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Conversations and audio documentaries exploring a wide variety of themes pertaining to economics and politics, hosted by Della Z Duncan and Robert R. Raymond
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Interviews with entertaining and inspiring people who have stepped out of their comfort zones to pursue dreams and accomplish great things. Provide inspiration to listneners to pursue their dreams by stepping out of their comfort zones.
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Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s e ...
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The Logical Case for Socialism (and Against Capitalism) w/ Scott Sehon
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Facts don’t care about your feelings. Logic isn’t fair. Reason isn’t concerned with your emotions. These oft-regurgitated cliches hurled at the left by those on the right might sound familiar to you. Hey, maybe they’ve even been directed at you personally. And, aside from seeing these claims from the right as simply funny, they’re also quite ironic…
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[TEASER] Oil, Monopoly Capitalism, and Imperialism w/ Adam Hanieh
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Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel
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We’re often told that it would be unfeasible for everyone on the planet to live good lives—that if there wasn’t some degree of poverty—or at least lower living standards—in the rest of the world, then we’d blow right through the ecological limits of the planet. Even if it’s not said explicitly, the argument is that some people need to be poor in or…
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[TEASER] Nathan Fielder's "The Curse" w/ Carlee
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[UNLOCKED] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari
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Weight loss has become a fully fledged industry in the United States—another classic trick by the capitalist class: manufacture a problem to make profits, and then sell a half-solution back to the population to purportedly address that problem. Are you experiencing health issues from the poisonous food manufacturing industry in the United States? N…
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Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Underdevelopment with D. Musa Springer & Charisse Burden-Stelly
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Pan-African Marxist, underdevelopment theorist, guerrilla intellectual, father, husband, radical—these are all terms that we could use to describe Walter Rodney. You may know him from his classic text, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, you may know that he was assassinated at the age of 38 for his activism, or you may not know who he was at all—eit…
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[TEASER] Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject
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Breaking Up with Capitalism w/ Malaika Jabali
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As socialists in the United States one of our most important tasks—at least under our current material conditions—is to raise class consciousness among the mass of people: the basic work of tuning people in to the existence of structures and systems that define and limit our lives. As much as we on the left might take these things for granted, it’s…
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[TEASER] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari
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Righteous Indignation, Love, and Running for President w/ Dr. Cornel West
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Righteous indignation, truth, justice, and, maybe most important, love. These are some of the pillars that support the work that Dr. Cornel West, today’s guest, has been committed to throughout his entire life. Dr. West, as you may likely already know, is a longtime political activist, philosopher, theologian, and public intellectual. He is the Die…
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[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 11: Israel and the U.S. Empire w/ Max Ajl
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Palestine Pt. 10: Healing from Zionism w/ Meital Yaniv
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"What Israel is doing right now has nothing to do with antisemitism. What Israel is doing right now is a genocide. What Israel has been doing for the past 75 years is apartheid, is occupation. There is no need for any one of us to serve in the IDF. The IDF should not exist. The state of Israel should not exist." These are the words of a former Isra…
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[UNLOCKED] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
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The imperial core—which is comprised of settler-colonial states like those in Western Europe, as well as states like the United States, Canada and Australia—have been stealing the resources and labor of the Global South—or the periphery—for centuries. It started with the direct colonial violence and resource exploitation that marked much of the las…
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Dialectical Materialism w/ Josh Sykes
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Contradiction is one of the most important concepts in Marxist philosophy. When we think about Marxism, we typically think about the contributions that Marx, Engels, Lenin (and many others since) have made specifically to the study of political economy—but there are also deep philosophical underpinnings that form the foundation of Marxist political…
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Ever wonder why it feels like almost every single tech product you use is actively trying to screw you? Why it is that your printer requires you to subscribe to ink cartridges that, ounce for ounce, cost more than gold? Why you can’t read websites anymore because of all the moving, deceptive advertisements clogging up the screen? Why you’re paying …
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[TEASER] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
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There’s no question that the crisis of capitalism and imperialism have reached a breaking point—it’s clearly visible not only in opinion polls but also just simply through our lived experiences. The system, and those who run it, have clearly abandoned any sense of popular wellbeing or even basic accommodations for a vast segment of the population. …
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[TEASER] International Workers' Day w/ John from Working Class History
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A Blunt Conversation about Cannabis w/ David Bienenstock
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“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” This is a quote attributed to the late astronomer, planetary scientist, and cannabis enthusiast, Carl Sagan. And if you’v…
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“Post capitalism is not simply another ‘ism’ to replace previous ideologies. It’s not a euphemism for socialism or anarchism or Nordic capitalism—although it may contain some elements of each. Post capitalism is a conceptual container for social pluralities based on shared values that stem from an experience of the shortcomings of the existing syst…
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[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 9: Palestine 2031 w/ Nadia Zanghari
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You can listen to the full episode with Nadia Zanghari by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstreampodcast The revolutionary practice of dreaming, imagining, or simply hoping for a better world is an exercise whose importance is often overlooked. Not only are these practices crucial to keeping the embers warm in an increasin…
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