By Any Means

In this episode of By Any Means , James talks with Will (@Willztalks) about China, AI, and what a socialist approach to technology could actually look like. Who controls these tools, who benefits from them, and can we use them against the same companies trying to make us disposable? They get into the economics of the AI race, American protectionism, the politics of AI fearmongering, and what China...

Mutual aid can help people survive a crisis. But survival is not the same thing as power. Minneapolis organizer Zedé joins  By Any Means to talk about her Community Welfare System—a framework for turning care, shared resources, and mutual aid into durable institutions that communities can actually rely on. We get into why movements fall apart, the importance of structure and implementation, how to...

Veterans have participated directly in American empire. So why should the left trust them—let alone organize with them? Army veteran, anti-imperialist organizer, and congressional candidate Greg Stoker joins By Any Means to talk about why people actually join the military, what accountability should look like afterward, and whether the left's tendency to write people off is costing us potential co...

Alana Hadid is a Palestinian-Irish activist, producer, and proud class traitor. We talk about what celebrity is actually good for, whether cultural influence can be turned into political power, and why simply being loud about Palestine in spaces that would rather forget it exists can itself be a form of struggle. Alana gets into the limits of celebrity activism, the work happening behind the scene...

Colten Barnaby is a socialist, former church staffer, fourth-generation Pentecostal pastor's kid, and self-described Christian atheist. Rather than abandoning Christianity to the right, he's trying to use the gospel against them—and convince Christians that capitalism, empire, white supremacy, and the American state have a lot more in common with Babylon than the Kingdom of God. We talk about Chri...

In this episode of By Any Means , James talks with Atlanta organizer, student, and propagandist Chainslayer about what it actually takes to build political power where you live. Chainslayer traces his path from growing up around journalism and liberal politics, through poverty, violence, jail, Bernie Sanders, the Black Panthers, Fanon, Marxism, and eventually organized socialist politics. They get...

In this episode of By Any Means , James talks with Yeezy Prints — amateur gunsmith, 3D-printing advocate, and DIY gun designer — about 3D-printed guns, open-source technology, and what it means to become ungovernable. The conversation starts with guns but quickly becomes about much more: the means of production, the state's monopoly on violence, and why capitalism depends on keeping tools, knowled...

In this episode of By Any Means , James talks with organizer James Ray about Chris Rabb's Philadelphia state house campaign, the internal dynamics of DSA, and what it means to actually fight for the direction of a left organization instead of just critiquing it from the outside. They get into Philly electoral politics, Palestine solidarity work, local chapter organizing, and the messy but necessar...

Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power. In this episode of By Any Means , James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American cap...

California's governor race has dozens of candidates. Only two advance. So what does it actually mean to run a socialist campaign inside a political system where the economy is largely controlled privately, major institutions are shaped by wealth, and elections rarely produce change on their own? In this episode of By Any Means , James Harr talks with Peace and Freedom Party gubernatorial candidate...