Alyson and Breht finish their 3-part series on Friedrich Engels' text "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State", and reflect on the text as a whole. Together, they wrestle with questions, like: What is family abolition? How do rich people buy extended, communal family? What happens to the family and romantic relationships under communism? Should people ever be treated like com...
2023-08-07 17:26:02 +0000 UTC
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Breht and Arjun from Deep into History join forces to have a wide-ranging discussion on 20th century American history, with a focus on the underlying racial and class dynamics of early to mid-century America that led to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement and then the Black Panther Party - specifically their pr...
2023-08-06 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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In this pressing episode, we bring on the esteemed Professor Hakim Adi to discuss the MRes History of Africa & the African Diaspora program, and the University of Chichester's efforts to shut down the program and make Professor Adi redundant. This is an incredibly important issue that we take up, so listeners, take action. Sign 2023-08-04 15:13:13 +0000 UTC
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When you think about the philosophies and practices of Buddhism and Marxism, you might not immediately think that they have much in common. However, you might be surprised at how much overlap and complementary resonance there actually is between these two rich and beautiful traditions.
In this conversation, we’ve brought on 2023-08-01 17:24:23 +0000 UTC
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Dr. Gerald Horne joins Breht and guest-co-host PM Irvin to launch our new series on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous American sociologist, Marxist socialist, esteemed historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, starting with his major work Black Reconstruction in A...
2023-07-24 14:34:22 +0000 UTC
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EARLY RELEASE: Santi Elijah Holley joins Breht to discuss his book "An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created". For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired gen...
2023-07-04 15:46:17 +0000 UTC
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Alyson and Breht discuss the recent rulings by the Supreme Court, a wildly anti-democratic, thoroughly corrupt, and staunchly reactionary institution that the American right has spent years and billions of dollars capturing in order to impose its minoritarian rule on an American majority that firmly rejects what they stand for. And they do it all without having to worry for even a second about ...
2023-07-02 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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In this first edition of our new All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome "Katie", Breht's sister, into the studio to have an honest conversation about her struggles with alcohol and gambling.
With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of normal working people in hopes that we can pr...
2023-06-27 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Episode coming Monday, July 3rd:
- This book is ostensibly about the Shakur family, but on another level you are using the trials and tribulations of this specific family as a lens through which to understand the broader struggle for black liberation in this country. Why did you want to focus on the Shakur family in particular, and why are they such a useful lens through which to wrestle ...
2023-06-27 15:09:11 +0000 UTC
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In this patreon episode, Breht listens and responds to the (unfortunately) popular right wing Youtuber WhatifAltHist's latest video on Communism titled "Why Communism is a Failed Religion".
It's bad, folks.
Breht throws a friendly arm around your shoulder and walks ya through it.
2023-06-17 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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David from Anarchospirituality joins Breht to discuss Buddhism, Anarchism, Marxism, and more! After an introduction section, David gives a talk on Buddhism and Anarchism, and then he and Breht discuss the talk before launching into a wide-ranging discussion on anarchism v. marxism, Kropotkin, the Buddhist conception o...
2023-05-29 19:18:59 +0000 UTC
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Professors James Crossley and Robert J. Myles join Breht to discuss their fascinating work "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" put out by Zero Book. Together, they discuss their application of historical materalism to the life of Jesus, the difficulty of studying and sou...
2023-05-22 10:59:01 +0000 UTC
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In this terrific episode, we talk with Professors Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel about their fabulous work A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things, which analyzes the history of the world’s planetary emergency through Cheap nature, money, work, care, food, energ...
2023-05-21 18:40:33 +0000 UTC
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Professor and author Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left to discuss her newest book "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Together, her and Breht discuss intentional communities, social experiments, what utopia even...
2023-05-17 15:56:12 +0000 UTC
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In this patreon exclusive, Breht discusses the full-spectrum assault on Trans people, their basic existence, and their human rights, then he discusses the US electoral spectacle and how most americans hate both parties and their candidates, then he responds to a bad review of the podcast which scoffed at the idea that the US is a white supremacist society...
Contrapoints respon...
2023-04-26 14:58:29 +0000 UTC
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Matthew Furlong from our Dialectics Deep Dive series returns to the show to discuss Chairman Mao's text "On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People".
