Marx Engels Lenin Institute

Sex, Gender & Ideology - Part 1

In part one of a two part episode Alex and Leila start off by answering a question regarding art submitted by a listener then move onto discuss the ideological nature of gender, the differing forms...

Reading group 6: Capital volume 1, chapter 2

Episode to be released July 30

Capital 1 is the most important work in Marxist theory. Many find chapters 1 and 2 the most difficult to read. So we'll go through them togethe...

Police And Thieves

In this episode Alex and Leila the emergence of the police under capitalism.  From their beginning as a semi military force to "manage" the industrial working class and how the role has evolve...

Book for next month's Reading Group?

What book should we do for our next Reading Group? We are doing "What is To Be Done?" (by Lenin) this month. Some options for next month:

Interview With Angela Nagle - Part 2

In the second part of our interview with Angela Nagle we discuss the stunted development of Irish capitalism, the inter-imperialist rivalry between the USA and China as well as the impact of the Co...

*Patron-Only* Capitalism with "Chinese" Characteristics

We speak about China under Mao, and China's transition back into capitalism under Deng and subsequent leaders. We also speak about China's role as a rising imperialist leader.

*Unlocked* The Fall of the Labour Party

The Labour Party's recent loss in Hartlepool has reignited the debate about whether the Labour Party can still be understood as the UK's workers' party. We talk about why the Labour party lost its ...

Conspiracies & Class Plus Interview with Dr Martin Kulldorff

In this episode we speak to Dr Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School on the dubious nature of lockdowns as public health policy.  We begin the episode by reflecting on the nature of consp...

*Unlocked* *Reading Group* - The Communist Manifesto (Part 1 of 2)

We review the first two chapters of the Communist Manifesto, exploring the major themes highlighted throughout -- historical materialism, class warfare, the advent of capitalism, the family, modern...

*Patron-only* It's Just a Bad Flu (Part 2 of 2)

We round off our discussion from part one by talking about the impact of covid-19 on health care capacity, covid-19 vaccinations, the class warfare that has been the lockdowns, the horrible effects...

It's Just a Bad Flu (Part 1 of 2)

We speak about India's COVID "disaster", outline the grand COVID-19 narratives framing this "pandemic", and give our final verdicts on COVID-19 lethality, its effect on health care capacity, and lo...

*Patron-only* Housing and the Housing Bubble

We take a look at the housing bubbles ballooning across the world, investigate the contradictions which give rise to housing bubbles under capitalism and make some predictions of how the whole thin...

Reading group 4 - What is to be Done? Part 2

Episode to be released June 23rd, covering the chapters: 

3. Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics

4. The Primitiveness of the Economists and the ...

Reading group 3 - What is to be Done? Part 1

This is perhaps Lenin's most pivotal work. Episode to be released June 5th, covering the following chapters:

1. Dogmatism and "Freedom of Criticism"

2. The Spontaneity ...

Reading group 2 - The Communist Manifesto Part 2

Episode to be released May 19th, covering the final two chapters of the Manifesto:

III. Socialist and Communist Literature

IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to...

The Covid Archives

For our first piece of content for patrons we are putting out an unaired portion of the first interview between co-hosts Alexander McKay and Leila Mechoui from back in January of this year.  W...

Reading group 1 - The Communist Manifesto Part 1

A foundational work of Marxist theory, the Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. It is more relevant than ever. We are going to reviewing Chapters 1 & 2 (ha...