Teach Me Communism

For this mailbag episode, we tackle prison abolition, study tips, Marxist theory, India's general strike, a cool Milwaukee mayor, meditation, landlords, and the fact that Christine is, in fact, smart. And hot. Yes, they're writing the episode notes this week, how could you tell?

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Solidarity forever!

In today's episode, we learn about Vladimir Lenin, a guy who actually knew how to violently seize power... and a guy that got things done. Whether that's for good or for ill is for you to decide. We'll discuss the good and the bad, the feuds and the theoretical developments, and of course, that revolution. Enjoy!

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Solidarity forever!

To round out 2020 and ring in a new year, we’re finishing up a two-part reading series on Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels. We’re covering the last section, which is all about how capitalism is pretty much doomed. Will we all go down with the ship, or will we free ourselves and finally leave behind the struggle for survival as just a relic of our past. Let’s see what Engels predicts!

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Solidarity forever!

This holiday season, we’re starting a two-part reading series on Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s BFF. We’re covering the first two sections, which are all about how utopianism isn’t great, how idealism isn’t either, and how dialectics are the best (even if they mean everything is always dying). Enjoy!

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Solidarity forever!

In today’s episode, we’re talking trains and revolution in our discussion of Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 dystopian sci-fi film Snowpiercer. Tune in to hear about the perils of eco-fascism, Christine’s Rules for Revolution, and to finally figure out once and for all… what was up with the fish?

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Solidarity forever!

On today’s episode, Christine delivers a report on the government of Kerala in India! They’ll teach you all about the origins of the leftist parties there, what the Kerala model is, and how the people of Kerala have created a better world for themselves by focusing on human needs rather than GDP. Sounds great, right?

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Stay safe out there, comrades, and remember: Solidarity forever!

This week we get a brief history of the Black Panther Party. We go over their key players, goals, mutual aid programs, and their interest in solidarity. And of course, we talk about how our "good friends" at the FBI tried to stop all this! Ugh, THOSE guys.

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Solidarity forever!

This Thanksgiving, we’re talking small businesses. Why do capitalist societies hold them up as the best thing since union busting? Are they actually any better than big corporations? Should leftists try to “shop small” or does that actually do any good at all?

And in our second segment, we give you a holiday gift guide for the leftist in your life. 

Stay safe out there, comrades!

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Solidarity forever!

This week, we’re here, we’re queer (well, one of us is), and ready to cheer (for the fall of capitalism). We talk queer theory, a brief history of LBTQ+ movements in leftist spaces, and what we can do now to better support the community.

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Solidarity forever!

Today we talk about the troubling, tenuous, and at times terrifying transition of power… in the Soviet Union in 1953. That’s right, we’re watching the 2017 film The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci. What’d we like? What could’ve been better? What actually happened? We discuss.

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