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Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat Jul 10, 2023

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Special, early access to an extended conversation about the imminent release of the new translation (by Henry and Salvatore) of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend from Iskra Books. The release of the book is imminent, and is available from the Iskra Books website, where it is currently linked at https://www.iskrabooks.org/copy-of-the-dark.

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Professor at the Geography Department of SUNY New Paltz and is chief editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. His book Socialist States and the Environment is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-and-the-environment/. You can also find the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism for more invaluable anti-capitalist environmental perspectives: http://www.cnsjournal.org/.

David Peat is one of the editorial board members at the Center for Communist Studies and their imprint Iskra Books. You can follow him on twitter @dajveism.

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[UNLOCKED] Hypnotized by the Rot: America's Electoral Spectacle Jul 07, 2023

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UNLOCKED PATREON EPISODE: Originally aired on June 2nd, 2023

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An Amerikan Family: Assata, Tupac, and the Black Liberation Struggle Jul 05, 2023

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Santi Elijah Holley joins Breht to discuss his book "An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created". For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are only familiar with Assata Shakur, the popular author and thinker, living for three decades in Cuban exile; or the late rapper Tupac. But the branches of the Shakur family tree extend widely, and the roots reach into the most furtive and hidden depths of the underground. Whether founding one of the most notorious Black Panther chapters in the country, spearheading community-based healthcare, or engaging in armed struggle with systemic oppression, the Shakurs were at the forefront. Drawing from hundreds of hours of personal interviews, historical archives, court records, transcripts, and other rare documents, An Amerikan Family tells the complete and often devastating story of Black America's long struggle for racial justice and the nation's covert and repressive tactics to defeat that struggle. It is the story of a small but determined community, taking extreme, unconventional, and often perilous measures in the quest for freedom. Enter code "REVLEFT" at checkout for 15% off: https://leftwingbooks.net/discount/REVLEFT Outro music: "LIFE" by Saba

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Minoritarian Rule: SCOTUS' Assault on the American People Jul 03, 2023

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Alyson and Breht discuss the recent rulings by the Supreme Court, a wildly anti-democratic, thoroughly corrupt, and staunchly reactionary institution that the American right has spent years and billions of dollars capturing in order to impose its minoritarian rule on an American majority that firmly rejects what they stand for. And they do it all without having to worry for even a second about pesky things getting in their way: like democracy, human rights, or basic accountability to the American people.

[BEST OF] The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai Jun 29, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jun 18, 2021

Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to the show, this time to discuss the life, work, and legacy of the famous Marxist Feminist Alexandra Kollontai. We discuss her life, her radicalization, her relationship with other famous revolutionaries, her role in the October Revolution, her enduring contributions to feminism, Marxism, and proletarian history, and much, much more.

Check out Kristen's work here: https://kristenghodsee.com/

Check out AK-47, Kristen's podcast dedicated to Kollontai here: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast

Here are all the previous episodes of RLR that Kristen has been a guest on:

Red Hangover: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/red-hangover-legacies-of-20th-century-communism-w-dr-kristen-r-ghodsee

International Women's Day: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/womens-day

Women Behind the Iron Curtain: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/women-under-socialism

Outro Music: "Blame Game" by Beach Bunny

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[BEST OF] Nina Simone: The Revolutionary High Priestess of Soul Jun 27, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Dec 29, 2019

On this episode of Rev Left Radio, Zoe Samudzi returns to the show to reflect on the life, art, politics, and legacy of the one and only Nina Simone.

Check out Zoe and her work here: http://www.zoesamudzi.com/

Follow Zoe on Twitter @ztsamudzi

Listen to Zoe's other appearances on Rev Left here:

- https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/critical-race-theory-and-black-liberation-w-zo-samudzi

- https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/black-feminism-and-queer-theory-w-zoe-samudzi

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[BEST OF] What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin Jun 25, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Apr 20, 2019

What is to be Done? is a classic work on the role and organisation of the revolutionary party in the communist movement. Lenin criticises economism, revisionism and spontaneity, and argues persuasively for a centralised and professional vanguard of the proletariat.

On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht explain and reflect on the text, and then extract the core lessons for revolutionaries today.

What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin

Full text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

The video episode can be found on youtube at: https://youtu.be/1lRM_fsjanE

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[BEST OF] Posadism: Trotskyism, Latin American Communism, and... Aliens Jun 23, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED May 16, 2020

A.M. Glittlitz joins Breht to talk about the Trotskyist sub-tendency of Posadism and discuss his new - and genuinely fascinating - book "I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism"

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[BEST OF] Capitalist Chaos and Crimes: The Great Recession of 2008 Jun 19, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jul 13, 2019

Matt Soener, an economic sociologist, joins Breht to discuss the Great Recession of 2008.

Here is the GoFundMe account for Kreetay Briggs Jr., a 12 year old boy hit by a stray bullet while he was playing on a beach: https://www.gofundme.com/f/35gjf-shooting-victim?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_cpgnstaticsmall_r

Outro Music: White Male Carnivore by Yak

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[BEST OF] Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels Jun 17, 2023

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Feb 11, 2019

For the debut episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht discuss Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels.

The video episode can be found on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKdxX5eqQyk

Outro Music by Adia Victoria - Invisible Hands Check out and support her beautiful music here: http://www.adiavictoria.com

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