The Workers' Opposition

Riot Strike Riot — Reading Joshua Clover

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1833357/fan_mail/new] In this episode, recorded in the fall, we discuss the late Joshua Clover's book 'Riot. Strike. Riot. : The New Era of Uprisings.'

The Specter of "Woke"

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1833357/fan_mail/new] Is left woke? Has woke left? Susan Neiman's "Left Is Not Woke" provokes us to consider these questions and more.

The Workers' Opposition

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1833357/fan_mail/new] We discuss the positions and influence of the Workers' Opposition in the Soviet Union.

The Luigi Mangione Question

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1833357/fan_mail/new] The high-profile assassination committed by Luigi Mangione, the enraptured public response, and his impending trial all demand a coherent political response from Marxists. Paired with discussion of the famed trial of Vera Zasulich in 1878, we take up the contemporary left response to Mangioni's actions and discuss how Marxists should understand and respond to the challenges of individual 'terrorism.'

'Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism' by E.P. Thompson

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1833357/fan_mail/new] The three of us reunite to discuss E.P. Thompson's 1967 essay on the "new time-sense" that came into being with the rise and development of industrial capitalism.