Demarchic Communism Podcast

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  • 12: "Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism?" -Lenin

    Shaunsky and Sasha read "Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism?" which is the 11th chapter (of 13) of Lenin's pamphlet The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It.

    Text available at Marxists Internet Archive at https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11.htm#v25zz99h-360

    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].

    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social

    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeodย 

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    42 min
  • 11: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ, Part 2, Lesson 4 (cont'd)

    Shaunsky, Red, and Sasha finish up Lesson 4 of Araling Aktibista.

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    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].


    Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) can be found at https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf


    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeodย 

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr 16 min
  • 10: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ, Part 1, Lessons 3 & 4

    Red and Sasha discuss Activist Study from the Communist Party of the Philippines, Lesson 3, "The Mass Line" and the first part of Lesson 4, "Democratic Centralism."

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    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].


    Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) can be found at https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf


    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeodย 

    Outro music: "Lookin' Up" by The Bar (Bambu and Prometheus Brown)

    1 hr 17 min
  • 9: "What If We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 4

    Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha finish reading Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."


    Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.

    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].



    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeodย 


    Outro music: "What Are We" by Savage Family

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    1 hr 19 min
  • 8: "What If We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 3

    Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha continue with part 3 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."


    Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.

    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].



    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr 15 min
  • 7: "What if We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 2

    Shaunsky and Sasha continue with part 2 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."


    Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.

    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].



    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr 20 min
  • 6: "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 1

    New co-host Red joins Shaunsky and Sasha to review the first section of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."


    Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.

    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].



    Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
    or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.

    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 5: "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 3

    Sasha finishes reading Brian Martin's "Democracy Without Elections."

    Apologies for the echo/reverb in a few places. I was trying to bring in a better microphone, but I obviously don't know enough about audio to get that right.

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    If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].


    The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html

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    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    57 min
  • Episode 4: "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 2

    Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss section 2 of Brian Martin's essay "Democracy Without Elections."ย If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].


    The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html

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    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    57 min
  • Episode 3: "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 1

    Recorded June 2, 2024

    Published June 19, 2024

    Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss the first section of Brian Martin's 1995 essay "Democracy Without Elections."ย 

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    If you'd like to get involved with the podcast, email us at [email protected], or send us a message on

    twitter @demarchiccommieย 

    or BlueSky @demarchicroad.bsky.social

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    Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    1 hr 3 min

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Studying the intersection of communist and democratic theory based on the hypothesis that they are interdependent and that demarchy is necessary to realize both communism and real democracy.