The Left Opposition Podcast

On the program today we have on three former members of the US military who each found their way to Marxism. Matthew you already know as a regular but we also hosted Tyler and Ben of the Denver Communists to discuss their experience in joining and serving in the military as pawns of the imperialist war machine and coming out of it as radicalized Marxists. Tyler recently had his article published o...

Chris shares his thoughts on his visit to Venezuela back in the day in which he witnessed first hand the incredible potential of worker's control of the means of production and the current election contest of Maduro against a Trump clone. Chavez instituted an incredible amount of reforms for the working class and laid a foundation for the Bolivarian revolution. Unfortunately under Maduro and t...

You think you're a coconut? Or something like that I don't fucking know any more. We discuss the ongoing endless american bourgeois election cycle, some hot gossip surrounding it, and ultimately why these elections are essentially a waste of time and deeply unserious. There is still a genocide happening folks! Solidarity with those on the ground who stood up against police repression at Ne...

The boys are back in town after a hiatus of holidays with families and loved ones. I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July in which you eat a bald eagle or whatever you Americans do. The news is as dumb as ever as we take a dive into Biden's post-debate interviews and clean up after the disastrous performance at the debate. The Labour Party in the UK won a decisive victory over the Tories on...

We catch up with our good MAGA communist friends to see what they're up to, where one of them likes a Nazi Fancam on Twitter, Alex Jones has to liquidate InfoWars to pay off his settlement with the Sandy Hook families, and the launch of the Freedom Institute for A Free American Freedom led by a coalition of Infrared, Midwestern Marx and Jackson Hinkle. AOC platforms some renowned Zionists to c...

Tonight's episode was nearly cancelled due to allergies but thankfully Chris, Joe and Matt stepped up and banged out a solid episode with my congested ass occasionally weighing in. No Doug this week as he is focusing on some articles and putting the finishing touches on his new book coming this summer! On the program we discuss American democracy, how much of a sham it is, why Trump's conv...

Apologies comrades, we recorded this just after May 1st of this year, and due to a number of family issues, world events that demanded our participation in the streets, and technical issues, I finally found time to salvage and fix this episode. In this episode we have a conversation with some comrades over at Independent Socialist Group. We go over their various takes and positions on world events...

It's the Haz episode! We go over some classic clips but more importantly we take a dive into the theory behind MAGA communism as it pertains to the working class, Trumpism, as well as its relationship to previously similar movements like Strasserism, Larouchism, etc.... where these mass movements of people with socialist aesthetics become anti-communist setbacks. What Haz essentially is pushin...

Support the podcast on Patreon! $5 goes a long way for us. https://www.patreon.com/theleftop/membership Haz and Hinkle kicked off campus and whine about it. Fetterman and the NYPD are liars. Chris and Aaron back with a news episode, discussing May Day, Marx's birthday, and Soviet Victory day, and connecting the workers movement with the student encampments for a Free Palestine and the qualitat...

The lads open with another bizarre conversation between recurring characters Alex Jones and Jackson Hinkle analyzing the Trotskyist movement in America which led to us reading out an argument between Noah from Midwestern Marx and some actual Trotskyist comrades in the replies. We then talk seriously about the ongoing encampments popping up on campuses across the United States opposing genocide, wi...

Initially we wanted to talk about the DSA after a few short discussions on a video that came across our desk as well as a shitty Atlantic article that came out last year about how it's best to just ignore the news, but we ran too long and will discuss the DSA another time. Rathbone is a political tiktok influencer who I think has done some really great work dispelling myths surrounding the Isr...

Just Aaron and Chris this week discussing some of the news that's been circulating, some major stuff and some stuff you might not have heard about. Aaron opens the episode gushing about Carl Sagan, one of many figures and influences that led him away from liberalism and toward an internationalist perspective of the world. We then read a letter from NY mag about liberals getting their feelings...

Aaron, Chris, Matt, Joe and Doug coming at you once again taking a break from our patsoc nonsense to take a look at the alternative to Trump's movement. If we are so vehemently against Trump and the MAGA communist movement, we must be Democrats, right? In this episode we take a short tally of just where the Democrats have fallen short for working people, how left wing movements die in their vi...

This week we take a deep dive into one of the most popular Marxist Leninists MAGA communists in the media, Jackson Hinkle. With over 2 million followers on Twitter, he's had the ear of Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and many other prominent media figures. Where did he come from and why is he special? The long and short of it, is everything he has done has been for clout. We mostly let H...

Hello comrades! This is our first episode of the Left Opposition where we take on the capitalist news of the week, the current goings on around the world, discuss current Marxist theory and books we're reading, and critique certain segments of the Marxist current gaining steam in the American zeitgeist: the patriotic socialists or so called "MAGA" communist movement. We round out the...