THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast
789 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsA podcast about music, and politics as told by musicians who sing about politics
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THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 221: The Race Politics of Veteran Affairs w/ Mike Kim and Sports Kick Off Show w/ Emma Vigeland
December 15, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 160 MBThis Saturday we will be talking with Michael Kim about Veterans issues. What are the problems that veterans in the United States face? In what ways do racial dynamics impact upon the experience of veterans? And how might these issues be resolved? Mike Kim Mike Kim is a psychoanalyst, an Iraq War vet, an ex-friar monk, a war trauma care provider and a doctoral researcher at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Find him on his website www.mikekimveteran.com About TIR Thank you, ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 220: The Savagery of The Private Healthcare System f/ Qualia Redux and Dr. Eric Osgood
December 13, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBThe question of healthcare in the United States has been one of the preeminent questions in American politics. While some form of socialized healthcare exists in most countries, the United States is almost unique in the way that it leaves such life and death issues to market forces. In 2010, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, so-called Obamacare, was supposed to solve the healthcare question. However, unfortunately for millions, the profit-driven nature of healthcare provision remained ...
TIR Presents: Masha and the Bears December 2021 World Affairs Round Up
December 12, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBThis week on Masha and the Bears, Maria is joined by Kuba and Pascal to talk about some of the important world news stories that may have flown under your radar. These include China and the United States’ competing democracy conferences, the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia, and recent protests against lockdowns in Guadalupe. Dr. Maria Repnikova is a scholar of global communication, with a comparative focus on China and Russia. Her research examines the processes of political resistance and per...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 219: World Orders and Catastrophic Change w/ Alfred McCoy
December 10, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn his latest book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, historian Alfred McCoy explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of co...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 218: Transcending Racial Divisions w/ Christine Louis Dit Sully
December 08, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 196 MBMartin Luther King, Jr once said, ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’. This is one of the aspirations many had when they fought against racism. They understood that for this aspiration to succeed everyone must participate in the project of completely transforming society to eradicate racial divisions and achieve equal treatment. Today, with the increasing de...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 217: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Death of the Left w/ Chris Cutrone
December 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBIn a recent article, entitled The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Death of the Left, Chris Cutrone wrote: “Today, the ostensible ‘Left’ — the avowed ‘socialists’ — have abandoned the goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, either in words or in fact, the latter by reinterpreting the dictatorship of the proletariat to mean the governing of capitalism by sociologically working-class political parties in a welfare-state or so-called ‘social democracy’.” What is the dictatorship of ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 216: Jason and Pascal
December 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBThere was a mix up and the guest didn't show up. We did and so did the chat. Good times. About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Please also like, subscribe, and fol...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 215: A Crisis in Masculinity: Incels and Anti Natalism
December 01, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 182 MBThere was a brief hysteria in the media in 2018 and 2019, which returns anytime a new American massacre might be attributed to them, about incels. An incel – short for involuntary celibate - is not simply someone who would like to have sex but isn’t. There are many millions of those in America. Rather it refers to an individual who is not having sex, thinks this is very important, and formed an identity around this. This week we will discuss the development of inceldom and how this movement ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 214: The Life of Hubert Harrison w/ Jeffrey B Perry
November 29, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBOften time the names of Black historical figures are relegated to the same usual suspects: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, W.E.B Dubois, or Marcus Garvey. This myopic narrative of Black history leaves out figures who often had radical political agendas that challenged institutions traditional figures did not pick up on until later in their lives. One of those neglected figures is Hubert Harrison, who was deemed, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism." On this episode we will ask Jeffry Perry, ...
TIR PRESENTS The Mau Mau Hour w/ Pascal Robert: Class War
November 28, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBGreat radical thinkers from Kwame Nkrumah to Amilcar Cabral and Even Frantz Fanon warned that a "neo-colonial bourgeoisie" would arise in the formerly colonized world and fulfil a management role in the exploitation of capitalist production throughout the Black and Brown world. This warning has come to fruition. Even in the United States, the Black Political Class acts as protectors of their own venal interests while acting as racial ventriloquists for the Black poor and working class for fa...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 213: Durruti: Shadow of the People w/ Brenton Lengel
November 26, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBThe Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s was, in many ways, a dry run for the barbarities of the Second World War. The conflict pitted the forces of the Spanish Republic and their allies on the radical left against the Nationalists and their fascist backers. One of the most significant figures on the left at the time was Buenaventura Durruti, a veteran revolutionary and leading libertarian socialist. As clashes between the Nationalists and Republicans heated up, Durruti led anarchists against...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 212: The Memeing of Mark Fisher w/ Mark Watson
November 24, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 151 MBThe Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illness and psychedelia into a proposed counterculture. Spring 2020 to 2021 was the year that did not take place. We witnessed a depression, not economically speaking, but in the psychological sense: A clinical depression of and by society itself. This depression was brought about not just by Covid isolation, but by the digital economy, fueled by social media and the meme. In the aftermath, this book...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 211: The Intellectual Origins of the Haitian Revolution w/ Chelsea Stieber
November 22, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThe Haitian Revolution was one of the most important forces in changing the trajectory of the West in the 19th Century. The former slaves defeated three of the mightiest European powers to achieve their freedom and liberation. The question that is rarely asked is, what was the philosophical foundation of their governing structure after independence? Was Haiti trying to be an example of "Black Atlantic Humanism" in the form of Western Enlightenment Societies? Or was Haiti setting a different ...
