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This is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Rather than having a specific topic, our guest Andre will give brief summaries and reviews of a number of texts which they recommend as a foundation for anyone who is interested in Marxism or Marxism-Leninism. I would say that this is a great episode for you to share with left-n00bs who you don't want to go down any dark paths of tendency, but it's also great for those who are looking for things to read on the specific subtopics addressed. We're talking overcoming anti-AES propaganda, decolonial theory and history, as well as what Andre calls "the endless Cold War."

Reading and Viewing Recommendations:

Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video

Quote Reading From The Russians Are Coming

Quote Reading From Socialism Betrayed

Main Books And Their Respective Follow-Ups:

• Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World

• V.L Allen, The Russians Are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism

• Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Aimé Césaire, Discourse On Colonialism

• Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

• Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

• A.B Abrams, Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order

• Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus: Permanent War And The Americanization Of The World

• A.B Abrams, Power And Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific (2023 Updated Edition)

Other Cited Texts:

• Stuart Hall, When We Are All Enemies of the State

• Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach

• Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)

• Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)

• Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki

• Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade And The Missing Revolution

• Domenico Losurdo, Flight from History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt

• Agustín Lage Dávila, The Knowledge Economy And Socialism: Science And Society In Cuba

• Kyle Ferrana, Why The World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity

• Douglas Valentine, The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World

• Albert Szymanski, Human Rights In The Soviet Union: Including Comparisons With The U.S.A

Extra Recommended Readings:

• E.H Carr, The Soviet Impact On The Western World

• Anna Lousie Strong, In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report

• Albert Szymanski,

  Is The Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today

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In this whirlwind episode, The Leninist Lawyer (@LovelyLeninist) takes us deep into the world of Soviet law from the 1917 Revolution to end of Stalin's life in 1953. What exactly is socialist law? Did the USSR have a jury system? And how did the Soviet legal apparatus differ from so-called Western justice? We answer all and more in this intriguing episode.

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Rae and Jeremy sit down with Nathan from Schizophrenic Reads to talk about anti-intellectualism, radical empathy, and the ways in which our consumer culture turns us into hedonistic assholes.

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The Stalin Eras: Link Tree with Playlist https://linktr.ee/thestalineras

ATTENTION THEORY HEADS: this one's for you. Tony is subjected to misandry (JK, JK) as he, Rae, and Jen do a deep dive into Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 essay, "Winged Eros." They discuss misconceptions about Kollontai as a person, dating under capitalism vs socialism, the family unit, and much more.

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Text Version of Winged Eros

Audio Version of Winged Eros

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In this episode, we sit down with Jon and Frank to talk about their newly published edited collection, The Revolutionary Psychologist's Guide to Radical Therapy. We explore what "radical psychological practice" means, the ways capitalism undermines mental health, and why therapy without a class analysis risks hitting a dead end. Along the way, we touch on the possibilities and limitations of mainstream therapy, how radical approaches can open up new paths to collective well-being, and much more. CounterPsych Reddit Jon's Other Project: The TTRPG Surreal Punk

Sources:

Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2019). Embracing disillusionment: Achieving liberation through the demystification of suffering.University Professors Press.

Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2025). Radical healing: No wellness without justice. University Professors Press.

Hook, J., & Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (Eds.) (2025). The revolutionary psychologist's guide to radical therapy. Palgrave Macmillan. To be released 11-30-25. Available for pre-order on Amazon. Link to Order Book

Friere, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Herder and Herder.

Fromm, E. (1955). The sane society. Fawcett Publications, Inc.

Parker, I. (2018). Marxist theory and psychotherapy. In B. Cohen (Ed.), Routledge international handbook of critical mental health (pp. 244-250). Routledge.

Tony abandons the rest of the crew to their devices, and things predictably go off the rails. We talk about the weak chins of continuing series, whether or not there are encoded messages in Rian Johnson movies, and discuss the futility of anti-capitalist messaging without a political program to back it up.

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Tony and Jeremy sit down with Alex Z (Southern Catholic Worker) to talk about John Brown and Co, their raid on Harper's Ferry, the aftermath, and the legacy of John Brown on politics and the Civil War.

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Sources:

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded CIvil Rights by David S. Reynolds

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horowitz

The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry by Truman Nelson

John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois

Anti-Racism in US History: The First Hundred Years by Herbert Aptheker

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Tony and Jeremy sit down with Alex Z (Southern Catholic Worker) to talk about John Brown's early life, along with his trials and tribulations as a worker, father, and husband. This episode takes us all the way up to the period before he begins planning for the raid on Harper's Ferry (which means many skirmishes with and some broadsword swinging on pro-slavery dorks).

You can sign up at Patreon where you get access to early release episodes, study guides, the aforementioned bonus episodes, TheoryBeats, and MORE! YOU CAN DO SO FOR FREE, which will get you the study guides, merch, and other random drops.

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Sources:

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded CIvil Rights by David S. Reynolds

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horowitz

The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry by Truman Nelson

John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois

Anti-Racism in US History: The First Hundred Years by Herbert Aptheker

Intro Quote:

An excerpt from a speech given by Malcolm X in 1965.

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What do Andor, The Hunger Games, and Severance really say about capitalism and socialist revolution? In this episode of Prolespod, we critically examine these popular sci-fi and dystopian series through a socialist lens. We unpack the anti-capitalist themes, revolutionary narratives, and class struggle depicted in each — and ask how far these shows can really go while being produced by profit-driven corporations.

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