Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

This week as a special cup of holiday anti-capitalist cheer we're joined by George Ciccariello-Maher. He's a writer, professor, organizer, and the author of Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, Decolonizing Dialectics, and We Created Chavez: A People's History of Venezuelan Revolution, which has now been translated into French, Arabic, and Spanish.    In this episode George recaps...

In this episode we talk to Wendi Muse,  a PhD candidate in History at New York University. Her research concerns intellectual and political exchange between Brazilians and Portuguese-speaking African scholars, journalists, and activists during their concurrent respective struggles against  authoritarian regimes of a military dictatorship and colonialism and its impact on Brazilian leftist practice...

For this episode we caught up with Eugene Puryear, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and their candidate for the US Vice Presidency during the 2016 election.  For our show, Eugene talks with Jay about the Russian Revolution and what it means to him 100 years later, both historically and within this current political moment. He also talks about what the Russian Revolution meant for n...

For this episode we interviewed Chad Chavira.   Chad is the lead organizer for #NoNazisAtUF, the student led organization that protested Richard Spencer's speech at University of Florida back on October 19th. Chad is also an organizer with Dream Defenders and a junior at the University of Florida, studying Political Science and Sociology.   We talk to Chad about organizing on a college campus with...

This week we're excited to bring you a conversation with Zoe Samudzi.   Zoé is a freelance writer and doctoral student at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work is broadly around different aspects of race and coloniality, specifically through a black feminist lens.   We had an opportunity to talk with Zoé about Black Feminist Anarchism.     We also talked more broadly about how the...

In our first episode of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism we caught up with Alexis McKenney and Jason Ajiake from HU Resist to discuss the shutting down of James Comey's speech at Howard's convocation in September. This event was widely misunderstood by liberals who have given James Comey a bewildering "hero status."   This support of Comey has come about despite his history of anti-blackness and...