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  • MM | The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation [1/4] ~ Marlene Dixon

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse begins to read Marlene Dixon's 1977 article entitled The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation: A Class Analysis.

    Full text source from the Marxists Internet Archive.

    Background Music:

    Purrple Cat - "Warm Horizon"


    This episode was released to our patrons on June 5th, 2021.

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    11 min
  • Episode 52 - Alienation: A Stack of Capybaras. [ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY]

    It's our one year anniversary on the Epoch! We spend the occasion discussing Alienation and it's various effects under capitalism, the size of capybaras, Whale vomit, Libertarian's hate of child labor laws, and if, in fact, blood is a good for oiling machines. Thank you for sticking with us, and please enjoy.


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    ---Timestamp---

    00:00:00 - Intro
    00:01:25 - The peach emoji
    00:02:28 - Our guest, LE's smoke alarm
    00:03:36 - News without Joe, again
    00:04:26 - COVID order number 69
    00:05:00 - Some news about the democrats
    00:06:50 - Netanyahu ousted
    00:08:30 - Is blood good for oiling machines?
    00:09:39 - The New Hampshire Libertarian party loves child labor
    00:11:57 - SEGMENT - Theory Primer: What is Alienation?
    00:38:20 - A serious discussion about Capybaras
    00:39:41 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make This Shit Up w/ Comrade LE
    00:46:20 - Ambergris
    00:49:36 - It's our 52nd episode: OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
    00:50:49 - Outro
    00:58:31 - Extras

    ---Audio credits---

        Chapo Trap House -- "Episode 532 - The Power of the Dog (6/15/21)"

       https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/532-the-power-of-the-dog-61521


        Kevin MacLeod -- "Lobby Time"

       https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time/


        Kevin MacLeod -- "George Street Shuffle"

       https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3800-george-street-shuffle/


        Yo Gotti -- "81"

       You can find the link yourself lol


        All theme music written and performed by Contingence.

       https://soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston



    1 hr
  • MM | On the Dialectics of US "Backwardness" ~ Clara Fraser

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads Clara Fraser's 1980 essay entitled On the Dialectics of US "Backwardness".

    Background music:

     "Phoenix" (prod. DeBox)

    This episode was released to our patrons on 5/29/21.

    For early releases and other goodies, please sign up for our Patreon!

    14 min
  • Episode 51 - Political Education (feat. DongCopter)

    This week on Epoch we welcome the Boston DSA Political Education Working Group for a discussion on role and importance of socialist political education within leftist organizations.  


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    00:00:00 - Intro
    00:01:33 - The No Joe News
    00:02:31 - Bezos and Space junk
    00:06:00 - The Grime's video
    00:07:25 - Adam Smith and the first capitalist lie
    00:08:21 - Canada's Residential School System's history of indigenous genocide.
    00:12:06 - Egerton Ryerson
    00:13:24 - We debate if Ryerson University should change its name
    00:15:39 - A message about debating your comrades
    00:19:56 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make This Shit Up w/ Comrade LE
    00:23:36 - "The DongCopter"
    00:27:05 - Dave in a cave
    00:28:00 - We talk to the Boston DSA Political Education Working Group
    00:40:48 - A Note on Huey P. Newton
    01:04:47 - Outro
    01:09:06 - Extra

    ---Audio credits---

      Intro clip from The Majority Report: 6/11 Progressives Drawing Red Lines on Infastructure & Trippy Libertarian Run-Ins w/ David Sirota & Andrew Callaghan.

      Background music used during cutaways = Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod.

      All theme music written and performed by Contingence.

    1 hr 10 min
  • MM | On Contradiction [6/6] ~ Mao Tse Tung

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse concludes Mao Tse Tung's 1937 essay On Contradiction.

    Part six covers the final two sections, entitled "The Place of Antagonism in Contradiction" and "Conclusion".


    Background Music:

      "Ymir" and "Aegir" by NK Music

     Album:  Andromeda
      YouTube link:  https://youtu.be/ZbAh947SN60


    This content was released to our patrons on 5/11/2021.

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    9 min
  • Episode 50 - Put Them In Ducks

    Welcome back to the technical difficulty hour, or as we call it, The Epoch of Incredulity. As Scott struggles to get the soundboard - and his computer - working, we deliver a news heavy episode. There's a new COVID variant in Vietnam, Biden's proposed budget is still woefully inadequate with no forgiveness for Student Loans or anything else, and Mayor Pete has some empty words on infrastructure. We move into a discussion of the Stock Market and big oil, from a Marxist perspective, which leads to a debate over what climate change holds for the future. LE brings us another slightly genitalia related segment of things we can't make up. Lotta weird energy in this one. Please enjoy.