TIR PRESENTS Gaming Materialists Don‘t Split the Party: The Paizo Union
November 21, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis week on Gaming Materialists we talk to the United Paizo Workers. In October, Paizo Publishing, the creators of the hugely popular Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplay systems, voluntarily recognized the formation of a union amongst its workers. However, while many have praised Paizo’s decision not to resist unionization, this comes after claims of “inconsistent hiring practices, pay inequity across the company, allegations of verbal abuse from executives and management, and allegations of...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 210: What Happened to Air America w/ Sam Seder
November 19, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThe rise of conservative talk radio, following the repeal of the Federal Communication Commission’s Fairness Doctrine in 1987, has had a profound impact on the political landscape of the United States. Taking advantage of the newly liberalized regulatory order, a wave of reactionary hosts, most notably Rush Limbaugh, took to the air to propagate their far-right political message. Indeed, they formed the vanguard of opposition to the Democratic Party administration of Bill Clinton. And, follo...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 209: The End of the End of History w/ Alex Hochuli of Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast
November 17, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 182 MBIn 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved in chaos ending the twentieth century’s first self-proclaimed worker’s state. For many in the West, the fact that the USSR collapsed under its own internal contradictions was evidence of the superiority of the liberal capitalist system over any potential rivals. In the heady years that followed, Francis Fukuyama declared that the fall of communism signaled “the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the univer...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 208: Minneapolis Post George Floyd and Abolish the Police w/ Eamon Whalen
November 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBThe summer of 2020 was an explosive moment in America. Not since the uprisings of the late 60’s had we seen the country, en masse , light up in a wave of fiery protest. With a string of high profile vigilante and police killings, the tipping point for people to take to the streets and demand justice was the police murder caught on camera of George Floyd in Minneapolis. As bystanders stood by shouting for law enforcement officers to release their deadly hold, kneeling on the neck of Floyd, ...
TIR PRESENTS Masha and the Bears Ep. 3: World Affairs Round Up
November 14, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBThis week on Masha and the Bears, Maria is joined by Kuba and Pascal to talk about some of the important world news stories that may have flown under your radar. Dr. Maria Repnikova is a scholar of global communication, with a comparative focus on China and Russia. Her research examines the processes of political resistance and persuasion in illiberal political contexts, drawing on ethnographic research approaches and extensive time in the field. Maria holds a doctorate from the University ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 207: Liberalism vs Socialism Mortal Enemies or Embittered Kin w/ Professor Matt McManus
November 12, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBUntil recently, to most Americans, the spectrum of legitimate political discourse revolved around two ideological poles: liberalism and conservatism. Indeed, over the course of the fifty-year counterrevolution that began with the destruction of the radicalism of 68, liberal emerged as a slur on the political right. Even the Democratic Party - the institutional manifestation of the left flank of capital – seemed to shy away from the term ‘liberal’ as the notion that the United States was fund...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 206: Is America in Decline w/ American Prestige Podcast
November 10, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 149 MBWith imperial misadventures overseas and political gridlock at home, the shine certainly seems to have come off the American experiment. While the reality of the United States was never really as rosy as the image projected, over the course of the last two decades, there is a growing sense that America is in decline. Is this perception accurate? If so, in what ways is America in decline? And what will it mean for the rest of the world? American Prestige "American Prestige" is a podcast a...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 205: The Whole World is the Reichstag w/ Adolph Reed, Jr.
November 08, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBIn an article published in August 2021, Professor Adolph Reed warned that: “It’s time to be blunt. The right-wing political alliance anchored by the Republican party and Trumpism coheres around a single concrete objective—taking absolute power in the U.S. as soon and as definitively as possible. And they’re more than ready, even seemingly want, to destroy the social fabric of the country to do so.” In the article, entitled “The Whole Country is the Reichstag”, Reed drew parallels between the...
