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In this weeks episode I talk to Josh Morris, a historian at Wayne State, about the Many World of American Communism. We cover a lot of topics and it goes for a while. Buckle up and check it out!

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Socialism doesn’t work, just look at Russia, or China or Cuba. Communism killed millions of people! Communism inevitably leads to dictatorship and violence. How should socialist think about these criticisms. In a nutshell, this is my version of the “not real communism” argument.

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Closing Song – Two Tone Runts – You’re Not Alone

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The Communist Manifesto is usually the first stop for many who want to know about what socialism and communism is all about. It is important, though, to put it in historical context and explain a little bit about what was going on when it is written.

Closing Music: Operation Death Squad – Iconoclast

Episode 3a – Text of the Communist Manifesto

Communist Manifesto Text on Marxists.org

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In this episode we discuss some important definitions of words that are often misused and will be used (hopefully correctly) in future episodes. I tried to be succinct and clear, If you disagree with these definitions, let me know.

Frederick Engles – Socialism, Scientific And Utopian 

Welcome to the Sensible Socialist podcast! This is our first episode of the podcast so it seemed appropriate to begin by way of introduction to give you a sense of who I am, what the podcast is about, why do the podcast and what do I hope to achieve with it. So in this 30 minute episode I quickly talk about why am I doing this podcast, how did it come about, who I am, how I got here, and why should you care what I think.

Ending Song – Operation Death Squad – Punk of the State

If you’d like to hear a version of the lecture mentioned in the podcast you can see it here