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This episode I'm stoked to be joined by the dulcet British tones of Alexander McKay, host of Red Star Radio, a podcast which presents a textured & humorous Marxist analysis of current events, economics, politics and history. To be clear, by "Marxist analysis" I mean Alexander makes sense of the buffeting and baffling tides of current cascading crises by analyzing them through the lens of class struggle, workers rights and the pressing need to cultivate broad working class solidarity.
Recently Red Star has been putting out daily briefings which cover the unfolding situation in Ukraine, and using the daily balls and strikes of that conflict as a springboard to discuss history, theories and ideas relating to class struggle in the UK and internationally.
In this far ranging and fruitful discussion we dive into such juicy topics as: how does one communicate ideas of class struggle to the conservative portion of the working class without scaring them away, why do certain portions of the Left believe that any expansion of state power if good, even when that state is completely captured by and made to serve Capitalists, should we ditch the term "Communism," and what the hell happened to the Jeremy Corbyn project in the UK?
Additional topics include an analysis of how a genuinely redistributive economic system and planned economy would actually enhance individual liberties, by engaging local communities in the deeply democratic process of configuring their own economic engine to fit their particular resources and culture, what we can learn from the Russian Revolution of 1917, and more!
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