Proles of the Round Table: Recent Episodes
Proles of the Round Table
A podcast that focuses on history from a communist perspective in a round-table discussion over booze.
Jeremy, Justin, and Tony examine Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez's June 17, 2026 speech, "Reality Demands Urgent and Necessary Changes," delivered at an extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Facing a severe economic crisis forced on it by the United States sanctions regime, Cuba's leadership has announced a new wave of economic transformations aimed at stabilizing the economy, increasing production, attracting investment, and restructuring parts of the socialist model.
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Tony, Jeremy, and Justin break down The Wall Street Journal's recent coverage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, centering on the headline-grabbing article, "The World's Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is... North Korea."
Has Western capitalist media finally acknowledged that communism works? Or is there more to the story than the headline suggests?
Join the hosts as they unpack the article's claims, examine the broader narrative around North Korea's socialist construction, and explore what this surprising piece reveals about capitalist media and it's limits.
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How to Visit North Korea w/ Zoe Stephens (AES Episode) Explaining North Korea (DPRK) w/ Ben Weston (AES Episode)
A Walk Through Pyongyang in 2026
Traffic in Pyongyang 2026
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Half the Sky is a brand new podcast from ProlesPod host, Rae! It is an attempt to provide a perspective often lacking from the podcast space: that of women (and women-adjacent folks). If and when those voices are present, they are quite often offset by their dude counterparts. And so (at least on the mic) HTS is a bro-free zone.
Rae's cohosts on this very special audio journey are Jen (Big Nasty) of How the Red Was Won, Lenore from Workers Lit, Luna Oi!, and Revolutionary Th0t.
Episode one of Half The Sky is partly a discussion of why none of our hosts has children, but additionally, would anything change their minds? There are further conversations about the differences between the extremely hostile world that western kids are subjected to, vs the attitude toward mothers and children in Vietnam. And Luna advocates for humans to return to egg-laying like our distant ancestors.
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Rae and Justin (and Martín!) are joined by Camarada Michi and Danny El Comunista to have a deep discussion of the ways in which South American socialist revolutions have formed and changed. Why have there been almost no successful armed revolutions? Why did Allende fail? What is happening in the region today?
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Justin and Rae sit down with Jean Paul Fartre (JPF) for a wide-ranging conversation on justice work, prison abolition, wrongful convictions, and the role of love in revolutionary politics. Along the way, they discuss JPF's experiences as a male escort, the limits of liberal approaches to prison abolition, and what meaningful solidarity can look like in practice.
Read JPF's writing at https://jeanpaulfartre.substack.com/
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Rae and Jeremy are joined by Ashwin Shantha of the Journal of International Solidarity to discuss the ways in which (and the reasons why) China has developed an indigenous approach to green technology. We talk NEVs and solar panels through the lens of sovereignty, socialism, and anti-imperialism. We get into the relationship among the Imperialist West, China, and the rest of the Global South. Resources Exploring China's Green Development Path
China's Ecological Miracle w/ Kyle Ferrana
Reviving Erhai Lake
Closer to China: Five Major Development Concepts III - Green Development
China's Ecological Civilization Sets China on a Greener Course
Journal of International Solidarity Podcast (YouTube)
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Max and Matthew from IF DDR (International Research Centre DDR) join Jeremy and Justin for a wide-ranging discussion on the realities of socialist democracy in East Germany. The conversation explores the lived experiences of German peasants during a period of major social transformation, alongside a closer look at the GDR's often-overlooked anti-imperialist legacy.
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THE LAND TO THOSE WHO WORK IT
"SOCIALISM IS THE BEST PROPHYLAXIS"
RISEN FROM THE RUINS
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On this very special episode of ProlesPod, Rae gets to meet their hero, Matthew Remski, host of the podcasts Conspirituality and Anti-Fascist Dad. He is also the author of the new book Anti-Fascist Dad. Today, we discuss grifters and grifts in the wellness community, cults, the intersection of these things with fascism, as well as fatherhood itself.
You can find all of Matthew's various links to his socials and projects here.
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Rae and Tony sit down with Holly High—frequent guest on Tony's other podcast, Actually Existing Socialism—to discuss the present-day realities of Laos' socialist people's democracy. Holly is an anthropologist whose fieldwork in Laos uses ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to explore everyday human experience.
Check out Holly's Substack, Revolutions in Reproduction, and subscribe for a chance to win a free copy of one of her books.
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Where Are the Girls?!
In honor of International Working Women's Day, Rae is joined by several girls (and girls adjacent) to ask and answer a question that weighs heavily on left spaces: Where are the girls?!
Why are so many communist spaces male dominated, what are the impediments to getting women and people of other genders to join, and once they've joined, are there specific considerations that make it difficult for them to stay?
Joining Rae are Pame Ledesma of Y Las Palabras and correspondent of Means Morning News, Lenore and Jen Big Nasty of Workers' Lit and How the Red Was Won, Revolutionary Th0t, and Princess Marx.
And don't forget to head over to Patreon.com/ProlesPod for the bonus episode Slumber Party Edition.
Back in the summer of 2024, back in the BSE (Before Stalin Eras) period of the Proles reboot - Rae, Tony, and Jeremy joined Breht on RevLeft Radio to talk Marxism. If you haven't heard it! Check it out. If you have, listen again!
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We did it! Somehow. And somehow there are now more episodes post-comeback than in the original run. It doesn't really feel that way. These past two years have flown by. It feels like only yesterday that Justin was saying, "I think we should invite the guy who does the AES podcast to join Proles." We're grateful to Tony and Rae for putting up with the brothers J, and for adding insight we wouldn't have. But we also want to thank all of you, our listeners, without whom we would just be four people with ADHD screaming into the void. We love you, comrades.
We love you so much we decided to forgo our typical format and answer your burning questions about soup and other serious matters. We hope you enjoy. And we hope we last to episode 200 without being taken out by the US State Department.
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This episode, which was recorded toward the end of November 2025, nonetheless tells an intersting story that gives context to the historical moment we have found ourselves in. It adresses the role of the left in latin american movements, the future, philosophy, and the failure of social democracy. We are joined by Dr Marc Becker and Dr Brandon Sanchez who are experts on these areas and histories.
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Andre is back! This time they join Rae and Jeremy for a conversation on how to study and read theory. The discussion covers recommended readings, practical reading tips, and other useful guidance to help listeners better undersand and engage with Marxism-Leninism.
Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video
Beginner Friendly Theory Primers:
- Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)
- Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki, Buy a physical copy from Aakar Books
- Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)
Potential Reading Lists For Getting Into The Classics
- ML Reading Hub's List
- ProleWiki's Absolute Beginner's List
- Marxist Internet Archive's List
Recommended Auxiliary Theory Texts:
- J.M Blaut, Marxism And Eurocentric Diffusionism
- Domenico Losurdo, Flight From History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt
- Two Members of the Bolshevik Tendency, Nationhood Or Genocide: The Struggle of the Native People Against Canadian and American Imperialism
- Leslie Feinberg, Lavender & Red
- Love Is Law: Cuba's Queer Rights Revolution
Miscellaneous Mentioned Or Cited Texts for Part 2:
- Vladimir Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
- Kim Jong-Il, Giving Priority To Ideological Work Is Essential For Acomplishing Socialism
- Kim Jong-Il, On The Juche Idea
- George Jackson, Blood In My Eye
Audiobook reading of the Losurdo essay
On this very special (clip show) espisode, we bring you three separate types of cOnTeNt you can access on Patreon if you so choose. Card Carrying Communist is a bit more fun and less structured--we came up with several dozen bonkers questions which end up randomized for our guests. The Secret Speech allows us to address topics we didn't get to on the main feed. And Q&Rae is pretty much what it sounds like: Rae asks whichever Proles are available at the time a bunch of listener-submitted (and Rae-submitted) questions.
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The gang's all here! On the first classic Proles episode in a while, the crew reads through texts written by Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. We unpack what makes Juche and the DPRK unique inheritors of the tradition of Marxism-Leninism as well as dialectical and historical materialism. Jeremy covers the Juche Idea, Tony talks governance and reuinification, and Rae gives us a look at Korean theater, music, and art. We've started including a short preview of our bonus episodes at the end of the main feed, so stay around for those!
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Sources:
Kim Il sung (1948-1994)
Reminiscences: With the Century
Let Us Create South-South Cooperation
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work
On Achieving the National Reunification by the Great Unity of the Nation
Ours is the Socialism of Juche
Kim Jong Il (1994-2011)
On the Art of the Drama
On the Art of Music
Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable
On the Juche Philosophy
Kim Jong Un (2011-present)
Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche
Dissecting Kim Jong Un's Plenum Speech on North Korea's 2024 Plans
DPRK news
http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?MUBAMkAxQA==
http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp/
https://www.nknews.org/
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Rae and Jeremy are joined by returning guest, Frank Gruba-McCallister, for a meander through the philosophy that drives Frank's own, expanding on the role of capitalism in the human experience, as well as the ways in which Marx overlaps and applies to interpretations of mental health and healing. Frank is the co-author of The Revolutionary Psychologist's Guide to Radical Therapy, and runs the r/counterpsych page.
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This is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Rather than having a specific topic, our guest Andre will give brief summaries and reviews of a number of texts which they recommend as a foundation for anyone who is interested in Marxism or Marxism-Leninism. I would say that this is a great episode for you to share with left-n00bs who you don't want to go down any dark paths of tendency, but it's also great for those who are looking for things to read on the specific subtopics addressed. We're talking overcoming anti-AES propaganda, decolonial theory and history, as well as what Andre calls "the endless Cold War."
Reading and Viewing Recommendations:
Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video
Quote Reading From The Russians Are Coming
Quote Reading From Socialism Betrayed
Main Books And Their Respective Follow-Ups:
- Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World
- V.L Allen, The Russians Are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism
- Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Aimé Césaire, Discourse On Colonialism
- Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- A.B Abrams, Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
- Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus: Permanent War And The Americanization Of The World
- A.B Abrams, Power And Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific (2023 Updated Edition)
Other Cited Texts:
- Stuart Hall, When We Are All Enemies of the State
- Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach
- Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)
- Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)
- Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki
- Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade And The Missing Revolution
- Domenico Losurdo, Flight from History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt
- Agustín Lage Dávila, The Knowledge Economy And Socialism: Science And Society In Cuba
- Kyle Ferrana, Why The World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity
- Douglas Valentine, The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World
- Albert Szymanski, Human Rights In The Soviet Union: Including Comparisons With The U.S.A
Extra Recommended Readings:
- E.H Carr, The Soviet Impact On The Western World
- Anna Lousie Strong, In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report
- Albert Szymanski,
Is The Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today
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In this whirlwind episode, The Leninist Lawyer (@LovelyLeninist) takes us deep into the world of Soviet law from the 1917 Revolution to end of Stalin's life in 1953. What exactly is socialist law? Did the USSR have a jury system? And how did the Soviet legal apparatus differ from so-called Western justice? We answer all and more in this intriguing episode.
