The Epoch of Incredulity

Jesse is back this week, as we return to the same old Epoch style, but with a new, crisp sound. Jesse opens the episode with a brief but important commentary on the recent police murder of Daunte Wright, and the human rights atrocities still happening in Yemen. Then it's the news with Joe. This week covers the complete take over of our natural resources by corporations, industry wide airbag malfunctions, the deaths of both Prince Philip (rest in piss) and DMX (rest in power), Biden's promise to withdrawal the troops from Afghanistan by September, and how poorly both the country, and the state of Massachusetts, were graded on infrastructure. LE brings us another YCMTSU about the wiles of the animal kingdom, and Jesse delivers an impromptu Rabid Radlibs on cultural appropriation. It's a very full one this week, enjoy!

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"Shiver" by Phaura

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the remainder of Josef Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism [1938].

The third and final section is entitled "Historical Materialism".

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This episode was released to our patrons on 3/22/21.

Welcome back to your late edition Epoch. Jesse took some time off so Scott has editing duties. This week, comrade Binx is back to discuss some important MA house bills that aim to decriminalize sex work, protect sex workers, and change the language used in our laws and the attitudes such language creates. LE brings us a story of grandpa senators and they inability to understand even the most basic of technology (a popcorn machine). And then Chava joins us to give Binx a rather shocking, and very accurate, psychic reading. Plus, the news, horse shit, and a decent amount of awkwardness and confusion. Enjoy!

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In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, Comrade Jesse continues to read from Josef Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism.

Part two covers the section entitled Marxist Philosophical Materialism.

Background music: "Marionette" (prod. by DeBox)

Our patrons received this content on 3/16/2021.

On this week's Epoch, we welcome Comrade Binx to discuss a few bills working their way through the Massachusetts legislation, including HD.3313 (An Act establishing an arrearage relief fund), and HD.3761 (An Act to stop profiling transgender people and low-income women).How to stay up to date on the local government and any proposed bills, the importance of the language used in those bills, and how we can reshape our attitudes and world through use and understanding of that language. Before that, it's your normal Epoch. Joe's out, so Scott leads the news; big boat stuck in a narrow canal, Amazon unionizing efforts and the twitter drama around it, Creepy Matt Gaetz, and the CDC warns against reopening so fast. Jesse has a new Rabid Radlibs this week, and LE leads us into the world of weird chess freaks. Enjoy!  

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  Audio @00:54 clipped from The Majority Report [https://majorityreportradio.com].

  Background music @44:36 = "Onion capers" by Kevin MacLeod [https://filmmusic.io/song/4679-onion-capers].

  All theme music written & performed by Contingence [https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston].

In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse starts to read from Josef Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism.

This episode is the first of three parts.

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  White Mamba - "AIR"

This episode was available to our patrons on 3/13/2021.

We return to our roots with a short Epoch. This week things start as a boy's party (for the first ten or so minutes, then Sarah joins us) as Joe, Jesse, and Scott sift through the news. We discuss recent mass shootings, gun control, the top 1% not paying their taxes, the Boston Mayoral race, the MBTA and the stimulus (again), filibuster reform, and the crisis at the boarder. Although there is no Rabid Radlibs this week, we still dissect the headline, "Larry Summers vs. The Stimulus." To round the episode out, and to bring you Bird Content, we briefly debate if penguins are communists. All that, plus, technical issues, drama, and bot problems. Enjoy!

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Off to Osaka by Kevin MacLeod | Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4154-off-to-osaka | License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Crying Violin by Amadeus Washington

All theme music written & performed by Contingence | Link: https://soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston

We've teased it for the past couple episodes, and now the time has come for The Epoch's discussion on Dialectical Materialism. Unfortunately, Sarah could not join in but Jesse carries us through a breakdown of struggle of opposites, the development of societies and societal-relationships within the larger context of human development, the worker's relationship to the owner, the tools, and means of production, how these factors impact the structure of our social relationships, and how we can use dialectical materialism in a modern context. Before that, Joe delivers the Black Pilled News we've to come to love, LE talks about libertarians and bears, and Scott askes one Debbie Dingell, if she is single.

For Scott's list of movie recommendations, go |here|.

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Amadeus Washington - "The Funeral Theme"

Kevin MacLeod - "On Hold For You"

All theme music written & performed by Contingence (soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston).

In this episode of Marxist Menagerie, Comrade Jesse finishes out Alexandra Kollontai's The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.

Part 3 covers the sections entitled The Years of Revolution and The Years of Diplomatic Service.

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This content was released to our patrons on February 20th, 2021.