Socialist Visions

This is our 3rd and last espisode about the The Commonist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles. If you have never read it, there's no way that you really can undertand the contributions Marx and Engles made to the birth of left movements and revolutions  worldwide. If you're a part of the working class, a student, a journalist, an activist, etc, you owe it to yourself to read the Communist Manifesto. 

This 3rd installment will focus on Marx's views of private property and their analysis of socialist parties and movements of the time period when the manisfesto was being writting.

Part II of our discssion about the Communist Manifesto. 

There's no better time than now in the midst of class struggle in the United States and the around the world to review the classic pamaphlet, The Commonist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles. If you have never read it, there's no way that you really can undertand the contributions Marx and Engles made to the birth of left movements and revolutions  worldwide. If you're a member of the working class, a student, a journalist, an activist, etc, you owe it to yourself to read the Communist Manifesto. Here's a link to a PDF version of the pamaphlet. 

If you get a chance to read it, or if you have read it before, we encourage you to call in with your questions and feedback. 

Also, if you're a frequent listener to our show, we really would like you to follow us here on BlogTalk. Our followers will be get brief show notes after each new show. Thank you for being a listener.

There's no better time than now in the midst of class struggle in the United States and the around the world to review the classic pamaphlet, The Commonist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles. If you have never read it, there's no way that you really can undertand the contributions Marx and Engles made to the birth of left movements and revolutions  worldwide. If you're a member of the working class, a student, a journalist, an activist, etc, you owe it to yourself to read the Communist Manifesto. Here's a link to a PDF version of the pamaphlet. 

If you get a chance to read it, or if you have read it before, we encourage you to call in with your questions and feedback. 

Also, if you're a frequent listener to our show, we really would like you to follow us here on BlogTalk. Our followers will be get brief show notes after each new show. Thank you for being a listener.

Recently U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was quoted as saying, there's "no such thing as a free lunch," a euphanism that dates back decades.  In this episode, we examine what should DeVos means by "no free lunch," and why the bourgeois class is so reistent to public funding of food, housing, medical care, education, and the like. We futher discuss how socialism could address the needs of the masses of people, providing "free lunches" and lots more for everyone!

In this episode we talk with political philiospher and professor Jodi Dean, about the nature of crowds, protests, resistance to capitalism, left political parties, and her views on communism. Jodi Dean's most recent books include Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, The Communist Horizon, and Crowds and Party. Dr. Dean has several interviews posted on YouTube, and we're looking forward to speaking with her about her insights. The last 20 minutes of this show is open to call-in questions: 347-857-1319.

This episode picks up from our previous epsiode about the nature of protests and political parities. In this episode we will outline 10 points for left activism, especially in the era of an facist regmine in power in the US. These points are applicable to any year or time, but we'll discuss them particularly in light of the right-wing authoritarianism that we're facing today.

In the last several years, we have seen a resurgence of various forms of political protests, from Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the recent Women's March, to the successful anti-Muslim immigration ban order. In this episode, we'll discuss what these forms of resistance mean, including the challenges and the prospects of resistance and political and economic change.

In this episode, in honor of Black History Month, we provide an overview of historical Black and Pan- African revolutionaries, whom have made important contributions to liberation struggles and ideologies. Tune in to hear our views of figures including W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Nat Turner, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon,  C.L.R James, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Assta Shakur, and Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, and Manning Marable.

This episode is a continuation of last week's show about the emergence of Donald Trump out of the systems and culture of White supremacy and capitalism. In this episode will discuss more on why and how capitalism leads to fascism and authoritarian rule. We will also discuss how we should be responding to the authoritarian regime of the Republican Party, and the capitulation of the Democratic Party.

We've been seeing strong protests of Donald Trump as a person and as a president of the US, but it's important that we keep in mind that Trump comes out of a larger system of oppression—both capitalism and White supremacy. These systems and cultures raised Trump to who he is today. In this episode we will discuss why it's important to not only protest Trump, but to dismantle the capitalist system and the White supremacy political infrastructure that produced him.