Robert Raymond

when we talk about a "redistribution" of wealth we're accepting the inherent injustices of accumulation. instead we should be talking about "pre-distribution," which means justice by design in every stage of the system

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON: decolonizing money (plus an introduction and exchange on anarchism) w/ julio linares

there was never any need to take away the 3.5 mm headphone jack. everything was just fine. but once they got rid of that without any pushback they realized they could do anything they want

in essence nothing has changed since the times of mad kings and murderous emperors. we are still ruled by criminals

don't sleep on nathan fielder's tv show The Curse. it's an unapologetic evisceration of the modern day liberal and the performance of virtue that characterizes neoliberal capitalism ...it's also funny as hell

NEW EP niki franco joins us for a discussion on what the intertwined histories of Cuba and Puerto Rico can teach us about colonialism, capitalism, socialism, and the struggle for liberation in the caribbean and beyond

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." – Stephen Jay Gould

NEW PATREON EP the latest in our reading series explores the connection between mental health and economic inequality, drawing on a number of studies and providing commentary that spans from antidepressants COVID to air travel

kicking off my shoes and relaxing in my depression helmet with a glass of pinot after a stressful day at work

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON the crushing despair of class society (reading)

the US healthcare system is cool because it features this weird little guy who stands in between you and your doctor with the sole purpose of making sure you don't get any healthcare

NEW EP @maxhaiven.bsky.social joins us for a conversation on how the gamification of US society has led to a new form of 21st-century fascism that has transformed us all into players in an exhausting and unwinnable game

babe wake up the social democracies are embracing fascism again because they spent all their energy rejecting socialism

🎶 today is the greatest, underneath it all 🎶

just a reminder that all these apps are owned and controlled by actual fascists

NEXT WEEK: gamified capitalism and 21st century fascism w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social

in pt. 2 of our series on communist ecology we brought back henry hakamaki and salvatore engel-di mauro for a wide-ranging discussion exploring how cuba is at the forefront of ecology and what this looks like in practice

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON cuba ep. 11: actually existing ecology w/ henry hakamaki and salvatore engel-di mauro

NEW EP we're joined by folk musician carsie blanton to talk about the cultural cold war and the role of folk music in revolutionary organizing

the only thing stronger than ruling class solidarity is working class solidarity

NEXT WEEK the cultural cold war: folk music and communism w/ carsie blanton

NEW PATREON EP we're joined by ken hammond to discuss tibet—it's history, the myths surrounding it, the "free tibet" movement, the CIA and NED, and how tibet is actually doing as part of the people's republic of china

in 1955 folk musician pete seeger was blacklisted for being a communist. we all love and admire him to this day. you know who we don't love, let alone even remember? the artists who snitched or who abandoned their values when giving testimony to the house unamerican activities committee

our ruling class has been blacklisting musicians for a century—the cultural sphere is one of the most contested terrains in the class war

food in the united states is poison because it's a capitalist commodity. but that's not the case in cuba, which is the world's leader in agroecology. they don't use any chemical inputs, they protect biodiversity and soil health, and farmers are scientists who oftentimes make more than doctors

one of the greatest tricks the ruling class ever pulled was through the CIA's congress of cultural freedom: you don't have to ban the left, you just fund the version of it that's compatible with capitalism

one of my memories of 9/11 is that the ace hardware I was working at started selling t-shirts with a fighter jet and eagle with the text "now it's our turn"

anytime I walk into a target or walmart I feel this deep panic at how much shit is on the shelves. and how many of these stores exist across the country. tens of thousands. it really is a miracle that capitalism hasn't destroyed the earth already

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON china ep 11: tibet w/ ken hammond

NEW EP we're joined by chris gilbert and cira pascual marquina for an on-the-ground assessment of how venezuela is responding to the US regime's attempts at recolonization and why the western left gets so much wrong when they try to understand the health of Chavismo

just a perfectly normal oil deal between two enthusiastically consenting friends

not a single venezuelan commune has called delcy a traitor but sure let's listen to the 26-year-old american influencer