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For this episode we’re joined by guest expert Beth Pitts for a journey into the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We’re talking about the past, present, and future of indigenous resistance in Ecuador to begin to think about what their struggle can teach us, the benefits and limitations of taking legal action against the imperial nation-state, and the ways in which we can broaden our understanding of the frontline of struggle.

For our full interview with members of the Siekopai Remolino community, head over to the Patreon. (Don’t worry; we translated it into English.)

For information on the communities mentioned, access to their fundraisers, and our guest expert’s book:

• Siekoya Remolino website: https://www.siekoyaremolino.org/  and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/siekoyaremolino

• Siekopai social media: Twitter: @Siekopai, Facebook: @Siekopai, Instagram: @Nacion.Siekopai       

• Sëra Foundation crowdfunding campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/siekopai-indigenous-amazonian-youth-foundation

• Native People of Sarayaku website: https://sarayaku.org/ 

• Children of the Jaguar documentary (Sarayaku): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1QSmtuiLQ 

• Interview Alexandra Narvaez (Sinangoe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwmQMdGuBMc 

• Under Rich Earth documentary (Intag): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRinnhejBIw 

• Moon Guide to Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands: https://www.moon.com/?s=bethany+pitts

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Charles Xu joins the show to give us a whirlwind tour of the history of Taiwan starting from about 15,000 years ago to the late 1980s to explain to us the origins of the current tensions between China and the West (led by the United States of America, ofcourse) that has been recklessly escalating to a war!

The history covered here is covered in much more detail on the Qiao Collective website which hosts their outstanding Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Resource.

Charles Xu is a member of the Qiao Collective. The Qiao Collective is a diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression in China. 

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CW - This episode, almost from start to finish, tells a lot of horrific stories of both physical and mental abuse and mutilation of some of the most marginalized and at-risk types of folks. If this is something that will be difficult to get through for you, please skip the episode or take it slow. 

In this episode, we discuss a topic that is widely known but often skimmed. Instead of focusing on the people involved or the "funny" cases, we talked more about the monstrous nature of the project and the blatant disregard for human life and wellbeing. All for a made up thing that they never even got close to figuring out.

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We are joined by Iskolat to discuss the heroric struggle of Latvia's Red Partisans during World War II - also known as the Great Patriotic War. For years this communist resistance stifled and sabotaged the Nazi occupation of Latvia.  Focusing on the rarely discussed era of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, we connect it's past to it's present working class struggles. 

Note: This episode was filmed before before Rae and Martín joined the Prolespod. 

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The unveiling of TheoryBeats, a new project by ProlesPod and DJ DTA. Let us know what you think!

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In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Evan from Left of the Projector Podcast to delve into a Marxist analysis of the new animated series X-Men '97. We explore the show's portrayal of the mutant struggle through a Marxist lens, examining characters like Magneto and Professor X as representations of different revolutionary strategies. We discuss the complex dynamics of Genosha, a nation of mutants, as it transitions from slavery to liberation, drawing parallels to real-world post-colonial struggles. We also analyze the show's depiction of the exploitation of mutant labor and the justification for their oppression, mirroring the dynamics of class struggle in capitalist societies. Additionally, we critique the show's portrayal of international relations and the hypocrisy of organizations like the UN. Finally, we touch upon the challenges faced by the mutant state after the revolution, including the constant threat of counter-revolution and the complexities of governance.

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Sources: 

"Letter to American Workers" V.I. Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/20.htm

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In this episode, we're joined by our two newest co-hosts, Rae and Martín, to take the Proles' first trip to Mexico. In this wide-ranging episode, we cover a (brief) workers' history of Mexico, the rise of the current president AMLO, what his presidency has meant for Mexican people, and some insight on the upcoming presidential election.

There were a shocking number of resources consulted for this episode, but those specifically referenced (in English) are here:

• https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amlo-presidency-mexico-morena-pri-neoliberalism
• https://ausm.community/the-4t/
• https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-contradictions-of-amlo/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4O2WlWPHw

A note that several of our sources are in Spanish, but if you're a Spanish speaker interested in the resource list, don't hesitate to reach out.

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In this episode, the Scottish comrades return to discuss the revolutionary life of John Maclean. No, not that one... or that one. The Scottish revolutionary that spent his entire life fighting for the proletariat and who was in jail when British fascist Winston Churchill rolled tanks on Glasgow during the Battle of George Square to destroy the voice of the oppressed. 

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In this episode, El discusses the birth and development of the proletariat within Scottland, as well as the ways in which the nobility and the British empire sabotaged them time and again.

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In this long awaited return of the show the gang revisits East Germany, with new Proles co-host and host of Actually Existing Socialism - Tony -  giving us a guide through attempts by Western capitalist nations to subvert the East German state from the post-war period to the installation of the Berlin Wall. Spoiler alert: It all goes back to the 5 Ds!

