left; unread

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

Episodes

Mar 16, 2026

1 hr 5 min

Will and Aaron return to the great George L. Jackson to read Soledad Brother, where they discuss self-determination, blindspots in leftist movements in history, and how MLK was a Gonzaloist.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Mar 16, 2026

1 hr 5 min

Mar 2, 2026

1 hr 28 min

Will and Aaron return to the great Michael Parenti's Democracy of the Few, discussing how democratic the US truly was at its founding, how everything good in the US came from struggle, and how Parenti is an old man at heart.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Mar 2, 2026

1 hr 28 min

Feb 16, 2026

1 hr 37 min

Will and Aaron read Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch and discuss primitive accumulation, the body as the first machine of capital, and the poophole loophole.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy. 

Feb 16, 2026

1 hr 37 min

Feb 2, 2026

1 hr 34 min

Will and Aaron return to finish Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, discussing terror famines, Pol Pot apologetics, and why you should condemn Churchill. 
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Feb 2, 2026

1 hr 34 min

Dec 1, 2025

1 hr 49 min

Will and Aaron start Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, reading through chapter 4 and discussing the state of exception, gulags, and how everything comes back to fucking Hegel.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Dec 1, 2025

1 hr 49 min

Nov 10, 2025

1 hr 36 min

Will and Aaron read Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice and discuss Anarchist praxis, the CNT-FAI, and how the National Federation of Labor Cartels sounds quite familiar.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy. 

Nov 10, 2025

1 hr 36 min

Oct 27, 2025

1 hr 13 min

Will and Aaron explore James Connolly's Labour in Irish History, discussing the merits of trade unionism as an organizational tactic, the perennial national question, and the distinction between primary and secondary contradictions.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Oct 27, 2025

1 hr 13 min

Sep 29, 2025

2 hr 34 min

In this extra-long episode, Will and Aaron read PSL's Socialist Reconstruction and contend with collectivizing everything, the problems of skipping the revolution, and the People's Piss Bottle.
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Sep 29, 2025

2 hr 34 min

Sep 15, 2025

1 hr 37 min

Will and Aaron finish reading Dr. Karl Mark's seminal work Capital, Volume One and discuss original vs. primitive accumulation, the modern theory of colonization, and how we're honestly just happy to be done reading this dang book!
 
All music by Sisyphus Happy.

Sep 15, 2025

1 hr 37 min

Sep 1, 2025

1 hr 9 min

Will and Aaron read Mao's "On Contradiction" and discuss the correctness of action, the lib/left coalition, and why no one wants to be Trotsky.
 
Music by Sisyphus Happy.

Sep 1, 2025

1 hr 9 min

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