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Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee Jan 08, 2018

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Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; known primarily for her ethnographic work on post-communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies. She is the author of many books, including her latest "Red Hangover:Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism. Kristen joins Brett to discuss the collapse of Soviet Communism and the human costs of the brutal transition to free market capitalism.

Topics Include: Women under communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the human costs of capitalism in Eastern Europe, current wealth inequality in the former Soviet Bloc, false equivalencies between the Nazis and the Soviets and the ideological role it serves, the rise of fascism in the wake of communisms collapse, socialist feminism, fallacies inherent in capitalist arguments, the ravages of neoliberalism, the future of socialism, and much, much more! You can buy Kristen's latest book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/red-hangover Learn more about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_R._Ghodsee#Books Read her article we mention in the episode here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo Outro Music: "Bent Life" by Aesop Rock featuring C Rayz Walz This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition, the Nebraska IWW, and the Omaha GDC. Check out Nebraska IWW's new website here: https://www.nebraskaiww.org

Trotskyism: The Red Army, Permanent Revolution, and the Left Opposition Dec 27, 2017

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Gabriel Radic is an organizer, student, boxer, and Trotskyist. He helped co-found the Colorado Springs Socialists organization.

Gabe sits down with Brett to discuss Leon Trotsky's history and philosophy.

Topics Include: the Bolshevik Revolution, Permanent Revolution, Fascism, the Deformed Worker's State, Stalin and "Stalinism", Kronstadt, the Russian Civil War, and much more.

Our Outro music by Sole. You can listen to, and support, his music here: https://sole.bandcamp.com/album/sole-dj-pain-1-nihilismo

Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo. You can listen and support their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/track/red-black

This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and Omaha GDC

Caliban and the Witch: An Interview with Silvia Federici Dec 21, 2017

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Silvia Federici is one of the most important political theorists alive today. Her landmark book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation demonstrated the inextricable link between anti-capitalism and radical feminist politics by digging deep into the actual history of capital's centuries-long attack on women and the body.

She is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and is also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.

Silvia joins Brett to discuss the main ideas of her very important and well known book, Caliban and the Witch.

Topics include: Marxism, Primitive Accumulation, Feminism, Witch Hunts, Patriarchy of the Wage, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, Wiccans, contemporary witch culture, and much more!

Intro and Outro music by church fire, off the album "Pussy Blood". You can listen to, and support, their music here: https://churchfire.bandcamp.com

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This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.

The Guillotine, Episode 2: GOP Tax Bill, Net Neutrality, Police Brutality, and the Informal Anarchist Federation Dec 20, 2017

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THIS IS THE LAST TIME AN EPISODE OF THE GUILLOTINE WILL BE AIRED ON REVOLUTIONARY LEFT RADIO. You can find The Guillotine podcast here: http://theguillotinepodcast.libsyn.com

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On episode two of The Guillotine, Dr. Bones from the Conjure House and Brett from Revolutionary Left Radio discuss the new GOP tax bill, the FCC decision to dismantle Net Neutrality, the murder of Daniel Shaver and the acquittal of Phillip Brailsford, and the Santiago Maldonado Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation. We also take live calls from listeners.

Our intro music is "Our Words" off the album "Nihilismo" by Sole and DJ Pain 1, you can find their music here: https://sole.bandcamp.com/album/sole-dj-pain-1-nihilismo Out outro music is "The Guillotine" by The String-Bo String Duo, you can find their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases

Gothic Marxism: The Horror Genre and the Monsters of Neoliberalism Dec 10, 2017

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TheLitCritGuy is a precariously employed, struggling academic and the internet's foremost literary critic, bringing literary theory and criticism to the widest possible audience. He writes for a variety of online platforms about things as diverse as theory, philosophy, gothic and horror literature and film, the internet, politics and pop-culture. In his academic research he writes about gothic literature, theology, continental philosophy of religion and monsters and will be submitting his PhD in Sept 2017. He lives somewhere in the north of England, with his beautiful wife and their many books.

