Thank you so much for your great conversation guys, I really appreciate the opportunity to listen to such a fine and chilled dialogue between you two. I'm definitely planning to hear and read more of your other online resources, Thank you again 🪬🚜

listening to this right after helping my landlord unload electrical wiring equipment for his new house is surreal

Fantastic presentation.

Most communist and social democratic parties in Eastern Europe to this day still despise homosexuals. Also you’re totally glossing over the extent of the deportations of the various ethnic groups. Lastly I find people still obsessing with 20th century political movements and trying to apply it to a vastly changed world a waste of time. The decline of trade unions, the automation and atomization of society leaves any future mass communist movement increasingly irreverent. I see the capitalist class quite easily just instituting Universal Basic Income to buy people off, just like how they bought the working class off with welfare measures in the past.

This was great, thanks to both of you! It's so sad that such an insightful discussion has so few views, especially given that the theme is so pressing.

Very useful, thanks.

This episode is amazing and the resources are so helpful! Thank you

What a joke. What an embarrassment. The idiots talk abt Alexandr Zinoviev but confuse him with Grigory Zinoviev. Alexandr, decades younger than Grigory, was not an Old Bolshevik, was never aligned with Kamenev n Trot nor with Stalin. These idiots use details from the life of Grigory and attribute them to Alexander to make their case. Take this video down. If RLR wants to be taken seriously it needs to apologize and take this video down. The guests have discredited themselves beyond rehabilitation, RLR needs to disassociate from these people. Breht sat by and thumbsucked while his guests spewed absurd lies, he needs to rehabilitate himself, if possible, and apologize profusely and take this deceptive vid down

Curious as to what socialist organizations people are in and why? Or if you're not organized yet, what's keeping you from doing so? I'm with the PSL. Their party program is very on point and unapologetically communist.

It's criminal how little views Rev Left Radio gets on KZbin. Incredibly well researched episodes and knowledgeable guests. I hope the Podcast gets more views because everyone could benefit from this analysis 🙏 Keep up the good work 🍉 🇵🇸

41:00 Stalin said that consciousness lags behind material conditions

I was working as a young protege on some mathematical research producing real progress towards containing fusion at a time Larouche was denigrating nuclear. In light of the role energy plays in world politics, I always thought he was KGB. He had an agenda & he wasn’t being truthful. Just my opinion but I believe history bears me out. Our world today would be far better off if Larouche hadn’t swayed public opinion down a dead end trail. But I see no evidence to the contrary.

❤❤❤ The German Revolution was my first step. The failure we experienced had ripples we're still dealing with. kzbin.info/aero/PL7y0zyKXzhwzrZ0raG4HpT8ZdXx9USoW3&si=Xu9Zc_39VzNvoJBQ kzbin.info/aero/PLFdL4svwk75eA-5sDo0t7OXUd69Wtb5vc&si=Uaf1Ap3itlNNiRRt Both playlists are amazing

Fantastic presentation

Fantastic explanation

Fantastic presentation

Where can I find McGowan explaining in detail the origins of lack/desire? I have a basic understanding but need to hear it again and again because Lacan’s theories hinge on this “split subject” whose unconscious desires are driven by the need to keep desiring (to paraphrase it poorly). WHY do human subjects do this?

we will win, comrades.

The usual mistakes. saveourcola3.blogspot.com/2024/12/fake-left-history-and-plea-for-end-to-it.html

One thing I got to say is that I can see so many anglophone podcasts and videos talk about the German revolution, but for some people there is a bit of a callous distancing that arises from the terminology used (for some it's just cultural chauvinism) which prevents them from thinking or connecting the German revolution with anything tangible in the anglophone world. The "Kaiser" is the emperor, the "Reich" is a German word for the empire or realm and "Freikorps" is the German word for army volunteer regiments. There's people, usually Liberals, who will refuse to connect the dots if they are given the chance to think of a "Kaiser" as this super different thing from a British queen, or if they can disconnect German "Freikorps" from people who volunteer for their own army. It's linguistic mysticism for these people which is why I myself would refuse to ever use the words Kaiser, Reich or Freikorps when talking to somebody else in English.

Why is this comment section so full of reactionaries lol Y’all know left wing is a relative term?

Well done, as always. Love the explanation on the military and conscription

Fantastic episode, I love Dostoyevsky.

Fantastic explanation.

With KZbin's algorithms structured toward conservatism it's gonna be tough.

LOL Marxist astrology?

Fantastic explanation.

Mutual appreciation. Thank you .✌💪

Great exchange here. Looking forward for more inspiring content!

I can not overstate how valuable this book is. Torkil basically lays out his historical materialist methodology and proceeds to apply it to the history of struggle for socialism, connecting the disparate threads of praxis and cutting through idealist mystifications of this long, international process of building an actually existing socialism amidst the global capitalist system. My nitpicks with minor conclusions here and there feel irrelevant. His hypothesis for the developing shape of the coming decades is urgent, salient, and substantive - as are his prescriptions. The PDF is free. F*ing read it! Thanks, Breht (and Dave!)

