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  • Episode 54 - Mutual Aid (Dean Spade)

    Will and Aaron read Dean Spade's Mutual Aid and discuss leaderless and leaderful organization, how to scale up praxis to a revolutionary level, and how we both fail the perfectionism checklist.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 53 - Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    Will and Aaron read Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and discuss the oppressed/oppressor dialectic, how to pronounce conscientizacao, and what non-human animal wronged Freire in the past.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 37 min
  • Episode 52 - "The Eighteenth Brumaire"

    Will and Aaron return to the great Dr. Karl Marx to read "The Eighteenth Brumaire", discussing concealing class character through parliamentary obfuscation, the weaponization of the peasantry as a reactionary class, and why 'Crapulinski' is a great burn.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    50 min
  • Episode 50 - The State and Revolution, Revisited

    Will and Aaron re-read Lenin's The State and Revolution and discuss their development as communists, the withering away of the state, and why they mess with the dictatorship of the proletariat.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

     

    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 49 - Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology

    Will and Aaron read Guillaume Suing's Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology and discuss the frustration of dialectics, veganism's role in ecology, and why we never want to talk about Trofim Lysenko ever again.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 48 - The Wretched of the Earth

    Will and Aaron read the seminal The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and discuss the violence of the colonial struggle, the national character of resistance in a colonial settler colony, and question if Aaron even knows how to read.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 47 - "Critique of the Gotha Programme"

    Will and Aaron return to the work of Dr. Karl Marx through "Critique of the Gotha Programme", discussing the role of critique, the distinction between pedantry and principle, and how Marx knows how to hold a grudge.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    51 min
  • Episode 46 - The Communist Necessity

    Will and Aaron read J. Moufawad-Paul's The Communist Necessity and discuss the vanguard of the 21st century, "the left talking to the left about the left", and the depressing reality of movementism.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 45 - Soledad Brother

    Will and Aaron return to the great George L. Jackson to read Soledad Brother, where they discuss self-determination, blindspots in leftist movements in history, and how MLK was a Gonzaloist.

     

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

    1 hr 6 min

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Two leftists exploring the question, ”what is to be done?” as they navigate life in a late-stage capitalist hellscape.