What role does a regulator like the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) actually play? In this episode we examine the FDA, it's capture and control by the pharmaceutical industry and how thi...
2021-09-05 19:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode Alex & Leila address accusations made on tweetsphere, were they wrong on the vaccine passport? Is the thing that dwells in the Edinburgh lego set a government? Is Ni...
2021-09-03 15:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of our series on the miners strike of 1984-85 we cover the actions taken to break working class solidarity taken by the Wilson and Callaghan ministries. The IMF bailout crisis of 19...
2021-09-01 19:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Elena Lange returns to review self-proclaimed "globalist" Benjamin Bratton's newest book "The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World".
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2021-08-26 23:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostThomas Paine was one of the most forward-looking founding fathers of the United States of America. We are going to use his famous pamphelt, the Rights of Man, to compare and contrast the American a...
2021-08-26 22:28:55 +0000 UTC View Post
In this three-part episode, we look at one of the most significant work stoppages of the modern era: the UK Miners' strike of 1984-1985. In this second episode, we speak about the first wave of maj...
2021-08-24 19:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Following the US pullout and the Taliban taking control of the entirety of Afghanistan we examine the reasons for this latest imperial debacle.
We look at the history, the r...
2021-08-20 17:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In this three-part episode, we look at one of the most significant work stoppages of the modern era: the UK Miners' strike of 1984-1985. In this first episode, we survey the political economy leadi...
2021-08-18 13:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we examine the claim made by the American academic Chris Cutrone that Lenin was in fact pursuing a liberal project in carrying out the October Revolution. We look into this cl...
2021-08-11 16:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe'll be examining Lenin's seminal work "Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder" for the the August reading group. For September we are going to look at one of the classics of bourgeois ...
2021-08-10 12:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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In part 2, we focus on the political and ethical dimensions of the covid-19 vaccination campaign.
2021-08-09 23:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this part, we focus mostly on the history and evidence behind the mRNA covid-19 vaccines. In part 2, we will delve more into the political and ethical issues surrounding this massive vaccination...
2021-08-06 03:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We go on to answer questions about whether clients of sex workers should be criminalized, what relevance do gender and LGBT+ ideology have to Marxist theory, Scottish independence, the Canadian Ind...
2021-08-02 16:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk through the politics and history surrounding Oliver Stone's 1995 movie Nixon.
2021-07-30 13:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the first "ask us anything" episode! We asked for questions and you, good listeners, delivered! So much so in fact that this will be a two part episode with the second out next Tuesday. ...
2021-07-27 23:40:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Originally we thought about making this a new tier, but we honestly don't have time! So instead, we will be watching and reviewing Nixon (1995) for the next Patron episode next T...
2021-07-23 15:08:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The riots that broke out in South Africa brought back into the focus the nature of the post apartheid era. In this episode we look at the nature of the deal that ended apartheid, the strength...
2021-07-23 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe still cannot figure out how to do a stream, so we decided to do an AMA instead! Please use this thread to ask us anything!
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2021-07-22 20:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We look at the claim that prostitution is wage labour like any other, and decide whether or not the claim stands up to Marxist scrutiny.
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You voted for Lenin's Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder. And you're going to get it!
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You voted for Lenin's Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder. And you're going to get it!
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Do the ends justify the means? Is human freedom a project worth doing *anything* to achieve? Are Marxists amoral? Do the petit bourgeois moralists finally win the upper hand over the Marxists?
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It's the weekend edition and that means it's a show where you get 3 for the price of one! Rumsfeld! Hancock! Corbyn! All in one show where our hosts go on a free ranging discusison taking in Rumsfe...
2021-07-09 18:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostWe'll be putting out our reading group episode on Chapter One of Capital on the commodity. You can find the chapter on the Marxist Internet Archive and if you have questions be sure to leave them o...
2021-07-07 09:22:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode Leila & Alex examine the questions of birth rates under capitalism? Why is the capitalist class flipping between paranoia over low birth rates and bitter malthusianism? Wo...
2021-07-06 14:38:42 +0000 UTC View PostWe look at the history of the Cuban revolution through Che Guevera's essay " Socialism and man in Cuba", wherein Che theorizes how to create the new man and woman as communism is built in Cuba. Our...
2021-06-29 17:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In part 2 of a 2 part episode, we review Greg Albo's article "The Old and New Economics of Imperialism" to assess the strength of Poulantza's versus Lenin's theory of imperialism. We talk about sig...
2021-06-21 17:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! We've reached over 100 Patrons, thanks to everyone for their support. We're doing an 'ask us anything' twitch livestream to celebrate. Join us Tuesday, June 22nd at 5pm EST / 10pm GMT...
2021-06-19 14:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In part 1 of a 2 part episode, we review the major theories of imperialism as derived by intellectuals including Hobson, Hilferding, Luxemburg, Bukharin, Lenin, Kautsky, Poulantzas and ...
2021-06-18 16:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second part of our discussion, we focus on the notion of the "traditional family" and how it is often used as a cover for reactionary utopianism. We also discuss the sexual revolution and ho...
2021-06-15 13:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post