TIR PRESENTS Movie Night Extravaganza: Mickey and Nicky w/ Matthew Film Guy and Conan Neutron
November 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBShot: A 1976 film about male friendship, masculinity, and the ways that we hurt and betray each other. Chaser: Mikey and Nicky are low-level wiseguys on a frenzied road trip. Conan Neutron and Majority Report film contributor Matthew “Film Guy” Weiss will join Forrest Miller to discuss Elaine May’s 1976 crime drama. Elaine May wrote this film over the course of several years and production became intense and went far over-budget leading to her loss of final cut. Elaine May has said th...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 204: Ben Burgis on the Rightward Shift of Christopher Hitchens
November 05, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBChristopher Hitchens was once the darling of the political left. After dalliances with Trotskyism at Oxford University, he emerged as a titan of left-wing journalism both in Great Britain and, later, in the United States. During the 1980s, he deployed his acerbic wit to critique the American empire to great effect. He also played the role of an iconoclast, writing exposés on public figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to Mother Theresa. However, in the final years of his life, his politics s...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 203: Labor Unrest w/ Shaun KB from the Antifada Podcast
November 03, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 164 MBThe COVID crisis has turned many things in America upside down. One important shift has been the growing power of labor. After years of defeat and repression, market conditions have placed workers in the strongest position they have been in decades. This has been manifesting in rising wages, but also as a new wave of militancy. What does this wave of strike action mean for the future of the workers’ movement in the United States? Is it sustainable? And what does it mean for the left? Sean...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 202: Cyberpunk or Cyber Dystopia w/ R U Sirius and Doug Lain
November 01, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBCyberpunk and Cyberdystopia w/ RU Siris and Doug Lain There was once a time where information and communications technology were seen as having an emancipatory potential. To some in the 1980s and 1990s, we were on the verge of a techno-utopia. However, in recent years, this dream has turned to dust with the rise of big tech capitalism, algorithmic data collection, mass surveillance, and social media disinformation. What happen to the dream of a better tomorrow? Do we live in a cyber dystopi...
TIR Presents The Mau Mau Hour w/ Pascal Robert Ep. 4: Redemption
October 31, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBFrom early points of Black thought in the West there has been a persistent trend rooted in the need for racial vindication and the politics of redemption. These notions are rooted in the idea that Black people must vindicate themselves collectively as a race to their oppressors in order to be redeemed. These ideas can be seen even in the intellectual work of early Haitian founding fathers as well as Black thinkers from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey. How sound has it been to assume the ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep.201: The War for Red America w/ The Hoot And Holler Podcast
October 29, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBDonald Trump has been, at least temporarily, defeated. Yet, as the events of January 6th have demonstrated, his followers are far from being broken. Indeed, many still cling on to the belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by a cabal of Democratic operatives and their Republican collaborators. In response to their failures on a national level, Trump Republicans, including former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, are waging a war on those they deem to have sold out their leader. Thi...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 200: Interrogating the Legacy of Frantz Fanon w/ Peter Hudis
October 27, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 153 MBBorn in the French West Indies, Frantz Fanon is one of the most significant thinkers to emerge out of the anti-colonial struggles of the second half of the twentieth century. Trained as a psychiatrist, Fanon became known as an ardent critic of European colonialism and participated in the Algerian struggle for national liberation. However, his work also took a critical stance towards post-colonial elites and their stewardship of the newly independent nations of Asia and Africa. In this episod...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 199: Neocolonialism in the 21st Century w/ Owen Schalk
October 25, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBThe brutality and invasiveness of the capitalist imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was readily evident. With utter ruthlessness the imperial powers of the era smashed opened markets with gunboats and plundered the wealth of Asia and Africa through conquest and occupation. The process of decolonialization in the 1960s and 1970s raised hopes that a new era of peace and prosperity was about to dawn in those parts of the world that had been ravaged by imperialist exploitation...