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Rae and Jeremy sit down with Nathan from Schizophrenic Reads to talk about anti-intellectualism, radical empathy, and the ways in which our consumer culture turns us into hedonistic assholes.
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The Stalin Eras: Link Tree with Playlist https://linktr.ee/thestalineras
ATTENTION THEORY HEADS: this one's for you. Tony is subjected to misandry (JK, JK) as he, Rae, and Jen do a deep dive into Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 essay, "Winged Eros." They discuss misconceptions about Kollontai as a person, dating under capitalism vs socialism, the family unit, and much more.
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Text Version of Winged Eros
Audio Version of Winged Eros
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In this episode, we sit down with Jon and Frank to talk about their newly published edited collection, The Revolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Radical Therapy. We explore what “radical psychological practice” means, the ways capitalism undermines mental health, and why therapy without a class analysis risks hitting a dead end. Along the way, we touch on the possibilities and limitations of mainstream therapy, how radical approaches can open up new paths to collective well-being, and much more. CounterPsych Reddit Jon's Other Project: The TTRPG Surreal Punk
Sources:
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2019). Embracing disillusionment: Achieving liberation through the demystification of suffering.University Professors Press.
Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (2025). Radical healing: No wellness without justice. University Professors Press.
Hook, J., & Gruba-McCallister, F. P. (Eds.) (2025). The revolutionary psychologist’s guide to radical therapy. Palgrave Macmillan. To be released 11-30-25. Available for pre-order on Amazon. Link to Order Book
Friere, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Herder and Herder.
Fromm, E. (1955). The sane society. Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Parker, I. (2018). Marxist theory and psychotherapy. In B. Cohen (Ed.), Routledge international handbook of critical mental health (pp. 244-250). Routledge.
Tony abandons the rest of the crew to their devices, and things predictably go off the rails. We talk about the weak chins of continuing series, whether or not there are encoded messages in Rian Johnson movies, and discuss the futility of anti-capitalist messaging without a political program to back it up.
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Tony and Jeremy sit down with Alex Z (Southern Catholic Worker) to talk about John Brown and Co, their raid on Harper's Ferry, the aftermath, and the legacy of John Brown on politics and the Civil War.
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Sources:
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded CIvil Rights by David S. Reynolds
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horowitz
The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry by Truman Nelson
John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois
Anti-Racism in US History: The First Hundred Years by Herbert Aptheker
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Tony and Jeremy sit down with Alex Z (Southern Catholic Worker) to talk about John Brown's early life, along with his trials and tribulations as a worker, father, and husband. This episode takes us all the way up to the period before he begins planning for the raid on Harper's Ferry (which means many skirmishes with and some broadsword swinging on pro-slavery dorks).
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Sources:
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded CIvil Rights by David S. Reynolds
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horowitz
The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry by Truman Nelson
John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois
Anti-Racism in US History: The First Hundred Years by Herbert Aptheker
Intro Quote:
An excerpt from a speech given by Malcolm X in 1965.
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What do Andor, The Hunger Games, and Severance really say about capitalism and socialist revolution? In this episode of Prolespod, we critically examine these popular sci-fi and dystopian series through a socialist lens. We unpack the anti-capitalist themes, revolutionary narratives, and class struggle depicted in each — and ask how far these shows can really go while being produced by profit-driven corporations.
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In this two-part Theory Episode, the ProlesPod Squad takes on one of the most influential texts in socialist history: "Reform or Revolution" (1898) by Polish-German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg.
Whether you're new to political theory, find socialist texts hard to get through, or just want to hear our unique take—this deep-dive is for you. We break it down, debate its meaning, and explore why this revolutionary classic still matters today.
In this very special release, Justin talked with Iranian communist and comrade, Araaz, about life in Iran, the effects of the attacks by Israel, and the context of life under the Islamic Revolutionary Government. We weren't sure what we expected this episode to be, but it surpassed those expectations.
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In this two-part Theory Episode, the ProlesPod Squad takes on one of the most influential texts in socialist history: "Reform or Revolution" (1898) by Polish-German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg.
Whether you're new to political theory, find socialist texts hard to get through, or just want to hear our unique take—this deep-dive is for you. We break it down, debate its meaning, and explore why this revolutionary classic still matters today.
Luxemburgers unite!
Digging into his own family's background, PhD Candidate, Brandon, is our subject matter expert. He combines archival research with ethnographic interviews to bring us the history of the guerrilla struggle, focusing on the era between the early 1960s and the early 1980s. We learn about tactics, tribulation, and Trotskyite treachery.
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Sources:
Days of the Jungle: The Testimony of a Guatemalan Guerrilla (1972-1976) by Mario Payeras
Turcios Lima: His Biography and Documents by Dulcila Cañizares
The Guerrilla Movement in Guatemala by Adolpho Gilly
Autobiography of a Guerrilla: Guatemala 1960-1968 by Ricardo Ramirez
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The ProlesSquad shares and responds to some of the most poorly concieved yet commonly heard anti-communist arguments!
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Virginia and Steve from Macro N Cheese Podcast/Real Progressives join Justin and Jeremy in a discussion of Modern Monetary Theory, how it can be used as a radicalizing tool, as well as what it means in the grand scheme of global economics. We go even more in depth on our Patreon exclusive bonus episode, so make sure you don't miss it!
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Sources: Reclaiming the State by Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Seven Deadly, Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy by Warren Mosler
Modern Money Theory by L. Randall Wray
The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
Global South Perspectives by Fadhel Kaboub
Jason Hickel's Substack
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The Proles Squad is joined by communist Youtuber RevolutionaryTh0t to talk about their recent work on soviet children's cartoons, women's liberation in the USSR, and socialist child rearing!
RevolutionaryTh0t's Youtube Channel
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In the FINAL main-feed episode of the Stalin Eras, we sat back and took a look at where we started and where we ended up. Were we successful in what we set out to do? What did we learn? What do we hope listeners learned? How did the process change us? We answer these and more.
Please comment what you learned, something that surprised you. We would love to see them.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
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The much anticipated criticisms and contradictions episode of The Stalin Eras! In this episode we wrestle with the following controversies during Stalin’s leadership of the USSR: the Gulag, anti-homosexuality laws, anti-abortion Laws, the “Final” Contradiction, and more! You don’t want to miss this one!
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Supplemental Listening
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian w/ Robert Thurston
Stalin's Constitution & Life in 1930s Soviet Union w/ Samantha Lomb
Understanding Siege Socialim w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Recommended Supplemental Reading
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union by Aymeric Monville
Episode Sources
Love - Family Life - Career: Behind the Soviet Law Limiting Abortions and Increasing Aid to Mothers 1936
Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf
Lavender and Red by Leslie Feinberg
Criminal Proesecution of Homosexuals in the Soviet Union (1946-1991) - Numbers and Discourses by Uladzmir Valodzin
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent by Dan Healey
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg
Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag by Julie S. Draskoczy
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
The Gulag - Espresso Stalinist Collection of Qoutes About Gulag
‘Factory of invalids’: Mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds in GULAG, 1930-1955
As "The Stalin Eras” draws to a close, we discuss, in more granular detail, Joseph Stalin’s placement within the context of Soviet history, focusing on the years 1939 up to his death in 1953. Our host for this episode is (also) Jeremy, from Intervenciones Gringas!
We talk accusations of imperialism, the final results of Stalin's theory of Socialism in One Country, and the contradiction of "orthodox" Marxism.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Supplemental Listening
East Germany: Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? w/Bruni de la Motte
The Rise of, Life In, and Fall of the German Democratic Republic
The Subversion of East Germany (1945-1961)
The American Soldier Who Defected to East Germany (Part 1) w/ Victor Grossman
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948-1990) w/ Julia Mead
Critiquing Stalin's Black Legend w/ Henry Hakamäki & Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Class Based Affirmative Action in Socialist Poland w/ Agata Zysiak
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic 101: Pre-history to World War II w/ Iskolat
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian w/ Robert Thurston
Understanding Siege Socialim w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Latvia's Red Partisans of World War II
Romania and Ceaușescu
Stalin Was a Mensch - A Look at the "Antisemitism" of the USSR
Recommended Supplemental Reading
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union by Aymeric Monville
Sources
Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 by Geoffrey Roberts
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader by Alexander Hill
World War II: Myths and the Realities by Oleg Rzheshevsky
The Soviets Expected It by Anna Louise Strong
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin by Christopher Read
In this final narrative of "The Stalin Eras”, we detail Joseph Stalin’s life within the context of Soviet history through the years 1943-1953.
This narrative, titled “Long Live Comrade Stalin!" covers viscerally the experience of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War as well as the key ingredients to their victory, the early days of the cold war, and Stalin's final years.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Supplemental Listening
East Germany: Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? w/Bruni de la Motte
The Rise of, Life In, and Fall of the German Democratic Republic
The Subversion of East Germany (1945-1961)
The American Soldier Who Defected to East Germany (Part 1) w/ Victor Grossman
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948-1990) w/ Julia Mead
Critiquing Stalin's Black Legend w/ Henry Hakamäki & Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Class Based Affirmative Action in Socialist Poland w/ Agata Zysiak
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic 101: Pre-history to World War II w/ Iskolat
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian w/ Robert Thurston
Understanding Siege Socialim w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Latvia's Red Partisans of World War II
Romania and Ceaușescu
Stalin Was a Mensch - A Look at the "Antisemitism" of the USSR
Recommended Supplemental Reading
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union by Aymeric Monville
Sources
Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 by Geoffrey Roberts
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader by Alexander Hill
World War II: Myths and the Realities by Oleg Rzheshevsky
The Soviets Expected It by Anna Louise Strong
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin by Christopher Read
In the narrative for Part 4.0 of "The Stalin Eras”, we detail Joseph Stalin’s life within the context of Soviet history through the years 1939-1942.
This narrative, titled “Enemy at the Gates" highlights the pivotal years leading to the Nazi invasion of the USSR: the invasion of Poland, Soviet influence over the Baltics, the death of Leon Trotsky, and the start of Operation Barbarossa!
