Red State Radio

Hex, Hazel, and Karma talk about education: Where it came from in the US, why it sucks, and where it could be! Did you really learn? Or did you learn to serve?

Hex talks about Venezuela, where it is today and how it got there. Hex gets pretty bummed.

Further Reading:

https://venezuelanalysis.com/tag/communes

https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Venezuelan-Food-Company-Caught-Burying-Alive-Millions-of-Chicks-20171113-0013.html

https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Shortages-Smuggling-and-Paramilitaries-in-Venezuela-20150821-0034.html

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Opposition-Violence-Responsible-for-23-Venezuelans-Burned-Alive-20170723-0010.html

https://popularresistance.org/world-ignores-opposition-violence-at-venezuela-protests/

Hex interviews their anarchist comrades, Hazel and Dax, in order to get a better understanding of anarchism and the thought process behind it. Hex has to hold their tongue a little bit in order to stop this from being a debate episode and....mostly holds it together.

Big thanks to Proles of the Round Table for letting us call in while we were taking a break from recording! Also Hex's definition of materialism/idealism was pretty bad so heres this one:

"Materialism is the idea that material machinations move history, while idealism suggests that ideas do". Thank you for overlooking this error.

Hex talks about the DPRK. Is it an authoritarian wasteland or, more realistically, a normal place where normal people do normal stuff?

Songs used in episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdDHP7QfWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJwlUNiJBQ

Constitution of the DPRK:

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Peoples_Republic_of_Korea_1998.pdf?lang=en

The Taean Work System:

http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-9558.html

Documentaries to Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSd48emp0lI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8o2wG3KUGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qS8w9PIR7I

"The Propaganda Game" on Netflix

Hex talks socialism. How do we bring it here? That's like asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop: sometimes you just gotta bite it.

Hex is joined by Dax to talk about what could happen if we don't build socialism. The future has never looked so. . .bleak.

Hex talks about what it means to live in Neoliberalism. It sucks, go figure.

Hex talks history. There are winners and losers. All of *us* are losers, but you already knew that.