Further Resources:
Outro music: "Inner Conflict" by Pep LoveMao Zedong - Five Essays on Ph...
2023-04-25 14:06:33 +0000 UTC
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Tai Lee joins Breht to discuss the recent split from AF3IRM, radical feminism, critique as a form of solidarity, the necessity of struggle within organizations, sexual harrassment and abuse in the labor movement, liberal opportunism, the targeting and intimidation of women who speak up, how to prevent abuse and harrassment wit...
2023-04-20 17:23:20 +0000 UTC
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(Lmk what you think about this as a patreon offering in the comments please. Is seeing the outline of an upcoming episode interesting / worthwhile to you?)
Context and Methodology:
- This is a work of Marxist historical materialism, as you say in the introduction of the text. Our audience will certainly be familiar with historical and dialectical materialism, but for th...
2023-04-20 02:21:23 +0000 UTC
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Aaron J. Leonard returns to the show to discuss his newest book, "Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression". Throughout the interview, we play many of the artists and son...
2023-04-17 14:33:32 +0000 UTC
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Professor of philosophy Matthew D. Segall returns to Rev Left to discuss his newest book, which is based on his disseratation, titled 2023-04-10 12:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Professor Matt McManus returns to Rev Left to talk about his newest book, a collection of essays from various authors that he put together and edited titled "Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction: Essays on Liberalism, Socialism, and Aristocratic Radicalism".
Together they discuss the book, the philosophy of...
2023-04-03 11:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Filmmaker Steven De Castro joins Breht to discuss his on-the-ground documenary film on the New People's Army of the Phillipines for Means TV. Together they discuss his film, his unique documentary style, his time embedded with the NPA, the Marcos Regime, Comrade Joma, the poverty and inequality in Manilla and throughout the Ph...
2023-03-27 12:37:36 +0000 UTC
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In this episode of Red Menace, Alyson and Breht summarize and discuss the first three chapters of Friedrich Engel's important work of historical materialism, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State". Together they discuss the core arguments of the text, the anthropological science behind it, why this text is considered a foundational text of Marxist Feminism, and much more!&n...
2023-03-24 10:59:01 +0000 UTC
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In this Patreon exclusive, Breht, Adnan, and Henry from Guerrilla History discuss their thoughts on the relationship between religion and Marxism, how Marxists today might think differently about religion compared to Marxists 100 years ago, religion and spirituality as a terrain of struggle for the Left, ...
2023-03-21 18:03:45 +0000 UTC
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Esperanza Fonseca joins Breht to discuss the scientifically proven benefits of regular physical activity, the relationship of mental health to physical health, basic and intermediate advice regarding the most effective ways to exercise for overall health and fitness, holistic approaches to a genuinely healthy...
2023-03-20 01:25:36 +0000 UTC
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Michael Workman is a talented filmmaker from Montana, and is also the Director of Features Programming at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, as well as a board member of Means TV. Michael joins Breht to discuss his films, Means TV, Soviet and American Cinema, Stanely Kubrick, how film can be used to raise class consciousne...
2023-03-13 15:27:27 +0000 UTC
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Bestselling author and literary critic China Miéville joins Breht to discuss his newest book A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto
Together, they discuss the literary merits of the fam...
2023-03-05 21:01:25 +0000 UTC
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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two fantastic guests, Prof. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Prof. Jodi Dean. We discuss their co-edited collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, which is an absolutely indispensable resource for those of us serious ab...
2023-02-27 11:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Labor journalist Mel Buer joins Breht to discuss the recent train derailment in Ohio and the subsequent ecological disaster that ensued, the recent labor union struggles waged by rail workers, the warnings regarding safety that those workers advanced, the role of the Biden administration in all of this, the corporate dictatorship we live under, and much more.
Follow Mel here: 2023-02-26 02:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Please use this comment section to ask Breht any and all questions you might have for him, and he will pick a few to respond to in upcoming patreon episodes!
We want to have an ongoing mailbag segment for the new weekly patreon episodes, so keep an eye on the patreon for these Mailbag submission posts going forward!
Thank you all so much for supporting the show,
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2023-02-24 19:05:00 +0000 UTC
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