Stay tuned for the next episode which will continue the narrative through from 1943-1953, Stalin's final years.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
In this episode, we switched it up a bit to discuss some of the wild events that have been happening and analyze their impact, what we think about them etc. From the "Roman Salute" to the California wildfires, we got it all here. With silliness throughout.
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Ameed and Cody from Good Shepherd Collective join Rae and Jeremy in a Q&A on the conditions and complications related to the struggle of the Palestinian people. Questions were collected from you, the listener. We did our best to condense similar questions together but also to give a solid variety, across multiple topics. Some are covered in the main feed episode. Some in the Patreon bonus.
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Sources: Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity Ahel Gaza Palestine Action Gaza Funds Workshops 4 Gaza Defund Racism
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Our longest and most controversial episode. This narrative, titled “War Is Already Here” (using the latest archival scholarship) details the legitimacy of the controversial Moscow Trials, the origins of the “Great Terror”, the climax of the Spanish Civil War, war with Japan and apocalyptically - the beginning of a second globe spanning conflict!
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective", mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Supplemental Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union by Aymeric Monville
Recommended Supplemental Listening
How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War II w/ Michael Jabara Carley
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian w/ Robert Thurston
Understanding Siege Socialim w/ Gabriel Rockhill
The American Ambassador Who Supported Stalin w/ Dominique Petit-Wagner
Stalin's Constitution & Life in 1930s Soviet Union w/ Samantha Lomb
Sources
Stalin's Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939 by Michael Jabara Carley
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shapped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman
Stalin and War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Repression, Mobilization, and External Threat by David Shearer
International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War ed. Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Alison Ribeiro De Menezes, Adrian Shubert
Reflections on Stalinism ed. J.Arch Getty, Lewis Siegelbaum
How Russia Blasted Hitler's Spy Machine by Joseph E. Davies
Soviet Archives
In the Part 3 Discussion, we cover evidence for the Moscow Trials (more to come in the Part 3.5 Narrative), The Spanish Civil War, Molotov-Ribbentrop, and more. Our host is Legacy Prole, Taylor!
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
Recommended Additional Listening
Stalin's Constitution & Life in 1930s Soviet Union w/ Samantha Lomb How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War II w/ Michael Jabara Carley
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Foundations of Leninism
Sources
Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constituion by Samantha Lomb
The New Soviet Constitution: A Study in Socialist Democracy by Anna Louise Strong
Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War
Broué, P. (1990). Party opposition to Stalin (1930-1932) and the first Moscow trial. In J. W. Strong (Ed.),
Essays on revolutionary culture and Stalinism. Selected papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European studies. Craig, G. A. (1951).
Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945. Series D (1937–1945). Volume III. Germany and the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. Volodarsky, B. (2015). Stalin's agent. The life and death of Alexander Orlov. London and New York: Oxford University Press.
In the narrative for Part Three of "The Stalin Eras”, Tony and Jeremy detail Joseph Stalin’s life within the context of Soviet history through the years 1935-1936.
This narrative, titled “Triumph and Tribulations” highlights the USSR as a rising star to both the global proletariat and colonized peoples, the utter triumph of socialist construction during the Great Depression, the highly progressive 1936 Soviet Constitution, and finally the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War!
Stay tuned for the next episode which will continue the narrative through from 1936-1939 focusing mostly on the controversial Moscow Trials, the Great Purge, the climax of the Spanish Civil War, and apocalyptically - the beginning of World War II.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show at www.patreon.com/prolespod
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
Recommended Additional Listening
Stalin's Constitution & Life in 1930s Soviet Union w/ Samantha Lomb How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War II w/ Michael Jabara Carley
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Foundations of Leninism
Sources
Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constituion by Samantha Lomb
The New Soviet Constitution: A Study in Socialist Democracy by Anna Louise Strong
Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War
Broué, P. (1990). Party opposition to Stalin (1930-1932) and the first Moscow trial. In J. W. Strong (Ed.),
Essays on revolutionary culture and Stalinism. Selected papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European studies. Craig, G. A. (1951).
Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945. Series D (1937–1945). Volume III. Germany and the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. Volodarsky, B. (2015). Stalin's agent. The life and death of Alexander Orlov. London and New York: Oxford University Press.
Comrades!
We are hard at work on the Stalin Eras, as you all know. Part 3 in particular, given the Moscow Trials, The Military Trial, Ezhovchina, and other major topics, this episode in particular has taken a LOT of work. We have also uncovered a bunch of archival material that we hope will create context that we believe has never been presented in the English language.
On top of that, a few listeners have given us feedback that, particularly given the very dense nature of the material, that they feel like they are falling behind and thus unable to engage with the discussion online and participate in the live-listens we do for every new Stalin Eras episode on the Patreon.
As such, we are taking an intermission of sorts (still slaving away in the podcast mines) to give people time to catch up and to give us the time to properly represent our vision in Part 3 as the DEFINITIVE collection of materialist analysis and historiography on the Stalin Era of Soviet History.
We didn't want to leave you hanging, so, here is a peek behind the Iron Curtain of the paywall, featuring our two most recent Q & Rae episodes. We hope you enjoy. Please consider subscribing so that we may continue to put the effort that we have put into the Stalin Eras into all of our future episodes.
We hope you're enjoying it, and solidarity forever.
In the discussion for Part Two of “The Stalin Eras”, the gang responds to questions from Jen (aka Big Nasty), host of How the Red Was Won and overall badass comrade. The years in focus are, again, 1930-1934, and based upon the previous episode (which you should listen to if you haven't already).
We talk Stalin's sigma male grindset, writing letters to the man himself, the rise of fascism, and the contradictions facing the USSR at this time.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/prolespod Recomended Resources on "Holodomor" as Genocide Question
Academics who do not consider the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 to be a genocide include: J. Arch Getty, Stephen Wheatcroft, Mark Tauger, R.W Davies, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Ronald Grigor Suny, Stephen Kotkin to name a few.
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
Recommended Additional Listening
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Foundations of Leninism Episode Sources
The Lesser of Two Hells by Alvin D Coox
Practicing Stalinism by J Arch Getty
Excesses Are Not Permitted byJ Arch Getty
Origins of the Great Purges by J Arch Getty
I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
I Was Stalin's Bodyguard by Achmed Amba
The Pattern Of Soviet Power by Edgar Snow
Revolution on my Mind by Jochen Hellbeck
Stalin's Library by Geoffrey Roberts
The Great Conspiracy by Michael Sayers & Albert E Kahn
Conjuring Hitler by Guido Giacomo Preparata
Molotov Remembers, Conversations with Felix Chuev
Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood
Teachers of Stalinism by E Thomas Ewing
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin, Christopher Read, 2017, Routledge Publishing
Next to Stalin by A.T. Rybin
Betrayal of an Ideal by G.A. Tokaev Soviet Famine 1930–1933: "The Law of Spikelets" Myth Explained by Polistrum
In Search of New Facts: Interwar Japanese Military Intelligence Activities in the Baltic States and Finland: 1918–1940 by Shingo Masunaga,
Wrestling with Aspects of Interwar Stalinism by William J. Chase,
Why I resigned from the Trotsky Defense Committee by Mauritz Alfred Hallgren, 1937, International Publishers
Muder at the Kemerovo Mines by Ernst Fischer
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg, 1949), Vol. 29
The Goebbels Diaries: 1942-1943 by Joseph Goebbels,
“Secret Hitler-Benes Negotiations in 1936-37.” bt Gerhard L. Weinberg The Road to Terror. Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov
Russian Soviet Archives
U.S. Archives, Library of Congress
Czech Republic Archives
Vienna Bureau of the Austrian Chancellor
The Red Book, Leon Sedov, 1936, Byulletin Oppositsii, Nos.52-53, October 1936
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, (1929–1940), Isaac Deutscher, 1963, Vintage Russian Library
The Russian Enigma, Ante Ciliga, 1940, Pluto Press
“Red Wreckers in Russia.”,by John D Littlepage
My Life, byLeon Trotsky
Leon Sedov: Son, Friend, Fighter, Leon Trotsky Harvard Trotsky Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University The Great Terror. A Reassessment by Robert Conquest Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution 1888-1938 by Stephen Cohen The Kirov Murder and Soviet History by Matthew Lenoe
Many, many diaries published on https://prozhito.org/
In the narrative for Part Two of “The Stalin Eras”, Justin and Jeremy detail Soviet society and all that comes with it under Stalin’s leadership from 1930-1934.
This narrative, titled “Stewards of the Human Soul”, covers the varied personal experiences of Soviet citizens from the center to the periphery of the USSR, the winding down of rapid industrialization and collectivization, the controversial anti-religious and anti-kulak campaigns, the so called “show trials” on industrial sabotage, the true nature of internal opposition, and the astonishing results of the first five year plan.
Stay tuned for the next episode which will feature a full length discussion with guest host Jen of How the Red Was Won. Jen joins to guide an in-depth discussion about the era covered in this narrative episode.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/prolespod Recomended Resources on "Holodomor" as Genocide Question
Academics who do not consider the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 to be a genocide include: J. Arch Getty, Stephen Wheatcroft, Mark Tauger, R.W Davies, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Ronald Grigor Suny, Stephen Kotkin to name a few.
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
Recommended Additional Listening
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Foundations of Leninism Episode Sources
The Lesser of Two Hells by Alvin D Coox
Practicing Stalinism by J Arch Getty
Excesses Are Not Permitted byJ Arch Getty
Origins of the Great Purges by J Arch Getty
I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
I Was Stalin's Bodyguard by Achmed Amba
The Pattern Of Soviet Power by Edgar Snow
Revolution on my Mind by Jochen Hellbeck
Stalin's Library by Geoffrey Roberts
The Great Conspiracy by Michael Sayers & Albert E Kahn
Conjuring Hitler by Guido Giacomo Preparata
Molotov Remembers, Conversations with Felix Chuev
Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood
Teachers of Stalinism by E Thomas Ewing
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin, Christopher Read, 2017, Routledge Publishing
Next to Stalin by A.T. Rybin
Betrayal of an Ideal by G.A. Tokaev Soviet Famine 1930–1933: "The Law of Spikelets" Myth Explained by Polistrum
In Search of New Facts: Interwar Japanese Military Intelligence Activities in the Baltic States and Finland: 1918–1940 by Shingo Masunaga,
Wrestling with Aspects of Interwar Stalinism by William J. Chase,
Why I resigned from the Trotsky Defense Committee by Mauritz Alfred Hallgren, 1937, International Publishers
Muder at the Kemerovo Mines by Ernst Fischer
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg, 1949), Vol. 29
The Goebbels Diaries: 1942-1943 by Joseph Goebbels,
“Secret Hitler-Benes Negotiations in 1936-37.” bt Gerhard L. Weinberg The Road to Terror. Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov
Russian Soviet Archives
U.S. Archives, Library of Congress
Czech Republic Archives
Vienna Bureau of the Austrian Chancellor
The Red Book, Leon Sedov, 1936, Byulletin Oppositsii, Nos.52-53, October 1936
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, (1929–1940), Isaac Deutscher, 1963, Vintage Russian Library
The Russian Enigma, Ante Ciliga, 1940, Pluto Press
“Red Wreckers in Russia.”,by John D Littlepage
My Life, byLeon Trotsky
Leon Sedov: Son, Friend, Fighter, Leon Trotsky Harvard Trotsky Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University The Great Terror. A Reassessment by Robert Conquest Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution 1888-1938 by Stephen Cohen The Kirov Murder and Soviet History by Matthew Lenoe
Many, many diaries published on https://prozhito.org/
Breht O’Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio, joins to guide a discussion based on the events covered in the narrative for Part One (which you should listen too first, if you haven’t already!).
