In part one of a two part episode Alex and Leila start off by answering a question regarding art submitted by a listener then move onto discuss the ideological nature of gender, the differing forms of the family and why Alexandra Kollontai is still a source of inspiration on this issue.
References
Alexandra Kollontai - Sexual Relations and the Class Stru...
2021-06-09 13:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode to be released July 30
Capital 1 is the most important work in Marxist theory. Many find chapters 1 and 2 the most difficult to read. So we'll go through them together!
Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange
The text can be found here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch02.htm
2021-06-02 17:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode Alex and Leila the emergence of the police under capitalism. From their beginning as a semi military force to "manage" the industrial working class and how the role has evolved but also remained the same. They also look at the contradictions of policing and how the police are actually managers of crime.
Episode image is from the 1984-85 miners strike in Britain.
2021-06-01 19:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhat book should we do for our next Reading Group? We are doing "What is To Be Done?" (by Lenin) this month. Some options for next month:
2021-05-29 18:37:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second part of our interview with Angela Nagle we discuss the stunted development of Irish capitalism, the inter-imperialist rivalry between the USA and China as well as the impact of the Covid year on art and culture.
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https://angelanagle.substack.com/
We speak about China under Mao, and China's transition back into capitalism under Deng and subsequent leaders. We also speak about China's role as a rising imperialist leader.
2021-05-19 12:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Labour Party's recent loss in Hartlepool has reignited the debate about whether the Labour Party can still be understood as the UK's workers' party. We talk about why the Labour party lost its recent by-election in Hartlepool, the class composition of Labour politicians, Labour's uneven and contradictory history, and the pressure-group called 'Blue Labour'. Long story short, we don't see a way forward for the Labour Party.
2021-05-12 14:24:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we speak to Dr Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School on the dubious nature of lockdowns as public health policy. We begin the episode by reflecting on the nature of conspiracy theories and why Marxists reject them as a way of understanding the world.
Read Dr Kulldorff's article in the Daily Telegraph
Music in th...
2021-05-07 12:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We review the first two chapters of the Communist Manifesto, exploring the major themes highlighted throughout -- historical materialism, class warfare, the advent of capitalism, the family, modernism, and more.
We round off our discussion from part one by talking about the impact of covid-19 on health care capacity, covid-19 vaccinations, the class warfare that has been the lockdowns, the horrible effects of the bureaucratisation of science, how a communist society would handle covid-19 and more!
2021-05-03 04:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We speak about India's COVID "disaster", outline the grand COVID-19 narratives framing this "pandemic", and give our final verdicts on COVID-19 lethality, its effect on health care capacity, and lockdowns. Part 1 of 2.
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Some studies mentioned:
John Ioannidis meta-analysis showing a 0.15% IFR: 2021-04-30 12:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a look at the housing bubbles ballooning across the world, investigate the contradictions which give rise to housing bubbles under capitalism and make some predictions of how the whole thing will come tumbling down.
Correction: Leila ~@1:01:42 says residential homes in Japan declined to less than a tenth of their peak -- this is not for *all* of Japan, only for Tokyo at the time of the crash.
We hope that you enjoy this first Patron-only episode -- thank you so much for su...
2021-04-27 23:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode to be released June 23rd, covering the chapters:
3. Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics
4. The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries
Text can be found here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
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2021-04-25 00:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis is perhaps Lenin's most pivotal work. Episode to be released June 5th, covering the following chapters:
1. Dogmatism and "Freedom of Criticism"
2. The Spontaneity of the Masses and the Class Consciousness of Social-Democracy
Find the text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
2021-04-25 00:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode to be released May 19th, covering the final two chapters of the Manifesto:
III. Socialist and Communist Literature
IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties
You can find the text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
Submit your questions in the post, or...
2021-04-25 00:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For our first piece of content for patrons we are putting out an unaired portion of the first interview between co-hosts Alexander McKay and Leila Mechoui from back in January of this year. We have recorded a new introduction to it where we reflect on what we were right about and how everyone must read Lenin. We hope you enjoy the programme.
You can find Lenin's "Imperialism-The Highest Stage of Capitalism" on the link below:
A foundational work of Marxist theory, the Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. It is more relevant than ever. We are going to reviewing Chapters 1 & 2 (half the book), that is:
1. Bourgeois and Proletarians
2. Proletarians and Communists
You can find the text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manife...
2021-04-23 14:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post