This episode was recorded in December 2024.

Welcome to the first episode of Revolutions of Our Time! If you're feeling a little disheartened at the state of the world and want to understand how to drive change for the better, well, us too. This podcast exists to examine progressive social movements, their successes and their failures, and to tease out interesting lessons to take away with us.

We're starting out with a little pre-season where we talk about protests in the abstract, as well as give an outline for how our episodes are going to work moving forwards.

In this episode, we talk about the role of class struggle and material conditions in shaping society, we touch on historical materialism and why we're interested in theory alongside practice, and we have a shot at answering two questions: why then? Why now?