left; unread
left; unread
Two leftists exploring the question, ”what is to be done?” as they navigate life in a late-stage capitalist hellscape.
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Episodes
Episode 26 - Women, Race, and Class 24.03.2025 1:23:50
Happy Women's History Month! Will and Aaron read Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and discuss the necessity for an intersectional liberation politic, the need for a new guard of radical revolutionaries, and how fathers can't be babysitters. All music by Sisyphus Happy. https://open.spotify.com/album/3uxO1udNj9uATyIoFzkOMk?si=1hRzaXpySqekHIozTJ7fQg
Episode 25 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 1-2 10.03.2025 1:26:56
Will and Aaron begin the journey of reading Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing correctly defining commodity, use vs. exchange value, and Karl Marx's favorite fetish. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 24 - Blood in My Eye 10.02.2025 1:41:07
Will and Aaron read George L. Jackson's classic "Blood in My Eye" and discuss the role of violence in revolution, being something other than a professional revolutionary, and how the US is - and always has been - a fascist project. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 23 - The Communist Manifesto 27.01.2025 1:29:41
Will and Aaron read Marx (and Engels)'s The Communist Manifesto and discuss defining the movement for ourselves, organization, and how we say 'fucking' a lot - some may say too much. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 22 - Black Skin, White Masks 06.01.2025 1:18:08
Will and Aaron read Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon and discuss the colonization of language, the duality of self-determination, and Freud's obsession with genitals. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 21 - Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution 23.12.2024 1:01:44
Will and Aaron return to Peter Kropotkin to read Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and discuss selfishness, means and ends not matching, and why balls exist. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 20 - Capitalist Realism 09.12.2024 1:16:47
Will and Aaron read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and discuss the commodification of emancipation, philosopher kings vs. existential abandonment, and whether Donald Trump shids himself. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 19 - The Society of the Spectacle 25.11.2024 1:09:43
Will and Aaron read Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and discuss commodity colonization, true and false consciousness, and how plants love Brawndo. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 18 - "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" 04.11.2024 1:04:30
Will and Aaron read Joseph Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" and discuss "great men" of history, the role of handicraft, and how to make room for metaphysical thinking in a materialist world. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 17 - "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" 21.10.2024 1:33:13
Will and Aaron return to Lenin to read "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" just in time to discuss the merits of participating in bourgeois parliamentary elections. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 16 - The Transitional Program 30.09.2024 1:18:00
Will and Aaron read Leon Trotsky's "The Transitional Program" The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International" and discuss coalition between farmers and industry workers, the application of democratic slogans, and why Trotsky is a whiny little no rizz bitch boy. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 15 - One Dimensional Man 16.09.2024 1:18:43
Will and Aaron read Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man and discuss happy consciousness, the sublimation of language, and why Aristotle is a chud. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 14 - "Wage-Labour and Capital" 02.09.2024 1:53:06
Will and Aaron finally read some Marx on this show, exploring "Wage-Labour and Capital" and finally putting some respect on the name of DOCTOR Karl Marx. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 13 - Blackshirts and Reds 19.08.2024 2:05:03
Will and Aaron read Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti and discuss left anticommunism, siege socialism, and Mortal Kombat. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 12 - Reform or Revolution? 22.07.2024 1:37:25
Will and Aaron read Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution? and struggle to retain the love of Will's mother. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 11 - "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" 08.07.2024 1:22:25
Will and Aaron read "Quotations" from Chairman Mao and work tirelessly to hold the mass line and not become mere bean curd tigers. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 10 - "What is to be Done?" 24.06.2024 1:27:45
Will and Aaron explore Lenin's "What is to be Done?" while relishing the need to 'stimulate to whole' of the proletariat. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 9 - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 03.06.2024 1:33:06
Will and Aaron return to Engels to read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, debate how to pronounce 'Fourier', and explore the deepest confines of Will's mind palace. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 8 - "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" 20.05.2024 1:13:50
Will and Aaron return to Lenin to read "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" and discuss capitalism's tendency toward monopoly, the aggressive expansion of capitalistic colonialism, and if we should own guns. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 7 - The Jakarta Method 07.05.2024 55:56
Will and Aaron explore Vincent Bevins' The Jakarta Method while struggling to fight back fatalism and expose cracker capitalism - all in one hour! All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 6 - The Conquest of Bread 12.04.2024 1:34:10
Will and Aaron read Peter Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread and ask important questions like, "Is there such a thing as anarchist praxis?" and "Is 'dipshittery' a word?" All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 5 - The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy 20.03.2024 2:11:43
Will and Aaron read Donny Gluckstein's The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy and discuss its successes, its failures, and how we're slowly becoming Trotskyists.
Episode 4 - The Permanent Revolution 01.03.2024 1:41:31
Will and Aaron read Leon Trotsky's The Permanent Revolution and, among other things, discuss the merits of subtitles on TV shows, icepicks, and how the hell to pronounce 'epigones'.
Episode 3 - The State and Revolution, Part 2 09.02.2024 1:14:35
Two dudes engaging in radical self-education finish reading The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin. In this episode, Will and Aaron explore chapters 4-6 of Vladimir lenin's The State and Revolution.
Episode 2 - The State and Revolution, Part 1 26.01.2024 1:31:55
Will and Aaron explore chapters 1-3 of Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution.
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