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Deep Dive 5: Hegel and Deleuze on the Concept of Negation Jun 03, 2022

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In this fifth installment of the Dialects Deep Dive subseries, Matthew Furlong joins Breht once again - this time to discuss, at length, the concept of negation and its role in philosophy and dialectics.

Check out our first installment of "Dialectics Deep Dive" here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dialectics

Check out our second installment here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/spinoza

Check out our third installments here:

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/deep-dive-3a

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/deep-dive-3b

Here's a link also to the `974 Deleuze seminar from which I read: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/seminars/anti-oedipus-iii/lecture-02 Ai Siqi, "Antagonistic and Non-Antagonistic Contradictions" (1957): http://marxistphilosophy.org/AntagonisticASQ.pdf Mao Zedong, "Talk on Problems of Philosophy" (1964): http://marxistphilosophy.org/mao64.pdf Outro music: 'Workers Song' by Michael Hanrahan from the album "Freeing Lonesome Tune".

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[UNLOCKED] American Carnage: Mass Shootings, Gun Policy, & Root Causes Jun 02, 2022

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Breht and Alyson discuss the recent barrage of mass shootings, how Marxists should think about these issues, what the root causes of american mass shootings are, policies/reforms that the socialist left might be able to support, and much more.

Outro music: 'Pray for Newtown' by Sun Kil Moon

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Waste Colonialism, Recycling, & Microplastics May 23, 2022

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Jesi Taylor joins Breht to discuss waste management, how the racialized, colonial and imperialist world order dictates where certain kinds of trash ends up, the impact of landfills on communities, the hyper-localism of recyclying and its effectiveness, the fear of microplastics, and more!

Find Jesi on twitter: https://twitter.com/moontwerk

Check out Discard Studies: https://discardstudies.com/

Wired Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBHyTM3VEg&ab_channel=WIRED

Outro music: 'American Garbage' by AJJ

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US-Mexico Borderlands: War, Colonialism, and Imperial Formation May 20, 2022

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Professor Alex Avina returns to the show, this time to discuss the US-Mexico borderlands, its fascinating history, its deep relationship to colonialism and imperialist formation, the current Mexican president AMLO, the spectre of the border in american's minds, and much more.

Find more of Alex's work here: https://alexanderavina.com/

The American Maginot Line parts 1 and 2: https://fx.substack.com/p/the-american-maginot-line?r=12vpd&s=r

https://fx.substack.com/p/the-american-maginot-line-part-2?s=r

Outro music: Ramon Casiano by Drive-By Truckers

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Red Hot Take: The American Ruling Class and Its Depravities May 19, 2022

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[ Edit: this was recorded hours BEFORE Biden invoked the Defense Production Act ]

Breht discusses the infant formula crisis and its relationship to capitalist profiteering, how Tucker Carlson displaces blame from the actual ruling class and onto the most vulnerable and defenseless people in our society, how the Democratic Party elite look down their nose at regular people, Sweden and Finland applying for NATO membership and its implications for Russia, the Biden administration making it rain on Ukraine while working class Americans, Ukrainians, and Russians alike suffer needlessly, and much more.

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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò May 14, 2022

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò joins Breht to discuss his book "Elite Capture". Together, they discuss what elite capture is, how the language of social justice has been co-opted by liberal elites, the difference between deference politics and constructive politics, and much more!

Find the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

Outro music: Organizing Steadily (ft. Amihan and RAHSELLA) by Power Struggle

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The Anti-Choice Onslaught and American Institutional Decay May 12, 2022

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Red Menace Teaser: Alyson and Breht discuss the recent Supreme Court leak and the implications of Roe's dismantling... Listen to the full episode here: https://redmenace.libsyn.com/roe-scotus-friedmann

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The Wobblies: Breht Goes on NPR to talk about the IWW May 01, 2022

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Breht was invited onto the local NPR station in Omaha to discuss the classic documentary from 1979 "The Wobblies" to help promote its remastering and re-release in theaters across the country this May Day!

Find a showing near you here: https://kinomarquee.com/film/venue/624202eb7b0e1200011ce8c3

Find the original version of The Wobblies for free on YT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7U9wQ7La4&ab_channel=TretanoTrampo

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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Intro to Political Economy Apr 30, 2022

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[Originally released Feb 2021]

In this episode of Red Menace, Alyson and Breht introduce the core concepts of Marxist political economy by an analysis of the history of political economy, core economic concepts within Marxism, and much more! Make sure to subscribe to Red Menace on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a positive review! Outline for this episode with timestamps Political Economy:

[5:00] Definition: Political economy as the study of economics as played out in reality. Economics in relation to society, production, culture, politics, etc.
[12:28] History: Adam Smith's development of economics in the wealth of nations, alongside Mill's principles of political economy.
[20:05] So what does Marxism have to do with political economy?
[33:31] Critique of capitalist economics today

The Details and Concepts 1) [35:30] the Means of Production and Productive Forces 2) [43:20] Class as a relation to Production 3) [47:00] Value, Use, and Exchange 4) [58:05] Surplus Value and Wages 5) [61:09] Money, Capital, and the M-C-M Cycle 6) [68:35] Commodity Fetishism Closing Questions Questions:

[74:43] Why does this matter? If Marxism is about revolution, what's the deal with all this abstract economic analysis?
[78:13] Marxian economics vs Marxism: what's the difference, is there an issue with the former?

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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Historical Materialism, Dialectics, & Political Economy Apr 30, 2022

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[Originally released Oct 2020]

In this episode of our sister podcast "Red Menace", Alyson and Breht summarize and discuss the fundamental ideas, concepts, and arguments within Marxism. We want this episode to stand as a resource for *everyone* interested in Marxism - from those who are brand new to the Marxist left all the way to veterans of the Left who simply want a concise refresher. If you know someone who is moving leftward but still struggling with understanding Marxism, please point them toward this episode!

Outro music: 'Song 33' by Noname

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