Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public.
Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower.
We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core. We view solidarity with decolonization, indigenous, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, socialist, and anarchist movements across the world as necessary steps toward meaningful liberation for all people.
Too often within the imperial core we focus on our own struggles without taking the time to understand those fighting for freedom from beneath the empire’s thumb. It is important to highlight these struggles, learn what we can from them, offer solidarity, and support with action when we can. It is not enough to Fight For $15 an hour and Single-Payer within the core, while the US actively fights against the self-determination of the people of the global economically and militarily.
We recognize that except for the extremely wealthy and privileged, our fates and struggles are intrinsically connected. We hope that our podcast becomes a meaningful platform for organizers and activists fighting for social change to connect their local movements to broader movements centered around the fight to end imperialism, capitalism, racism, discrimination based on gender identity or sexuality, sexism, and ableism.
If you like our work please support us at www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism
Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower.
We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core. We view solidarity with decolonization, indigenous, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, socialist, and anarchist movements across the world as necessary steps toward meaningful liberation for all people.
Too often within the imperial core we focus on our own struggles without taking the time to understand those fighting for freedom from beneath the empire’s thumb. It is important to highlight these struggles, learn what we can from them, offer solidarity, and support with action when we can. It is not enough to Fight For $15 an hour and Single-Payer within the core, while the US actively fights against the self-determination of the people of the global economically and militarily.
We recognize that except for the extremely wealthy and privileged, our fates and struggles are intrinsically connected. We hope that our podcast becomes a meaningful platform for organizers and activists fighting for social change to connect their local movements to broader movements centered around the fight to end imperialism, capitalism, racism, discrimination based on gender identity or sexuality, sexism, and ableism.
If you like our work please support us at www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism
Episodes
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Nov 13, 2019 • 1h 38min
Episode 42: Noname's Book Club
In this episode we talk to Noname about Noname’s Bookclub, and the inspiration behind it and her aspirations for it, including her plot to take down Amazon. We get into conversations about capitalism, socialism, Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Noname’s critique of American Exceptionalism in Song 32, and broader discussions about representation and the state of hip hop music today as a cultural vehicle for progressive change.
Oct 20, 2019 • 1h 8min
Episode 41: Racism and Capitalism in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race For Profit
In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. The book has already been put on the long-list for the National Book Award. Taylor is also the author of From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation, which articulates many of the historical arguments she references throughout our conversation. In 2017, she also published How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. In this interview we discuss some of the central themes of Race For Profit, and some of the historical figures within it. The book is a thorough analysis of how racism and capitalism in the US worked together through public and private partnership, after organizers and rebellions brought about the formal end of redlining at the end of the 1960’s. We talk to Taylor about why this book - which is based on her dissertation ended up being her third book. Additionally through the course of the conversation Taylor provides her insight into key questions for socialists in the US today, including questions surrounding the Sanders campaign, the lack of US internationalism. For context this interview took place back in July, but we agreed to time it with the release of the book. Which is available now from University of North Carolina press and comes out everywhere this week. Photo Credit: Sameer A. Khan/ Fotobuddy
Oct 18, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 40: Aminta Zea - Solidarity Against Empire
In this episode we interview, Aminta Zea, a Marxist Leninist organizer based out of Washington DC. Aminta was a participant in the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective's efforts to protect the embassy from US seizure, in violation of international law, in 2019. Aminta also travelled to and organized in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela this year. With her work she aims to build a bridge between people's struggles throughout the globe in order to further progress the anti-capitalist fight in the 21st century. Aminta is a freelance journalist, artist, and cultural creator and is in the process of making a documentary series that showcases the struggles of the working class in the United States.
Oct 11, 2019 • 57min
Episode 39: No New Jails NYC featuring Ngozi Alston and Marlene Nava Ramos
This week we have a special episode with two organizers from the No New Jails NYC campaign. They are in a current struggle against jail construction in NYC, which is one of the most important abolitionist campaigns going on around the world right now. Ngozi Alston and Marlene Nava Ramos are volunteer organizers with No New Jails NYC, a multi-racial, multi-gender, and intergenerational campaign aimed to shut down Rikers without building new jails. Ngozi is also a community organizer with BYP100, and centers disability justice through a Black queer feminist lens in her work throughout NYC. Marlene is a member of the NYC Chapter of Critical Resistance, a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and teaches at Lehman College and the Bard College Prison Initiative. Please listen to the episode and see how you can get involved ahead of key votes October 17th, in addition, listen to how you can start or get involved in a similar struggle wherever you are.
