What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante
What Is To Be Done? This is the question so profoundly posed by the Russian Revolutionary and Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, in his landmark text of the same name. Although it was written well over...
17 Okt 20231h 54min
How to Decolonize and Indigenize with Sikowis Nobiss
What is the connection between capitalism, colonialism, consumerism, and Christianity? How do these systems and ideologies uphold and support one another? How do we work to dismantle them and cultivat...
9 Okt 202340min
Class War and Beer with Brace Belden
Although the reference to war that you just heard could very much be real, actual military conflict — after all, our guest on today's episode has fought as a freedom fighter in a Kurdish militia in Sy...
26 Sep 20231h 8min
Microlending and the Financialization of Poverty with Sohini Kar
It was once very difficult for people experiencing poverty in the Global South to obtain credit and loans because they were seen as unable to provide adequate collateral. This situation changed with t...
12 Sep 20231h 2min
Capitalist Realism with Carlee
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." Those words have been attributed to both the philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek decades ago, but they couldn't feel...
29 Aug 20232h 23min
Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell
Do you ever feel like time is marching in a particular direction? Towards, say, rising global temperatures, mass extinctions, ever-increasing divisions — and ultimately, towards inevitable collapse? W...
14 Aug 20231h 2min
Buddhism and Marxism with Breht O'Shea
When you think about the philosophies and practices of Buddhism and Marxism, you might not immediately think that they have much in common. However, you might be surprised at how much overlap and comp...
1 Aug 20231h 21min
Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
When we think of health under capitalism, it's easy to go straight to the fight for universal healthcare, and understandably — that battle is one of the most contentious and important in the ongoing c...
17 Juli 20231h 36min