TIR Presents Gaming Materialists: Discourse from Discourse Miniatures (ep. 2)
October 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBThis month on Gaming Materialists we are joined by Discourse from Discourse Miniatures to discuss the world’s biggest TableTop Miniature Company, Games Workshop. In recent years, TableTop miniature wargames have exploded in popularity, a tendency that was only accelerated by the COVID crisis. However, Games Workshop has also come under heavy criticism from within the gaming community for its exploitative business practices. What kinds of exploitive tactics does Games Workshop use? How does t...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 198: Gentrification and Housing in the COVID Economy w/ Randy Shaw
October 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBBefore the economic shock of the COVID pandemic, homelessness and affordable housing was becoming a major issue in many blue cities and states across the country. With the eviction moratorium lifted, what protections do poor and working-class people have to stave off homelessness in gentrifying cities? A recent U.S Census Bureau HouseHold Pulse survey is estimating we could have 4.3 million Americans evicted and foreclosed on. Will the Biden ``Build Back Better” infrastructure bill be enoug...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 197: Unlearning Marx w/ Steve Paxton and the Saturday Crüe
October 20, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 170 MBFor many on the political right, the collapse of the Soviet Union has been posited as evidence that Marx was ‘wrong’ and that Marxism ought to be consigned to the “dustbin of history”. To many in the capitalist west, this argumentation makes intuitive sense, given the intimate association between the Soviet experiment and Marxism. However, Steve Paxton has a different argument. In his new book, Unlearning Marx, he makes the counter-intuitive case that the history of Russia and the USSR is, i...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 196: Birth Control in Contemporary China and the History of the One Child Policy /w Sara Mellors Rodriguez
October 18, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBIn 1982 China’s population crossed the one-billion-mark, only three years after the promulgation of its famous, or in some quarters infamous, “One Child Policy”, a policy that was only abolished in 2015. That China’s ruling communist party might be concerned with questions of overpopulation in the world’s most populous country seems to make intuitive sense. However, such a perspective is perhaps over simplistic as it obscures the complex history of birth control in modern China. For instanc...
TIR Presents Masha and the Bears: The New Cold War With China
October 17, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBChina--the world’s second largest economy--that is now reshaping the global order through projects like the Belt and Road Initiative--is a subject of major scrutiny and controversy in the West. In particular, the political narrative in the US, in Europe, and across liberal democracies tends to focus on China as a competitor and even an enemy. In today’s show, we take on the prevalent critiques of China and tackle the dangers of deepening anti-China sentiment for resolving critical issues li...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 195: ChappelleGATE w/ Ben Burgis and Comedian Chris Riggins
October 15, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 87 MBIn his recent Netflix special, "The Closer," Dave Chappelle opened a firestorm of controversy due to his attacks on cancel culture and the identity politics of modern America. Does Chappelle's comedy special cross the boundaries of acceptable discourse? Should such boundaries even exist? Has the political culture been poisoned with an intolerance that stifles creative freedom, or are various groups trying to protect themselves from the harms of an intolerant nation? Watch Ben Burgis' "Give...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 194: The Fire Never Dies w/ Frederike Geerdink and the Saturday Crüe
October 13, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 193 MBThe war between the Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party has been raging since 1984 with no end in sight. Most recently, the conflict has spilled over into the mountainous regions of Iraqi Kurdistan where Kurdish guerrillas have maintained bases of operations for decades. Yet, while the administration in Ankara is seeking to obtain a final military victory over Kurdish insurgents, Turkey’s Kurdish question remains far from resolved. Who are the Kurdistan Workers’ Party? Wh...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 193: The Bossless World of Participatory Economics w/ Michael Albert
October 11, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBPerhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is that, while capitalism is in perpetual crisis, there seems to be no alternative. Once upon a time, Soviet style central planning at least attempted to present an alternative paradigm. However, with the USSR gone and China embracing its own brand of state-led capitalist development, the prospects of a post-capitalist mode of economic organization appear more distant than ever. As discontent grows, both liberals and conservatives scram...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 194: The Bossless World of Participatory Economics w/ Michael Albert
October 11, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBPerhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is that, while capitalism is in perpetual crisis, there seems to be no alternative. Once upon a time, Soviet style central planning at least attempted to present an alternative paradigm. However, with the USSR gone and China embracing its own brand of state-led capitalist development, the prospects of a post-capitalist mode of economic organization appear more distant than ever. As discontent grows, both liberals and conservatives scram...
