Left on Red

Call ins request for: The Socialist Guide to Dating, Sex, and Love Spring is in the air, and it is the season of sex and love! Susan and Scott want to know: are you looking for romance advice from a socialist perspective? If so, then you're in luck! Our socialist podcast is calling for listeners to submit audio and email messages about their experiences in dating, sex, love, and relationships. We...

Susan and Scott talk to Danny Valdes, DSA and Comrades with Kids member, about his generational status, activism as performance, and how to make the DSA a more welcoming place for parents. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced by Noah Teachey Comms by Julianna Mirra Not officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of Ameri...

Danny Valdes joins Scott and Susan to talk about the situation in Tennessee's legislature, Mifepristone, and finally, at long last, a useful definition of neoliberalism. See the link at the very bottom of the description for a link to leave us a message for our very first call-in show about romance and dating in the midst of late capitalist atomization. Also, check back on April 18th for Danny's s...

The Outer Boro Boyz (+ Susan) are back on your favorite all-peasant podcast to talk about the differences between Maoists and Communists in the Dominican Republic, Rael's socialist journey (by way of Cop Studies at John Jay), and how the DSA can widen its already-pretty-big big tent. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced by Noah T...

Susan and Scott sit down with Rael Almonte of DSA's B/UM chapter to discuss Trump's arraignment and local and state election results in the Midwest. Brandon Johnson's win makes everybody particularly jealous of Chicagoans, since Eric Adams is just here to give cops raises and defund schools. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced b...

On this episode of Left on Red, producer Noah takes to the third mic to tell Scott and Susan the story of how he became a socialist. Later, the trio discuss a socialistic take on creativity and how living in capitalism can alienate one not only from the means of production but from their own artistic impulses as well. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Sty...

Are Americans moving away from “traditional American values?” On this episode of Left On Red, Susan and Scott tackle this question from a recent Wall Street Journal poll. They also talk climate change & the newest IPCC report, housing, healthcare, bail reform & this year’s New York State budget. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidi...

Susan and Stylianos sit down with Gen-Z representative and NYC-DSA Steering Committee Communications Coordinator Kaarthika Thakker to talk about how she found her way to socialism and the DSA. They get into organizing in the digital space as it compares with organizing IRL, and the ways in which remote workers in the tech sphere are particularly primed for unionization efforts. Join DSA: https://a...

Stylianos and Susan discuss the Democrats' Will They or Won't They relationship with unions before diving into a socialist philosophy of getting swole and organizing at the gym. Finally, they touch on the Arrest-Mas that never was and the liberal obsession with law and order and proceduralism. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced...

Scott and Susan host their very first guest, DSA National Political Committee (NPC) member Tefa Galvis. Tefa tells the story of how she became a socialist, brings her perspective on the importance of communication and wellness within an organizing organization, and shares her thoughts on what the DSA could do without serious financial constraints. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership...

Stylianos and Susan discuss capital's latest crisis: the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Somehow problems for capital always seem to become problems for the rest of us. They get into the financialization of capital and what that means for an economy that moves according to vibes instead of widgets. Finally, they spend a bit of time on the return of great power politics, since the 90s are back but on...

Explaining more socialist concepts, today Susan and Stylianos ask, what is a non-reformist reform? How do Democrats and Republicans make reforms to capitalism, and how can Socialists? They also explore the happenings in Michigan with right to work, and what the US House Democrats are doing about DC bail and voting laws. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and S...

Susan & Scott talk about the right wing gender and sexuality panic, what it means to be working class, and how Democrats pandered to conservatives by overturning DC's local laws. Matt Thomas's article on the DeVos family's support of CRT: https://vulgarmarxism.substack.com/p/devos-family Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/ Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced b...

Stylianos and Susan talk about the East Palestine train derailment, Pete Buttigieg's lackluster press conference, the Build Public Renewables Act as an all-too-rare potential win for people and the planet, the Supreme Court's stance on student loan debt forgiveness, and how to turn all of the doom and gloom into solidarity and action. Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos Karolidis Produced by Noah T...