Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

In this episode Josh interviews Charlie Frank, an independent marxist researcher currently studying the history of AIDS in the United States. He is on the general staff of Cosmonaut magazine, a member of St Louis DSA and a candidate member of the Marxist Unity Group. Josh interviews Charlie about his article in Cosmonaut Magazine, entitled " ACT UP, Fight Back: A History of AIDS in America ." In c...

In this episode we interview two organizers with O'ahu Water Protectors. O'ahu Water Protectors is an organization that formed out of a coalition of Kanaka Maoli organizers, Sierra Club members and supporters, Hawai'i Peace and Justice, and other groups working toward sovereignty, decolonization, and demilitarization. Mikey Inouye is an independent filmmaker born and raised in Hawai'i, community o...

In this episode we talk to Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their recently published book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine .   Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology Program.   Stephen Sheehi is a Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at W...

In this episode we interview Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins to discuss their recently published book, Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism .   Andrew Douglas is a professor of political science and a faculty affiliate in Africana studies and international comparative labor studies at Morehouse College. Douglas is also the author of In the Spir...

In this episode we once again get the opportunity to sit-down with Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army veteran Jalil Muntaqim. Muntaqim was a political prisoner of the United States for 49 years due to his involvement in the Black liberation struggle. He was released from prison in October of 2020 after eleven parole denials. He is the author of We Are Our Own Liberators , and Escaping T...

In this episode we were honored to host Kali Akuno, co-director and co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders and a co-host at Black Power Media 's Remix Morning Show.   We brought Kali and Kamau into conversation under a banner of discussing strategy. Strategy is something that Josh and I feel is both essential and often lacking within a lo...

This is part two of our two part episode with three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal , which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at leftwingbooks.net .  On Necrocapitalism was collectively authored by a writing group known as M.I. Asma which included J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D.W. Fairlane...

In this episode we speak to three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal , which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at leftwingbooks.net .   On Necrocapitalism was collectively authored by a writing group known as M.I. Asma which included J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D.W. Fairlane. In this convers...

In this episode we speak with veteran of the Black Panther Party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and co-founder of the Black Autonomy Federation Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. A former long-time political prisoner, we talk to Ervin about the recent release of the definitive edition of his book Anarchism and the Black Revolution on Pluto Press. Anarchism and the Black Revolution was written...

In this episode we interview António Tomás, author of the recently published biography Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist . Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is a native of Angola, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist in Angola and Portugal...

Orisanmi Burton is a social anthropologist, his research examines grassroots resistance and state repression. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at American University. Currently, as he will discuss briefly in the episode, he is working on a book on prisoner organizing in the New York State prison system, and the Attica Rebellion.   In this episode we are talking about Burton's recent es...

In this episode we host Joshua Myers, to talk about his recently published book Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition . Folks will recall that last year we had a conversation with Josh Myers about Cedric Robinson much of which centered around the content and concepts within Black Marxism .   While there is a slight overlap between this conversation and that one, the two are quit...

In this episode we speak to Geo Maher. Maher is an educator, organizer, political theorist and the author of four books, including We Created Chavez , Building the Commune , and Decolonizing Dialectics . In this episode, we talk about Geo's latest book, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete . In this discussion we talk about Maher's grounding of the abolitionist struggl...

In this episode Josh interviews Eric Stanley about their most recent book Atmospheres of Violence: The Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. Eric is also the co-director of two films, Homotopia and Criminal Queers . And the co-editor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex .  ...

This week's special report, features Hassan M. Hassan is a scientist and writer. He is a contributing editor for the Peoples Anti-Colonial Press  and co-host at TheKulture. TV , a new weekly anti-imperialist roundup. He is currently researching the relationship between dialectical materialism and the history of the philosophy of science. In special reports, we interview journalists, activists, sch...

In this episode we interview Alex Turrall, an independent researcher and primary school teacher. We talk to Alex about two reviews they've written for Liberated Texts . Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release. Liberated Text...

For this special report we talk to Jon Ben-Menachem . Jon is a researcher and journalist, currently working on his PhD in Sociology at Columbia University, where he researches political economy and punishment. As a journalist he's published on policing, incarceration and austerity for The Appeal, Slate, Shadowproof, Current Affairs, Truthout and New York Daily News. Today we invite Jon on to discu...

In this episode we interview Ashon Crawley . Ashon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility and The Lonely Letters . In this discussion we ask Ashon questions from both books. Ashon delves into the context in which both works were created. Along the way Ashon shares re...

This is a special episode, as today - October 4th - is our 4th anniversary of releasing episodes of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. In this episode Josh and Jay look back on 4 years of doing the podcast, and on different contradictions and issues we're thinking about currently. Some folks might read this as a bit of a pessimistic conversation, and to the extent that this comes across, neither...

In this episode we inter view Torkil Lauesen. Lauesen is a long-time anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989 he was a full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means. In connection with support work, he has traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Philippines, and Me...

For this episode we offered our platform to some organizers inside and out, who put together a series of discussions on the state and needs of prisoner movements today. This is the third segment of a series of political discussions focused on building support for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's 2021 National Call To Action "Shut 'Em Down" and looking forward to next summer's 2022 National Prisoner Strik...

In this episode we interview Ray Luc Levasseur. During his time underground Levasseur was a purported member of the United Freedom Front, and the Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit. Prior to that Levasseur organized in several above ground formations, including the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), Vietnam Veterans Against The War, and SCAR. We talk to Ray about his early life, and the...

In this episode we interview SNCC veterans Jennifer Lawson and Dorothy Zellner. This is our second conversation with SNCC veterans we encourage folks to listen to this along with our conversation last year with Jennifer Lawson and Charles Cobb Jr .   SNCC is about to host it's 60th Anniversary conference, you can register at sncc60thanniversary.org . We encourage folks to do that and connect with...

In this episode we speak with Da'Shaun Harrison. Da'Shaun is a Black trans writer, abolitionist, and community organizer. Da'Shaun serves as Managing Editor for Wear Your Voice Magazine .   In this conversation we speak with Da'Shaun about their recently published book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness . We talk to Da'Shaun about their analysis of how the logic of...

In this interview we talk to Dr. Joy James. Joy James is the author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals, and Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in US Culture . Her edited books include: Warfare in the American Homeland, The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary...