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
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Sep 14, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Aug 17, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Jul 27, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Jul 6, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Jun 22, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Jun 8, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

May 25, 2026
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.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Apr 13, 2026
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.

Mar 30, 2026
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.






