Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

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We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American "left," but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public. Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialis...

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Episode 6: All I Want For Christmas Is... featuring George Ciccariello-Maher 21.12.2017 38:19

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...

Episode 5: Wendi Muse, #LeftPOC, Brazil & Lusophone Africa 13.12.2017 52:09

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...

Episode 4: Eugene Puryear - What The Russian Revolution Means 100 Years Later 03.12.2017 58:39

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...

Episode 3: #NoNazisAtUF featuring Chad Chavira 06.11.2017 47:36

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...

Episode 2: Black Feminist Anarchism & Leftist Neglect of the African Continent with Zoé Samudzi 24.10.2017 53:13

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...

Episode 1: HU Resist Shuts Down Comey 04.10.2017 41:19

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...