Revolution and Ideology

We discuss the negative consequences of mass media and its impact on our political and social behavior.

With guest Alan Pitts, we discuss Lysander Spooner’s “The Constitution of No Authority” and the legalist arguments against the Constitution of the United States as a legally binding document. Nick mispronounces “Worcester” and arguably “Lysander” and we somehow cover a number of topics including taxes, AOC, Sartre, Foucault, and more.

In this episode, we discuss the myth of the crafting of the Constitution of the United States of America and explain why it is intentionally not a democracy.

In this episode, we discuss the four types of alienation according to Karl Marx and how they relate to modern society. See the show notes on our website.

In this episode, we talk about Abigail Adams, the first second lady and the second first lady. She was an abolitionist and feminist before her time. It's inexcusable for her to be glossed over in the traditional historical narrative of the United States.

In this episode, we discuss Shays' Rebellion which we consider to be the first American counter-revolution.

In this episode, we discuss mutinies in Washington's Army and the time the first President of the United States called for a genocide against indigenous peoples.

In this episode, we discuss the life and times of Thomas Paine, one of the architects of the United States whose views on slavery and true democracy proved to be too radical for the other 'founding fathers.'

In this episode, we discuss the beginnings of the War for Independence.

We discuss the Ohio Company, The Seven Years War, Pontiac's Rebellion, the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act, and all of the other complexities that lead-up to the American War for Independence.

In the second of two episodes, we discuss racist ideology and the Stono Rebellion.

In the first of two episodes, we discuss the horror of kidnapping Africans and bringing them to the colonies against their will.

What is a "revolution?" In this brief episode, we cover the four types of social movements and focus on revolution specifically.

In this episode, we discuss the Puritan colonization of New England (and its atrocities).

We cover the basic ideas from Max Weber's "The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" to set the foundation for the colonizing of New England and explore one theory for how modern capitalism came into being.

In this episode we analyze the laws of the Virginia Colony to discover how the concept of "whiteness" was invented to divide the working class.

In this episode, we discuss the settling of Jamestown and the actions of the Virginia Company.

In this episode we deconstruct the myth of the "discovering" of America. Hopefully, this isn't new knowledge for anyone. However, we know that won't be true.

We are happy to announce a new series, Myth is America. In this series we’ll take a break from revolutionary history and theory and focus our time on telling the often overlooked history of the United States of America.

In this second of two episodes, we discuss Rojava, the PKK, and Democratic Confederalism.

In this first of two episodes, Jared gives us the history of the Kurds.

We provide a very brief introduction to Murray Bookchin's concept of Communalism and some critiques.

In this episode, we explore post-anarchism (or post-structural anarchism) and we learn that one of our hosts has some Leninist tendencies.

In this episode, we begin to explore the origins of the state and how states seem to be organized. Eventually, we debate whether or not discussing the history of the state is even fruitful for our project of exploring how a stateless society could be created.

In this episode, we explore the difference between a "state" and a "society." We focus on various different philosophers' definitions of "state" and what that means for our project of exploring a stateless society.