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Episode Sources:

"Exploiting and Securing the Open Border in Berlin: the Western Secret Services, the Stasi, and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961"

"Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949"

The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany"

“Spying On Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945-1961”

"Address given by Nikita Khrushchev on the GDR and Berlin (Moscow, 10 November 1958)" "GDR: An Historical Outline" "Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" "Killing Hope"

In this episode, the new gang (so far) introduces themselves, and Jeremy briefly recounts the history of Proles as well as what we're doing differently this time, based on lessons we learned.

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In this episode, the gang collaborates with Breht O'Shea of RevLeft Radio on an analysis of the Marxist understanding of history, how we as human beings relate to history, and how we can see through the veil of bourgeois historiography. It is my personal favorite episode we ever recorded, and it is the one people have most requested that we re-upload. It was taken down with good reason, but there are good reasons for it to come back. It is certainly one of the most positive and affirming episodes we ever made, and I feel like people need that right now.

If you have any questions or comments, DM Jeremy at facebook.com/mambono17 or Instagram @mambono17 or email [email protected]. All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well!

Suggested Reading and Resources: 

I don't have a way to reach out to Hayder to ask him about his sources, and unfortunately, I have forgotten a lot of the works I was referencing, but I will do my best to reconstruct what I can recall.

Silencing the Past - Michel-Rolphe Trouillot

Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici

Chulmun Neolithic Inensification, Asian Perspectives, Spring 2012 - Sook-Chung Shin, Song-Nai Rhee, and C. Melbin Aikens

The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum - Robert L. Kelly

In this episode, the gang revisits Argentina with the help of Joel and Homer, learning how it escaped Spanish colonialism only to become prey to British and US imperialism. And coups. So many coups.

If you have any questions or comments, DM Jeremy at facebook.com/mambono17 or Instagram @mambono17 or email [email protected]. All episodes prior to episode 4 can be found on YouTube, so go check that out as well!

Suggested Reading and Resources: 

Documentaries:

Ver la Historia by Felipe Pigna

Seré Millones by Fernando Krichmar, Omar Neri, Mónica Simoncini

Book:

Todo o Nada by Maria Seoane

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The next-to-the-last PRT episode, recorded before the collapse. Justin and Ethan discuss the history of Romania as Alekx hosts.

At several listeners' requests, we're uploading the January patreon-exclusive episode, which is Ethan's performance of Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever.

The Fever is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to terms with the injustice in the world and his own role within that injustice. 

"I feel like this play covers most if not all the important points of capital, state/rev, and a lot of wretched of the earth somehow in 1hr." -dblizz66

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In this episode, the gang has an info-packed discussion with Phil Miller, the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes. Phil is an investigative journalist who put an unbelievable amount of work into sifting through many a redacted document to piece together the clandestine history of the notorious private military outfit, Keenie Meenie. 

You can find Phil via his publisher, Pluto Press, or his own page.

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Suggested Reading and Resources: 

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with Murder

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In this episode, Talia of Proles of the Minyan fills in for 8-Hop (who was held up by the TSA) to host a round table discussion about the radical history of Ireland leading up to the Connolly Youth Movement and what they stand for today. (Editor's note: Apologies for the poor audio; 8-Hop had the equipment)

Check out the CYM here.

Check out the CPI's paper here.

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In this epic crossover, we had Nathan and David from Marx Madness come on to discuss Black Bolshevik, one of the most important and interesting books ever written. We spent close to 3 hours talking about the remarkable life and theory of Harry Haywood. Link to the contest can be found here.

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Suggested Reading: 

"Black Bolshevik" by Harry Haywood

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In this rollercoaster of an episode, Alekx discussing some amazing figures in the history of Vietnam and the importance of not only remembering their legacy, but building movements around non-men. 

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In this engaging and inspiring episode, we sat down with Emmy (@cannibality) to discuss the history of New Caledonia and the absolute unit that was Eloi Machoro. 

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Suggested Reading: 

"Blood On Their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific", David Robie Cafe Pacific (blog w/ updates) "L'Ordre et La Morale" ["Rebellion"] (film)

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In this episode, Jeremy goes over the social construction of history and how it affects the way people perceive their place, how nations form identities, and how history has become inherently white supremacist. 

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Suggested Reading: 

Arenas, Iraida V. (1995). "The Perception of History and Archaeology in Latin America." Making Alternative Histories. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Arnold, Bettina. (2006). "'Arierdämmerung': Race and Archaeology in Nazi Germany." World Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 8-31.

Bateson, Gregory. (2000a). "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis." Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

---. (2000b). "Cybernetic Explanation." Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Clifford, James. (1986). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (1993). "The Myth of Western Civilization." The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/the-myth-of-western-civilization/282704/.

de Certeau, Michel. (1986). "History: Science and Fiction." Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Translated by Brian Massumi.  Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Feyerabend, Paul. (1993). Against Method. New York: Verso.

Foucault, Michel. (1984a). "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books.

---. (1984b). "What is an Author?" The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books.

Hanagan, Nora. “From Agrarian Dreams to Democratic Realities: A Deweyan Alternative to Jeffersonian Food Politics.” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 34-45, https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.uccs.edu/stable/24371970.

Hatch, Thom. (2004). Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but found War.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hobsbawm, Eric. (1993). The Invention of Tradition. Edited by Eric Hobsbawm, and Terrence Ranger. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.