In this discussion, the gang led by Rae and Jeremy answer wide ranging questions about the nature of Stalin’s rise to prominence in the party, Lenin’s death, the dreaded NEP Men, the first five year plan, and the trials, tribulations, and triumphs in everyday life of Soviet citizens.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show here: www.patreon.com/prolespod
Thematic Introduction Source: "Forword" of Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man by Henri Barbusse
Episode Sources
I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man by Henri Barbusse
The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin by Christopher Read
Small Comrades: A Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia 1917-1932.
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolphe Trouillot
Recommended Additional Listening
The Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet Union w/ Alice and Dennis Bartels
Foundations of Leninism
Soviet Cinema
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
In the narrative for Part One of “The Stalin Eras”, Rae and Jeremy detail Joseph Stalin’s life within the context of Soviet history through the monumental years of 1917-1929.
This narrative, titled “Reconstruction In One Country”, covers Soviet history from the early days of the October Revolution, through the Civil War and Imperialist interventions, the Volga Famine, Stalin’s rise in party leadership, the New Economic Program, ultimately ending with the start of rapid industrialization/collectivization, and the of Soviet Union’s first five year plan.
Stay tuned for the next episode which will feature a full length discussion with guest host Breht O’Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio. Breht joins to guide an in-depth discussion about the era covered in this narrative episode.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show here: www.patreon.com/prolespod
Thematic Introduction Source: "Forword" of Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man by Henri Barbusse
Episode Sources
I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man by Henri Barbusse
The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin by Christopher Read
Small Comrades: A Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia 1917-1932.
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolphe Trouillot
Recommended Additional Listening
The Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet Union w/ Alice and Dennis Bartels
Foundations of Leninism
Soviet Cinema
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
In this introductory episode we cover the who, what, where, and why of “The Stalin Eras”, a multi-part series on the life and times of Joseph Stalin. In addition, we also lay the foundations of young Stalin’s life: from his humble birth in 1878 to his revolutionary career leading into the October Revolution of 1917.
This first narrative of the series, “From Soso to Stalin”, begins with his childhood, before movin into his time in church school followed by seminary, and finally his early days as a labor leader and journalist for the Party leading into the October Revolution. And ofcourse, we cover young Stalin’s daring bank robbery!
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective,” mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic ProlesPod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Episode Sources
Reflections on Stalinism (2024) by J Arch Getty
Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies (2022)
Stalin: Passage to Revolution (2020) by Ronald Grigor Suny
Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies (2020) Edited by James Ryan and Susan Grant
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin (2017) by Christopher Read
US., Soviet Textbooks Give Different Accounts of History (1987)
Death of the department that never was (1978)
On Stalin (1953) by W.E.B Dubois
Recommend Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
The Collected Works of J.V. Stalin: Volume I
The Collected Works of J.V. Stalin: Volume II
Recommended Listening
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Ep 61 - Foundations of Leninism
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian? w/ Robert Thurston
Hey comrades!
This update covers the relaunch of the Patreon. We lost all of our subscribers and stuff, so PLEASE <3 resubscribe if you are able, even to the Free Tier. And if you're thinking of subscribing for the first time... thank you!
This is the perfect time because, despite having to push the release of the Stalin Eras - An Introduction (1878-1917) back for general release, it is now up for all paid tiers on our Patreon page, with the Backstage Pass bonus episode hitting it in the VERY near future!
On top of that, we have shuffled and added some benefits, with more planned to come in the future. So make sure you check them out!
Either way, THANK YOU! And we are excited to absolutely rock the airwaves with the Stalin Eras series, now premiering the first TWO episodes on Nov. 9, 2024.
In this episode, we apologize for completely messing up. Our Patreon account got deleted. We are currently figuring out what the damage is, and will update as soon as we have a definite path forward.
As we are VERY busy working on the Stalin Eras series which premiers as early release for paid Patreon subscribers on September 18, and for the main feed September 23, we did not feel that we could do a typical episode justice. Instead, we decided to put together an episode of short clips from almost all of our bonus content that is available to paid subscribers over on the Patreon page. There are timestamps below in case you have already heard some of the content or want to easily reference/skip something. The bits on media (particularly the X-Men 97 episode) contain spoilers, so be mindful of that also.
We tried to collect a mixture of humorous clips, serious clips, and thoughtful clips. Some of this content was recorded before Rae and Martín got decent microphones, so many apologies for the terrible audio quality on some of their parts.
We have all dedicated a lot of time and energy to this podcast and first and foremost we hope that you are enjoying it and finding it helpful in your lives. It takes a lot to bring bi-weekly content, as well as a constant stream of bonus content, and our hope is that we can eventually move away from full-time wage labor toward full-time revolutionary education and entertainment but we cannot do that without your help.
If it is within your means, please find a tier that interests you over at the ProlesPod Patreon page and smash that subscribe button. If you are unable to support financially, that's okay. We get it! We also have a free tier with study guides to accompany the main feed episodes, as well as occasional exclusive content and announcements. If you're an absolutely dedicated comrade, it really helps us reach more people if you post reviews on any of the sites like Spotify, Apple, or any other place that it might be available, and comment on our YouTube episodes!
Check out the Stalin Eras trailer, which drops today, and make sure to follow so that you can get notifications when the genre-bending episodes premier! It will be Soviet history as you've never heard it before...
- 0:35.5 - 3:11.5 Introduction
- 3:17.8 - 4:56.3 The Secret Speech Ep 6 - Ukraine: Birth of Nationalism
- 5:10.7 - 6:47.1 The Non-Politics of HBO's The Sympathizer (2024)
- 6:54.4 - 9:39.7 The Secret Speech Ep 3 - The CIA, MK Ultra, and U.S. Psychopathy
- 9:53.2 - 13:56.8 The Secret Speech Ep 8 - Foundations of Leninism (Theory Explained)
- 14:03.5 - 15:35.6 The Secret Speech Ep 2: Latvia's Red Partisans of World War II
- 15:44.8 - 17:28.7 The Secret Speech Ep 7 - Ukraine: Descent to Fascism
- 17:40.9 - 19:18.6 The Secret Speech Ep 3 - The CIA, MK Ultra, and U.S. Psychopathy
- 19:29.7 - 23:13.0 The Non-Politics of HBO's The Sympathizer (2024)
- 23:31.5 - 24:46.9 The Secret Speech Ep 1 - X-Men 97: A Marxist Perspective
- 25:04.0 - 28:03.0 Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes
- 28:04.8 - 28:48.4 The Sadistic Exploitation of America's Sweethearts
- 29:12.6 - 32:25.8 The Secret Speech Ep 8 - Foundations of Leninism (Theory Explained)
- 32:42.6 - 36:04.7 The Secret Speech Ep 3 - The CIA, MK Ultra, and U.S. Psychopathy
- 36:33.3 - 37:22.4 The Secret Speech Ep 6 - Ukraine: Birth of Nationalism
- 37:42.3 - 40:38.8 SPOILERS The Secret Speech Ep 1 - X-Men 97: A Marxist Perspective
- 40:54.0 - 48:36.8 Q & Rae #1: Family, Ethics of Socialist Content Creation, and Life Abroad
- 49:08.0 - 57:28.7 The Secret Speech Ep 4 - Taiwan: A Short Long History
- 57:49.4 - 1:00.1 The Secret Speech Ep 3 - The CIA, MK Ultra, and U.S. Psychopathy
Join the Proles and friend of the pod, Joel, for our first ever episode focused solely on a theory text. If you’ve been following along with the TheoryBeats project on Patreon, you already know the text. It is the the monumental "Foundations of Leninism" by Joseph Stalin. Rae takes the lead on this one.
We’ll take you through each of the nine sections of this text, unpacking the history and context while making connections to other thinkers, theorists, and movements both historically and today.
You can find the full text freely available to read at:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
Thank you to our (actual and legitimate, not a joke) sponsor, "Quotations from Michael Parenti" published by Red Prints Publishing through Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub. To learn more and to get a copy of the book, head here: https://www.mlreadinghub.org/books/quotations-from-michael-parenti
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CW: This episode contains frank discussions of murder, torture, and sexual assault of both adults and children, primarily in the context of anti-semitic pogroms against Jewish people. Please proceed carefully through the episode or skip it entirely if any of these things may be difficult for you to hear.
Justin picks up where Jeremy left off to cover the development of OUN/UPA, Stepan Bandera's insecure self-promotion, and how the Ukrainian Nationalists were no better than the Nazis. Slava Ukraini bad. As last time, we try to bring some levity to the discussion, but it is a disgusting period for Eastern Europe and we couldn't sugar coat it.
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Sources:
Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust by John-Paul Himka
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe
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CW: This episode contains frank discussions of murder, torture, and sexual assault of both adults and children, primarily in the context of anti-semitic pogroms against Jewish people. Please proceed carefully through the episode or skip it entirely if any of these things may be difficult for you to hear. To signal the depravity of racist language in quotes used in this episode we have used a bleep instead of "contextually stating" the slur or "n-wording" it.
Jeremy leads us in a discussion of the early history of what we now know as Ukraine, all the way through the early twentieth century, before taking a depressing turn into the brief period in which nationalists controlled the region from 1918-1921. This brief and tragic era of Ukraine is dominated by a “civil war” and countless pogroms, primarily perpetrated against Jewish residents of the area. We do our best to lighten the material in the first half of the episode, but honestly, there’s nothing to be joked about in the latter half.
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Resource Links - Soviet Books:
Ismail Badiou Soviet Book Archive (over a thousand soviet era books!)
Lazy Izdihar Soviet Book Archive
Sources:
The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
In the Midst of Civilized Europe by Jeffrey Veidlinger
Medieval Ukraine by Charles River Editors
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For this episode we’re joined by guest expert Beth Pitts for a journey into the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We’re talking about the past, present, and future of indigenous resistance in Ecuador to begin to think about what their struggle can teach us, the benefits and limitations of taking legal action against the imperial nation-state, and the ways in which we can broaden our understanding of the frontline of struggle.
For our full interview with members of the Siekopai Remolino community, head over to the Patreon. (Don’t worry; we translated it into English.)
For information on the communities mentioned, access to their fundraisers, and our guest expert’s book:
- Siekoya Remolino website: https://www.siekoyaremolino.org/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/siekoyaremolino
- Siekopai social media: Twitter: @Siekopai, Facebook: @Siekopai, Instagram: @Nacion.Siekopai
- Sëra Foundation crowdfunding campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/siekopai-indigenous-amazonian-youth-foundation
- Native People of Sarayaku website: https://sarayaku.org/
- Children of the Jaguar documentary (Sarayaku): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1QSmtuiLQ
- Interview Alexandra Narvaez (Sinangoe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwmQMdGuBMc
- Under Rich Earth documentary (Intag): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRinnhejBIw
- Moon Guide to Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands: https://www.moon.com/?s=bethany+pitts
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Charles Xu joins the show to give us a whirlwind tour of the history of Taiwan starting from about 15,000 years ago to the late 1980s to explain to us the origins of the current tensions between China and the West (led by the United States of America, ofcourse) that has been recklessly escalating to a war!
The history covered here is covered in much more detail on the Qiao Collective website which hosts their outstanding Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Resource.
Charles Xu is a member of the Qiao Collective. The Qiao Collective is a diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression in China.
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CW - This episode, almost from start to finish, tells a lot of horrific stories of both physical and mental abuse and mutilation of some of the most marginalized and at-risk types of folks. If this is something that will be difficult to get through for you, please skip the episode or take it slow.
In this episode, we discuss a topic that is widely known but often skimmed. Instead of focusing on the people involved or the "funny" cases, we talked more about the monstrous nature of the project and the blatant disregard for human life and wellbeing. All for a made up thing that they never even got close to figuring out.
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In this episode that we recorded before Rae and Martín joined the Proles, we sit down with Iskolat and have a really interesting, inspiring, and terrifying conversation about partisans in the baltic. Focusing on little-discussed Latvia, we learned the struggle they went through and how it connects to the struggles that they are going through again today.
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The unveiling of TheoryBeats, a new project by ProlesPod and DJ DTA. Let us know what you think!
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In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Evan from Left of the Projector Podcast to delve into a Marxist analysis of the new animated series X-Men '97. We explore the show's portrayal of the mutant struggle through a Marxist lens, examining characters like Magneto and Professor X as representations of different revolutionary strategies. We discuss the complex dynamics of Genosha, a nation of mutants, as it transitions from slavery to liberation, drawing parallels to real-world post-colonial struggles. We also analyze the show's depiction of the exploitation of mutant labor and the justification for their oppression, mirroring the dynamics of class struggle in capitalist societies. Additionally, we critique the show's portrayal of international relations and the hypocrisy of organizations like the UN. Finally, we touch upon the challenges faced by the mutant state after the revolution, including the constant threat of counter-revolution and the complexities of governance.
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Sources:
"Letter to American Workers" V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/20.htm
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In this episode, we're joined by our two newest co-hosts, Rae and Martín, to take the Proles' first trip to Mexico. In this wide-ranging episode, we cover a (brief) workers' history of Mexico, the rise of the current president AMLO, what his presidency has meant for Mexican people, and some insight on the upcoming presidential election.
There were a shocking number of resources consulted for this episode, but those specifically referenced (in English) are here:
- https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amlo-presidency-mexico-morena-pri-neoliberalism
- https://ausm.community/the-4t/
- https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-contradictions-of-amlo/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4O2WlWPHw
A note that several of our sources are in Spanish, but if you're a Spanish speaker interested in the resource list, don't hesitate to reach out.
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In this episode, the Scottish comrades return to discuss the revolutionary life of John Maclean. No, not that one... or that one. The Scottish revolutionary that spent his entire life fighting for the proletariat and who was in jail when British fascist Winston Churchill rolled tanks on Glasgow during the Battle of George Square to destroy the voice of the oppressed.
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In this episode, El discusses the birth and development of the proletariat within Scottland, as well as the ways in which the nobility and the British empire sabotaged them time and again.
Thank you for listening!
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In this long awaited return of the show the gang revisits East Germany, with new Proles co-host and host of Actually Existing Socialism - Tony - giving us a guide through attempts by Western capitalist nations to subvert the East German state from the post-war period to the installation of the Berlin Wall. Spoiler alert: It all goes back to the 5 Ds!
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If you have any questions or comments, DM us on those platforms or email us at prolespod@outlook.com All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well! May the spectre haunt your streets, and solidarity forever.
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Episode Sources:
"Exploiting and Securing the Open Border in Berlin: the Western Secret Services, the Stasi, and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961"
"Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949"
The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany"
“Spying On Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945-1961”
"Address given by Nikita Khrushchev on the GDR and Berlin (Moscow, 10 November 1958)" "GDR: An Historical Outline" "Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" "Killing Hope"
In this episode, the new gang (so far) introduces themselves, and Jeremy briefly recounts the history of Proles as well as what we're doing differently this time, based on lessons we learned.
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If you have any questions or comments, DM us on those platforms or email us at prolespod@outlook.com All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well! May the spectre haunt your streets, and solidarity forever.
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In this episode, the gang collaborates with Breht O'Shea of RevLeft Radio on an analysis of the Marxist understanding of history, how we as human beings relate to history, and how we can see through the veil of bourgeois historiography. It is my personal favorite episode we ever recorded, and it is the one people have most requested that we re-upload. It was taken down with good reason, but there are good reasons for it to come back. It is certainly one of the most positive and affirming episodes we ever made, and I feel like people need that right now.
If you have any questions or comments, DM Jeremy at facebook.com/mambono17 or Instagram @mambono17 or email aterribleinfluence@gmail.com. All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well!
Suggested Reading and Resources:
I don't have a way to reach out to Hayder to ask him about his sources, and unfortunately, I have forgotten a lot of the works I was referencing, but I will do my best to reconstruct what I can recall.
Silencing the Past - Michel-Rolphe Trouillot
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici
Chulmun Neolithic Inensification, Asian Perspectives, Spring 2012 - Sook-Chung Shin, Song-Nai Rhee, and C. Melbin Aikens
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum - Robert L. Kelly
In this episode, the gang revisits Argentina with the help of Joel and Homer, learning how it escaped Spanish colonialism only to become prey to British and US imperialism. And coups. So many coups.
If you have any questions or comments, DM Jeremy at facebook.com/mambono17 or Instagram @mambono17 or email aterribleinfluence@gmail.com. All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well!
Suggested Reading and Resources:
Documentaries:
Ver la Historia by Felipe Pigna
Seré Millones by Fernando Krichmar, Omar Neri, Mónica Simoncini
Book:
Todo o Nada by Maria Seoane
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The next-to-the-last PRT episode, recorded before the collapse. Justin and Ethan discuss the history of Romania as Alekx hosts.
At several listeners' requests, we're uploading the January patreon-exclusive episode, which is Ethan's performance of Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever.
*The Fever* is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to terms with the injustice in the world and his own role within that injustice.
"I feel like this play covers most if not all the important points of capital, state/rev, and a lot of wretched of the earth somehow in 1hr." -dblizz66
Music: Phill Niblock -Works for Hurdy Gurdy and VoiceSarah Davachi - For Voice
In this episode, the gang has an info-packed discussion with Phil Miller, the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes. Phil is an investigative journalist who put an unbelievable amount of work into sifting through many a redacted document to piece together the clandestine history of the notorious private military outfit, Keenie Meenie.
You can find Phil via his publisher, Pluto Press, or his own page.
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Suggested Reading and Resources:
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with Murder
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"The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" by Billy Bragg
In this episode, Talia of Proles of the Minyan fills in for 8-Hop (who was held up by the TSA) to host a round table discussion about the radical history of Ireland leading up to the Connolly Youth Movement and what they stand for today. (Editor's note: Apologies for the poor audio; 8-Hop had the equipment)
Check out the CYM here.
Check out the CPI's paper here.
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Suggested Reading and Resources:
James Connolly:
- "Labour in Irish History"
- "Socialism and Nationalism"
- "Reconquest of Ireland"
"Limerick Soviet", Liam Cahill
Capital, Vol. 1 (Chap. 25, f), Karl Marx
The Origin of Capitalism, Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ireland Her Own, T. A. Jackson
The ‘Mere Irish’ and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641, Gerard Farrell
Mapmaking, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750, William J. Smyth
"Not Yet Emmet", Peadar O’Donnell https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/
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"James Connolly" by Damien Dempsey
In this epic crossover, we had Nathan and David from Marx Madness come on to discuss Black Bolshevik, one of the most important and interesting books ever written. We spent close to 3 hours talking about the remarkable life and theory of Harry Haywood. Link to the contest can be found here.
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Suggested Reading:
"Black Bolshevik" by Harry Haywood
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"The National Anthem of the USSR" by Paul Robeson
In this rollercoaster of an episode, Alekx discussing some amazing figures in the history of Vietnam and the importance of not only remembering their legacy, but building movements around non-men.
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Suggested Reading:
"Behind the Scenes, in the Forefront: Vietnamese Women in War and Peace" Lady Borton "Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World" Kumari Jayawardena "Women in the Communist Revolution in Vietnam"
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Katyusha
In this engaging and inspiring episode, we sat down with Emmy (@cannibality) to discuss the history of New Caledonia and the absolute unit that was Eloi Machoro.
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Suggested Reading:
"Blood On Their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific", David Robie
Cafe Pacific (blog w/ updates)
"L'Ordre et La Morale" ["Rebellion"] (film)
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"That's the Sound of the Police" by KRS One
In this episode, Jeremy goes over the social construction of history and how it affects the way people perceive their place, how nations form identities, and how history has become inherently white supremacist.
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Suggested Reading:
Arenas, Iraida V. (1995). "The Perception of History and Archaeology in Latin America." Making Alternative Histories. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
Arnold, Bettina. (2006). "'Arierdämmerung': Race and Archaeology in Nazi Germany." World Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 8-31.
Bateson, Gregory. (2000a). "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis." Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
---. (2000b). "Cybernetic Explanation." Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Clifford, James. (1986). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (1993). "The Myth of Western Civilization." The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/the-myth-of-western-civilization/282704/.
de Certeau, Michel. (1986). "History: Science and Fiction." Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Translated by Brian Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Feyerabend, Paul. (1993). Against Method. New York: Verso.
Foucault, Michel. (1984a). "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books.
---. (1984b). "What is an Author?" The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books.
Hanagan, Nora. “From Agrarian Dreams to Democratic Realities: A Deweyan Alternative to Jeffersonian Food Politics.” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 34-45, https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.uccs.edu/stable/24371970.
Hatch, Thom. (2004). Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but found War. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Hobsbawm, Eric. (1993). The Invention of Tradition. Edited by Eric Hobsbawm, and Terrence Ranger. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
Mallory, J. P. (2013) The Origins of the Irish. London: Thames & Hudson.
Minor, Heather H. (1999). "Mapping Mussolini: Ritual and Cartography in Public Art during the Second Roman Empire." Imago Mundi, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 147-162, doi:10.1080/03085699908592907.
Nelis, Jan. (2014). "Back to the Future." Fascism, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-19, doi://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00301001.
Paidipaty, P. (2010). Tribal Nations: Politics and the Making of Anthropology in India, 1874-1967 (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University).
Schmidt, Peter R., and Thomas C. Patterson. (1995). Making Alternative Histories. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson. School of American Santa Fe: Research Press.
Thomas, David H. (2000). Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (1995). Silencing the Past. Boston: Beacon Press.
Turner, Frederick J. (2009) "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Studies at the University of Virginia, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/turner/chapter1.html.
Whitman, James Q. (2017). Hitler's American Model. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Winkler, Martin M. (2009). The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.uccs.edu/book/27815.
Wolfe, Eric R. (1982). Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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In this one, the Proles sat down with Daniel and Professor Sarah Raymundo to discuss the colonial history and current concerns of our comrades, who are engaging in a broad-based revolutionary struggle right now.
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Brandon's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/4bfk5-fundraising-for-brandon-lee
Suggested Reading:
Books & Documents
Collection of Documents from the CPP
Guerrero. Philippine Society & Revolution, 1970 (updated and shorter format in Tagalog, Maikling Kurso sa Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino 2005).
—Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution: Selected Writings, 1968-1972. (Includes the First Great Rectification Movement document, “Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party”)
—Defeating Revisionism, Reformism and Opportunism: Selected Writings, 1968-1974. (Includes numerous articles criticizing the old revisionist leadership of the previous PKP)
—Building Strength Through Struggle: Selected Writings, 1972-1977. (Has two very important documents, “Our Urgent Tasks” and “Specific Characteristics of Our People’s War”)
—Detention and Defiance Against Dictatorship: Selected Writings, 1977-1986. (Writings while founding chairman of the CPP, Jose Maria Sison, was in solitary confinement and jail, including “Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer” and “Brief History of the Kabataang Makabyan”)
Liwanag. Reaffirm Our Basic Principles and Rectify Errors, 1992. (The major document putting into motion the Second Great Rectification Movement)
Constitution and Program of the CPP, 2016.
“Communique of the 2nd Congress of the CPP.”
Central Committee of the CPP. “Celebrate the Party’s 50th Anniversary.”
—“Boldly Intensify Guerrilla Warfare: 50th Anniversary of the New People’s Army.”
Sison. “Great Achievements of the CPP in 50 Years of Waging Revolution,” 2018 (A document summarizing the historical achievements of the CPP as well as a current rectification campaign to combat conservatism, bureaucratism, sectarianism and ultra-democracy)
Pambansa Demokratikong Paaralan (PADEPA is a collection of lessons and readings for mass activists in the National Democratic Movement put together by the revolutionary movement in the Philippines)
History Books on the Philippines and the CPP
Agoncillo. The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan, 1956.
—Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic, 1960.
—History of the Filipino People, 1960.
Constantino. The Making of a Filipino: A Story of Philippine Colonial Politics, 1969.
—The Philippines: A Past Revisited, 1975.
—The Philippines: A Continuing Past, 1978.
Lanzona. Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines, 2009.
McCoy. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State, 2009.
Richardson. Komunista: The Genesis of the Philippine Communist Party: 1902-1935, 2011 (pdf copy of his 1984 dissertation can be found here).
Rosca, Sison. Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World, 2004.
Simbulan. When the Rains Come, Will not the Grass Grow Again? The Socialist Movement in the Philippines, 2018
—The Modern Principalia: The Historical Evolution of the Philippine Ruling Oligarchy, 2007.
Sison, “The Role of the Communist International in the Formation of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands,” 2019.
Contemporary Studies of the Philippines and the National Democratic Movement
Francisco-Menchavez. The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, 2018.
Lindio-McGovern. Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance, 1997.
—Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities, 2013.
Rodriguez. Migrants for Export: How the Philippine Sate Brokers Labor to the World, 2010.
San Juan, Jr. U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines, 2007.
Scipes. KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1996.
Tuazon. The Moro Reader: History and Contemporary Struggles of the Bangsamoro People, 2008.
Media
Communist Party of the Philippines
Ang Bayan (the Party’s twice a month publication)
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (the most consolidated, revolutionary alliance of underground mass organizations in the Philippine revolution)
Liberation (the official publication of the NDF)
News Media
Altermidya (People’s Alternative Media Network is a network of independent and progressive media outfits, institutions and individuals)
Bulatlat (One of the original online news publications in the Philippines covering the struggles of the toiling masses and mass movement)
Pinoy Weekly (An online and print publication that publishes weekly stories of the marginalized sectors of society. It also has print editions world wide)
Legal Mass Movement National Democratic Alliances
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN is a multisectoral formation struggling for national and social liberation against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. Founded on the determination and strength of the majority of oppressed classes, BAYAN is an alliance composed mainly of organizations of workers and peasants.)
Kilusang Mayo Uno (Facebook page only. KMU is an independent labour center promoting genuine, militant and patriotic trade unionism. It is genuine because it recognizes the struggle between labor and capital and upholds the legitimate interests of the working class; militant because it relies on the workers collective struggle in defending trade union and democratic rights; and patriotic because it seeks to end imperialist domination and control over the Philippines.)
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Facebook page only. KMP is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth and peasant women)
GABRIELA (Facebook page only. It is nationwide alliance of 200 women's organizations that cut across sectors and regions, plus chapters and support groups of Pinays and non-Pinays in various continents of the world.)
Migrante International (Alliance for migrant and overseas workers to promote migrants’ rights and dignity against all forms of discrimination, exploitation and abuse in the work place and in the community and resist all anti-migrant policies.)
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In this one we sat down with Nick to discuss his time spent in Cuba, the things he learned there, as well as other interesting discussions about the new constitution, agriculture, biotech, etc.
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Suggested Reading:
"Che: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson
"Cuba: A New History" by Richard Gott
New Cuban Constitution
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"Yo Aprendí" by Danae Suárez
In this one, the crew sat down to discuss the history of Burkina Faso, what created the atmosphere of revolution, some of Sankara's legacy, and what happened after his assassination.
CORRECTIONS:
- Jamaica was never a French colony; it was a British colony.
- "The US is a one-party state[...]" quote was from Julius Nyerere, the president of Tanzania and not Kwame Nkrumah.
- It may have been implied that Structural Adjustment Programs involved implementing privatization and austerity after the loans are paid back, but those are preconditions that must be met before and during the disbursement of the loan.
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Suggested Reading:
"A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara" - Amber Murrey, ed.
"Thomas Sankara Speaks" - Thomas Sankara
”A United Front Against Debt”: Speech to the Organization of African Unity - Thomas Sankara
"Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution" - Ernest Harsch
"Burkina Faso: Processus de la Revolution" - Babou Paulin Bamouni (in French)
"Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man" (documentary)
"The CFA Franc: French Monetary Imperialism in Africa" - Ndongo Samba Sylla
Thomas Sankara - Revolutionary Left Radio (podcast episode)
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National Anthem of Burkina Faso
HEADS UP: One of the voices on mic here, Hayder, has been accused of sexual harassment in a university position in Lahore. We’re discussing what to do with this episode, but for right now, please be aware of this and choose to listen accordingly.
Way back in November of 2018, before we got mics that sounded good, we did an installment of our Patreon-exclusive Dialectics After Dark episodes and we had a lengthy segment talking about the biography of John Brown and the raid on Harper's Ferry.
John Brown is back in the news, so we wanted to release that segment for popular consumption!
(Also, when Ethan starts talking about wool-buyers vs. wool-growers/sellers, he meant the opposite; as in, John Brown unionized people who owned sheep and sold wool. Fuck the wool-buyers)
Outro: "John Brown's Body" by Pete Seeger
In this one, we sat down with Colette to discuss the history of democratic centralism, and how it has been developed over the years, as well as other forms of democracy from ostensibly socialist origins.
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Suggested Reading:
Constitution of the Communist Party of the Philippines: https://bit.ly/2MojGOC
Constitution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: https://bit.ly/33IRj30
Parliamentary System of the DPRK: https://bit.ly/2H9bo91
The Soviets and Ourselves: Two Commonwealths by K.E. Holme: https://bit.ly/2YXEYt5
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform by Grover Furr: https://bit.ly/2ZclRef
Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: The Makhno Myth by Jason Yanowitz: http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml
Democratic Centralism by Bay Area Socialist Organizing Committee: https://bit.ly/2Owsq1U
Who runs China? https://bit.ly/2THbQAL
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin: https://bit.ly/2YYuhq8
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
Vladimir Konovalov Jazz Orchestra "The Legend of the Araratsky Valley"
In this one, we sat down with Clara Sorrenti of the Canadian Communist Party to talk about a few important historical figures in the Canadian Communist movement, as well as answer some AMA questions.
Editor's note: We're aware that in January, Clara has renounced her former political beliefs and has developed an unhelpful online presence, to put it mildly. We'll leave the episode up for now, but just know before you listen that she has turned out to be quite a clown (a chauvinist and ableist one at that).
Correction: Canada entered WW2 when Britain did, but the Communist Party didn't support the war until after the Soviet Union was invaded
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In the first episode of Ad Vincere Mundi and the first episode in the How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Histomat arc, which deals with the history of Classics as a discipline, Colette breaks down what dialectical and historical materialism are, and then confronts one of the most egregious and poisonous myths about the field: that of classical history as ‘white history’.
Intro Music: Pines of Rome: Pines of the Villa Borghese, by Ottorino Respighi. Riccardo Muti conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Musical Interlude: Ύμνος του Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο (Anthem of the Greek National Liberation Front). Maria Dimitriadi, Afroditi Manou.