Sep 17, 2019 • 1h 21min
Episode 38: Nick Estes On A Red Deal And The History And Future Of Indigenous Resistance
In this episode we talk to Nick Estes about his book Our History Is The Future, the new collection he co-edited Standing With Standing Rock and we also talked about his latest piece A Red Deal, which is a synopsis of a movement document that he and his comrades at The Red Nation have developed. Estes pulls together struggles against settler colonialism, imperialism, capitalism and the destruction of the environment and shares an outline of his vision of the path to liberation.
Aug 25, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 37: Danny Haiphong Interrogates American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
In this episode we interview Danny Haiphong, who along with Roberto Servant recently co-authored the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror on Skyhorse Publishing. We discuss many aspects of how American Exceptionalism and American Innocence are weaponized domestically and internationally in the the name of spreading US Imperialism. In addition to co-authoring this book, Danny Haiphong is an activist, journalist, and scholar. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in several publications such as The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, and CounterPunch. His work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018).
Aug 11, 2019 • 1h 25min
Episode 36: Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World with Dr Jesse Benjamin
In this episode we talk to Dr. Jesse Benjamin, co-editor of Walter Rodney's recently published The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World. We talk to Dr. Benjamin about Walter Rodney's relationship with CLR James. Dr. Benjamin discusses what Tanzania was like for Rodney during the revolutionary period in which Rodney wrote the lectures that formed the book. And we discuss some of the narratives in the book including Rodney's view point on western subjectivism. Dr. Benjamin also shares some of his own academic history and his attempts to work around what he refers to as the “Apartheid structures of knowledge in western thought.” Finally Dr. Benjamin talks about the work of the Walter Rodney Foundation and potential future for more archival Rodney work to see proper publishing.
Jun 14, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 35: International Analysis with Eugene Puryear
In this episode we talk to Eugene Puryear, who provides political analysis daily on By Any Means Necessary. Eugene is also a member of the Party For Socialism And Liberation. In this episode, Eugene shares analysis of recent events in Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan, South Africa and Iran. We talk to him about political movements spanning the globe and get a sense of some of the most important struggles that are often not covered or misrepresented in mainstream media. For point of reference it’s important to understand that this episode was recorded on May 30th. As you will note, despite the two weeks since we recorded it, this episode remains extremely relevant in terms of the political analysis of situations around the globe, including the potential false flag in the Gulf as we release this episode today on June 13th.
May 27, 2019 • 58min
Episode 34: Embassy Protection Collective with Morgan Artyukhina
This episode we have an in-depth conversation with Morgan Artyukhina about their time with the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective. Morgan is an autistic transgender communist and journalist based in Washington, DC, Their reporting can be found on Twitter @LavenderNRed and in Liberation News. As a point of reference, we recorded this episode on May 14th. Two days after this episode was recorded, activists within the Embassy were arrested by DC police in what seems to be in clear violation of international law. The activists were charged with misdemeanor federal crime of “Interfering With a Federal Law Enforcement Agent Engaged in Protective Functions.” So it is important to understand that everything that Morgan describes in this episode is past tense, and that many of the warnings that they make will regards to the violability of embassies around the world, and the further deterioration of US international diplomacy are now very real possibilities. Nevertheless, we thought that this was an important story for people to learn more about, and get a perspective of someone who participated in the Embassy Protection Collective from the beginning, as we feel that this has been one of the strongest anti-war anti-imperialist actions that organizers have taken in the US in years, and hope that it marks the renewal of bold action against US warmongering and regime change, in a time when it is needed as much as it has ever been in our history.
Apr 29, 2019 • 1h 5min
Episode 33: Prisoner Support And Solidarity Organizing With IWOC's Brooke Terpstra
In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra, Oaklander forever, movement veteran, and IWOC worker. Brooke is an organizer with the Oakland chapter of IWOC, and was a member of the IWOC national media committee for the 2018 prison strike. In this episode we talk about the origins IWOC and its relationship to the IWW or the Wobblies. We talk about the lesson they learned supporting the 2016 and 2018 national prison strikes. We talk about building a local chapter and the work that IWOC members do in Oakland. And we talk about base building and regional coalition building for prisoner support and solidarity work.
