• Episode 41 - Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Part One
    Dec 1 2025

    Will and Aaron start Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, reading through chapter 4 and discussing the state of exception, gulags, and how everything comes back to fucking Hegel.

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Episode 40 - Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
    Nov 10 2025

    Will and Aaron read Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice and discuss Anarchist praxis, the CNT-FAI, and how the National Federation of Labor Cartels sounds quite familiar.

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Episode 39 - Labour in Irish History
    Oct 27 2025

    Will and Aaron explore James Connolly's Labour in Irish History, discussing the merits of trade unionism as an organizational tactic, the perennial national question, and the distinction between primary and secondary contradictions.

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 38 - Socialist Reconstruction
    Sep 29 2025

    In this extra-long episode, Will and Aaron read PSL's Socialist Reconstruction and contend with collectivizing everything, the problems of skipping the revolution, and the People's Piss Bottle.

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    2 hrs and 35 mins
  • Episode 37 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 23-25
    Sep 15 2025

    Will and Aaron finish reading Dr. Karl Mark's seminal work Capital, Volume One and discuss original vs. primitive accumulation, the modern theory of colonization, and how we're honestly just happy to be done reading this dang book!

    All music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Episode 36 - "On Contradiction"
    Sep 1 2025

    Will and Aaron read Mao's "On Contradiction" and discuss the correctness of action, the lib/left coalition, and why no one wants to be Trotsky.

    Music by Sisyphus Happy.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 35 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 15-22
    Aug 18 2025

    In the penultimate Capital episode, Will and Aaron continue reading Dr. Karl Marx's seminal work, Capital, Volume One, covering chapters 15-22 and discussing the magnitude of surplus value, piece wages vs. time wages, and why Marx hated Bentham so damn much.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 34 - Guerrilla Warfare
    Jul 28 2025

    Patria o Muerte!

    In celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Will and Aaron read Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, discussing the applicability of guerrilla warfare in the modern age, "the role of the woman" in revolutionary politics, and why tractor repair may just be the next wave of revolutionary organization.

    All music by Sisyphus Happy, with the exception of the closing song: "Para Nosotros Siempre Es 26" by Carlos Puebla.

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    1 hr and 15 mins