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The Mexican Revolution and The Zapatistas Sep 18, 2017

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Alexander Avina is an assistant professor of history at ASU. His research focuses on twentieth-century Mexico, primarily the post-1940 period. His first book, titled Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside is a political history of rural guerrilla movements led by schoolteachers that emerged in the state of Guerrero during the 1960s and 70s. His next book project explores the links between counterinsurgency, state terror, and the development of a transnational narcotics economy in the southwestern Mexican highlands in the 1960s.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Latin American and Mexican history, including more specialized history courses on global capitalism, drugs and narcotics, Latin American revolutions, and the Cold War in Latin America.

He sits down with Brett to discuss the Mexican Revolution, Zapatismo, the EZLN, and much more.

Our Outro Music is "Brick by Brick" by Justified Aggression which you can find here: https://justifiedaggression.bandcamp.com/track/brick-by-brick Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/ and the Omaha GDC: https://www.facebook.com/OmahaGDC/

American Individualism and the Cultural Maintenance of Capitalism Sep 11, 2017

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David Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington's Creative Writing Program. His fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural essays have been published in numerous journals. His collection of short fiction, The Death of Descartes, was selected by Robert Penn Warren for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and won a special citation from PEN and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. His novel, From My Father, Singing was a recipient of the Editors' Book Award. Bosworth's work has been reviewed or discussed in Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, The Nation, and elsewhere. He has given readings, lectures, held workshops, and conducted colloquia at various locales, including Harvard University, Pomona College, Boston College, University of Louisville, and the New America Foundation. Brett and David sit down to discuss American Individualism, its philosophical roots, and its cultural manifestations. Topics include: The Enlightenment, American culture, The philosophical and historical roots of Individualism, the connections between individualism and capitalism, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Paine, and how 40 years of capitalist decadence has given rise to Donald "The U.S. Id Monster" Trump. David Bosworth's website, where you can find his books and essays, is here: http://www.davidbosworthauthor.com Our Outro Music is "Precarious Work" by Mohammad Ali which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLB2Y7JAtPE Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/ and the Omaha GDC: https://www.facebook.com/OmahaGDC/

Revolutionary Anarchism and Autonomous Anti-Capitalism Sep 04, 2017

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It's Going Down is a digital community center from anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements. Our mission is to provide a resilient platform to publicize and promote revolutionary theory and action. Brett sits down with a member of the collective to discuss anarchism in the 21st century. Topics Include: Anarchism, Hedges and Chomsky on Antifa, Left Unity, Gun Culture on the Left, Anti-Colonialism, being a race traitor, and the future of the revolutionary Left.

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Our music this week comes from Voltaire Slapadelic with the song American Dream.

Check out more of their music here: https://voltaireofficial.bandcamp.com

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Marxist Feminism: The Struggle Against Capitalist Patriarchal Hegemony Aug 28, 2017

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Raechel Anne Jolie is an educator, an activist, a yogi, a Media Studies PhD, a vegan, a podcaster, and a writer. Her writing has been featured in Bitch Magazine, The Daily Dot, The Huffington Post, (and more), and she's been interviewed as an expert in her field for Rolling Stone, NPR, and the CBC. She also co-hosts the Feminist Killjoys, PhD podcast with Dr. Melody Hoffmann.

Raechel joins Brett to discuss the philosophy of Marxist Feminism.

Topics include: A brief summary of the history of feminism, the differences between Marxist Feminism and Liberal Feminism, Sex Work, Trans rights, connections between the LGBTQ struggle and the labor struggle, the importance of intersectional Solidarity, and much more!

Check out Raechel and Melody's podcast Feminist Killjoys PhD here: https://feministkilljoyspodcast.com/

Check out Raechels website here: https://www.raechelannejolie.com/

Follow Raechel on Twitter @reblgrrlraechel

Our Outro Song Of The Week: Blood and Guts by Bien Fang

Find more of their *wonderful* music here: https://bienfang.bandcamp.com/releases

Here is a full list of all of Raechel's recommendations for further reading:

The Whorecast

Sylvia Federici

Kathi Weeks

Grace Lee Boggs

SALT: Xicana Marxist Thoughts (salt.xmt)

Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors, and Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba)

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete

Victoria Law

INCITE!

