Revolutionary Left Radio

Brendan Leahy is a local organizer and revolutionary thinker. He was featured on our Ideology Episode a few months back.    He sits down with Brett to discuss Marxism and Neo-Marxism.   Topics include: Key neo-Marxist figures, Eco-Socialism, misunderstandings of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, Dual Power, Jenny Marx, Marx’s gothic influences, Primitive Accumulation, Marxist Feminism, Post-Modernism, and much more! ---- Outro music Insurrection! by B Complex Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio  Follow us on FB at "Revolutionary Left Radio" Theme song by The String-Bo String Duo which you can find here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/album/smash-the-state-distribute-bread  

 Gregory Afinogenov received his PhD in History from Harvard University, and is now an assistant professor in Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University.  Greg sits down with Brett to discuss the October Revolution and the Soviet Union. Topics Include: Joseph Stalin, The Bolsheviks, The failures and fallacies of western liberal propaganda, the Cold War, the Space Race, George Orwell, Trotsky v. Stalin, Holodomor, The successes of the Soviet Union, what leftists of all stripes can learn from the Russian Rev, and much more!  Follow Greg on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/athenogenes Outro music: The Harvest by No Thanks off the album "The Trial". No Thanks is a local Omaha band and good friends of the show! David, the sound guy for Rev Left Radio, actually recorded the album in the same studio out of which we do the show! Check them out here: https://no-thanks.bandcamp.com Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio  Follow us on FB at

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 hege

Brett travels to Denver to meet Sole from the Solecast IRL and have a discussion in Sole's home together.   Topics include: their Podcasts and why they started, being a leftist parent, hip hop, the responsibilities of white rappers, the differences between organizing in Omaha vs. Denver, gentrification, what different tendencies can learn from one another, and much more.    Check out Sole's podcast and music here:  http://www.soleone.org/ And here: https://sole.bandcamp.com/music   Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio  Follow us on FB at "Revolutionary Left Radio" Theme song by The String-Bo String Duo which you can find here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/album/smash-the-state-distribute-bread      

Tanesha Hudson is an activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. She joins Brett to talk about Charlottesville, Confederate statues, her personal experiences with racism, the symbolism of Thomas Jefferson, being a parent of black children, and much more. Tanesha on FB: https://www.facebook.com/tanesha.hudson.9 Outro music from Mic Crenshaw with his song Toyi Toyi Ft. Mama C. https://soundcloud.com/miccrenshawofficial   Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio  and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio  Follow us on FB at "Revolutionary Left Radio"

Dan Arel is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author of The Secular Activist; and Parenting Without God. He has also written for The Hill, The New Arab, CounterPunch, CommonDreams, AlterNet, Time Magazine, Salon, and many others. He hosts the Danthropology Podcast, a weekly show that covers politics, religion, and current events. Dan can be found around the country speaking on issues such as social justice, political activism, and secular issues. Topics Include: Atheism, Differences between the far left and far right, doxing, The October Revolution, different leftist tendencies, talking to regular working class people, leftist podcasters, hip hop, and more! Find Dan at: http://www.danarel.com/danthropology-podcast/ @DanArel Our Outro Music is "Banks Are Made of Marble" by Sole which you can find here: http://www.soleone.org Check out Sole's podcast "Solecast", which we discuss in this episode, as well as Channel Zero, a dope collection of anarchist podcasts which you can find here: https://channel

Content Warning: Descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Please be advised. NSA Disclaimer: Revolutionary Left Radio does not advocate the use of political terrorism, the initiation of violence, or the breaking of any laws. This is a scholarly, journalistic approach to the theory and history of the FAI, not advocacy of them or their methodology. Dr. Bones is an Egoist-Communist, Conjurer, Occultist, and Gonzo Journalist who writes for The Conjure House and Gods and Radicals.  Brett sits down with Dr. Bones to discuss the FAI (the Informal Anarchist Federation).  Topics Include: Political terrorism, Propaganda of the Deed, Antifa, the history of insurrectionary anarchism, Red Brigades, Nihilism, Cell Structure, and much more.   Our Outro Music is "Red and Black" by The String-Bo String Duo which you can find here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/album/smash-the-state-distribute-bread   Their FB: https://www.facebook.com/thestringbostringduo/  Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRa

Matt Bernico is the assistant professor of Media Studies at Greenville College, where his teaching and research concerns cultural studies, media theory, and the history of science and technology. Dean Dettloff is a Catholic PhD candidate at the Institute for Christian Studies, where his research deals with the intersections of media theory, religion, and politics.  Together, they host the Christian Socialist podcast "The Magnificast". Brett sits down with Matt and Dean to discuss the philosophy of Christian Leftism. Topics include: Key figures on the Christian Left, Marxist Materialism, political violence and pacifism, Nietzsche, New Atheism, and much more.     Our Outro Music is "Looking For The Sun" by ParticleHead which you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/dirklind 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

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://justifiedaggres

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 Enlightenmen

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.  ------- It's Going Down can be found here: https://itsgoingdown.org  Our music this week comes from Voltaire Slapadelic with the song American Dream. Check out more of their music here: https://voltaireofficial.bandcamp.com    ---------------------- Please rate and review us on iTunes and support us on Patreon if you have some spare change laying around.   This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.

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*

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  --- Please donate to our Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/revleftradio Don't f

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.  ----- Follow Mic on Twitter: @MicCrenshaw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/miccrenshaw/ Visit his website: https://www.miccrenshaw.com/home Music: https://soundcloud.com/miccrenshawofficial --- Please donate to our Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter:

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 --- Please donate to o

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

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.  Please donate to our  Patreon Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on FB This Podcast is Officially Affiliated with the Omaha GDC and The Nebraska Left Coalition Random Song From Our Friends: Rogue Element by Rogue Element Audio clip used from Murray Bookchin Thank you for all of your support and feedback!

Dr. Bones is an Egoist, Communist, Insurrectionary Anarchist, Conjurer, and Gonzo Journalist. He joins Brett on the podcast to discuss his philosophy of Egoist-Communism inspired by the works of Max Stirner.  Topics Include: Egoism, The Union of Egoists, Insurrectionary Anarchism, The G20 riots in Hamburg, critiques of Marxism and Anarcho-Communism, an open invitation for Brett to come to Florida to eat Alligator and drink copious amounts of alcohol in a graveyard, and MUCH much more.  Here are some links to Dr. Bone's work: www.theconjurehouse.com www.godsandradicals.org Follow Dr. Bones on Twitter: @Ole_Bonsey Please donate to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter: @RevLeftRadio Follow us on FB: www.facebook.com/revleftradio This Podcast is Officially Affiliated with the Omaha GDC and The Nebraska Left Coalition Random Song From Our Friends: "Wasted On My Time" by Gamble, Gamble, Die gamblegambledie.bandcamp.com

Kristy is a revolutionary organizer and co-founder of the leftist organization The Nebraska Left Coalition. Jeff is revolutionary union member and one of the admins of Anarchist Memes. Brett, Kristy, and Jeff come together (and overcome a slew of technical difficulties during the recording of this episode) to collectively address and refute common arguments made against socialists. Topics include: Antifa, human nature, Hitler, economics, private property vs. personal property, and much more.   Random Song From Our Friends: "I Wrote This Song When I Was 17" by Not Ben Shin https://notbenshin.bandcamp.com/releases   This podcast is officially affilated with The Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC.   Twitter @RevLeftRadio Facebook: Revolutionary Left Radio support us on Patreon (forwardslash Revolutionary Left Radio) Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes to increase our reach.  Thank you for the support! 

Brett sits down with revolutionary organizer and Appalachian local Nic Smith to talk about the Appalachian working class and its history of class struggle. Topics include: Radical unionism, the history of the region, Trump, liberalism's failures and socialism's hopes, stereotypes about Appalachians, the need for a true working class party, and much more!   **Please take the time to rate and leave a review on iTunes! This will help expand our overall reach.**     Donate Follow us on: Facebook Twitter (which we are new to, and trying to build up): @RevLeftRadio or contact us at Revolutionary Left Radio via Email Random Song of The Week From Friends: Featured as the outro music From The Window On A Train - Jack Hotel Organizations affiliated with the podcast: Omaha GDC NLC   Thank You for your support and feedback!