Random Communism Podcasts

Mike and Mitch sit down to analyze and review media of all forms from a Leftist perspective

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: Anarchism, communism, film review, films, left wing, left wing politic, Leftist podcast, Socialism, tv review

Conservative, Liberal, Centrist: You gotta screw one, marry one, murder one. Introducing Party of One. What’s the real difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Still believe the game’s red vs. blue in Washington? Here’s something new for your ears. Party of One pushes past the political posturing and ramped-up rhetoric of division, to uncover a much scarier reality: It’s business that’s booming, and we’re the ones losing. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Tune in for conversations with real reformers like Lawrence Lessig, Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Alice Slater, Aaron Hamlin and more. Party of One is a six-part series that’ll explode everything you thought you knew about American politics. Coming July 4th with new episodes weekly. Happy Birthday, America. From Maffick Podcasts. Produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock.

Categories: News, Society & Culture

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Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power. When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go to… to cover their tracks. Follow now and join Rachel Maddow for the first two episodes on October 10th.

Categories: History, News

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Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women’s activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women’s emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After the October Revolution, Kollontai became the Commissar of Social Welfare and helped to found the Zhenotdel (the women’s section of the Party). She oversaw a wide variety of legal reforms and public policies to help liberate working women and to create the basis of a new socialist sexual morality. But Russians were not ready for her vision of emancipation, and she was sent away to Norway to serve as the first Russian female ambassador (and only the third female ambassador in the world).In this podcast, Kristen R. Ghodsee – a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books 2018) – selects excerpts from the essays, speeches, and fiction of Alexandra Kollontai and puts them in context. Each episode provides an introduction to the abridged reading with some relevant background on Kollontai and the historical moment in which she was writing.

Categories: Education, Government, History

Tags: Alexandra Kollontai, capitalism, communism, Education, feminism, History, Kristen R. Ghodsee, sexuality, Socialism, socialist feminism, women's rights, World War I