Invisible No More by Andrea Ritchie

Queer Injustice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the US (Andrea Ritchie, Joey Mogul, and Kay Whitlock)

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Debate: Egoism vs Marxism Aug 21, 2017

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This is our first ever debate on the show: Egoism vs. Marxism featuring Comrade Dr. Bones on the Egoist side, and Comrade Phil on the Marxist side, with Comrade Brendan playing the role of fact-checker and neutral observer/questioner.

This is an experiment; we have never done a debate show before, so we did our best. PLEASE let us know if this is something we should do more of in the future, or if you think these debates are ultimately unhelpful. We really appreciate any and all feedback.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this episode. Go check out Dr. Bones on Twitter @Ole_Bonesy and check out The Conjure House for his writings.

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

Outro Song: Revolutionary Left Radio Theme Song by David G. (Our sound engineer).

Anti-Imperialism: Palestine, Venezuela, & the DPRK with Abby Martin Aug 13, 2017

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Abby Martin is an American journalist and presenter of The Empire Files, an investigative news program on the socialist state-funded satellite network teleSUR English and YouTube. She was formerly the host of Breaking the Set on the Russian network RT America, working from the Washington, D.C. bureau.

Abby sits down with Brett to talk about US imperialism and the Israel Apartheid State.

Topics Include: Charlottesville's "Unite The Right Rally" and the antifascist resistance, the nuclear standoff between the Trump Regime and the DPRK, the Israeli Aparthied State and Palestinian resistance, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the failures of the US corporate media, and much more!

Follow Abby on Twitter: @AbbyMartin

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JournalistAbbyMartin/

Visit her websites: http://theempirefiles.tv & https://abbymartin.org

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Anti-Racist Action and the Struggle Against Fascism Aug 07, 2017

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Mic Crenshaw is a hip hop artist and co-founder of the Anti-Racist Action Network that arose and was active in the 80s and 90s. The ARA is an anti-fascist organization dedicated to community defense against organized racism and fascism. Mic joins Brett to discuss the founding of the Anti-Racist Action Network and to discuss antifascism generally. Topics Include: ARA, Mic's experience fighting fascists, the differences between antifa then and now, the role of violence in our collective fight for liberation, the Portland train stabbings and Mic's connection to the event and one of the victims, the link between late capitalism and the conditions that give rise to fascism, the white supremacy inherent in policing, and much more.

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Music: https://soundcloud.com/miccrenshawofficial

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Venezuela in Crisis: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution Jul 31, 2017

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Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher is an American political theorist, commentator, and activist. He is an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Social Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the author of three books: We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, Decolonizing Dialectics. Brett interviews Dr. Ciccariello-Maher on the history of, and the current situation in, Venezuela. Topics Include: Hugo Chavez, the Constituent Assembly, the opposition, the Venezuelan Communes, the concept of dual power, Jacobin Magazine, the Bolivarian Revolution, and much more. ----- Follow George on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ciccmaher?lang=en

Visit his website: https://georgeciccariello.com

His latest article on Venezuela: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-elections-chavez-maduro-bolivarianism

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Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Rewilding Jul 24, 2017

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Dr. Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist, author, Revolutionary, and anarcho-primitivist thinker who urges us to examine civilization, its premises, its psychology, its pathologies, and its manifestions (including capitalism). She sits down with Brett to discuss the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism and debunks myths that many leftists have about the tendency and the philosophy that goes with it. It's not a call to dismantle everything with no concern for who it hurts; rather it offers a way *forward* by insisting on an analysis that goes deeper than capitalism, and cuts to the core of our civilization, our evolutionary history, and our psyches. This is a must-listen episode!

Topics Include: Civilization, language, anthropology, symbolic culture, the use of language, the agricultural revolution, Marxism, the concept of "rewilding", meditation, train journies across Russia, going into nature, and much more!!!

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Links to Layla's websites, where you can find her books and writings:

Layla's Work

Layla on FB

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In Defense Of Libertarian Marxism Jul 19, 2017

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The host of Rev Left Radio, Brett, goes on a Libertarian podcast to discuss and defend Marxism. Topics Include: Libertarian Marxism, Louie CK, Murray Bookchin, Automation, Antifa, Organizing, and much, much more.

Audio clip used from Murray Bookchin

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