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Will and Aaron read Thomas Sankara's We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions and discuss Internationalism, Sankara's based feminism, and why planting trees is dope.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron re-read Lenin's The State and Revolution and discuss their development as communists, the withering away of the state, and why they mess with the dictatorship of the proletariat.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.  

Will and Aaron read Guillaume Suing's Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology and discuss the frustration of dialectics, veganism's role in ecology, and why we never want to talk about Trofim Lysenko ever again.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read the seminal The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and discuss the violence of the colonial struggle, the national character of resistance in a colonial settler colony, and question if Aaron even knows how to read.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron return to the work of Dr. Karl Marx through "Critique of the Gotha Programme", discussing the role of critique, the distinction between pedantry and principle, and how Marx knows how to hold a grudge.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read J. Moufawad-Paul's The Communist Necessity and discuss the vanguard of the 21st century, "the left talking to the left about the left", and the depressing reality of movementism.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron return to the great George L. Jackson to read Soledad Brother, where they discuss self-determination, blindspots in leftist movements in history, and how MLK was a Gonzaloist.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron return to the great Michael Parenti's Democracy of the Few, discussing how democratic the US truly was at its founding, how everything good in the US came from struggle, and how Parenti is an old man at heart.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch and discuss primitive accumulation, the body as the first machine of capital, and the poophole loophole.   All music by Sisyphus Happy. 

Will and Aaron return to finish Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, discussing terror famines, Pol Pot apologetics, and why you should condemn Churchill.    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron start Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, reading through chapter 4 and discussing the state of exception, gulags, and how everything comes back to fucking Hegel.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice and discuss Anarchist praxis, the CNT-FAI, and how the National Federation of Labor Cartels sounds quite familiar.   All music by Sisyphus Happy. 

Will and Aaron explore James Connolly's Labour in Irish History, discussing the merits of trade unionism as an organizational tactic, the perennial national question, and the distinction between primary and secondary contradictions.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

In this extra-long episode, Will and Aaron read PSL's Socialist Reconstruction and contend with collectivizing everything, the problems of skipping the revolution, and the People's Piss Bottle.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron finish reading Dr. Karl Mark's seminal work Capital, Volume One and discuss original vs. primitive accumulation, the modern theory of colonization, and how we're honestly just happy to be done reading this dang book!   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read Mao's "On Contradiction" and discuss the correctness of action, the lib/left coalition, and why no one wants to be Trotsky.   Music by Sisyphus Happy.

In the penultimate Capital episode, Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, Volume One, covering chapters 15-22 and discussing the magnitude of surplus value, piece wages vs. time wages, and why Marx hated Bentham so damn much.

Patria o Muerte! In celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Will and Aaron read Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, discussing the applicability of guerrilla warfare in the modern age, "the role of the woman" in revolutionary politics, and why tractor repair may just be the next wave of revolutionary organization. All music by Sisyphus Happy, with the exception of the closing song: "P...

Will and Aaron continue the long journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing AI and mechanization, "luxury" goods and class antagonism, and how Door Dashers are the real heroes.   Music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron return to Joseph Stalin through his essay "The Foundations of Leninism", discussing socialism in one country, bottom-up recall vs. top-down purges, and why Lenin was a boss husband.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read chapters 10 and 11 from Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, Volume One and discuss productivity, the distinction between historical and capitalist modes of cooperation, and why The Golden Bachelor is cool.   Music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read Marco Maurizi's Beyond Nature and discuss animal liberation, veganism as an extension of Marxism, and why calling cops pigs is an insult to pigs everywhere.   All music by Sisyphus Happpy.

Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing surplus value, lunch breaks, and journeying into the vast abstract of Marx's mindscape.   Happy (belated) May Day!   All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Will and Aaron read 8 anarchist essays and discuss individualism, anarchist criticisms of Lenin's state model, and anarchism's ultimate person.   The essays explored in this episode are: -Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - Murray Bookchin  -An Anarchist Programme - Errico Malatesta  -Are We Good Enough? - Peter Kropotkin -Our Revolution - Carlo Cafiero -The Capitalist System - Mikhail Bakunin -Th...

Will and Aaron continue their journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing chapters 3-6 to define exchange circuits, characterize valorization, and inadvertently intimate a repressed foot fetish.   All music by Sisyphus Happy.   Also, something a little different: next episode's reading list for our "Anarchist Primer" episode: Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - Murray Bookchin An Anarch...