We Read Theory

By We Read Theory

Mark and Alex take turns explaining famous works of Leftist political theory to each other and to their audience in simple, understandable terms... more

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The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.

We Read Theory episodes:

April 02, 2020 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.
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18min
March 26, 2020 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.
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43min
March 05, 2020 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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42min
February 07, 2020 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.
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44min
January 24, 2020 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.
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30min
January 17, 2020 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
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21min
December 13, 2019 Episode 2: Vladimir Lenin's "The State and Revolution"
Mark teaches Alex about the role of the state in the revolution.
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24min
December 06, 2019 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.
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3min
December 06, 2019 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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43min

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