Apr 15, 2024
Exir, Toby and Jackson join for a discussion on the (in)famous Frankfurt School. They discuss the history of the Institute for Social Research from its founding as a think tank for the study of the workers’ movement, through the turn to critical theory and empirical social research in the 1930s, its flight to...
Apr 1, 2024
Rudy joins Martín Lallana for an introductory discussion on mining. We talk about the importance of mining to capitalism, the ecological impacts of different kind of mining, the way that the materials extracted have changed along history focusing on the materials needed for an energy transition and the way the...
Mar 24, 2024
Rob joins Alexander Thurston for a discussion on his work on the Sahel region, focusing on the interplay between radical Islamic groups, the civilian governments/military juntas of the regions and international players like the US and France. They discuss the social basis of the groups, the role of different...
Mar 11, 2024
Steven, James and Rudy sit down for a long discussion on the French Communist Party from its inception all the way to its present state. We cover all the periods in its history: the Pre-WW2 Popular Front, the post WW2 entrance into government, its isolation, and its coming back into government with Mitterrand in the...
Mar 7, 2024
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as
truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular
communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert’s Dune
franchise.
Read By: A Darlymple
Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix
Outro Music: We are Friends Forever...