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We close out 2022 with a livestream!  All the members of the Revolutionary Left Radio family of podcasts came together for a two hour live Q&A that we had a ton of fun doing.  We hope you enjoy as we look ahead to 2023!   P.S. If you're on twitter, let us know what your favorite episode of the show was during 2022 - tag us @guerrilla_pod with your pick and we'll hopefully encourage some new people to check that episode out! Link to the video version of this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KrBF5xW6c  

Breht responds to the criticism that Marxism is just Christianity mixed with the Enlightenment concept of Progress; that it is basically just a religious faith... Listen to the full episode here: https://redmenace.libsyn.com/desert

Breht welcomes Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher back on the show to discuss the recent release of the revised and updated version of "Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980". We discuss the importance of the original book, what changes were made in the updated and revised version (just released Oct. 2022), who the Revolutionary Union (and later the Revolutionary Communist Party) were, the difficulty of writing about Maoist movements in the US, how the FBI and CIA work to destroy left wing movements and organizations, their tactics and strategies, and much more.  Listen to our original interview with Aaron on "Heavy Radicals" here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/heavy-radicals-the-fbis-secret-war-on-americas-maoists-1968-1980 Get the book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/heavy-radicals Check out more of Aaron's work, including his upcoming book here: http://www.aaronleonard.net/ Outro Song: Read Mao, Drink Water by Bambu Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

J. Moufawad Paul returns to the show to discuss his newest book "Politics in Command: A Taxonomy of Economism". Together, Breht and JMP discuss what economism is, what Lenin's critique of it was, how it acts as a keystone of revisionism, its dialectical opposite "voluntarism", how they are tied to movementism, the necessity of a communist vanguard party, how economism distorts our understanding of class, the labor aristocracy, MLM analysis of modern China, Refoundationalism and Regroupment, and much more!  Check out JMP's previous appearences on Rev Left here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Moufawad Follow JMP on twitter: https://twitter.com/mlm_mayhem Check out MLM Mayhem here: https://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/ Check out the Politics in Command podcast mentioned in this episode: https://www.politicsincommand.info/podcast/ Outro music "Slight Rebellion off Madison" by Vinnie Paz Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss AFRICOM, or The United States Africa Command - responsible for U.S. military operations on the continent. Together they discuss BAP's month of action against AFRICOM, the strategic role that AFRICOM plays in the maintenance of US empire, the importance of proletarian internationalism in the fight against capitalism-imperialism, neocolonialism and comprador regimes, the consequences of 14 years of AFRICOM, and much more.   Learn more and support Black Alliance for Peace here: https://linktr.ee/blackallianceforpeace   Follow Nicholas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nicholasseanrt   Follow Tunde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TundeOsazua   BAP Chicago's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bap_chicago Outro music "I'm a African" by Dead Prez Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

David Icenogle (from No Chaser) returns to the show and joins Breht once again to have a frank, open-ended, wide-ranging discussion about their experiences and struggles with mental health. This is not meant as medical advice, nor scientific analysis; it is meant to simply be two human beings and close friends sitting down and discussing their direct experiences in the hope that it might resonate with, or otherwise provide comfort to, people out there who struggle with this stuff too. Check out Dave's YT channel about his struggles with addiction and his road to recovery here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrmDFdoZQU0CgAZm67Do4BQ Check out our previous episode with Dave titled "On Alcoholism, Relapse, and Recovery" here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dave

Thomas Riggins is a New York university lecturer in philosophy and ancient studies. He is a retired city housing manager and a veteran of the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He holds degrees from Florida State University and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently a member of the UAW and a former Teamster.  Professor Riggins joins Breht to discuss a collection of his essays on classic texts by Lenin and Engels put out by the comrades over at Midwestern Marx called "Reading the Classical Texts of Marxism".  Together they discuss Anti-Durhing by Engels, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, State and Revolution, and Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin.  Check out Midwestern Marx here: https://www.midwesternmarx.com/ Find Riggins books, including the one discussed in the episode, here: https://www.midwesternmarx.com/books.html   Outro music "Which Side Are You On" by Pete Seeger Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Massimo Pigliucci, philosophy professor and author, joins Breht once again, this time to discuss his newest book "The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders". Topics include: Ethical theories in philosophy, stoicism, theory and practice, cross-cultural virtues, Socrates, the role of role models, how all of this connects up with politics, and much more.  Learn more about Massimo and his work here: https://massimopigliucci.org/ Previous Rev Left episode with Massimo on Stoicism: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/stoicism Outro music "Boats & Birds" by Gregory and The Hawk Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Matthew John from This American Left joins Breht to discuss his book "Millennial Marxist" and a slate of contemporary political topics  Find Millennial Marxist here: https://linktr.ee/millennialmarxist Check out Breht's guest interview on This American Left: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-a-conversation-with-breht-oshea/id1529673234?i=1000498698013 Outro music "Riot Rhythm" by Sleigh Bells Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

In this episode, Breht plays clips of, and responds to, a recent podcast put out by Sam Harris and Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on the Russia-Ukraine war in which they advance several liberal, pro-american criticisms against dissident thinkers on the topic. Then Breht plays a clip from a NYT podcast about Cuba and launches into a classic Red Hot Take style rant on the topic.  Outro music by Kodak Black  Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio