Marx Madness

Episode Notes We begin a new chapter on a slightly somber note as this was recorded just as news was breaking about the coup in Bolivia. We power through and start digging into a very interesting chapter 3 Logo by @commissartist on twitter go look them up if you need any sweet commissions or artwork by comrades for comrades reach out to them at [email protected]! Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We have a shorter episode as we finish off chapter 2 and have a much needed recap since it feels like we’ve been reading this book since the beginning of linear time. Logo by @commissartist on twitter go look them up if you need any sweet commissions or artwork by comrades for comrades reach out to them at [email protected]! Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes David has the consumption but still comes through as we plow towards the end of chapter 2 and also talk a lot about China Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Thanks to @comissartist on twitter for our new logo! Follow us @marxmadnesspod on twitter email us at [email protected] and review us at iTunes because that’s the one the podcast gods use to judge us Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Apologies for dropping later in the day for those commuter listeners we yelled at the podcast gods and they should have everything fixed Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes If you’d like to watch/listen to a bunch of socialists try and make communism work in a video game check out the twitch stream Nathan did with Dumb and Awful https://www.twitch.tv/brett_dumbandawful/video/496978181 Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Bit of a Frankenstein episode David goes from hungover to not hungover through the magic of podcasting Nathan points out David has good takes and David is uncomfortable with that. Link to the episode Nathan did with Dumb & Awful https://dumbandawful.fireside.fm/51 Find out more at https://marxmadness.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes At this pace we should finish Fanon sometime before the heat death of the universe but just barley. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes This is bad you shouldn’t listen to this This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes One episode away from the end of the longest chapter in linear time Nathan and David continue their tequila infused romp through On Violence. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We decide to start the recording session with shots and it all goes downhill from there, we read 4 pages two of which are a footnote and still manage to have a conversation for an hour? How? Listen and find out This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes In what has to be a new record for longest chapter ever Nathan and David talk about shoe banging cool military uniforms and why that matters for the colonized. We are looking for new artwork so if that’s your thing feel free to reach out @marxmadnesspod on twitter! Or just reach out because we like talking to you all! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We continue our dive through chapter three with significantly less zombies but more references to our old buddy Fred! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Nathan and David talk about magic, zombies and decolonization This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We start the long march into Wretched of the Earth proper, to set your expectations properly there will be at least 6 episodes on chapter 1 but we are reading all text so we think it’s worth the wait This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We finish up the preface and get ready for chapter 1 (which we’ve spent three weeks reading so get ready for that next week) This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Sartre writes a preface long enough to be a short work unto itself so naturally we read the whole dang thing, this is going to be a two parter so the rest will come next week. Also Nathan has a mental breakdown and Wikipedia is dumb. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Mmmmm don’t you just love that new book smell? You know we do! Even if it means diving headlong into content neither of us have ever worked with before. Come along on our journey through Fanon! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The crossover event Nathan really thought was an elaborate hoax right up until it happened. A huge thanks to both Breht and Alyson for coming on discussing our first bit of Mao! This was incredibly fun to record so hopefully you all enjoy it as well! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Because we can’t leave well enough alone, and because it really is a damn good final case study for imperialism, we dip into Dr. Walter Rodney’s seminal work to finish our third season off! Get ready for our fun crossover episode next week! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Have we mentioned Lenin knows how to edit? Because man does Lenin know how to end a book! Walter Rodney next week to close out our imperialism season then our super exciting one off crossover episode! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes This weeks chapter is a critique of imperialism, because apparently we weren’t doing that up to this point. Opportunists get ready for some dunking. Also if you don’t like hockey just skip the first like 2 minutes This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We approach the finale of imperialism. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Lenin never gets tired of dunking on Kautsky, and we discuss the ultra version of everything. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes It’s board game month at Marx Madness this week we watch the major countries divided up the world among each other. Now way that could end poorly right? Below is the Fred Hampton video we referenced that should be required viewing. https://youtu.be/Ffmg6i0lv_k This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Let’s talk about the how monopolies rule the world This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Shout out to Lenin for keeping his chapters short and keeping this episode under an hour! Exciting things are in the works as well so stay tuned to @marxmadnesspod on twitter for more on that! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We get into how banks and monopolies operate within capitalism and Nathan gets very very very mad. David does a bad Bernie Sanders impression. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The meat of the book gets started as we begin discussing banks and their roles within capitalism and imperialism This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The episode description hopefully helps explain what you’re getting into but abandon any chuckles this one is a serious discussion about recent news items and we don’t pull any punches This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We’re getting into the text of Imperialism this week where Lenin uses current events to show how right Marx was about how capitalism would develop. The end of this episode is cut abruptly short and being released as a separate episode because it is fairly content warning heavy and we wanted to make sure that didn’t sneak up on anyone you should see that short addendum in the feed the same day you see this. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Notes go here This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Happy May Day Comrades! We finish up just like we started, dunking on Kautsky. We will be coming at you next week with the begging of our third work Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Ever wonder what Lenin really thought about Kautsky? Because he’s more than happy to tell you. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Why can’t we just skip that whole state thing and get right to the communism? Lenin explains. Apologies for the audio for the first half of the episode we figure it out halfway through but until that point it does sound like David is broadcasting from a tiny bubble halfway across the room. Won’t happen again. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Once again Nathan ambushes David with some context that makes Chapter 5 make a whole lot more sense. Strap in for Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes If you listened to the mini madness earlier this week you could probably guess what was coming next. If not let’s just say Lenin is fixing to tag Engles in for his round of beating on opportunists. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes As we hinted at a couple episodes back anytime there’s a relevant work that is short enough to be read in it’s entirety we are going to try and release them earlier in the week as bonus content. These are never going to be in place of a normal episode for the week and won’t be every week but anytime we can fit them in we will. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes It only took two whole episodes of backstory but we’re here and ready to dig into chapter 3 of state and rev This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes You've heard Nathan's take on the importance of the Paris Commune now here it from someone infintely more qualified to discuss the topic. Lenin. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Nathan and David go on a whistlestop tour of Europe in 1848 during the Year of REVOLUTIONS! What does this have to do with State and Rev? Listen to find out! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Apologies for this episode not being up to our usual audio quality standards, as usual it's Nathan's fault and he just feels awful about it. Anyway enjoy chapter 2 of state and revolution This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We dive in to State and Rev where we find Lenin rather unhappy with the current state of Marxism in 1917, more specifically Lenin is rather unhappy with a Mr. Kautsky. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes We are always trying to improve the podcast both in audio quality as well as more content. If there is a book or work you would like to see covered let us know @marxmadnesspod on twitter. Also any donations that are made to the tip jar are going towards purchasing new audio equipment to get us to professional quality sound. We do this because we love it and we're excited you all seem to enjoy it as well. -Nathan and David This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The grand finale of Capital and a brief discussion on the future of the show (hint it's not ending anytime soon) This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The end is here, the crescendo of Capital and Marx's systematic destruction of capitalism comes to head in these last chapters. If there's one episode to listen to to get the overview of what Capital is about this is it. Enjoy and share. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes As we finish chapter 25 we close in on the end of Capital...again. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes It's the beginning of the end of Capital with the final formulation of Marx's theory of Capitalist accumulation. So much content needed two episodes to fully discuss. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes The first one back from ipad death where it fits in the time stream is anyones guess but its definitely chapters 23-24 This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.

Episode Notes Back to the podcave and back to Capital This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-b8b8a7 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Marx Madness.