left; unread

Two leftists exploring the question, ”what is to be done?” as they navigate life in a late-stage capitalist hellscape.

Episodes

18 hours ago

1 hr 41 min

Will and Aaron read Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler Nor Native and discuss survival of colonialism, the necessity of the national question, and whether 'pilgrimate' is a word.
 
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18 hours ago

1 hr 41 min

Sep 14, 2026

1 hr 7 min

Will and Aaron read Dean Spade's Mutual Aid and discuss leaderless and leaderful organization, how to scale up praxis to a revolutionary level, and how we both fail the perfectionism checklist.
 
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Sep 14, 2026

1 hr 7 min

Aug 17, 2026

1 hr 36 min

Will and Aaron read Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and discuss the oppressed/oppressor dialectic, how to pronounce conscientizacao, and what non-human animal wronged Freire in the past.
 
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Aug 17, 2026

1 hr 36 min

Jul 27, 2026

49 min

Will and Aaron return to the great Dr. Karl Marx to read "The Eighteenth Brumaire", discussing concealing class character through parliamentary obfuscation, the weaponization of the peasantry as a reactionary class, and why 'Crapulinski' is a great burn.
 
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Jul 27, 2026

49 min

Jul 6, 2026

57 min

Will and Aaron read Thomas Sankara's We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions and discuss Internationalism, Sankara's based feminism, and why planting trees is dope.
 
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Jul 6, 2026

57 min

Jun 22, 2026

1 hr 21 min

Will and Aaron re-read Lenin's The State and Revolution and discuss their development as communists, the withering away of the state, and why they mess with the dictatorship of the proletariat.
 
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Jun 22, 2026

1 hr 21 min

Jun 8, 2026

1 hr 6 min

Will and Aaron read Guillaume Suing's Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology and discuss the frustration of dialectics, veganism's role in ecology, and why we never want to talk about Trofim Lysenko ever again.
 
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Jun 8, 2026

1 hr 6 min

May 25, 2026

1 hr 11 min

Will and Aaron read the seminal The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and discuss the violence of the colonial struggle, the national character of resistance in a colonial settler colony, and question if Aaron even knows how to read.
 
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May 25, 2026

1 hr 11 min

Apr 13, 2026

50 min

Will and Aaron return to the work of Dr. Karl Marx through "Critique of the Gotha Programme", discussing the role of critique, the distinction between pedantry and principle, and how Marx knows how to hold a grudge.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Apr 13, 2026

50 min

Mar 30, 2026

1 hr 7 min

Will and Aaron read J. Moufawad-Paul's The Communist Necessity and discuss the vanguard of the 21st century, "the left talking to the left about the left", and the depressing reality of movementism.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Mar 30, 2026

1 hr 7 min

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