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We Read Theory

We Read Theory

29 Episodes • By We Read Theory • podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/...
Mark and Alex take turns explaining famous works of Leftist political theory to each other and to their audience in simple, understandable terms
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Episode 26: Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism
Theory is BACK! In this one, Alex leads Mark on a jo... more
Jul 10 2021 1h 16m
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Episode 25: Socialist Leaders 1. Thomas Sankara
Mark and Alex investigate the first in a (non-contin... more
Jan 4 2021 57m
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Episode 24: Kropotkin Returns!!! Human Nature is Good Actually
Mark and Alex celebrate a year of theory by returnin... more
Dec 14 2020 1h 11m
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Episode 23: I Was NOT Impressed With Murray Rothbard
This time the boys don't just read theory, they roas... more
Nov 29 2020 54m
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Episode 22: Errico Malatesta, 19th Century Debate Bro
Mark and Alex run through Errico Malatesta's cafe di... more
Nov 6 2020 1h 7m
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Episode 21: Why the Government Will Never Run out of Money
Mark and Alex embark on the perilous journey of atte... more
Oct 23 2020 1h 8m
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Episode 20: I Hate Talking About the Soviet Union
Mark and Alex take a look at Michael Parenti's "Blac... more
Oct 9 2020 1h 7m
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Episode 19: Gramsci, the Political Party, and the Relevance of Machiavelli in the Modern Day
Mark and Alex cover Antonio Gramsci's advice for pol... more
Sep 23 2020 45m
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Episode 18: Mental Health and Colonialism
Mark and Alex take a look at some of the ways in whi... more
Sep 9 2020 42m
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Episode 17: Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"
Mark and Alex follow Fanon through a decolonial dial... more
Aug 24 2020 36m
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Episode 16: Angela Davis' "Lectures on Liberation"
Alex stops shitposting for a while to read and discu... more
Aug 19 2020 38m
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Episode 15: WTF is Dialectical Materialism?
Mark and Alex attempt at great pain to explain one o... more
Aug 7 2020 58m
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Episode 14: J Sakai's "Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat"
Mark and Alex take a walk through American history a... more
Jul 22 2020 53m
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Episode 13.2: Alex Vitale's "The End of Policing" Part 2
Mark and Alex finish their discussion of Alex Vitale... more
Jun 25 2020 1h 3m
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Episode 13.1: Alex Vitale's "The End of Policing" Part 1
Mark and Alex begin their discussion of defunding po... more
Jun 17 2020 43m
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Episode (Fuck) 12: Abdullah Öcalan's "Democratic Confederalism"
Mark and Alex examine the goals and expectations of ... more
May 30 2020 43m
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Episode 11: Murray Bookchin's "The Ecology of Freedom"
Mark and Alex discuss how our worldview affects our ... more
May 18 2020 54m
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Episode 10: Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"
Mark and Alex discuss the disciplinary society descr... more
May 4 2020 36m
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Episode 9: Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
Picking up where they left off last time, Mark and A... more
Apr 21 2020 36m
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Episode 8: A (Very) Brief Overview of Marxism
We all know Marxism is a thing and it's important bu... more
Apr 15 2020 40m
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Manufacturing Consent Bonus: The KGB Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope
Mark explores the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope J... more
Apr 2 2020 17m
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Episode 7: Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution?"
Mark and Alex bridge the social distance to discuss ... more
Mar 26 2020 42m
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Episode 6: Various Definitions of Fascism
Mark and Alex explore a number of ways Fascism has b... more
Mar 5 2020 41m
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Episode 5: Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"
Mark takes Alex through the first half of Herman and... more
Feb 7 2020 43m
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Episode 4: Mark Fischer's "Capitalist Realism"
Mark and Alex discuss the various methods by which C... more
Jan 24 2020 29m
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