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Is left woke? Has woke left?

Susan Neiman's "Left Is Not Woke" provokes us to consider these questions and more.

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We discuss the positions and influence of the Workers' Opposition in the Soviet Union.

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The high-profile assassination committed by Luigi Mangione, the enraptured public response, and his impending trial all demand a coherent political response from Marxists. Paired with discussion of the famed trial of Vera Zasulich in 1878, we take up the contemporary left response to Mangioni's actions and discuss how Marxists should understand and respond to the challenges of individual 'terrorism.' 

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The three of us reunite to discuss E.P. Thompson's 1967 essay on the "new time-sense" that came into being with the rise and development of industrial capitalism.

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Nathan and Stephan discuss C.L.R. James' "Every Cook Can Govern," the Johnson-Forest tendency, democracy, and sortition.

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We return with our new *weekly* episode release schedule!

In this episode, we discuss Jean-Luc Melenchon's "Now, the People!: Revolution in the Twenty-First Century."

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We discuss Jodi Dean's new book Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle. 

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We discuss Jane McAlevey's contributions to the labor movement and two of her books: 'No Shortcuts' and 'Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell).'

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We discuss a selection of Kollontai's writings and speeches on women's oppression, the family structure, and new ways to conceive of sex and love in a liberated society. 

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We discuss Yanis Varoufakis' new book 'Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,’ in which he argues that capitalism is dead and has been "replaced by something fundamentally different."