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We Read Theory episodes
- Manufacturing Consent Bonus: The KGB Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope
Mark explores the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II and the media narratives that formed around it.
18 min - Episode 7: Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution?"
Mark and Alex bridge the social distance to discuss the various shortcomings of a reform-based approach to Socialism.
43 min - Episode 6: Various Definitions of Fascism
Mark and Alex explore a number of ways Fascism has been defined over time and consider each definition's usefulness in describing and combating Fascism
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42 min - Episode 5: Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"
Mark takes Alex through the first half of Herman and Chomsky's analysis of the mass media, covering the five filters of media content and their effect on coverage of Latin American elections in the 1980s.
44 min - Episode 4: Mark Fischer's "Capitalist Realism"
Mark and Alex discuss the various methods by which Capitalism asserts itself as fact rather than ideology and the effects of those methods on our mental well-being.
30 min - Episode 3: Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Mark teaches Alex about the stages of non-violent resistance and white moderates using one of Martin Luther King Jr's most famous texts
21 min - Episode 2: Vladimir Lenin's "The State and Revolution"
Mark teaches Alex about the role of the state in the revolution.
24 min - We Read Theory Trailer
Introducing We Read Theory, a new podcast for anyone interested in gaining familiarity with the most famous and somewhat niche voices of leftist theory across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
3 min - Episode 1: Peter Kropotkin's "A Conquest of Bread"
Mark reads "A Conquest of Bread" to teach Alex about Anarcho-Communism.
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About We Read Theory
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Mark and Alex take turns explaining famous works of Leftist political theory to each other and to their audience in simple, understandable terms
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