It seems like the 70's was the end of social democracy and reformism. Mitterand's rightward turn just a few years into his first term, Palme's assassination, just a continuation of what began in the decade prior with the rightward shift of Labour (domestically, they'd always been imperialist since Attlee) under Wilson and Callaghan and the coup against Gough Whitlam in the imperial core and 9/11/1973 and Operation Condor and the betrayal of the revolutionary populist/left-wing nationalist military government of Velasco Alvaraldo (a program of amnesty for those involved in the attempted revolution in the early 60's and a major ambitious platform for land reform and nationalization program that was supported by the vast majority of different movements within the Peruvian left, strong relationships with Cuba and Allende's Popular Unity government and the only leader in South America to comdemn Pinochet, pretty interesting how the 1968-75 military government was one of the only times that the army was on the side of the people, just before Operation Condor was finished consolidating) in Peru by counterrevolutionary elements within by 1975, it seems like it was the real breaking point rather than the 80's

As a Syrian, This episode of rev left radio is packed with BS, Lies and Propaganda! My favorite was that Syria had a robust economy 😂 Dude, are you talking about a different Syria? Also not a word about the grieve war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar Al-Assad and his father! In 1982 Hafez Al-Assad bombarded the city of Hama and wiped around 50.000 people from the face of the earth because there was an uprising against his regime, not to mention the thousands of political prisoners who tortured to death in Tudmor prison and other secret dungeons! His son Bashar was even more brutal! Since 2011 he killed around 2 million people by utilizing the Army against civilians! Flattening whole cities and neighborhoods.. Around 10 million people were displaced.. Bashar Al Assad used every single weapon he had against Syrians including Chemical weapons on multiple occasions! I don't understand how leftists could defend such a brutal regime especially that they present themselves as fighters for social justice..

Fantastic explanation

Stalin was a great man, and he's been tarnished like Lenin predicted capitalists would tarnish revolutionaries.

Fantastic presentation

Fantastic presentation

Musk and besos could buy everyone a house ....

breht was so charitable, hes got the patience of a brick wall to seemingly talk to a brick wall who keeps saying "authoritarian", sheesh

None of these fires are in urban areas or “the city.”These are all in areas along the hills and foothills. Areas covered with brush. What’s weird is that fire season is usually in the summertime. Because of the extreme winds, these fires spread quickly compared to usual. And they are affecting the rich areas.

I love dialetical materialism, but in my practise of Tai Chi, the teacher is allways talking about the separation of body and soul, how your traumas come from a lot of generations before you, how the soul is so pure, even of a return to an idilic past with traditional medicine that was taken from us a long time ago. Just so much idealism and conspiracy mentality. And that really disturbs me. Really unbalances me.

I've always prefered "climate chaos" to "climate change" as a term. "Change" can be argued to be a good thing, particularly in colder climates that also responded a bit too favorably to "global warming." "Climate chaos" also addresses increased instances of natural disasters and extreme weather patterns like hurricanes and droughts. It also centers the idea that our models for predicting natural disasters are insufficient because reality is even worse than our worst-case predictions.

Solid info, ty!

Unfortunately, I’ve seen some self professed Marxists among the leftists doing the whole, “lol cook the rich”, acting like this isn’t devastating to everyday people. I wouldn’t want to exaggerate that, and I’m not scouring the webs to see who’s saying what, but it exists. I think mostly baby Marxists and/or baby leftists, probably, but seeing that sh!t from people who should know better is frustrating.

Fantastic explanation

I think it’s worth highlighting over and over again, it’s not right vs. left. It’s TOP vs. BOTTOM.

We have a choice. We can either give the land back to the people we stole it from and adopt a socialist mode of production or we can choose extinction. There is no middle ground.

Great episode! It's crisis events like this that radicalize people, we can't let the political current of this moment pass us by. Here is your call to action to join an org! PSL's campaign 2024 slogan was "End capitalism before it ends us." This is exactly what we were talking about.

Without ignoring the tragic contours of these wildfires, it is absolutely important for all of us, especially those on the left, to acknowledge the need to scale back Los Angeles as currently constituted. The city is the utter embodiment of frivolity and hubris of US empire and is implicitly unsustainable. People are talking about rebuilding and this is the absolute wrong and backwards idea. If dollars are to be spent in response to this crises, then they need to be spent relocating residents to more sustainable and less risky areas. I acknowledge that people have a nostalgic connection to Los Angeles through generational ties, but that is not a sufficient rationale to expose future generations to these severe hazards. I say this having spent a number of years living in LA-I get it, it’s a largely lovely place to reside; however, the idea that we should continue to subsidize this contrived cosmopolis simply because the residents get to skip out on regular precipitation and cold weather is utterly absurd. Do people think insurers are just going to turn around and start writing fire policies in these areas again? This event having occurred makes the likelihood of it happening again GREATER, not less. The left in particular needs to lead this conversation about unwinding Los Angeles-otherwise, all the talk about sustainability and environmental conscientiousness means nothing.

Capitalism is 99%+- the cause and 99% +- psychopathy. You tube is EVIL!!!

Red menace was mentioned. Will the recent red menace podcast be added to this channel? ✌💞💪🖖🤙🌱 Fellow earthlings