Jon sits down with Brett to discuss Gothic Marxism. Topics Include: Gothic literature, Karl Marx, Neoliberalism as a mode and style of vacuous politics, Nihilism, Nostalgia, Postmodernism, Centrism, Films as Cultural Dreams, Zombies, Vampires, and much, much more!

Here is Jon's website: https://thelitcritguy.com

Find him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLitCritGuy

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy

Outro Song is "Song of the Dead" by Sea Wolf. You can listen to and support his wonderful music here (it is perfect winter music): https://seawolf.bandcamp.com Intro Song by our comrades The String-Bo String Duo. You can listen to and support them here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases

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Marxism-Leninism: Anti-Imperialism, Scientific Socialism, and State Power Dec 05, 2017

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Amado Guzman and Matthew Carson join Brett to discuss the theory and praxis of Marxism-Leninism. Topics Include: Lenin's contributions to Marxism, Dialectical Materialism, what makes Marxism a science, The Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie, Maoism, the Bolsheviks, the concept of a Vanguard Party, Trotsky and Stalin, the Leninist view of the State, comradeship, the Philippines, and much more! Outro Music is "Comrades" by Bambu. Listen to, and support, Bambu and his music here: https://bambubeatrock.bandcamp.com/ Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo. Listen to, and support, them here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/track/red-black Support Revolutionary Left Radio by donating to our Patreon. Patrons get access to episodes earlier than the general public. You can support us here: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.

From Diplomat to Anarchist: The State, War, and the Fight for a Better World Dec 03, 2017

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Carne Ross is a former British diplomat, and Middle East and WMD expert, who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war.

After he quit, he founded the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises democratic countries and political movements around the world. In 2007, his critique of contemporary diplomacy was published: "Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite".

Carne is now an outspoken anarchist, and in this episode he sits down with Brett to discuss The State and Anarchism. Topics Include: Thomas Hobbes, the Social Contract theorists, moral culpability as agents of the State, the Iraq War, spontaneous mutual aid, the Rojavan Revolution, Participatory Budgeting, Emma Goldman, and much, much more. You can find Carne Ross's work here: http://www.carneross.com

You can see more about Independent Diplomat here: www.independentdiplomat.org

Follow Carne on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/carneross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carneross.com%2F Outro Music by QELD, you can find their music, and support them here: https://qeld.bandcamp.com Follow Bob Savage from QELD on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/bobbynechayev?lang=en Follow Jenre from QELD on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jenreqeld

Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo, you can find their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases

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This Podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.

Black Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe Samudzi Nov 27, 2017

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Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue,BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based group and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of black imagination and creativity.

She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences where academic interests include biomedicalization theory, productions of race and gender, and transgender health. She is a recipient of the 2016-17 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. Her dissertation "'I don't believe I should be treated like a second citizen by anybody': Narratives of agency and exclusion amongst male and transgender female sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa" engages hegemonic gender constructs in South Africa as they affect identity construction and health of transgender women and cisgender men in sex work. Zoe sits down with Brett to discuss black feminism and queer theory. Topics Include: black feminism, marxism and anarchism, schools as institutions of white supremacy, rape culture, queer (and quare) theory, cis-normativity in medical science, dominant constructions of womanhood, the Jezebel Myth, and much more! Here is Zoe's website: http://www.zoesamudzi.com/ Follow Zoe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi

Recommendations by Zoe for further research:

"Ok wanted to shoutout Black trans women doing dope work (in no order):

