Left Reckoning
Left Reckoning
Fmr. The Michael Brooks Show crew Matt Lech & David Griscom work to cover & build a strong, popular, working-class rooted, no BS Socialist Left. With a special focus on the international struggle and Texas, the South, & the West. The weekly show is live on Youtube @ 2:30 ET/1:30 CT!
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Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 36min
47 - Barbados Bucks Queen and Moocher Musk Demands Time-Out ft. Tamanisha John
Hear this weekends Lenin reading by subscribing at Patreon.com/leftreckoningTamanisha John, associate professor at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta joins us to discuss Barbados decision to become a Republic and how significant it really is. We also discuss Mia Mottley's leadership and the history and classes of the islands.Also, Elon Musk doesn't like subsidies no more now others get them and Dan Crenshaw attempts to discipline the craziers of the GOP.Follow Tamanisha John on twitter @TamanishaJohn
Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 7min
*Raw Audio* American Socialism - Q&A Stream
Raw audio from this week's Griscom stream - catch them live on Youtube Tuesday afternoons.
Dec 2, 2021 • 1h 37min
46 - Working Class Politics in Pennsylvania & The Inflation Swindle ft. Paul Prescod
Support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get all our weekend bonus episodes, including this Sunday's Think Tank.CEOS vs the deep state and demons. Paul Prescod (@Paul_Prescod) is running for state senate in Pennsylvania, support him below. Why the state senate? Education, healthcare, green jobs/just transition. How the left addresses violent crime.Also, Xiomara Castro's victory in Honduras and the 2009 coup.And a classic GEM segment on the current inflation panic.Donate to Paul! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fri... Follow Paul Prescod on Twitter https://twitter.com/paul_prescod Visit his website https://www.paulprescod.com/
Dec 1, 2021 • 56min
Is Marx An Economic Determinist? ft. Lillian Cicerchia (Holiday LR)
Lillian Cicerchia (@LILCICERCH) post-doc at the Free University Of Berlin & co-host of What's Left Of Philosophy podcast on the problem with the book Hegemony & Socialist Strategy & post-marxism.Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom Instagram: @LeftReckoningCheck out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning
Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 32min
45 - Who Ended Apartheid & No Free Speech for Mine Workers ft William Shoki & Jacob from the Valley Labor Report
support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodesWilliam Shoki (@Shokispeare) of Africa is a Country joins us first to discuss the death of FW de Klerk and who really deserves the credit for ending apartheid. Then, Jacob from The Valley Labor Reporters (@JacobM_AL) joins us for an update on the Warrior Met strike in Alabama.Also, Ben Shapiro prompts us to recommend the work of Stephen Jay Gould on IQ.
Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 52min
44 - The Strikes Continue & South Carolina Politics and Is Nikki Haley the Better Jeb!? ft. Paul Bowers
support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodesFirst, strikes continue and Howard Schultz has anti-union chicken soup for the en-route-to-deathcamps soul.support strike fundshttps://msha.ke/bctgm/#strike-fundshttps://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/Paul Bowers (@Paul_Bowers) joins us to discuss the politics and economy of South Carolina. Coast vs high country. Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.Check out Paul's work here:https://brutalsouth.substack.com/Also, COP26 is a world-sized failure.
Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 43min
Episode 43 - Climate Inaction & the US = History's #1 Human Caging Machine ft. Alec Karakatsanis
support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodesDavid and Matt are joined by Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) to discuss the immense scale American human caging. The dangerous "reform" consensus. The period of reaction we are in now. Progressive DAs. The complicity of lawyers.Also, some positive news from last nights elections and sleepy Joe and the Cop26 cop-out.
Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 45min
42 - Charlie Kirk Schooled By Dr. Ben & Courts Against the People ft. Ben Burgis
support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodesLR crew Ben Burgis (@BenBurgis) joins us once again to discuss his recent debate/office hours with Charlie Kirk and preview his book on Christopher Hitchens.Also, the malice of the American legal system turns once again on Assange, Donziger, and the striking Warrior Met workers (support them here).Also progressives should probably kill the bills.
Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 19min
41 - Yesterday's Man, Today: Sleepy Joe and the DemonRats ft. Branko Marcetic
support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our Sunday bonus episodesBranko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) joins us this week to discuss the inability of Biden to meet the moment. Also, the DemonRats vs India Walton and the US arrests Venezuela's dealmaker.Strike funds!!!!! Kellog Workers Battle Creek https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kelloggs-workers-on-strike-local-3g Memphis https://www.gofundme.com/f/udp2r-support-striking-kelloggs-workers-local-252g Omaha https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BCTGMLocal50GStrike Lancaster https://www.gofundme.com/f/bctgm-local-374g-strike-fund John Deere https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-john-deere-strike Let’s not forget our friends in Bama https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/The Left Reckoning artwork was made by Grant ErtlThe music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn
Oct 14, 2021 • 2h 1min
Episode 40 - The Great Resignation, Striketober, and the Mythology of Capitalism ft Maximillian Alvarez
Maximillian Alvarez (@maximillian_alv) of the Working People podcast and The Real News join us this week to discuss spectres of a strikewave, "the great resignation," right wing attempts to obfuscate what's happening, and fantasy football. Also on the show: getting serious about climate with Shell Oil and saving Russell Brand from cryptoreactionary nerds. support Kellogg's strike funds
