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Jul 31, 2021 • 1h 9min

Understanding Marx's Capital w/ Liberation School

This podcast discusses the new podcast/online class 'Reading Capital with Comrades' which explores the relevance of Marx's Capital and its application to current struggles. It explores the production process of the podcast, delves into the content of Capital, clarifies important aspects of Marxist theory, examines the placement of the chapter on primitive accumulation, and emphasizes the importance of Lenin's application of Marxist analysis.
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Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 41min

Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism

In this second installment of our ongoing series "Dialectics and Psychedelics", Joshua Kahn Russell joins Breht to discuss anxiety and depression, how trauma shapes left movements and organizations, what constitutes a truly healthy left organization, the impact of climate change on our mental health, eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and eco-depression, as well as some reasons to be cautiously optimistic (and maybe even downright hopeful) about the coming decades.   Check out the First Installment of this series with Joshua here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joshua-kahn 80 Year Trajectory mentioned in Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVdksZHqpo&ab_channel=CoolWorlds Please donate to The Wildfire Project at https://www.wildfireproject.org/donate   www.WidlfireProject.org    Instagram: @JoshuaKahnRussell  Twitter: @JoshKahnRussell Outro Music: "That Funny Feeling" by Bo Burnham ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com
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Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 15min

Maoism, Black Nationalism, The US Left, and Our Scorching Future

Black Red Guard joins Breht to discuss a wide range of topics from the synthesis of maoism and black nationalism to the state of the US left to our projections for the coming decades. Support STL Rising Care Fund here: https://www.facebook.com/STLRising314/ Check out BRG's new podcast here: https://anymeansnecessary.libsyn.com/ Outro Music: "Punch A N*zi" by The Muslims (check them out here: https://themuslims.com/) ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com
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Jul 11, 2021 • 48min

Red Hot Take: Our Simmering Present and Our Boiling Future

An urgent call to action to address the severity of the climate crisis, contrasting experiences of wealth and poverty in heatwaves, a mesmerizing encounter with unknown beings and their warning about environmental damage, exploring a famous incident in ufology and gaslighting, climate change denialism and its consequences, the climate impact of the US military and the need for change.
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Jul 4, 2021 • 1h 40min

Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Korean War and Korea's Struggle for Freedom

Stephen Gowans joins Breht to talk about his book "Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom". They discuss the history of Korea, Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, WW2 and the Cold War, The Korean War, Kim Il-Sung and guerrilla warfare, South Korea as an American puppet state, the Soviet Union and Mao's China, American propaganda against the DPRK, the prospects for a unified Korea, and much more!  Check out Stephen's blog here: https://gowans.blog/ Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GowansStephen   Outro Music: "SNOW" by Zion T (feat. Lee Moon Sae) ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com
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Jul 3, 2021 • 1h 26min

UFO's, The Pentagon, Space-Time, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence

In this unlocked episode of Guerrilla History, Breht, Adnan, and Henry discuss the recent release by the Pentagon of UAP (Unknown Aerial Phenomenon aka UFO) footage, the theories surrounding its release and the interests at play, the vastness of our cosmos and the challenge of space travel therein, and speculations on what these things could be and, if they are aliens, what their intentions might be.  Subscribe to Guerrilla History anywhere you get your podcasts. Support Guerrilla History here: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory Support Rev Left Radio here: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio 
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Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 21min

The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai

Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to the show, this time to discuss the life, work, and legacy of the famous Marxist Feminist Alexandra Kollontai. We discuss her life, her radicalization, her relationship with other famous revolutionaries, her role in the October Revolution, her enduring contributions to feminism, Marxism, and proletarian history, and much, much more.  Check out Kristen's work here: https://kristenghodsee.com/ Check out AK-47, Kristen's podcast dedicated to Kollontai here: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast Here are all the previous episodes of RLR that Kristen has been a guest on: Red Hangover: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/red-hangover-legacies-of-20th-century-communism-w-dr-kristen-r-ghodsee International Women's Day: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/womens-day Women Behind the Iron Curtain: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/women-under-socialism ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com
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Jun 16, 2021 • 1h 25min

The Imperialist Chain, Decolonization, and The Mass Line

In this collaboration with Faith and Capital, Breht is interviewed on a wide range of subjects, including whether or not there is a contradiction between spirituality and Marxist materialism, the importance of decolonization in the fight for communism, marxism-leninism-maoism, the wages and pathology of whiteness, the material benefits of imperialism for the labor aristocracy, the importance of love on the revolutionary left, and much, much more! Follow Faith and Capital on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital Support Faith and Capital here: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital Outro Music: "Off You" by Big Thief (The Breeders) ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com
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Jun 13, 2021 • 2h 8min

Look for the Helpers: A Collaboration with Srsly Wrong and Mexie

In this collaboration with Shawn and Aaron from Srsly Wrong and Mexie from the Vegan Vanguard, we have a wide ranging and experimental conversation about helping each other, solidarity, loving compassion, self and other, what it means to be human, and much more.  ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio
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Jun 12, 2021 • 2h 12min

Dialectics Deep Dive II: The Philosophy of Spinoza & God-as-Nature

Explore the life and philosophy of Baruch Spinoza with expert Matthew Furlong. Topics include Spinoza's influence on society, his philosophical ideas, and the contrast with Descartes' philosophy. Delve into Spinoza's unique writing method, the concept of substance, and God as nature. Discover Spinoza's resolve against societal pressures and his intertwined view of the universe.

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