On the eve of a possible UPS strike in the United States, Kristen Ghodsee reads a 1968 introduction to Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 pamphlet written in support of the Workers Opposition. This was a fundamental critique of Bolshevism from within the Party ranks, which was squashed and ended Kollontai's political career in the USSR.

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Total Liberation Podcast with Mexie (Livestream), “Building Utopia with Dr. Kristen Ghodsee,” July 7, 2023
• Upstream Podcast, “Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee,” June 19, 2023
• RevolutionZ, “Diverse Utopias with Kristen Ghodsee,” June 18, 2023
• “Gender Oppression isn’t inherent in human nature,” Jacobin Magazine, June 23, 2023

More recent writing from Kristen Ghodsee:

• “Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely,” The Nation, June 28, 2023
• “The Ukrainian Utopia that almost Existed,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2023
• “To Smash the Patriarchy, We Need to Get Specific About What It Means,” Jacobin Magazine, June 10, 2023

Also check out these upcoming events, all information will be posted here:

• Online - City Lights Bookstore, July 19 (6:00pm Pacific Time)
• Online - How To Academy, August 3 (6:00pm GMT)
• Online - Second Life Book Club, August 9 (12:00pm Pacific Time)
• In person - Society for Ethical Culture Sunday Platform, August 13 (11:00am EDT)
• In person - Half King Reading Series, August 15, (7:00pm EDT)

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• Red Valkyries
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
• Second World, Second Sex

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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.