Two leftists exploring the question, ”what is to be done?” as they navigate life in a late-stage capitalist hellscape.
Will and Aaron continue the long journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing AI and mechanization, "luxury" goods and class antagonism, and how Door Dashers are the real heroes.
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Will and Aaron return to Joseph Stalin through his essay "The Foundations of Leninism", discussing socialism in one country, bottom-up recall vs. top-down purges, and why Lenin was a boss husband.
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Will and Aaron read chapters 10 and 11 from Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, Volume One and discuss productivity, the distinction between historical and capitalist modes of cooperation, and why The Golden Bachelor is cool.
Music by Sisyphus Happy.
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 an insult to pigs everywhere.
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Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing surplus value, lunch breaks, and journeying into the vast abstract of Marx's mindscape.
Happy (belated) May Day!
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Will and Aaron read 8 anarchist essays and discuss individualism, anarchist criticisms of Lenin's state model, and anarchism's ultimate person.
The essays explored in this episode are:
-Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - Murray Bookchin -An Anarchist Programme - Errico Malatesta -Are We Good Enough? - Peter Kropotkin -Our Revolution - Carlo Cafiero -The Capitalist System - Mikhail Bakunin -The Soviet System or the Dictatorship...
Will and Aaron continue their journey of reading Dr. Karl Marx's Capital, discussing chapters 3-6 to define exchange circuits, characterize valorization, and inadvertently intimate a repressed foot fetish.
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Also, something a little different: next episode's reading list for our "Anarchist Primer" episode:
Happy Women's History Month!
Will and Aaron read Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and discuss the necessity for an intersectional liberation politic, the need for a new guard of radical revolutionaries, and how fathers can't be babysitters.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.
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Will and Aaron begin the journey of reading Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, discussing correctly defining commodity, use vs. exchange value, and Karl Marx's favorite fetish.
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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 professional revolutionary, and how the US is - and always has been - a fascist project.
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Will and Aaron read Marx (and Engels)'s The Communist Manifesto and discuss defining the movement for ourselves, organization, and how we say 'fucking' a lot - some may say too much.
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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 obsession with genitals.
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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 balls exist.
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Will and Aaron read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and discuss the commodification of emancipation, philosopher kings vs. existential abandonment, and whether Donald Trump shids himself.
All music by Sisyphus Happy.
Will and Aaron read Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and discuss commodity colonization, true and false consciousness, and how plants love Brawndo.
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Will and Aaron read Joseph Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" and discuss "great men" of history, the role of handicraft, and how to make room for metaphysical thinking in a materialist world.
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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 parliamentary elections.
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Will and Aaron read Leon Trotsky's "The Transitional Program" The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International" and discuss coalition between farmers and industry workers, the application of democratic slogans, and why Trotsky is a whiny little no rizz bitch boy.
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Will and Aaron read Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man and discuss happy consciousness, the sublimation of language, and why Aristotle is a chud.
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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 Marx.
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