Rev Left Radio

This is the debut episode of a new Rev Left Radio sub-series called Red Hot Takes, where Breht breaks down and analyzes current events, new works, or breaking news in a monologue format. In this episode, Breht analyzes the popular new book on Climate Change by journalist David Wallace-Wells entitled "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" from a Marxist perspective.  Please Rate and Review R...

Donald Parkinson from Cosmonaut Magazine joins Breht to discuss the life, theory, and legacy of Bolshevik Revolutionary, Nikolai Bukharin. Find and support Cosmonaut Magazine here:  https://cosmonaut.blog Follow Donald on Twitter: @donaldp1917 Please donate to help get the Marxist Center's new magazine, Regeneration, off the ground if ya can: https://chuffed.org/project/revleftradio Outro Music: "...

Cindy Milstein, Jewish anarchist, author, and organizer, joins Breht to discuss the collection of essays she compiled and edited titled "Rebellious Mourning".  Find Cindy's books from PM Press here:  http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/CindyMilstein Find Cindy's books from AK Press here:  https://www.akpress.org/rebellious-mourning.html Here is Cindy's interview on Solecast:  http://www.sol...

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY! Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Breht once again to discuss her latest book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments For Economic Independence . Kristen's website is here: https://kristenghodsee.com/ Here is Kristen's latest article a...

Chuka Ejeckam joins Breht to discuss and pay homage to the Black Panther Party leader and Marxist Revolutionary, Fred Hampton. Find and support Chuka and his work here: http://www.chukaejeckam.com/ Follow him on twitter @ChukaEjeckam Outro music by: Dead Prez - Food, Clothes, Shelter Get Rev Left Radio Merch (and genuinely support the show by doing so) here:  https://www.teezily.com/stores/revleft...

Mike Prysner, from the Empire Files and the Eyes Left podcast, joins Breht to discuss the current coup attempt in Venezuela.  Find and support the Empire Files here:  http://theempirefiles.tv/ Find and support Eyes Left podcast here:  https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft Outro music by: No Thanks - Skull Clinic Find, support, and get rowdy to more of their music  https://no-thanks.bandcamp.com Get Rev...

On the debut episode of Red Menace, the brand new Rev Left Radio sister show , Alyson and Breht discuss Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels. The video episode can be found on youtube at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKdxX5eqQyk Outro Music by Adia Victoria - Invisible Hands Check out and support her beautiful music here: http://www.adiavictoria.com -------- Our logo was made...

Nate from the Person-First Harm Reduction Coalition (PSHRC) joins Breht to discuss their organizing strategies and goals in addressing the issues that surround drug abuse, addiction, and overdoses. They discuss the drug war, the panic around fentanyl, advice for other organizations, how this organizing is a form of base-building, and much, much more!  You can purchase fentanyl test strips here:  h...

J. Moufawad-Paul is a Marxist philosopher, the author of "Continuity and Rupture", "The Communist Necessity", and "Austerity Apparatus", and co-author with B enjanun Sriduangkaew  of "Methods Devour Themselves". He joins Breht to discuss his most recent essay "This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism as Science". You can find JMP's essay here:  http://www.abstraktdergi.net/this-ruthless...

Mel joins Breht in-studio to discuss drugs, addiction, trauma, and mental illness and their connections to the social conditions which capitalism manifests and imposes upon us.  Topics discussed include childhood trauma, pharmaceutical companies profiting off of addiction epidemics, the family unit under capitalism, the limitations and failures of AA, Left organizing around the issues of addiction...

Anastasiya and Speranza, a Russian immigrant mother and a Montanan mother respectively, join Breht to discuss the trials and tribulations of being mothers and parents in a capitalist society. Topics include how to be a radical parent, paternity leave policies in the US, familial evolution over time, the anthropology of child-rearing, being a parent in the age of Climate Change, and much more!  You...

Jon "TheLitCritGuy" joins Breht (for the third time!), this time to talk about Fredric Jameson's seminal work "Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". Jon has a brand new Gothic Marxist podcast called the Horror Vanguard. You can listen to and support that project here:  https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Follow the Horror Vanguard on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/horro...

 Comrade Slasher from Nigeria joins Breht to talk about the life, politics, and legacy of Marxist revolutionary and Pan-African leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.  Find our guest here: https://twitter.com/slasher_oag?lang=en Outro music: "I'm A African" by Dead Prez & "The 3rd World" by Immortal Technique ----------------------------------------- NEW LOGO from BARB, a communist graphic design...

