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Episode 33: Capital, Volume One: Chapters 12-14

Will and Aaron continue the long journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing AI and mechanization, "luxury" goods and class antagonism, and how Door Dashers are the real heroes.
 
Music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 32 - "The Foundations of Leninism"

Will and Aaron return to Joseph Stalin through his essay "The Foundations of Leninism", discussing socialism in one country, bottom-up recall vs. top-down purges, and why Lenin was a boss husband.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 31 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 10-11

Will and Aaron read chapters 10 and 11 from Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, Volume One and discuss productivity, the distinction between historical and capitalist modes of cooperation, and why The Golden Bachelor is cool.
 
Music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 30 - Beyond Nature

Will and Aaron read Marco Maurizi's Beyond Nature and discuss animal liberation, veganism as an extension of Marxism, and why calling cops pigs is an insult to pigs everywhere.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happpy.

Episode 29 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 7-9

Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing surplus value, lunch breaks, and journeying into the vast abstract of Marx's mindscape.
 
Happy (belated) May Day!
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 28 - An Anarchist Primer

Will and Aaron read 8 anarchist essays and discuss individualism, anarchist criticisms of Lenin's state model, and anarchism's ultimate person.
 
The essays explored in this episode are:
-Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - Murray Bookchin -An Anarchist Programme - Errico Malatesta -Are We Good Enough? - Peter Kropotkin-Our Revolution - Carlo Cafiero-The Capitalist System - Mikhail Bakunin-The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat? - Rudolf Rocker-The Principles of Anarchism - Lucy Parsons
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 27 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 3-6

Will and Aaron continue their journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing chapters 3-6 to define exchange circuits, characterize valorization, and inadvertently intimate a repressed foot fetish.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.
 
Also, something a little different: next episode's reading list for our "Anarchist Primer" episode:
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - Murray Bookchin
An Anarchist Programme - Errico Malatesta
Are We Good Enough? - Peter Kropotkin
Our Revolution - Carlo Cafiero
The Capitalist System - Mikhail Bakunin
The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat? - Rudolf Rocker
The Principles of Anarchism - Lucy Parsons

Episode 26 - Women, Race, and Class

Happy Women's History Month!
Will and Aaron read Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and discuss the necessity for an intersectional liberation politic, the need for a new guard of radical revolutionaries, and how fathers can't be babysitters.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy. 
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Episode 25 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 1-2

Will and Aaron begin the journey of reading Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing correctly defining commodity, use vs. exchange value, and Karl Marx's favorite fetish.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 24 - Blood in My Eye

Will and Aaron read George L. Jackson's classic "Blood in My Eye" and discuss the role of violence in revolution, being something other than a professional revolutionary, and how the US is - and always has been - a fascist project.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.