Teach Me Communism

This week we're reading one of Vladimir Lenin's premier texts, The State and Revolution. We talk about smashing, organizing, withering, oh my! Sound note: there were some loud dogs in the background, ...

8 Apr 20211h 51min

While a real-life megacorporation tries to crush its workers' attempts to unionize, we watch a sci-fi version of our world that's sadly not too far off the mark: the 2018 film Sorry to Bother You, dir...

1 Apr 20211h 53min

From anarcho-communism to transhumanism, we go through the many types of anarchism out there, giving brief definitions, explanations, and of course, some opinions. And for our bonus segment, we talk a...

25 Mar 20211h 28min

In today's episode, we continue our biography of Mao Zedong, starting from the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China and ending with, surprisingly, Mao's death. We'll discuss things like land...

18 Mar 20211h 46min

Another biography, and this time it's a long one! In part 1 we cover Mao's early life, his beginnings as a communist leader, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War, and up to the declarat...

11 Mar 20211h 30min

Over the months of doing this show we’ve gotten lots of questions in the vein of “how do I spread the good news of communism”?So in this episode we talk about tips, strategies, and comebacks for conve...

4 Mar 20211h 36min

It's movie night again! We're watching the new film about the Black Panthers, Judas and the Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King. We talk about how the film covers the Panthers, how to spot a bad lia...

25 Feb 20211h 45min

We're starting a new series on the revolutionary movement in Ireland. Part 1 covers the initial imperial subjugation of Ireland, the Easter Rising, and all the way through to the Election of 1918. In ...

18 Feb 20211h 47min