Rev Left Radio

Dr. Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist, author, Revolutionary, and anarcho-primitivist thinker who urges us to examine civilization, its premises, its psychology, its pathologies, and its manifestions (including capitalism). She sits down with Brett to discuss the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism and debunks myths that many leftists have about the tendency and the philosophy that goes with it. It's not a call to dismantle everything with no concern for who it hurts; rather it offers a way *forward* by insisting on an analysis that goes deeper than capitalism, and cuts to the core of our civilization, our evolutionary history, and our psyches. This is a must-listen episode! Topics Include: Civilization, language, anthropology, symbolic culture, the use of language, the agricultural revolution, Marxism, the concept of "rewilding", meditation, train journies across Russia, going into nature, and much more!!! ------ Links to Layla's websites, where you can find her books and writings: Layla's Work Layla on FB Please donate to our Patreon Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on FB This Podcast is Officially Affiliated with the Omaha GDC and The Nebraska Left Coalition Random Song From Our Friends: The Brink by Rogue Element Thank you for all of your support and feedback!

The host of Rev Left Radio, Brett, goes on a Libertarian podcast to discuss and defend Marxism. Topics Include: Libertarian Marxism, Louie CK, Murray Bookchin, Automation, Antifa, Organizing, and much, much more. Please donate to our Patreon Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on FB This Podcast is Officially Affiliated with the Omaha GDC and The Nebraska Left Coalition Random Song From Our Friends: Rogue Element by Rogue Element Audio clip used from Murray Bookchin Thank you for all of your support and feedback!

Dr. Bones is an Egoist, Communist, Insurrectionary Anarchist, Conjurer, and Gonzo Journalist. He joins Brett on the podcast to discuss his philosophy of Egoist-Communism inspired by the works of Max Stirner. Topics Include: Egoism, The Union of Egoists, Insurrectionary Anarchism, The G20 riots in Hamburg, critiques of Marxism and Anarcho-Communism, an open invitation for Brett to come to Florida to eat Alligator and drink copious amounts of alcohol in a graveyard, and MUCH much more. Here are some links to Dr. Bone's work: www.theconjurehouse.com www.godsandradicals.org Follow Dr. Bones on Twitter: @Ole_Bonsey Please donate to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on FB: www.facebook.com/revleftradio This Podcast is Officially Affiliated with the Omaha GDC and The Nebraska Left Coalition Random Song From Our Friends: "Wasted On My Time" by Gamble, Gamble, Die gamblegambledie.bandcamp.com

Kristy is a revolutionary organizer and co-founder of the leftist organization The Nebraska Left Coalition. Jeff is revolutionary union member and one of the admins of Anarchist Memes. Brett, Kristy, and Jeff come together (and overcome a slew of technical difficulties during the recording of this episode) to collectively address and refute common arguments made against socialists. Topics include: Antifa, human nature, Hitler, economics, private property vs. personal property, and much more. Random Song From Our Friends: "I Wrote This Song When I Was 17" by Not Ben Shin https://notbenshin.bandcamp.com/releases This podcast is officially affilated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC. Twitter @RevLeftRadio Facebook: Revolutionary Left Radio support us on Patreon (forwardslash Revolutionary Left Radio) Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes to increase our reach. Thank you for the support!

Brett sits down with revolutionary organizer and Appalachian local Nic Smith to talk about the Appalachian working class and its history of class struggle. Topics include: Radical unionism, the history of the region, Trump, liberalism's failures and socialism's hopes, stereotypes about Appalachians, the need for a true working class party, and much more! **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.** Donate Follow us on: Facebook Twitter (which we are new to, and trying to build up): @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Random Song of The Week From Friends: Featured as the outro music From The Window On A Train - Jack Hotel Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC Thank You for your support and feedback!

Dr. James Rocha is a professor of philosophy at Fresno State University. He wrote a paper entitled "The Black Reaching Out: An Anarchist Analysis of Firefly" in which he argues for an anarchist interpretation of the show over the more prevalent libertarian interpretation on the show. Him and Brett discuss the paper and the arguments therein. Topics include: Anarchism, Libertarianism, morality, feminism, the genre of Sci Fi, analysis of the State, and much more. **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.** Donate Follow us on: Facebook Twitter (which we are new to, and trying to build up): @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Random Songs of The Week From Friends: Featured as the outro music Hands by Warbonnet Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC Thank You for your support and feedback!

This is a unique episode. We are releasing bonus content from our episode with Dr. Thoreau Redcrow and from our Maoism episode; this bonus content will be bolstered by Q and A sessions with Brett answering questions from listeners. We will also use Brett and David's music as transition between subjects. Dr. Redcrow recounts being on Cuban national television, meeting Subcommadante Marcos, and getting arrested in Turkey for his political activity, and narrowly escaping being handed over to ISIS for beheading. For our Maoist episode, we had a bathroom break through which our mics stayed on. We talk a lot our experiences with right wing professors in college, the myth of Marxist professors at universities, and Taylor threatens to fight Hegel and Lacan while praising Heidegger. **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.** Donate Follow us on: Facebook Twitter (which we are new to, and trying to build up): @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Random Songs of The Week From Friends: Featured as the outro music You Are Not Alone by Two Tone Runts Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC Thank You for your support and feedback!

The Red Plains Revolutionary Group is a multi-tendency communist organization with an intrinsically Maoist inflection. Brett sits down with members of the group to discuss the philosophy of Maoism, and how that philosophy is inseparable from the practice of Maoism. Other topics include: The Black Panther Party, Antifascism, Peru and India, Leninism, Third Worldism, and what organizing looks like in a Maoist context. **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.** Follow us on: Facebook Twitter (which we are new to, and trying to build up): @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC Thank You for your support and feedback!

Brett sits down with Dr. Mark Bray to discuss the political philosophy, history, and future of Anarchism. Topics include: Bakunin and Marx, the first international, the Spanish Civil War, Stalinism, listener questions, the anarchist view of the State, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, and much more! Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He completed his PhD in Modern European and Women's and Gender History at Rutgers University in 2016, and is currently finishing his manuscript "The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain, 1893-1909." "The Anarchist Inquisition" explores the emergence of groundbreaking human rights campaigns across Europe and the Americans in response to the Spanish state's brutal repression of dissent in the wake of anarchist bombings and assassinations. At GRID, he will begin work on his next project which explores the cultures of violence and street resistance that emerge in the social movements of postwar Western Europe and their impact on conceptions of leftist masculinity in the context of the emergence of competing conceptions of feminism. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House, 2017) and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero Books, 2013) as well as the co-editor of the forthcoming Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School (PM Press, 2018). **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.** Follow us on: Facebook Twitter @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC Thank You for your support and feedback!

Chelsey Gentry-Tipton is the Nebraska Democratic Party Black Caucus Chair and Anthony Walraven is an activist from Peoria, Illinois who recently ran for City Council in his city. They sit down with Brett to discuss the modern history of the Democratic Party, Bill Clinton's Third Way strategy, the Hillary vs. Bernie primary, the role of race and class in the party, the limitations of the Democratic Party, lessons learned from the humiliating loss to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the future of the party, and much more. Follow us on: Facebook Twitter @RevLeftRadio or contact the dudes at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach. Thank You for your support and feedback!