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    ---Timestamp---

    00:00:00 - Intro
    00:01:16 - The soundboard is down
    00:02:10 - The News
    00:02:35 - New COVID variant in Vietnam
    00:04:34 - "Oh no, not Lenny!"
    00:04:43 - Joe read the entire budget proposal
    00:06:15 - Corporate bonding over molotov cocktails
    00:07:00 - We get distracted by Pfizer news
    00:08:18 - We get back to the budget
    00:09:41 - TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
    00:09:50 - SSDI
    00:11:18 - The lack of Student Loan Forgiveness in the budget, and other bad things (goes on for a while)
    00:14:49 - MORE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
    00:14:53 - Scott apologizes
    00:15:32 - Mayor Pete's empty words on infrastructure
    00:16:14 - "What the Hell is this, some sorta deal?!"
    00:17:32 - The time Chasten took a insta picture of Pete at the Holocaust museum
    00:19:03 - Micro-documentaries
    00:20:09 - Marxists and the stock market
    00:21:29 - Bad News for Big Oil
    00:22:03 - "Activist investors"
    00:23:00 - Joe tries to explain, we're all a bit lost
    00:25:56 - Shell has been ordered to cut carbon emissions
    00:26:33 - How important this is for the planet
    00:27:15 - We debate what the future may hold
    00:29:30 - "Okay, so, imagine your Thomas Sankara"
    00:31:48 - Will happen to the third world after the first world tackles climate
    00:34:11 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make This Shit Up w/ Comrade LE
    00:38:52 - Jesse gives a sneak preview of the next Marxist Menagerie
    00:40:20- We become our own soundboard
    00:41:41 - Hopefully we'll be talking to BDSA's PEWG next week
    00:42:29 - Jesse gets a call
    00:43:47 - Outros
    00:50:03 - Extras

    --- Music Credits ---

    Briefly used "Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod.

    Everything else written & performed by Contingence [https://soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston].

    51 min
  • MM | On Contradiction [5/6] ~ Mao Tse Tung

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mao Tse Tung's 1937 essay On Contradiction.

    Part 5 covers the section entitled "The Identity and Struggle of the Aspects of a Contradiction."

    Background Music:

    "Consideration"
    by Low Frequency Music.

    This episode was released to our patrons on 5/10/21.

    For more early releases and other perks, sign up for our Patreon!

    16 min
  • Episode 49 - Burpin' and Shartin'.

    This week's episode of the Epoch is pretty squarely aimed at the predictable disappointment of the Biden administration; the now abandoned empty promise of student loan forgiveness, the crumbling infrastructure bill, the bailing out of billionaires, the continued support of the Israeli government, and using the revelation of UFOs as a distraction. It's just one big pile of shit.


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    00:00:00 - Intro
    00:00:53 - Majority Report clip
    00:01:33 - He's always Joe Burns (News)
    00:02:00 - No Student Loan Forgiveness
    00:03:08 - "Everyone is a robot and it's a big pile of shit and Canada is such a joke of a country"
    00:05:18 - The Infrastructure Bill
    00:05:45 - Why Joe went to New York
    00:07:38 - Debating the Amtrak promotion for some reason
    00:09:29 - What has been cut out of the Infrastructure Bill
    00:10:51 - What is a Corporation?
    00:12:00 - The Senate to bail out Amazon's space program (did you know Amazon had a space program?)
    00:13:10 - The terrible name for Amazon's space program
    00:14:20 - Elon Musk: Pyromaniac
    00:15:01 - How boring billionaires are
    00:16:33 - Don't we love rich people?
    00:18:53 - The media walking back their coverage on Palestine
    00:20:42 - Jewish Ethnicity
    00:22:00 - Joe loves assassinating people
    00:22:31 - UFOs and Aliens
    00:26:16 - LE's weird eye
    00:27:50 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make this Shit Up w/ Comrade LE
    00:32:48 - Jesse announces the next Marxist Menageries
    00:34:28 - What if all forms of dementia made you sound and talk exactly like Joe Biden?
    00:35:45 - The Radium Girls
    00:37:36 - Burping and Farting
    00:38:55 - We start to wrap it up
    00:39:53 - Everyone recovers
    00:40:30 - Scott has connection issues
    00:41:34 - Outro
    00:44:35 - Scott is back
    00:47:07 - Extras

    ---Audio credits---

    Intro clip from The Majority Report - 5/25 Making Mutual Aid More Effective for the This Crisis & the Next One w/ Dean Spade

    -> Episode link: https://majorityreportradio.com/2021/05/25/5-25-how-to-make-mutual-aid-more-effective-for-the-this-crisis-the-next-one-w-dean-spade

    Background music when we lose Scott is "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod.

    -> Song link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3857-hard-boiled

    All theme music written & performed by Contingence.

    -> SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston

    48 min
  • MM | On Contradiction [4/6] ~ Mao Tse Tung

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Mao Tse Tung's 1937 essay On Contradiction.

    Part four covers the section entitled "The Principal Contradiction and the Principal Aspect of a Contradiction."


    Background music:  Homie Cat - "Flows Through Me".


    This episode was released to our patrons on 5/3/21.

    For more early releases and other goodies, sign up for our Patreon!

    16 min

About The Epoch of Incredulity

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Here in the Boston Commune, we interpret the tumultuous churn of modernity through a Marxist lens. Episodes alternate between analyses of current events -- from the hyperlocal to the international -- and narrations of theoretical texts by communists and anti-imperialists the world over. This project was birthed in a mental health working group during the pandemic and continues in true DIY fashion, without any advertisements or monetization (save for a few generous patrons). Hard to believe, we know; for it is, after all, the Epoch of Incredulity.