May 26, 2023
In this second installment of our
three-part series on Friedrich Engels' famous work "The Origin of
the Family, Private Property, and the State", Alyson and Breht
discuss chapters 4, 5, and 6 titled "The Greek Gens", "The Rise of
the Athenian State", and "the Gens and the State in Rome"
respectively. Together they...
May 22, 2023
Professors James Crossley and Robert J.
Myles join Breht to discuss their fascinating work
"Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" put out by Zero Book.
Together, they discuss their application of historical materalism
to the life of Jesus, the difficulty of studying and sourcing the
ancient past, the gospels and what they...
May 17, 2023
Professor and author Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left to discuss her newest book "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Together, her and Breht discuss intentional communities, social experiments, what utopia even means in this context, scientific v. utopian...
May 12, 2023
Professor and scholar Mohamed Abdou
joins Breht to discuss his book "Islam and Anarchism:
Relationships and Resonances". Together, they discuss core
concepts within Islam, the importance of decolonization, anarchist
political theory, the question of violence in revolutionary
struggle, Mohamed's construction of...
May 8, 2023
Professor of Medieval history,
practicing Sufi Muslim, and Chair of the Religious Studies
department at Queens college, Adnan Husain, joins Breht to discuss
the interesting intersections of Islam and Marxism!
Outro
music: "Ramadan" by Brother Ali
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