Big Announcement! - Plus: A Response to Joe Rogan Regarding Socialism

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We will be introducing a tiered support model on Patreon starting in October, and here is how those tiers will work:
 

For $1 a month, supporters will get access to early episodes as well random links/articles/videos that I find interesting and worth posting. This includes links to a PDF version of our organization’s monthly magazine “The Triumph”.
 

For $5 a month, supporters will get access to the $1 tier as well as to our Primer and Q and A monthly bonus episodes. In these episodes we do a quick 101 run-down of a topic and then answer questions from our patreon supporters. For example, last month we did a primer on the topic of “What is Maoism”, and then on the second half we fielded questions about organizing, theory, etc. I usually have a different guest on each episode which keeps these fresh and interesting as a new person offers their perspective every month. In addition to all of that, you will also be added to a private facebook group which I will admin and participate in. We will post links to every Rev Left episode in that group, and we can all discuss it with one another in the comment section of each post. Obviously, FB is often a terrible place, so I will have strict standards on behavior so as to avoid the sort of derailing, trolling, dogpiling, and otherwise counter-productive forms of engagement that abound on social media. I want to create an engaging, welcoming community of supporters who can openly and comfortably discuss each episode and anything else that you all want to discuss, regardless of tendency or level of knowledge. For more seasoned comrades, this is a great opportunity for you to help develop and educate younger comrades, and for younger comrades, this gives you a friendly space where you can ask more questions and develop politically without any fear of sectarian dogpiling, mockery, or shit-talking. I have no patience for bullies and smug assholes. So trust me that this will be a well-moderated and chill space for learning and productive conversations.

 

For $10 a month, you will get access to all lower tiers as well as something that I am most excited about: the brand new Revolutionary Left Radio Book Club! The idea here is that we will, as a community, vote on a theoretical text to tackle, and then go through that leftist work and discuss it together. If we are reading a bigger book, we may do a few chapters at a time, if it’s a slimmer work, we may tackle it in one go. So, for example, if we read the Communist Manifesto, we would hammer that out (no pun intended) in one month (AKA one single installment of the book club). IF, on the other hand, we read something like Das Kapital, we will spend many months going through it in digestible chunks at a time. In reality, the works we vote on will likely land somewhere in between these two works with regards to length. But you get the picture. To round this book club out, I will release a monthly patreon episode exclusively for those who support us at this 10 dollar tier, discussing what we agreed to read for that month. Moreover, I will invite on a new patreon supporter every month who is particularly interested in and active in our discussions about a given work to discuss the work with me. This is exciting for me because not only will we be reading and helping one another through important leftist works, but it also gives me a chance to have you on these monthly episodes to talk with me directly. In this way, I hope to create a vibrant educational and intimate community of supporting and kind radicals thirsty for more knowledge. This is the tier that you will have the most direct and plentiful access to me personally as well, and I have no doubt that new personal friendships will be created between those of us who stick around month to month. And if all goes well, we may be able to even take it on the road and do live meet ups! Steel sharpens steel, and in my experience in philosophy programs, I find that reading and discussing a text with a community is more informative and engaging than reading a text alone. We all have questions and points of clarity and confusions when reading important works, and this is a way where we can discuss those things and have others help us understand those parts that we struggle with. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet, is what platform to use for our discussions. But if you join at this tier, I will create a poll with a few different options and let you all vote on which platform works best for you. So if you want to have a say in that, make sure to join the first week of October at the latest! I really look forward to this book club and I hope to see lots of you there with me!
 

This new tiered patreon structure will go into effect on October 1st.

P.S. Since I am preparing for the launch of the expansion, there will be no Q and A episode this month. Instead, Ill release an interview Bones and I are doing with the Socialist Rifle Association in its place. Next month, all the new stuff begins! Thank you all soooo much!!!!!