Matt Bernico, co-host of the Magnificast podcast and digital strategist in the labor movement, joins the host to discuss socialism and communism. They explore the basics of Marxism, capitalism's impact on society, media bias, concentration of wealth, and the principles of socialism and communism. They also delve into the connection between owning the means of production, spirituality, and relationships, emphasizing the need for community and reparations for marginalized groups.

How is knowledge related to power? How is knowledge produced? How are our ideas related to the material realities in which we live? Amaryah Shaye Armstrong (@amaryah_sa) walks us through these questions and more!Faith and Capital is on instagram, twitter, and facebook!Contact: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Oink, oink! This episode discusses Mark 5:1-20, the context from which this Gospel According to Mark emerges, some Marxist-Leninist analysis of the state, and the need for a revolutionary exorcism.Recommended Book List: Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (ed. 2); Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Alex Vitale, The End of Policing; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States; Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Vladimir Lenin, State and RevolutionFaith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook!Email: faithandcapital@gmail.comMusic by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

What are the police really for? What does it mean for innocence and guilt to be produced and distributed? What foundational roles have whiteness and theology played in all of this? How do white people get deputized and why should we resist making the victim into an object lesson? Tim Snediker (@TimothySnediker) joins me to discuss all of this in relation to his essay "The Future of Murder: Police and Political Theology". ~~~ Writings that Tim draws upon in the conversation: Frank B. Wilderson III, "We're Trying to Destroy the World"; Saidiya Harman and Frank Wilderson, "The Position of the Unthought"; Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton, "The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy" in Afro-pessimism: An Introduction. ~~~ Here's my recommended Book List: Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (ed. 2); Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Alex Vitale, The End of Policing; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States; Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution ~~~ Subscribe to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ Support Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Much of U.S. Christianity assumes that the United States is a force for good in the world. Danny Haiphong, co-author of American Innocence and American Exceptionalism: a People's History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, joins me discuss these two ideologies and the ways in which they have long served to reproduce both the exploitation and oppression of others and that of our own. Pick up a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/American-Exceptionalism-Innocence-News_From-Revolutionary/dp/1510742360 ~ Find more of Danny's work and twitter here: https://blackagendareport.com/taxonomy/term/217 and https://twitter.com/SpiritofHo ~ Subscribe to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ Support Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Marika Rose wants the church to fail better, so she's here to talk failure, theology, violence, the politics of inclusion, and more! You can check out Marika's work here: https://hcommons.org/members/marikarose/Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook!Email: faithandcapital@gmail.comMusic by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

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Chris Dorsey, President of Higher Education and Leadership Ministries for Disciples of Christ, joins me to discuss the commodification and politics of water. ~ SUBSCRIBE to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ SUPPORT Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) joins us to discuss housing instability, how the struggle for housing has (not) been impacted by the coronavirus, and the #NeedAHome2StayAtHome campaign in North Carolina. Read about it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nnsg0-KOjmAAU7t5JcFI81qhpPFTywtY/view ~ SUBSCRIBE to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ SUPPORT Faith And Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith And Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show

How is capitalism a system of death? In what ways are employers legally allowed to kill people? How is the capitalist's "fundamental right to kill" inherently white supremacist in the US? How are poverty wage earners particularly at risk with the coronavirus pandemic? Rev. Michael Vanacore, Associate Minister for Congregational Life at Fort Washington Collegiate Church in New York City, joins us to discuss his recent article "Resisting Capitalism's 'Right to Kill'" and more! Find the article here: https://christiansocialism.com/capitalism-death-kill-coronavirus-solidarity/ ~ Rev. Vanacore's twitter: https://twitter.com/RevMichaelV ~ SUBSCRIBE to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ SUPPORT Faith And Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital ~ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithandcapital/ ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show