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Episodes
Episode 47 - "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to the work of Dr. Karl Marx through "Critique of the Gotha Programme", discussing the role of critique, the distinction between...
Episode 46 - The Communist Necessity
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read J. Moufawad-Paul's The Communist Necessity and discuss the vanguard of the 21st century, "the left talking to the left about the ...
Episode 45 - Soledad Brother
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to the great George L. Jackson to read Soledad Brother, where they discuss self-determination, blindspots in leftist movements ...
Episode 44 - Democracy for the Few
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 43 - Caliban and the Witch
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 poo...
Episode 42 - Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Part Two
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to finish Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, discussing terror famines, Pol Pot apologetics, and...
Episode 41 - Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Part One
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron start Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, reading through chapter 4 and discussing the state of excepti...
Episode 40 - Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice and discuss Anarchist praxis, the CNT-FAI, and how the National Federatio...
Episode 39 - Labour in Irish History
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron explore James Connolly's Labour in Irish History, discussing the merits of trade unionism as an organizational tactic, the perennial n...
Episode 38 - Socialist Reconstruction
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this extra-long episode, Will and Aaron read PSL's Socialist Reconstruction and contend with collectivizing everything, the problems of skipping th...
Episode 37 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 23-25
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron finish reading Dr. Karl Mark's seminal work Capital, Volume One and discuss original vs. primitive accumulation, the modern theory of ...
Episode 36 - "On Contradiction"
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. Mus...
Episode 35 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 15-22
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the penultimate Capital episode, Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, Volume One, covering chapters 15-22 and di...
Episode 34 - Guerrilla Warfare
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patria o Muerte! In celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Will and Aaron read Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, discussing the applic...
Episode 33: Capital, Volume One: Chapters 12-14
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron continue the long journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing AI and mechanization, "luxury" goods and class antagonism, and...
Episode 32 - "The Foundations of Leninism"
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to Joseph Stalin through his essay "The Foundations of Leninism", discussing socialism in one country, bottom-up recall vs. top-...
Episode 31 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 10-11
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read chapters 10 and 11 from Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, Volume One and discuss productivity, the distinction between historical and capit...
Episode 30 - Beyond Nature
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Marco Maurizi's Beyond Nature and discuss animal liberation, veganism as an extension of Marxism, and why calling cops pigs is a...
Episode 29 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 7-9
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing surplus value, lunch breaks, and journeying into the vast abstract o...
Episode 28 - An Anarchist Primer
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read 8 anarchist essays and discuss individualism, anarchist criticisms of Lenin's state model, and anarchism's ultimate person. The...
Episode 27 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 3-6
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron continue their journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing chapters 3-6 to define exchange circuits, characterize valorizati...
Episode 26 - Women, Race, and Class
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Women's History Month! Will and Aaron read Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and discuss the necessity for an intersectional liberation poli...
Episode 25 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 1-2
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron begin the journey of reading Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing correctly defining commodity, use vs. exchange value, and Ka...
Episode 24 - Blood in My Eye
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read George L. Jackson's classic "Blood in My Eye" and discuss the role of violence in revolution, being something other than a profess...
Episode 23 - The Communist Manifesto
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Marx (and Engels)'s The Communist Manifesto and discuss defining the movement for ourselves, organization, and how we say 'fuckin...
Episode 22 - Black Skin, White Masks
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon and discuss the colonization of language, the duality of self-determination, and Freud's ...
Episode 21 - Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to Peter Kropotkin to read Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and discuss selfishness, means and ends not matching, and why ball...
Episode 20 - Capitalist Realism
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and discuss the commodification of emancipation, philosopher kings vs....
Episode 19 - The Society of the Spectacle
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and discuss commodity colonization, true and false consciousness, and how plants love B...
Episode 18 - "Dialectical and Historical Materialism"
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Joseph Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" and discuss "great men" of history, the role of handicraft, and how to ma...
Episode 17 - "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder"
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to Lenin to read "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" just in time to discuss the merits of participating in bourgeois p...
Episode 16 - The Transitional Program
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Leon Trotsky's "The Transitional Program" The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International" and discuss coa...
Episode 15 - One Dimensional Man
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man and discuss happy consciousness, the sublimation of language, and why Aristotle is a chud. ...
Episode 14 - "Wage-Labour and Capital"
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron finally read some Marx on this show, exploring "Wage-Labour and Capital" and finally putting some respect on the name of DOCTOR Karl Ma...
Episode 13 - Blackshirts and Reds
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti and discuss left anticommunism, siege socialism, and Mortal Kombat. All music by Sisyph...
Episode 12 - Reform or Revolution?
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution? and struggle to retain the love of Will's mother. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Episode 11 - "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung"
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read "Quotations" from Chairman Mao and work tirelessly to hold the mass line and not become mere bean curd tigers. All music by Sis...
Episode 10 - "What is to be Done?"
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron explore Lenin's "What is to be Done?" while relishing the need to 'stimulate to whole' of the proletariat. All music by Sisyphus Hap...
Episode 9 - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to Engels to read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, debate how to pronounce 'Fourier', and explore the deepest confines of Wil...
Episode 8 - "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism"
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron return to Lenin to read "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" and discuss capitalism's tendency toward monopoly, the aggressiv...
Episode 7 - The Jakarta Method
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron explore Vincent Bevins' The Jakarta Method while struggling to fight back fatalism and expose cracker capitalism - all in one hour! ...
Episode 6 - The Conquest of Bread
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Peter Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread and ask important questions like, "Is there such a thing as anarchist praxis?" and "Is 'dipsh...
Episode 5 - The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Donny Gluckstein's The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy and discuss its successes, its failures, and how we're slowly beco...
Episode 4 - The Permanent Revolution
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron read Leon Trotsky's The Permanent Revolution and, among other things, discuss the merits of subtitles on TV shows, icepicks, and how t...
Episode 3 - The State and Revolution, Part 2
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two dudes engaging in radical self-education finish reading The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin. In this episode, Will and Aaron explore cha...
Episode 2 - The State and Revolution, Part 1
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will and Aaron explore chapters 1-3 of Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution.
Episode 1 - ”The Principles of Communism”
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron and Will read "The Principles of Communism" by Friedrich Engels and explore what modern day leftists should take from this quintessential Commun...