

The Skeptical Leftist Podcast
Cory Johnston
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Promoting critical thinking, social justice, and left wing politics by covering current events and talking to a variety of people. Include the Red Reviews podcast where Justin Clark talks about a book relevent to leftist theory or practice
Promoting critical thinking, social justice, and left wing politics by covering current events and talking to a variety of people. Include the Red Reviews podcast where Justin Clark talks about a book relevent to leftist theory or practice
Episodes
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Aug 28, 2022 • 1h 10min
Interview #56 - Bad Lefties and AnCrap with SomeRandomG33k
This time around Cory talks to SomeRandomG33k who has a youtube channel of the same name. G33k also cohosts the Social Justice Alchemy live show every Sunday.
You can check out the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=1059
SomeRandomG33k’s links
www.twitch.tv/somerandomg33k
https://www.youtube.com/c/somerandomg33k
https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialJusticeAlchemyLive
https://twitter.com/SomeRandomG33k
Here are some links for stuff G33k talked about
https://iaf-fai.org/
https://blacksocialists.us/
https://itsgoingdown.org/
If you can donate to good people who need help check out this link page
https://charitylinks.page/
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Aug 15, 2022 • 1h 18min
Interview #55 - Green Party Politics with Dan Plaat from the 3 Lefts Show
In this interview I talk to Dan Plaat from the 3 Lefts Show about new atheism, occupy wallstreet, and why he thinks the Green Party is the right way to go You can find the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=1028
Check out The 3 Lefts Show here - https://3lefts.news/
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Aug 7, 2022 • 59min
Interview #54 - Farming and Food Production with Lake from the Revolutionary's Garden
In this episode Cory talked to Lake from the Revolutionary's Garden podcast. This was recorded back in May so some of the topics are a little past due but it was a great conversation and much of it is still relevant
You can find the full show notes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=977
You can find the Revolutionary's Garden here - https://www.therevgarden.com/
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Jul 30, 2022 • 1h 4min
Red Reviews #24 - Kropotkin and Goldman
Justin (professional historian and Marxist-Leninist) and Cory(Labourer and Anarcho-Communist) talk about Piotr Kropotkin’s book The Conquest of Bread and Emma Goldman’s books Anarchism and Other Essays
Check out the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=953
Get your copy of The Conquest of Bread here - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
And get your copy of Anarchism and Other Essays here - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays
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Jul 18, 2022 • 59min
Interview #53 - Talking Climate Collapse with Andy from The Poor Proles Almanac
In this episode Cory talked to Andy from the Poor Proles Almanac about lots of stuff but mostly climate change and environmental issues
You can find the full show notes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=901
You can find the Poor Proles here - http://poorproles.com/
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Jun 14, 2022 • 1h 9min
Interview #52 - The CRT Moral Panic with Chris Watson
In this episode Cory talked to Chris Watson who hosts The Postmodern Polymaths Podcast to talk about CRT the status of leftism in the US and just politics in general.
You can find Chris' show here - https://thepostmodernpolymaths.com/
You can check out the full show notes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=870
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Jun 5, 2022 • 51min
Interview #51 - Busting Myths About Sex Work with Kaytlin Bailey
This time around Cory talks to Kaytlin Bailey, Founder and Executive Director for Old Pros. Old Pros is a nonprofit media organization focused on creating the conditions to change the status of sex workers in society.
You can check out Old Pros here - https://oldprosonline.org/
You can find the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=847
You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751
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May 21, 2022 • 56min
Red Reviews #23 - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Justin (professional historian and Marxist-Leninist) and Cory(Labourer and Anarcho-Communist) talk about Peter Kropotkin's book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Get your copy of Mutual Aid here - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution
Check out the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=817
You can rate and review the show here - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftis-1779751
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May 10, 2022 • 1h 7min
Interview #50 Leaving Religion and Joining the Left with Brently
In this interview from late January, Cory talked to Brently who does the Progressive Pals Podcast as well as others about addiction, leaving religion, and why he is on the left side of the political divide
Follow Brently here - https://twitter.com/BrentLeeAllan1
For full show notes you can find them at my blog - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=769
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Apr 27, 2022 • 59min
Red Reviews #22 - Two Books on Climate Change
In this episode of Red Reviews Justin tells Cory about A Planet to Win and On Fire, two books about climate change and the Green New Deal.
You can get them here - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3107-a-planet-to-win
And here - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Fire/Naomi-Klein/9781982129910
You can find the full show notes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.wordpress.com/?p=694
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