Do you like political philosophy? Do you like science fiction and fantasy? Do you like breaking down the artificial cultural and intellectual barriers between the two? Then we have a treat for you!     This episode is a totally novel collaboration between our show, PoliTreks (a podcast which combines Trekky Fandom with cultural and political analysis), Benjanun Sriduangkaew and J-Moufawad Paul (co...

This episode is a unique collaboration between Rev Left Radio and Proles of the Roundtable. Both of us are publishing this episode through our own separate hosting sites at the same time, so you can listen to the episode on either feed! Breht sits down at the Roundtable *in person* to discuss historical materialism, the Marxist theory of truth, science and the humanities, the concept of Nature, an...

Redneck Revolt was founded in 2016 as an anti-racist, anti-fascist community defense formation.  Mathias and Pooja from Redneck Revolt / John Brown Gun Club join Breht and Dr. Bones (from The Conjure House, Gods and Radicals, and The Guillotine) to discuss counter-recruitment, leftist gun culture, building feminism into the fabric of an organization, arming and training marginalized people, and mu...

Members of the Indigenous Anarchist Federation (Federación Anarquista Indígena) join Breht to discuss Settler Colonialism and Decolonization. Follow and support the IAF on twitter @ IAF__FAI   Music in the show, in order of appearance:  La Migra by War of Icaza:  https://waroficaza.bandcamp.com Black Snakes by Prolific the Rapper:  https://prolifictherapper.com An Act of Liberation by Klee Benally...

Andrea is Lakota, wíŋkte, a Marxist, and studies Hispanic Studies. Andrea joins Brett to discuss Settler Colonialism and Decolonization.  Find Andrea on Twitter @Andrea_Lakota Find Andrea's writings here:  https://hinskehanska.wordpress.com Music for this episode, in order of appearance: R.E.D. by A Tribe Called Red Ft. Yasiin Bey and Black Bear:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MD8IK19aec Warson...

Austin Hayden Smidt (Political philosopher, filmmaker, actor, writer, podcast host, and all around wonderful guy) joins Breht to discuss the philosophy and political relevance of post-structuralism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism aka "metamodernism". They explore the connections between these philosophies and Leftism, exploring both the contradictions between postmodernism and Marxism as we...

Diogo and Luiza, two professors from Brazil and members of "Professores Contra o Escola Sem Partido" (PCESP) join Breht to talk about the current state of Brazilian politics, the election of Bolsonaro, Fascism, Brazilian memory, the parallels between Brazil and the US, the importance of international solidarity, and what leftists abroad can do to assist our Brazilian comrades. It gets pretty emoti...

Historian David Parsons joins Breht to talk about the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh, American Imperial War Crimes, Historical Memory, and much more! David Parsons is an author, historian, and leftist podcast host of The Nostalgia Trap. Find The Nostalgia Trap here:  https://nostalgiatrap.libsyn.com Support The Nostalgia Trap here:  https://www.patreon.com/nostalgiatrap Find his book, Dangerous Grounds:...

Existential Comics (aka Corey Mohler) joins Brett to discuss the philosophy, politics, and historical context of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Together they investigate the contradictions between Marxism and Existentialism and discuss the public dispute that ended Camus and Sartre's friendship. Find and Support Existential Comics here:  https://www.patreon.com/ExistentialComics Follow Existen...

Justin and Jeremy from Proles of the Round Table join Breht to elucidate the Marxist-Leninist perspective on Joseph Stalin. Listen to Proles of the Round Table here:   http://prolespod.libsyn.com/   Support Proles of the Round Table here: https://www.patreon.com/prolespod Sources for this episode include, but are not limited to, the following: "Another View of Stalin" by Ludo Martins "Fraud, Famin...

Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution.  Here is a previous show we here at Rev Left did specifically on the Paris Commune entitled "The Paris Commune: A Brief Blossoming of Proletarian Power", for anyone interested in taking a deeper dive: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/the-paris-commune-a-brief-blossoming-of-proletarian-pow...

 The Film Vanguard comes together once again to discuss the 1969 film directed by Dennis Hopper "Easy Rider". Topics include: differing definitions of freedom, hippies, communes, reactionary violence, Boomers, why a death wish is required to ride motorcycles, and more. Get in on the ground floor of our brand new Film Vanguard spin off show, Hammer and Camera at patreon.com/hammercamera Follow Hamm...