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Lauritz Marquardt (aka Conscious Development on YT) returns to the show to discuss meditation, Buddhist practice, offer tips and advice, and much more. Find Lauritz's YT channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ConsciousDevelopment Find his website here: http://www.lauritzm.com Our previous episode w/ Lauritz: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/awakening Mahasi's Progress of Insight: - https://www.bps.lk/olib/bp/bp504s_Mahasi_Progress-of-Insight.pdf - https://www.bps.lk/olib/bp/bp503s_Mahasi_Practical-Insight-Meditation.pdf       Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  

Mass Struggle Linktree: https://linktr.ee/massstruggle   Here's the chapter: https://massline.info/mlms/mlch04.htm Here's the book: https://massline.info/mlms/mlms.htm   Check out Faith and Capital as well: https://linktr.ee/Faithandcapital

Todd McGowan returns to the show, this time to discuss the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan. Breht and Todd explore many of his core concepts, his relation to Freud and Freud’s theory, his politics, his contributions to psychology, how his insights can useful for us today, and so much more.  Check out Todd's podcast “Why Theory?” on your preferred podcast app! Previous episdoes with Todd: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/hegel Outro music: "Cold Blood" by Josiah and the Bonnevilles Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, is out from Verso Books in 2022. Professor Huber joins Breht to discuss the politics of climate change and how to build an effective socialist movement, rooted in the working class and militant labor unions, to confront the challenges of the climate crisis.   Get Climate Change as Class War here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war   Follow Prof. Huber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthuber78   Outro music: 'Highwomen' by The Highwomen Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

The Supreme Court is an anti-democratic, hyper-reactionary institution, totally free from any semblence of accountability. It is nothing more than another arm of the far-right movement in this godforsaken, shithole country. In this month old episode, Alyson and Breht discuss the Supreme Court and the implications of Roe's dismantling.

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a very special guest, Margrit Schiller!  Margrit was associated early on with the Red Army Faction, before being imprisoned and tortured by the West German state, being forced into exile in Cuba and Uruguay, and then having to move back to Germany more or less against her will.  A fascinating life story from someone just as committed to the struggle as ever! Margrit Schiller is author of Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction.  We highly recommend picking yourself up a copy from PM Press (https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1195).  Margrit's struggles within and against this system continue, and grabbing a copy of her book is a good way to help while we are still forced to operate within capitalism. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.  If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, em

In this episode, Aleksandra Kolaković joins Breht to discuss the history of socialist construction in the former Yugoslavia. We discuss the formation of Yugoslavia, the communist partisans and their fight against fascism during WW2, the rise, rule, and legacy of Josep Broz Tito, "Market Socialism", daily life for workers in Yugoslavia, the Tito-Stalin split and beef, and much more! This is a controversial chapter of socialist history, but also a fascinating and essential one! Enjoy!  Outro music: 'Maljčiki' by Idoli Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  

Nomi (aka Power Struggle) from the Beatrock Music label, joins Breht to discuss his latest album "Aspirations", the role of hip hop in both of their lives, its influence on their politics, their favorite albums and artists, revolutionary politics, working shitty jobs for shitty pay, embracing the working class over personal ambitions, and much more! Check out Aspirations here: https://powerstrugglemusic.bandcamp.com/album/aspirations Check out Beatrock Music here: https://beatrockmusic.com/ Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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". Support Rev Left Radio: h

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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

[ 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. Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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 https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/

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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

[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 Wage

[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 Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

[Originally released Apr 2021] Breht is joined by Kevin Rashid Johnson, the incarcerated Minister of Defense for the Revolutionary Intercommunalist Black Panther Party, and Comrade Garlic, the Minister of Justice of the RIBPP. They discuss Rashid's childhood and imprisonment, his and other inmates systematic torture and brutalization within the American prison system, the split from the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, Maoism and Revolutionary Intercommunalism, the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat, the psychology of solitary confinement, racial prison gangs, and much more.  Support on Cashapp: $Solidarity2ribpp Rashid's website: http://rashidmod.com Contact Comrade Garlic: moj@ribpp.org Contact the Chairperson: chair@ribpp.org Contact the General Secretary: general.secretary@ribpp.org Sub to their YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2HNf9WwzzcOpQxS8Opg-0A/featured   Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

[Originally released Aug 2019] Chuka Ejeckam, a graduate student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, joins Breht to discuss the life and legacy of Malcolm X.  Find Chuka and his work here: http://www.chukaejeckam.com/ If you liked this episode, check out our other episode on Fred Hampton featuring Chuka here:  http://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/fred-hampton   Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio