The Epoch of Incredulity

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse begins reading from Anuradha Ghandy's 2001 article Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy . Part one covers the foreword and sections entitled " Growing Funadmentalism Worldwide - What it means for women " and " The Indian Context ". Background music:     "Peitho" prod. NK Music x sweeps -- https://youtu.be/_cIwnY-3GZE Th...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads an excerpt from Black Panther Party's Service to the People Programs: Emory Douglas' speech entitled Art for the People's Sake . Background music: "Ourea" prod. NK Music & Milkz -- https://youtu.be/wDfU6ZKBN-4 Theme music: Written and performed by Contingence -- https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston This episode was released to o...

☭ The fearsome foursome has returned. ☭ Links to the material we discussed are posted separately in { this patreon post }. Please support us on { Patreon }. Enjoy your epoch, comrades ♥ --- Timestamps --- 00:00 Intro 01:50 We're back! [News overview w/ Joe] 06:35 Chemical pollution 09:02 Suck my tender juices (for the greater good) 10:10 Microsoft acquires Activision-Blizzard 12:35 FTC antitrust l...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the beginning of Women's Liberation -- Class Struggle -- Naxalbari Path by B. Anuradha. Part one will cover some of the context for these writings, the introduction, and the section entitled "Part I: Women's Liberation, Marxist Perspective". Background music: "Telchines" by NK Music - https://youtu.be/OP7iKNEQSmQ Theme music: Written an...

Comrade Jesse gives some updates from the Mental Health Working Group. ☭♥☭ Hang tight ☭♥☭ Background music: "Glock" prod. DeBox Beats -- https://youtu.be/qtYaJaUHXcM Patreon: https://patreon.com/epicincredulity

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the second half of the article entitled Behind the cover-up: Contragate's hidden history. Background music:     "Lapith" by NK Music - https://youtu.be/JT4kb4bliLgNK Theme music:     Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston This episode was released to our pa...

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In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the first half of an article by Jeff Mackler entitled Behind the cover-up: Contragate's hidden history. The article was first published in Volume 5, Issue 7 of Socialist Action, July 1987. Background music:     "Moncler" prod. DeBox Beats     https://youtu.be/-itv7Az1oyk Theme music:     Written & performed by Contingence     https://so...

It's the New Year, and it's our last episode of 2021. Or, maybe it's our first episode of 2022? Either way, please enjoy this week's installment of the Epoch. There really isn't too much news, so Joe decides to talk about baseball, and later, runs down the gains achieved by the labor movement. Throughout the bulk of the episode, Jesse brings us both the positive and negative highlights of the year...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads Assata Shakur's open letter on the prison-industrial complex. The reading begins with a brief bio of our beloved panther in exile, sourced from assatashakur.org . Theme music:     Written and performed by Contingence      https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston Background music:   &nbsp...

Happy Holidays. Thank you for listening! Check out our | Patreon | for bonus content and access to our Discord.          Please visit | comrade-rosie.org | for resources in the greater Boston area. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:00 - Boric victorious in Chile 00:05:43 - Strikes and unions 00:07:20 - Scab discourse 00:16:50 - BananaCast 00:20:00 - New proof of vaccination...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads an excerpt from a Spartacist pamphlet detailing the horrific and infuriating Philadephia MOVE bombings.  The pamphlet, entitled Black History and the Class Struggle No. 3: Massacre of Philly MOVE , can be found in the Marxist Internet Archives - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/black-question/03_Massac...

This week on the Epoch we celebrate the triumph of unions, and mourn the tragedy of capitalism's greed. As Starbucks in Buffalo, and now Boston, began to unionize, Amazon forced employees to work during a tornado leading to factory collapse and the death of several workers in Kentucky. Locally, As Wu's pilot programs began to show promise, the MBTA cut's service, almost in an effort to sabotage th...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse concludes his reading of Mansor Hekmat's The State in Revolutionary Periods . Part seven covers the remainder of the section entitled "The Revolutionary Period and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat". Background music     "Anatole" by NK Music     Song link: https://youtu.be/Vg2Xu3MBjFo Theme music &nb...

Taken from Episode 75 - Choose Your Own Nostril! , Comrade Jesse shares his notes taken at a recent Narcan training, hosted by Boston DSA's Mental Health working group. SAMHSA National Helpline : 1-800-662-4357 Massachusetts Emergency/Crisis Services Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Programs Please visit | comrade-rosie.org | for resources in the greater Boston area.

After a string of longer episodes, here's a short Epoch you can have, as a treat. This week we discuss the AWS outage, Amazon and Starbucks unionization efforts -- all workers deserve a union -- the Omicron variant, the debt ceiling, and the Hubble telescope. In YCMTSU, Chava illuminates the lengths some people will go to to not get vaccinated. Plus, a lot of bad accents and some lite Lord of the...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mansoor Hekmat's The State in Revolutionary Periods . Part six covers the beginning of the section entitled "The Revolutionary Period and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat". Background Music:     "Calleis" by NK Music - https://youtu.be/qPfkeBn3dKs     "Atë" by NK Music - https:...

This week on The Epoch of Incredulity, Comrade Jesse runs down some vital socialist victories in the global south, specifically Venezuela, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Before that, in news, we discuss the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, CNN's suspension of Chris Cuomo, the possible bankruptcy of SpaceX, and DSA's relationship to Jamal Bowman. To round things out, Chava ponders Arbys' vodka. "That is an Epoch...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mansoor Hekmat's The State in Revolutionary Periods . Part five covers the section entitled "The Bourgeois State in the Revolutionary Period - the Case of the Islamic Republic". Background music:    "Auge" by NK Music { https://youtu.be/aG_mUC-YUnU } Theme music:    Written and performed by...

We have a new intro, a full deck of comrades, and bevy of topics this week on the Epoch. We open with a loose discussion of Žižek, academic Marxists, Q-Anon, JFK, and conspiracy theories. We then start off the news with the unfortunate reality of American White Supremacy and the Rittenhouse verdict. We follow that up with some good news concerning the Teamsters, bad news concerning Biden's emergin...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mansoor Hekmat's The State in Revolutionary Periods . Part four covers the section entitled "Lenin's Approach to the Question of the State in the Process of Revolution for Democracy: The Revolutionary Republic and our Programme". Background music:     Andromeda [Album] by NK Music    ...

As most of our favorite comrades were either sick or busy this week, Jesse, Scott, and later Chava, carry the weight. In national news, Scott fumbles the story but recovers with insight. Jesse runs down a slew local news. As always, Chava brings us a story about special cats. Thank you for listening. Check out our | Patreon | for bonus content and access to our Discord.    Please visit |...

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mansoor Hekmat's The State in Revolutionary Periods. Part three covers the section entitled "Revolutionary Periods in the Particular Sense and the Question of the State". Background music:      Libra [Album] by NK Music Theme music:      Written and performed by Continge...

Time for your second Epoch of the week, and it's our lengthy discussion covering last Tuesday's municipal elections in the greatest Boston area with former co-chair of Boston DSA, Evan George. Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

It's a special week for The Epoch, as there will be two brand new full episodes for your feeds! We were joined by Even George of Boston DSA to discuss the political landscape in the greater Boston area after the municipal elections last Tuesday, the conversation went so long that we decided to split things in half. First up is your regular Epoch for the week. This might just be the shortest mainfe...