Outro: Roman Festivals: The Epiphany, by Ottorino Respighi. Sergiu Comissiona conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Sources for today’s episode:
Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin;
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, by GEM de Ste. Croix;
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, by Cedric Robinson
Recommended further reading:
Peasant-Citizen and Slave, by Ellen Meiksins Wood;
Invention of the White Race, by Theodore W. Allen;
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations, by Max Weber
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Suggested Reading:
Fort Laramie Treaty: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=42&page=transcript
AIM Quotations, sources, etc.
http://www.aimovement.org/csi/index.html
http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/trailofbrokentreaties.html
http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/history.html
https://prolespod.libsyn.com/episode-22-indigeneity
Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Browns
Down with Colonialism by Ho Chi Minh
Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches by: Mark Diedrich
Settlers by J.Sakai
https://onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com/
In this deviation from our normal formula, we sat down with the lead singer/songwriter for Craig's Brother to have a brief, informal conversation about their past, present, future, as well as ideas about what happened and what indie music looks like now in the U.S.
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"Follow Your Heart" by Craig's Brother
In this one, we sat down with Pres to discuss the long and depressing history of Reproductive Rights, Patriarchy, Eugenics and how they all tie together. SPOILER ALERT: deathtoamerica
CORRECTION: The Proles were lied to; Dep (Depo Prevera) is an injection that is re-administered every three months, whereas the arm implant referred to in the episode is Nexplanon (formerly Implanon) which lasts three years. IUDs can last three to ten years depending on the type.
@marxymarx2 to contact Pres.
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Suggested Reading:
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
The Counter-Revolution of 1776, Gerald Horne
When The Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection Service, Don Lash
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet Washington
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, Alondra Nelson
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, Paul Starr (More liberal standard academic text)
Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America, Andrew Cherlin (more liberal standard academic text)
The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk, Miranda Waggoner
Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
On how men's reproductive health is under represented: sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1557988314556670 On China's One Child Policy (Warning! This paper is super orientalist/racist and very liberal--read at your own peril. Only snippets of what comes out of this paper are actually interesting and what Pres used in the episode): sci-hub.tw/10.2307/3115224
On Puerto Rico's sterilization program: sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0094582X7700400405
Sterilization as part of plea deal for man: https://insider.foxnews.com/2014/06/24/va-man-required-get-vasectomy-part-plea-deal
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"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"A Single Spark" by Xiangyu (you can order the album here)
In this one we sat down with Joel from Anti-Imperialist Parentiposting to discuss the colonial period of Argentinian history, how freedom of slaved was raffled off by the British government, the codification of racism, and how the indigenous groups were targeted and assimilated.
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Suggested Reading:
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
Silvio Rodriguez "El Necio"
In this one, the Proles talk about 5 of the most interesting communist spies and the lies, philandering, and political maneuvers that shaped the 20th century!
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Suggested Reading:
"My Cambridge Friends" by Yuri Modin
"My Silent War" by Kim Philby
"True Believer" by Kati Marton
"Operation Splinter Factor" by Stewart Steven
"An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent" by Owen Matthews
"The Man With Three Faces: The True Story of a Master Spy" by Hans-Otto Meissner
Anna Filoneno-Kamayeva Wiki (portugese)
http://agesmystery.ru/rubriki/lica-razvedki/razvedchiki-nelegaly-maxail-i-anna-filonenko/
"Ningen Zoruge" by Ishii Hanako
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers
The Proles introduce the debut episode of The Tolerant Left, an ML podcast that tackles controversial topics in discourse. In their first episode, Talia and Jess talk about electoral politics, why it's never going to give us the change we need, and what to do instead. You can follow them on Anchor and Spotify, with all the others to come shortly!
In the debut episode of Proles of the Minyan, The Proles declare their support for DC Dyke March’s banning of the Israeli pride flag, present a historical analysis of Jewish symbolism, argue for an abandonment of the Magen David, and advance other symbols, like the Hamsa, that can serve to build Jewish solidarity with Palestinians for our collective liberation.
Follow them on http://anchor.fm/proles-of-the-minyan twitter @prolesminyan, email prolesminyan@gmail.com.
Suggested Reading:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/06/06/we-dont-have-to-choose-between-dyke-and-jewish-identities/ https://medium.com/ifnotnoworg/jewish-dykes-are-welcome-at-dc-dyke-march-nationalist-symbols-are-not-c603b1f81b4c https://twitter.com/theradr/status/1136627137203572737?s=21 https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-curious-history-of-the-six-pointed-starhow-the-magen-david-became-the-jewish-symbol/ https://www.academia.edu/2553194/Shaping_Time_The_Choice_of_the_National_Emblem_of_Israel The Encyclopedia Judaica, edited by Cecil Roth The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols, by Ellen Frankel & Betsy Platkin Teutsch https://prtcls.com/article/the-hamsa-flag/ Hamsa Flag and other sources for ethical Judaica https://ayinpress.org/hamsa-flag @hamsaflag https://www.netzitzot.com/ https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/social-justice-judaica/ Intro Music by Eli Bertram
Outro Music: “Nitsokhn Lid (Victory Song)” by Yiddish Glory
In this special and spicy episode, we sat with Talia to discuss antisemitism in the USSR, especially Stalin-era. What of the doctor's plot? Or the night of the murdered poets? Tr*stky?
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Suggested Reading:
Almazoṿ, S. Ten years of Biro-Bidjan, 1928-1938. New York: ICOR. 1938.
American Icor Commission for the Study of Biro-Bidjan and Its Colonization. Report. New York: Icor. 1929.
Aptheker, Herbert. The fraud of "Soviet anti-semitism". Sydney: Current Book Distributors. 1963.
Brossat, Alain, Sylvia Klingberg, and David Fernbach. Revolutionary Yiddishland: a history of Jewish radicalism. 2017.
Davies, Dave. “Anti-Semitism and the Soviet Anti-Zionist Campaign.” Australian Left Review no. 76 (1981): 24-30.
Furr, Grover. Blood lies: the evidence that every accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is false. New York: Red Star Publishers. 2014.
Furr, Grover. Khrushchev Lied: The Evidence That Every "revelation" of Stalin’s (and Beria’s) "crimes" in Nikita Khrushchev’s Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, Is Provably False. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press and Media, 2014.
Hoffman, Matthew, and Henry Felix Srebrnik. A vanished ideology: essays on the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. 2016.
Kochan, Lionel. The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Losurdo, Domenico, and Luciano Canfora. Stalin: storia e critica di una leggenda nera. Roma: Carocci. 2015.
Mandel, William M. Soviet but Not Russian: The "other" Peoples of the Soviet Union. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1985.
Martens, Ludo, and John Plaice. Another view of Stalin. 1st ed. Raleigh, NC: Proles Press. 2018.
Miller, Moses. Soviet "Anti-semitism": the big lie. New York: Jewish Life. 1950.
Novik, Paul. Jews in the Soviet Union impressions of a two months' visit to the USSR, November-December, 1964. New York: Morning Freiheit. 1965.
O'Connor, Tom. The truth about anti-semitism in the Soviet Union: exposing the fraud perpetrated on the American people. New York: American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists & Scientists. 1949.
Pinkus, Benjamin. The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Rabinovich, Solomon. Jews in USSR. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1967.
Szymanski, Albert. Human Rights in the Soviet Union:. London: Zed, 1984.
Tartakower, Arieh. "The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union." Jewish Social Studies 33, no. 4 (1971): 285-306. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.slpl.org/stable/4466668.
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn" (Oh You Foolish Little Zionists) - a Yiddish anti-Zionist song
In this long, information-packed episode, Ethan and our guest Mitch Malloy of Wild Blue Studiosgo through most of the history of art from millions of years ago back before Homo sapiens was a thing up into the very early 20th century. We very briefly cover the Soviet Union and the birth of socialist realism as well as talk about the CIA spreading certain art forms!
The document with the images and artwork referenced is on the episode page on prolespod.com/episodes.
Also the audio is slightly garbled at a few points in the first several minutes, but it gets better! Sorry about that.
There will be a second episode dedicated to twentieth century art movements, so wait up for that!
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Suggested reading / sources used:
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
The Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
Marxism and Art, ed. Maynard Solomon
Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Max Raphael
The Social History of Art, Arnold Hauser
A History of Theatre in Africa, ed. Martin Banham
The Necessity of Art, Ernst Fischer
Art as a Cultural System, Clifford Geertz
The Soviet Theater, Laurence Senelick
ReNew Marxist Art History, ed. Barnaby Haran, Warren Carter, Frederic Schwartz
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Literature and Art, ed. Stefan Morawski
A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art, Robert Minto
"The Quickest History of 20th Century Art in Russia"
"The Art of Russia"
Outro music: "Rings", Aesop Rock
In this episode, we recorded a live episode at ProlesCon 2019 in Englewood, Colorado with Breht from RevLeftRadio and a bunch of wonderful comrades who hung out with us all weekend. We discussed left media in general, took a handful of audience questions, and then wrapped it up with a "We Could Do a Whole Episode On That" about the true story of "The Hunt for Red October."
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Suggested Resources:
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, Diane Carol Fujino
Intro music:
Proles intro by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
Full Proles intro by Ransom Notes
In this episode, we sat down with the man, the myth, the legend: Grover Furr himself. We chatted about his newest book, Stalin: Waiting for...the Truth, which is a clap-back at Stephen Kotkin's dishonest biography "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler". We also talked about Anti-communism in general, as well as the importance of Stalin's legacy and why he isn't, as many people accuse him of, a "Stalin apologist." It's spicy as hell, so buckle up.
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Direct Source Documents/Topics discussed in the show:
Frinovsky's Statement
Budyonny's Letter to Voroshilov concerning the military conspiracy
Transcript of the Tukhachevsky Trial in Russian
Suggested Reading:
Which you can get from Red Star Publishers, Erythos Press, or Amazon
Stalin: Waiting for...the Truth by Grover Furr
The Moscow Trials as Evidence by Grover Furr
Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan by Grover Furr
The Fraud of the Dewey Commission by Grover Furr
The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre by Grover Furr
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"Soviet National Anthem" by the Red Army Choir
In this episode, we sat down with Henry from Deathnography to discuss social media, leftbook, and...a bunch of random topics because we couldn't stay on task.
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Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"GoGoGo" by Deathnography
We sat down with rapper and activist, Xiangyu after his second trip to the DPRK to talk about his experiences there, as well as a handful of other interesting topics.
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Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
炮打司令部 (完整專輯) by Xiangyu
We sit down with Ethan (but not our Ethan) and Taylor (our Taylor) to talk about Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, the coup attempts, the gains of the revolutions, and the US fuckery in Venezuela.