- Raquel Willis (an amazing writer and a national organizer with the Transgender Law Center) - Lourdes Ashley Hunter (Executive Director of the Trans Women of Color Collective) - Reina Gossett (writer, director, and producer of Happy Birthday, Marsha) - CeCe McDonald (a fundraiser for her: https://www.youcaring.com/cecemcdonald-1003185) - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (an iconic community activist and organizer, former Executive Director of the TGI Justice Project) - Venus Selenite (a writer, performance artist, and cultural critic) - Kat Blaque (a YouTuber making content and commentary around trans rights & social justice in general) - Monica Roberts (a blogger/writer and trans rights activist) - Janetta Johnson (activist/organizer and current Executive Director of the TGI Justice Project) - L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith (a blogger/writer and Communications Manager for the BYP100) - Ahya Simone (classically trained harpist and activist) - Elle Hearns (founder and Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute) - Janet Mock - Laverne Cox

Also wanted to give a non-exhaustive list of black queer and trans/non-binary thinkers that are doing great writing and scholarly work related to identity that I've really appreciated (again in no order):

- Barbara Smith - Che Gossett - C. Riley Snorton - Hari Ziyad - Tyler Ford - Kortney Ziegler - Derrais Carter - Lynée Denise - Kai M. Green - Joshua Allen - Jamal Lewis - TJ Tallie - Shay Akil McClean - Kopano Ratele - Darnell Moore - Myles E. Johnson - Zanele Muholi - E. Patrick Harris - Lyle Ashton Harris - Cheryl Dunye

- Ashleigh Shackleford

- Devyn Springer ——-

Outro Music: 'Badu' by Blackerface, off the album "Mississippi Goddam". You can find their WONDERFUL music here: https://blackerface.bandcamp.com Follow them on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/faceoppressors/

Intro music by The String-Bo String Duo, you can find their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases

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This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.

BRAND NEW SPIN-OFF PODCAST: The Guillotine, episode 1 Nov 19, 2017

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We are introducing the first episode of a brand new spin-off podcast called The Guillotine. Brett from Revolutionary Left Radio and Dr. Bones from The Conjure House host this brand new that show that covers current news from around the world from a revolutionary communist and anarchist perspective and that has live call-ins from listeners. This first episode is our debut, and therefore we had some kinks to work out and could not live stream it. However, in the future, all episodes will be live streamed as well as published through our podcast hosting site, so you can listen to the new show live and call in, and you can also listen to the polished version a few days later on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Follow us on Twitter @GuillotinePod Follow us on Facebook by searching "The Guillotine" Our intro music is "Our Words" off the album "Nihilismo" by Sole and DJ Pain 1, you can find their music here: https://sole.bandcamp.com/album/sole-dj-pain-1-nihilismo Our transition music between segments was a created by our comrade Ethan S., you can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEXA_RR1sA Out outro music is "The Guillotine" by The String-Bo String Duo, you can find their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases

In Defense of Che Guevara: Analyzing his Life and Answering his Critics Nov 13, 2017

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Dr. Thoreau Redcrow is an American academic with a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis with a concentration in Global Conflict. Thoreau is a researcher who specializes in studying armed guerrilla movements, and who has over a decade of experience studying the life and legacy of Che Guevara. His prior investigations into Che's biography have taken him to Cuba to speak to those who knew and fought alongside Che, as well as to other arenas around the world which have been influenced by Che Guevara's armed struggle.

Brett sits down with Dr. Redcrow to discuss the Argentine Marxist revolutionary; including an entire segment of the podcast dedicated to debunking many of the right-wing and anti-communist lies about him.

Topics Include: Che's childhood, the political context out of which Che emerged, the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, debunking lies and slander about Che, The Bay of Pigs, Anti-Imperialism, "Guevarism", Marx, Lenin, and much, MUCH more!

You can email Dr. Redcrow at: tredcrow@gmail.com You can follow him on FB at: Facebook.com/thoreau.redcrow Help keep this show up and running by donating to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio Follow us on Facebook by searching "Revolutionary Left Radio" This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition, a left-wing revolutionary organization with chapters in both Omaha and Lincoln. Follow us on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/ If you know anyone from Lincoln or Omaha who might be interested in joining our organization, please reach out to us on Rev Lefts FB or Twitter, or by messaging the Nebraska Left Coalition on FB.

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