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If you know anything about the way the world works—and even more so if you're someone who's an expert in economics, political economy, etc.—then you'll know that the narratives and rhetoric coming out...

11 Feb 20251h 29min

This is a free preview of the episode "(Chinese) Socialism vs (U.S.) Capitalism." You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstreampodcast As a Pa...

4 Feb 202524min

Class is the thread that ties different systems of oppression together—whether it's patriarchy, national oppression, racist oppression, reproductive injustice, anti-trans oppression. Although these fo...

28 Jan 20251h 41min

One thing that has become quite clear in recent decades is that the best form of disaster preparedness is …community. Being plugged into an organized community can make all the difference when disaste...

21 Jan 20251h 13min

Technofeudalism—you might already have some sense of what the term means, even if you haven't sat down and unpacked it fully. A mode of production with one hand in the past and another the future—an u...

14 Jan 20251h 1min

This is a free preview of the episode "World on Fire." You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstreampodcast As a Patreon subscriber you'll get...

11 Jan 202516min

This is a free preview of the episode "Four Ways to Be Anticapitalist." You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstreampodcast As a Patreon subs...

7 Jan 202539min

Capitalism, imperialism, monopoly—far from being separate concepts that just happen to take shape parallel to one another or to overlap from time to time, these terms all really refer to the exact sam...

31 Dec 20242h 4min