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Suggested reading:
Hugo Chávez and the Bolívarian Revolution, Richard Gott
We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Bolívarian Revolution, George Cicariello-Maher
Suggested viewing:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Kim Bartley & Donnacha Ó Briain
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music: "Uh Ah, Chávez No Se Va", Madera
In this one we sit down with Phil after a trip to Guatemala where he reconnected with his family, revolutionary past, and their incredible story, one as old as time, of the US propping up fascists and killing communists.
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Suggested Reading:
"Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution" by Piero Gleijeses
"Bitter Fruit" by Stephen Schlesinger
"Killing Hope" by William Blum
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"Poesia Venenonsa" by Rebeca Lane
In this one we sit down with China Daily reporter, Ian Goodrum, and talk about how western media has portrayed China through its history, and communist countries broadly, as well as a bunch of great anecdotes, and discussions about how we might interpret media. And of course a brief history of The Peoples' Liquor.
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Suggested Reading:
Anti-poverty Drive
Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow
How to Visit a Socialist Country
China in the Modern Day
And of course, China Daily
Intro music:
"Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro music:
"Soviet Official" by Apathy and OC (edited for content)
(*Disclaimer: One of our microphones cut out about 1/3 of the way through recording, and so we were forced to cut most of the banter after that point. We apologize, but are grateful that Andrea had a ton of incredibly interesting information to tell, and so we feel the content didn't suffer)
The Proles sit down with Andrea (@andrea_lakota on Twitter) to discuss how Indigenous folks, decolonization, and a lot of misunderstood terms intersect. It is chocked full of amazing knowledge.
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Suggested Reading:
The Transit of Empire by Jodi Byrd
The ABC's of Decolonization: www.onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com
Outro music:
"Mushuk" by Los Nin
We talk about the splitting up of Germany after World War 2, the creation of both the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, discuss what rights GDR citizens had, how many damn Nazis were in the West after the war, and what happened in 1989.
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Suggested Reading:
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Came of It, Bruni de la Motte & John Green
The Triumph of Evil: The Reality of the USA's Cold War Victory, Austin Murphy
From My Life, Erich Honecker
Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, Elaine & Harry Mensh
Outro music: "Es Bleibt Die Sonne," Gerd Michaelis-Chor
We go through the life of actor, singer, civil rights activist, and communist Paul Robeson and talk about how he laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement in the US, how the capitalist powers tried to destroy him, and why it's important for us to remember him.
Update: we did more research and found the colleges that wouldn't play Rutgers b/c Robeson was on the football team! William & Mary, Georgia Tech, and Washington & Lee!
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Suggested Listening:
"Joe Hill"
"Anthem of the Soviet Union"
"Shlof, Mein Kind"
"The Volga Boatmen"
"Go Down Moses"
Suggested Reading:
Paul Robeson, Martin Bruml Duberman,
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary, Gerald Horne
Paul Robeson: A Watched Man, Jordan Goodman
Paul Robeson's Testimony before HUAC, 1956
Outro music:
"Old Man River" - Paul Robeson
It's been a whole freaking year since we first recorded and posted our animated first episode on the German Revolution! We are amazed and humbled by all that has happened since then, and in celebration we took live calls for two hours to meet and chat with some fantastic people and answer a few questions. Join us as we let our hair down, drink too much, and talk to ya'll.
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Outro Music: "Dr Wily's Castle Theme" by Takashi Tateishi
In yet another spicy episode that is sure to anger some folks, we talk with Ty (@spirit_of_17 on twitter), who got back not too long ago from a year living in China, and wanted to give us his take on what he experienced and saw, and what we think of where China is in the era of Xi.
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Suggested Reading:
Guide on general anti communist myths here.
Reading guide on China specifically here.
Outro Music: Xiangyu "Rumors and Slanders" Translated video can be found here.
What better way to ring in the New Year than this spicy episode on feminism, where we take shots at feminist movements of the past, men (of course) and some of the left. Special guest @socializm_ brings the fire. Ya'll are guaranteed to either love it, or hate it.
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Suggested Reading: "Caliban and the Witch" by Sylvia Federici
"Undemocratic Legacies: First Wave Feminism and the Somocista Women's Movement in Nicaragua" by V. Gonzalez-Rivera
"Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized" by Joan Acker
"The Dialectics of Sex" by Shulamith Firestone ("The Dialectics of Sex" was utilized to cover the history of the first wave feminism in the United States. For that reason we recommend the book merely for the first chapter. However, the author offers iffy analysis against Marx and misquotes Engels that makes their overall argument faulty. This work has been critiqued by Ghandy (CC member of the CPI) in her works, “Philosophical trends in the modern feminist movement.” Still recommend that chapter spoken about but keep that in mind when you read the works in its entirety)
Outro Music: "Rocky's Revenge" by Rocky Rivera
In this episode, we go from the discovery of nuclear fission up to the most recent state getting a nuclear weapon, and in between we talk about the Manhattan Project, Soviet spies, Hiroshima, US nuclear testing, and the DPRK having a nuke. This episode has some of the darkest moments we've had on the podcast and also some incredible silliness. Enjoy!
Suggested Reading/Viewing -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists, Alexei B. Kojevnikov
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, Diana Preston
Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History, Kai Bird & Lawrence Lifschultz
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race, Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, Kate Brown
Hiroshima, John Hersey
Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos, Judy Pasternak
Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Controversy, Joseph Albright & Marcia Kunstel
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1366164/Israel-reveals-secrets-of-how-it-gained-bomb.html
A Bomb in the Basement: Israel's Nuclear Option
Outro music:
Gang of Four - "I Found That Essence Rare"
Comrades, you are going to love this episode. Come along with us as we deep dive into the life of one of history's most remarkable and patient revolutionaries, from his childhood up to WW2. Ezra also shares a great anecdote about Route 559.
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Suggested Reading: "Ho Chi Minh: A Life" by William Duiker
Outro Music: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan
Have you ever wondered where the montage came from? Do you enjoy hearing Ethan plug theatre in an episode about cinema? Do you never tire of hearing Justin defend Stalin even when he clearly did some things wrong? Then you will LOVE this raucous and informative episode on the history of film and cinema within the Soviet Union (and a bit before)!
CORRECTION While Prussia was a principality in the HRE, Prussia was never part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our bad!
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Outro Music: "At Dawn" by Alyens
Sources/Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Further reading:
Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, Jay Leyda
The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema, ed. Anna Lawton
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Directory of World Cinema: Russia, Birgit Beumers
Film viewing:
Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein (1925)
Man With A Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov (1929)
October: Ten Day That Shook The World, Sergei Eisenstein (1928)
Volga-Volga, Grigori Aleksandrov (1938)
Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears, Vladimir Menshov (1980)
Join the Proles with comrade Natalie as they discuss the incredibly deep and important history of the DPRK, Natalie's upcoming project and a bit of Seeing Red!
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Sources/Suggested Reading:
10 Volume Series "Understanding Korea"
"Understanding Workers' Party of Korea"
"Socialist Korea - A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development"
"Korea's Division and Its Truth"
"War Veterans' Reminscences"
Outro: Moranbong Band "Without a Break"
Spicy content warning! Join the proles as they unveil the hilarious, soon-to-be patreon-only spinoff, Dialectics After Dark, where we read through headlines and news and react, let our hair down and spend a little more time being ridiculous. Being that this is our first run-through with this format, please forgive the roughness. It will polish up a bit in the future
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Here's that link Ethan wanted to put in the show notes: https://keywordsforcapitalism.com/
Grab your favorite beer...or coffee...or chocolate milk, and join the Proles w/ special guests Coffee With Comrades, as they discuss some current events, The Paris Commune, and some spicy discussions about the dictatorship of the proletariat!
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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Manifesto of the Paris Commune" by the Parisian Communards; "The Civil War in France" by Karl Marx; "The Paris Commune: Our First Revolution" on YouTube; "The Meaning of the Paris Commune w/Kristen Ross" The Majority Report on YouTube; "1871: The Paris Commune," Libcom.com; "The Fires of Paris: Why Do People Still Fight About The Paris Commune?" The New Yorker; "On The Barricade" Victor Hugo; "State and Revolution" V.I Lenin
Outro: Tony Babino, "L'Internationale"
Gather around the table and join the Proles as special guest Brett from Rev Left Radio comes on to discuss Mao and the Cultural Revolution!
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Sources/Suggested Reading: Hun Suyin, "Wind in the Tower"; J-Moufawad Paul, "Continuity and Rupture"; William Hinton, "Fanshen"; Aaron Leonard, "Heavy Radicals"
Outro: Bambu, "Chairman Mao"
Join the Proles as get super drunk and discuss the controversial topic of left terrorism, its history and how to interpret it. Also a raucous "Seeing Red" segment.
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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism" by Trotsky; "Revolutionary Adventurism" by Lenin; Terrorism and Communism" by Kautsky; "Europe's Last Red Terrorists" by Kassemeris
Listener submitted correction:
"I'm writing you here because there are serious errors in accounting of "left terror" in this podcast. Most of them is ignoring that large amount of attack attributed to the leftist were actually work of Stay Behind Armies of right wing fascist units run by NATO forces. Specifically kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro was exposed as work of Italian fascists directed by CIA that wanted to prevent formation of unified communist-socialist government under Alod Moro.
Also you have some names of specific NATO / US intelligence operations mistaken. By operation you mistakenly call Paperclip you most likely mean Operation Gladio that is Italian branch of NATO run Stay Behind Armies operations. Operation Paperclip is entirely different operation conducted at very end of WW2 by US military intelligence to extract large number nazis and nazi collaborators from Germany in to US."
As always we welcome corrections, as we realize that we, or our guests, can make mistakes.
Join the Proles as they interrupt Ethan incessantly and discuss the interesting and often ignored topic of Salvador Allende's top secret project CyberSyn. Also the first ever "Seeing Red" segment.
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Sources/Suggested Reading:
"Cybernetic Revolution" by Eden Medina
"Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cattrell
Join the Roundtable as we sit down and discuss the tragic collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as several other topics, including a particularly spicy conversation about censorship and free press.
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Sources/Suggested Reading:
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti
Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today, Albert Szymanski
Khrushchev Lied, Grover Furr
The proles sit down and discuss the long and rich history of the Soviet Space Program in this raucous and informative discussion!
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All previous episodes prior to the format change can be found on youtube. Please go check that out as well!
Outro Music - "How We Saw Yura Off On His Flight" - Yuri Gulyaev