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Two leftists exploring the question, ”what is to be done?” as they navigate life in a late-stage capitalist hellscape.

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#54
September 14 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 54 - Mutual Aid (Dean Spade)
Will and Aaron read Dean Spade's Mutual Aid and discuss leaderless and leaderful organization, how to scale up praxis to a revolutionary level, and how we both fail the perfectionism checklist. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#53
August 17 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 53 - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Will and Aaron read Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and discuss the oppressed/oppressor dialectic, how to pronounce conscientizacao, and what non-human animal wronged Freire in the past. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#52
July 27 · 49 min
Episode 52 - "The Eighteenth Brumaire"
Will and Aaron return to the great Dr. Karl Marx to read "The Eighteenth Brumaire", discussing concealing class character through parliamentary obfuscation, the weaponization of the peasantry as a reactionary class, and why 'Crapulinski' is a great burn. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#51
July 6 · 57 min
Episode 51 - We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions
Will and Aaron read Thomas Sankara's We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions and discuss Internationalism, Sankara's based feminism, and why planting trees is dope. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#50
June 22 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 50 - The State and Revolution, Revisited
Will and Aaron re-read Lenin's The State and Revolution and discuss their development as communists, the withering away of the state, and why they mess with the dictatorship of the proletariat. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#49
June 8 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 49 - Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology
Will and Aaron read Guillaume Suing's Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology and discuss the frustration of dialectics, veganism's role in ecology, and why we never want to talk about Trofim Lysenko ever again. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#48
May 25 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 48 - The Wretched of the Earth
Will and Aaron read the seminal The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and discuss the violence of the colonial struggle, the national character of resistance in a colonial settler colony, and question if Aaron even knows how to read. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#47
April 13 · 50 min
Episode 47 - "Critique of the Gotha Programme"
Will and Aaron return to the work of Dr. Karl Marx through "Critique of the Gotha Programme", discussing the role of critique, the distinction between pedantry and principle, and how Marx knows how to hold a grudge. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#46
March 30 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 46 - The Communist Necessity
Will and Aaron read J. Moufawad-Paul's The Communist Necessity and discuss the vanguard of the 21st century, "the left talking to the left about the left", and the depressing reality of movementism. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#45
March 16 · 1 hr 5 min
Episode 45 - Soledad Brother
Will and Aaron return to the great George L. Jackson to read Soledad Brother, where they discuss self-determination, blindspots in leftist movements in history, and how MLK was a Gonzaloist. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#44
March 2 · 1 hr 28 min
Episode 44 - Democracy for the Few
Will and Aaron return to the great Michael Parenti's Democracy of the Few, discussing how democratic the US truly was at its founding, how everything good in the US came from struggle, and how Parenti is an old man at heart. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#43
February 16 · 1 hr 37 min
Episode 43 - Caliban and the Witch
Will and Aaron read Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch and discuss primitive accumulation, the body as the first machine of capital, and the poophole loophole. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#42
February 2 · 1 hr 34 min
Episode 42 - Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Part Two
Will and Aaron return to finish Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, discussing terror famines, Pol Pot apologetics, and why you should condemn Churchill. All music by Sisyphus Happy.
#41
Dec 1, 2025 · 1 hr 49 min
Episode 41 - Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Part One
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.
#40
Nov 10, 2025 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 40 - Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
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.
#39
Oct 27, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 39 - Labour in Irish History
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.
#38
Sep 29, 2025 · 2 hr 34 min
Episode 38 - Socialist Reconstruction
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.
#37
Sep 15, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min
Episode 37 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 23-25
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.
#36
Sep 1, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 36 - "On Contradiction"
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.
#35
Aug 18, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 35 - Capital, Volume One: Chapters 15-22
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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