Democracy and Democratic Centralism w/ Ken Hammond

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 1: Parenting Under Capitalism w/ Toi Smith

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[TEASER] China Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel

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Trade Wars and Tariffs w/ Richard Wolff

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[TEASER] (Chinese) Socialism vs (U.S.) Capitalism

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From the Frontlines: Class Struggle and Class War in the US Southeast w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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[UNLOCKED] From the Frontlines: Revolutionary Disaster Response in Los Angeles w/ Gage and Sean of All Power Books

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Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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[TEASER] World on Fire

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[TEASER] Four Ways to Be Anticapitalist

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Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante

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[TEASER] The More Than Human World

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A Solstice Celebration for 2024 w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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