TIR PRESENTS: Movie Night Extravaganza Talks Robert Altman‘s The Player
October 10, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBThe Player is a 1992 genre-bending heavily improvised thriller/comedy/romance directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Robbins as a studio executive who murders a screenwriter and starts romancing his girlfriend. Movie Night Extravaganza is a leftist film podcast that livestreams every Tuesday at 8 PM EST. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/movienightextravaganza Patreon: Patreon.com/MovieNightExtra Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and ev...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 192: Crisis in Black Politics III Who Controls the Culture Industry w/ Touré Reed and Bertrand Cooper
October 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBBlack popular culture has been viewed by some as the creative expression of Black American identity. What does it mean when those who create that popular culture don't belong to the class of Black folks they seem to portray while potentially fulfilling the worst trappings of underclass ideology regarding the Black poor?" Touré F. Reed: Dr. Reed earned his BA in American Studies from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), and his PhD in History from Columbia University (New York, NY). He is a fo...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 191: Education and Empire in Hawaii w/ Dr. Michelle Morgan
October 06, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 174 MBIn 1893, an American backed coup d’état overthrew the royal government of Hawai'i, setting the stage for the archipelago’s annexation by the United States five years later. On 7th July 1898, President McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing the islands and creating a new US territory in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This example of naked imperial aggression set the stage for the economic and political transformation of Hawai’i. The American naval presence was greatly expanded as...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 190: Black America as the Reserve Army of Labor: Marxist Solutions w/ Professor Richard Wolff
October 04, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBFrom the end of the plantation slave economy in America, large numbers of Black workers have existed in economic precarity. What does it mean to have Black workers disproportionately relegated to the reserve army of labor in a capitalist society? What are Marxist remedies to this problem? About Richard Wolff: Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massac...
TIR podcast Presents: The Mau Mau Hour w/ Pascal Robert: Black Civil Rights Leaders After the March on Washington
October 03, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBWhat were the motivations of Civil Rights leaders after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom? Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and fol...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 189: Examining the Green New Deal w/ Zack Exley
October 01, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBOver the last two decades, the concept of enacting a “Green New Deal” in the United States has increasingly gained popularity. In the political arena, the concept of a massive jobs program designed to drive the “Greening” of the American economy was first pushed for by the Green Party. More recently, however, it has become a central theme advocated for by progressives within the Democratic Party. For many on the left, the Green New Deal is envisaged as a bold program designed not only to t...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep 188: The Russian Revolution and the National Question w/ Dr. Harun Yilmaz and the Saturday Crüe
September 29, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 188 MBIn 1917 the Bolshevik Party seized power in a revolution that would have profound implications not only in Russia but the entire world. The new socialist government faced a host of problems - an ongoing war, a largely agrarian economy, and prevailing disorder. However, one of the most significant issues was the national-question. Far from being a consolidated nation-state, Tsarist Russia was a sprawling multinational empire populated by a diverse set of ethno-religious communities with diffe...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 188: Strategies To Achieve Socialized Healthcare w/ Dr. Eric Osgood
September 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBNothing has shined a light on the crisis in institutions like the arrival of COVID on the American shores in late 2019. Between administrative blunders and an overwhelmed hospital system, the United States private healthcare system was no match for the virus. When the then presidential hopeful, Joe Biden was on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary, he ran on adding a public option to the already existing ACA (Obamacare). Can COVID finally be the gateway to socialized medicine in ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 187: Strategies To Achieve Socialized Healthcare w/ Dr. Eric Osgood
September 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBNothing has shined a light on the crisis in institutions like the arrival of COVID on the American shores in late 2019. Between administrative blunders and an overwhelmed hospital system, the United States private healthcare system was no match for the virus. When the then presidential hopeful, Joe Biden was on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary, he ran on adding a public option to the already existing ACA (Obamacare). Can COVID finally be the gateway to socialized medicine in ...
TIR podcast Presents: Gaming Materials w/ Dan Larson of Toy Galaxy
September 26, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBWelcome to Game Materials (brought to you by TIR and Varn Vlog), a monthly show in which Djene Bajalan, C Derek Varn, and friends discuss games and gaming culture. For this first episode, we take on the big beast of TTRPGs: Dungeons and Dragons. We discuss its origins, its influences, and how it has been shaped by changing market conditions with Dan Larson of Toy Galaxy. You can watch Dan on Toy Galaxy Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ToyGalaxyTV Watch Varn be serious on Varn Vlog: http...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 186: Interrogating the Legacy of Eugene Debs w/C. Derrick Varn and Dr. Kuba
September 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 97.7 MBHeralded as one of the greatest socialist leaders of the 20th Century, Eugene Debs is often remembered as a champion of labor rights and the working class. However, many voices have questioned Debs' dedication to the struggle of Black workers. In this episode we will discuss the legacy of Eugene Debs. Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patro...
THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 185: Horror Movies and the Culture Industry w/ Catherine Liu and the Saturday Crüe
September 22, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBFrom White Zombie in 1932 to Night of the Living Dead in 1967 the history of the idea of the Zombie (they were called "ghouls" in the original 'Night of the Living Dead') has its roots in pre-revolution Haiti. Many of these more modern movies use the imagery of the walking undead to represent more than just scary brain eating monsters. From being a proxy for capitalisms creation of the mindless consumer, to the reality of climate change these movies aren't just jump scares and gore. We'll ta...