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Episode 29 - Capital, Volume 1: 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.

Episode 23 - The Communist Manifesto

Will and Aaron read Marx (and Engels)'s The Communist Manifesto and discuss defining the movement for ourselves, organization, and how we say 'fucking' a lot - some may say too much.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 22 - Black Skin, White Masks

Will and Aaron read Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon and discuss the colonization of language, the duality of self-determination, and Freud's obsession with genitals.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 21 - Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution

Will and Aaron return to Peter Kropotkin to read Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and discuss selfishness, means and ends not matching, and why balls exist.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Episode 20 - Capitalist Realism

Will and Aaron read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and discuss the commodification of emancipation, philosopher kings vs. existential abandonment, and whether Donald Trump shids himself. 
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.