We interviewed Lew and Kohai with GSO WHOA about their work around meeting the needs of houseless folks in their area. We talk about the revolutionary character of the lumpenproletariat, the mass line, meeting people where they're at, and about how not to be an asshole liberal. Support the show
Guest star Erik from the RAS Party School joins us to discuss propaganda in its various modes. This episode covers not only the overt forms of capitalist propaganda, but its more sinister and hidden modes, as well as what we mean when we discuss propaganda in the first place. It includes a discussion on communist pedagogy as well as a breakdown of various capitalist propaganda used Support the show
Catdad, Doc, and Pay discuss the three strategies of U.S. counterinsurgency: the murder or removal of the revolutionary cadre, the destruction of the population base, and the co-opting of the movement by the replacement of its leadership with toothless liberals. We also discuss the historic crimes of the MOVE bombing and the Greenwood Massacre. Support the show
In this episode of the Plough & Stars, Paymyrant, CatDad, and Doc Plague cover the timeline of recent events, and discuss how you can get involved and protect yourself. Breonna Taylor, we say your name today in honor of your birthday. You should still be here, and we carry on this fight in your name. We honor our fallen trans siblings, Nina Pop and Tony McDade. We carry on this fight in your names, too. Special shoutout to the K-pop stans, who have been acting in digital solidarity by cloggi...
In this special mini episode, Paymyrant reads from Eugene Debs "Why Are We Not Stronger." Contact us: contact@ploughandstarspod.com DM us on Twitter: @ploughandstars Support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars Grab some RedBubble merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ploughandstars/shop Support the show...
For this special May Day episode, all four hosts come together to discuss Bernie Sanders, electoralism and voter suppression in the context of the current crisis. Follow us on Twitter: @ploughandstars Get in touch: contact@ploughandstarspod.com Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars Grab some of our RedBubble merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ploughandstars/shop Support the show...
In this episode, hosts Catdad, Doc and Pay discuss the sharpening contradictions of capital in the current crisis, and how racial and class inequities are putting the most vulnerable among us at the highest risk. Website: ploughandstarspod.com Twitter: @ploughandstars Patreon: patreon.com/ploughandstars Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/PloughandStars/shop Email: contact@ploughandstarspod.com Support the show...
This time, Doc reads us some of J.V. Stalin's "Foundations of Leninism". Support the Plough & Stars: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/PloughandStars/shop Twitter - https://twitter.com/ploughandstars Website - https://www.ploughandstarspod.com/ Email - contact@ploughandstarspod.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars) Support the show...
Catdad reads the Umberto Eco piece Toward a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare to help pass the time in quarantine. Support the Plough & Stars: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/PloughandStars/shop Twitter - https://twitter.com/ploughandstars Website - https://www.ploughandstarspod.com/ Email - contact@ploughandstarspod.com Support the show...
In this episode, Pay, Catdad, and Doc discuss a little bit of the IWW, Trade Unionism, and the socialist legacy of Ireland Support the show
Paymyrant hosts today's minisode with a reading of Rosa Luxemburg's The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case. Read along here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1899/11/dreyfus-affair.htm Support the Plough & Stars: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ploughandstars Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/PloughandStars/shop Twitter - https://twitter.com/ploughandstars Website - https://www.ploughandstarspod.com/ Email - contact@ploughandstarspod.com Support the show...
Red and Catdad delve into a brief overview of James Connolly's life and then address his contributions to Marxist theory and his participation in the Easter Rising of 1916. Support the show
A reading of Lenin's classic by Redbernarr on the eve of a new imperial war. Remember, revolutionary defeatism is the duty of every communist! Support the show
Catdad hosts an emergency episode detailing imperial meddling in Persia and Iran since the end of the 19th century and calling for all leftists to support the organization of a general strike to cripple the imperial war machine. Support the show
Debating the national structure of the United States as a settler-colony, Catdad is alone in this episode arguing that Marx and Lenin misunderstood the material conditions of the U.S. and its social reproduction and so turns to Connolly for a fuller understanding of the U.S. constellation of forces. Support the show
There are fractures appearing through the global capital empire; the periphery and the core are both suffering from massive upheavals. These movements are the spontaneous results of the contradictions of capital sharpening. The dialectic is moving, and we owe it to each movement to study it and its material circumstances to try to get a working understanding of how it plays into the larger scheme of resistance against capital. On this 19th episode of the Plough and Stars we discuss the movements...
Paymyrant continues reading from the book Marianas in Combat, Teté Puebla & the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's revolutionary war, 1956-58 . The story is told from an interview with Teté Puebla over two sessions in November 2000 with Mary-Alice Waters. Support the show
Following up from our previous discussion on Cuba, host Paymyrant reads from the book Marianas in Combat, Teté Puebla & the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's revolutionary war, 1956-58 . The story is told from an interview with Teté Puebla over two sessions in November 2000 with Mary-Alice Waters. This section ends a little abruptly, but Part II will follow shortly. TW: The interview read in this episode features some descriptions of physical and sexual violence. You can find the bo...
In this episode, Doc continues out reading of Lenin's "State and Revolution" with chapter 5. Support the show
We return with another chapter of State and Revolution while we prepare your next host-filled episode of the Plough and Stars. Support the show
In this episode our erstwhile hosts tackle the question of "What the hell do you do with liberals?" Through many tangents, they try their best to address this age-old conundrum, even going so far as to analyze what exactly liberalism is. Support the show
We continue our reading of the State and Revolution with Chapter Three, read by Paymyrant. Support the show
Our reading of the State and Revolution continues with Catdad/the Angry Commie Lawyer's reading of Chapter Two. Support the show
Reading the State and Revolution while we plan for our next episode, this is the first of the six-chapter work by Lenin written in 1917 and revised slightly in 1918 but never appended with the planned addition. Support the show
In which we discuss the common pitfalls and dangers faced by revolutionary worker's states after a successful revolution. Support the show
This week, Paymyrant interviews leftist game developer Colestia! We talk about leftist principles in gaming, inspirational theory, and much more. Support Colestia's amazing work here: colestia.itch.io patreon.com/colestia Works mentioned in episode: Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jan-d-matthews-an-introduction-to-the-situationists Support the show...
This week we have a bonus episode, brought to you by Doc Plague. It is a reading of Mao's "Oppose Book Worship". Let us know what you think! Support the show
In this episode, we discuss the post-revolutionary USSR and the destruction of agricultural forces that led to the market-reform adoption of the NEP in the wake of the civil war. Support the show
In this episode the hosts and a guest share their stories of moving leftward over their lives in honor of May Day. Support the show
The Plough and Stars hosts discuss the pre-revolutionary conditions of Tsarist Russia and the conditions that led up to the revolution, from the unique position of the Russian Empire in terms of ethnicity, to the freeing of the serfs. Support the show
