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Friends of the Congo: The Congolese Struggle for Self-Determination

Passy and Maurice from Friends of the Congo join Breht to discuss the history and the present of the Congo. Together, they discuss their organization, Passy's on-the-ground organizing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the history of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba and his legacy, European and Belgian colonialism, King Leopold II, the brutal ongoing violence and displacement occuring ...

Dialectics Deep Dive IIX: Contradiction and Overdetermination (Pt. 1)

Matthew Furlong returns for another installment of our Dialectics Deep Dive Series.

Together, they discuss Althusser, Hegel, Dialectical Materialism, Marxism, Palestine, process philosophy, and much more!

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W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction

In this fouth installment of our ongoing W.E.B. Du Bois series, Breht and PM sit down with Saudia Durrant and Geo Maher from the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction. Together, they discuss Du Bois, th...

"Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cosmic Exploration of the Human Psyche

EARLY RELEASE: Breht got invited onto Left of the Projector to discuss Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's famous sci-fi film from 1972 "Solaris" with Evan and Amanda. Together, they discuss and analyze the film, exploring the human condition, the subconscious, modernist subjectivity, alienation, our fear of death, the Cold...

AMA Submissions!

Hey everyone, please use the comment section to ask any and all questions for me that you may have, and I will answer as many as I can in the next patreon episode!

Thank you all so much for your continued support of the show, and I look forward to navigating this uncertain and chaotic year with you all. <3

Joy James on W.E.B. Du Bois & Black Liberation

EARLY RELEASE: Dr. Joy James joins Breht and PM for their third installment of our ongoing Du Bois series, but this conversation goes well beyond the life and work of Du Bois to cover James' newest book, her long history of organizing, the history of black liberation struggles in the US, and much more. Together, they discuss George Jackson, Erica Garner, Marxism, history, Ida B. Wells, and much...

Kwame Nkrumah: The Great Pan-African Revolutionary Leader of Ghana

Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss the life and legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. Together, they discuss the Ghanaian Marxist and Pan-Africanist politician, political theorist, and revolutionary, his upbringing, his entrance into Ghanaian and African politics, his po...

Napoleon: the Film, the Man, the History

Everett from The Age of Napoleon and Arjun from Deep into History join Breht to discuss Napoleon Bonaparte. Together they explore and reflect on the new film by Ridley Scott, the actual history involved and what the film got wron...

Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler Colonialism, and Lessons for Palestine

In this Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. 

Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the s...

Sickness unto Death...

Here is a recent episode of our semi-secret, non-political podcast for those interested... 

American Psycho: The Death and Crimes of Henry Kissinger

Breht reads and reflects on a couple of articles covering the life and crimes of Henry Kissinger.

Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

This episode is from our sister podcast Guerrilla History, subscribe to it on your preferred podcast app!

In this absolutely fabulous episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on the one and only Dr. CBS, Charisse Burden-Stelly!  Here, we discuss her outstanding new book Black S...

Les Misérables: Victor Hugo, Revolution, and French History

Corey Mohler from Existential Comics returns to the show to discuss the famous novel (and its many adaptations) by Victor Hugo "Les Misérables".

Together they discuss the novel, its various adaptations, its political and social themes, 19th Century France, the "Giants of '93", read some passages from the book, a...

An Introduction to Apartheid South Africa

EARLY RELEASE: Ashley Fataar joins Breht and Henry to give listeners an introduction to South African apartheid; its rise, its control, its defeat, and its lingering legacy... Along the way we use the example of South Africa to help us make sense of Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian resistance to it.

This is a 101 intro to the topic, and Henry, Alyson, Breht and Adnan will do a full...

The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity

Professor Matthew McManus returns to the show to discuss his newest book "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity...

Decolonizing Palestine: Toward National Liberation in the Levant

Alyson and Breht discuss the ongoing national liberation struggle in Palestine. Together, they discuss the incredible shift in public opinion on Israel and Palestine, the internal and external contradictions culminating in unison for Israel, the discussion about whether or not what Israel is doing is technically a genocide (it absolutely is), international law, Frantz Fanon on the psychology of...

Uprisings in the Sahel: AFRICOM, Neo-Colonial Imperialism, and Pan-African Liberation

Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss AFRICOM, or The United States Africa Command - responsible for U.S. military operations and imperialism on the continent. Together they discuss the ongoing conflict in Palestine, the connections between black liberation mov...

Palestine on Fire II

Breht continues and updates his discussion on the carnage unfolding in Palestine. He discusses the global situation, the very real possibility of a much wider war, Iran and America, the history of the Nakba, the Second Nakba, the tragic murder of precious Wadea Al Fayoume in Chicago by a zionist landlord, why the two state solution is wrong, full decolonization as a necessary prerequisite to a ...

Toward Liberation: Palestine on Fire

Breht launches into a fiery tirade about the current situation in Palestine, helps listeners navigate and dismantle common Zionist talking points, and brings some much needed moral clarity and intellectual honesty to a topic that, especially in the West, often lacks both...

Labor Militants: The Trade Union Educational League (TUEL)

Chase from Mass Struggle joins Breht to discuss American labor history and communist political theory in relation to the trade union struggle through the lens of TUEL, or the Trade Union Educational League (1920 -1929). Together they discuss trade union consciousness, the necessity of a vanguard party, William Z. Foster, the limitations of spontaneity, specific actions taken by TUEL in their st...

Principles of Communism

EARLY RELEASE: Jared from Millennials are Killing Capitalism podcast invited Breht on to talk about Friedrich Engels' draft to the Communist Manifesto entitled Principles of Communism!

Together,...

UAW Strike: Workers Fighting Back!

Teddy Ostrow and Maximillian Alvarez from The Real News Network join Breht to discuss the recent "stand up" strike launched by the United Auto Workers labor union. Teddy and Ma...

Outline for Upcoming Ep: "The Principles of Communism" with Millennials are Killing Capitalism

These are the questions I was asked by Jared from MaKC, and Im VERY excited to release this episode in a week or two, as I truly l think its one of the better episodes I've done in a while!

Here are the questions Ill be answering in detail:

- One of the things I find interesting is that supposedly earlier versions of this were known as the Communist Catechism o...

Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Lengend

Henry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro join Breht to discuss the new translation (by Henry and Salvatore) of Domenico Losurdo's 2023-09-11 16:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post

W.E.B. Du Bois: Radical Black Peace Activism

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly joins Breht and PM for a second installment of our Du Bois series, this one focusing on Du Bois' human rights and peace activism and how he tied that in with his revolutionary Marxism. Together they discuss Du Bois' political evolution, the influence of his friend, comrade and wife Shirley G...

Update on our Donations to a Comrade in Africa

Hey all, just wanted to give you this heartwarming update and picture regarding the episode PM and I dropped a few days ago asking for donations to help prevent this family from losing their home due to their inability to pay all their back-rent. You all rose to the challenge after seeing that we were their last hope, and quite literally saved this family from a cruel fate.

They sent us...

On Stalin: An Historical-Dialectical Materialist Approach

Breht reads and comments on the opening chapter of Domenico Losurdo's "Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend", translated only very recently into English from the original Italian by Henry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro.

Fantasy Football Update - Check Your Emails!

Anyone who submitted an email address to be included in a Rev Left league, either on the main post (now deleted) or in the follow up patreon comment section: PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL AND JOIN THE LEAGUE IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY!

We have 3 leagues (Marx League, Engels League and Lenin League) and two of them still have several people needing to log into the ESPN Fanta...