Mallory, J. P. (2013) The Origins of the Irish. London: Thames & Hudson.

Minor, Heather H. (1999). "Mapping Mussolini: Ritual and Cartography in Public Art during the Second Roman Empire." Imago Mundi, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 147-162, doi:10.1080/03085699908592907.

Nelis, Jan. (2014). "Back to the Future." Fascism, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-19, doi://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00301001.

Paidipaty, P. (2010). Tribal Nations: Politics and the Making of Anthropology in India, 1874-1967 (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University).

Schmidt, Peter R., and Thomas C. Patterson. (1995). Making Alternative Histories. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson. School of American Santa Fe: Research Press.

Thomas, David H. (2000). Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity. New York: Basic Books.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (1995). Silencing the Past. Boston: Beacon Press.

Turner, Frederick J. (2009) "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Studies at the University of Virginia, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/turner/chapter1.html.

Whitman, James Q. (2017). Hitler's American Model. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Winkler, Martin M. (2009). The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology.  Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.uccs.edu/book/27815.

Wolfe, Eric R. (1982). Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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In this one, the Proles sat down with Daniel and Professor Sarah Raymundo to discuss the colonial history and current concerns of our comrades, who are engaging in a broad-based revolutionary struggle right now. 

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Books & Documents

Collection of Documents from the CPP

Guerrero. Philippine Society & Revolution, 1970 (updated and shorter format in Tagalog, Maikling Kurso sa Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino 2005).

—Foundation for Resuming the Philippine Revolution: Selected Writings, 1968-1972. (Includes the First Great Rectification Movement document, “Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party”)

—Defeating Revisionism, Reformism and Opportunism: Selected Writings, 1968-1974. (Includes numerous articles criticizing the old revisionist leadership of the previous PKP)

—Building Strength Through Struggle: Selected Writings, 1972-1977. (Has two very important documents, “Our Urgent Tasks” and “Specific Characteristics of Our People’s War”)

—Detention and Defiance Against Dictatorship: Selected Writings, 1977-1986. (Writings while founding chairman of the CPP, Jose Maria Sison, was in solitary confinement and jail, including “Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer” and “Brief History of the Kabataang Makabyan”)

Liwanag. Reaffirm Our Basic Principles and Rectify Errors, 1992. (The major document putting into motion the Second Great Rectification Movement)

Constitution and Program of the CPP, 2016.

“Communique of the 2nd Congress of the CPP.”

Central Committee of the CPP. “Celebrate the Party’s 50th Anniversary.”

—“Boldly Intensify Guerrilla Warfare: 50th Anniversary of the New People’s Army.”

Sison. “Great Achievements of the CPP in 50 Years of Waging Revolution,” 2018 (A document summarizing the historical achievements of the CPP as well as a current rectification campaign to combat conservatism, bureaucratism, sectarianism and ultra-democracy)

Pambansa Demokratikong Paaralan (PADEPA is a collection of lessons and readings for mass activists in the National Democratic Movement put together by the revolutionary movement in the Philippines)

History Books on the Philippines and the CPP

Agoncillo. The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan, 1956.

—Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic, 1960.

—History of the Filipino People, 1960.

Constantino. The Making of a Filipino: A Story of Philippine Colonial Politics, 1969.

—The Philippines: A Past Revisited, 1975.

—The Philippines: A Continuing Past, 1978.

Lanzona. Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines, 2009.

McCoy. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State, 2009.

Richardson. Komunista: The Genesis of the Philippine Communist Party: 1902-1935, 2011 (pdf copy of his 1984 dissertation can be found here).

Rosca, Sison. Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World, 2004.

Simbulan. When the Rains Come, Will not the Grass Grow Again? The Socialist Movement in the Philippines, 2018

—The Modern Principalia: The Historical Evolution of the Philippine Ruling Oligarchy, 2007.

Sison, “The Role of the Communist International in the Formation of the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands,” 2019.

Contemporary Studies of the Philippines and the National Democratic Movement

Francisco-Menchavez. The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, 2018.

Lindio-McGovern. Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance, 1997.

—Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities, 2013.

Rodriguez. Migrants for Export: How the Philippine Sate Brokers Labor to the World, 2010.

San Juan, Jr. U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines, 2007.

Scipes. KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1996.

Tuazon. The Moro Reader: History and Contemporary Struggles of the Bangsamoro People, 2008.

Media

Communist Party of the Philippines

Twitter

Instagram

Ang Bayan (the Party’s twice a month publication)

National Democratic Front of the Philippines (the most consolidated, revolutionary alliance of underground mass organizations in the Philippine revolution)

Liberation (the official publication of the NDF)

News Media

Altermidya (People’s Alternative Media Network is a network of independent and progressive media outfits, institutions and individuals)

Bulatlat (One of the original online news publications in the Philippines covering the struggles of the toiling masses and mass movement)

Pinoy Weekly (An online and print publication that publishes weekly stories of the marginalized sectors of society. It also has print editions world wide)

Legal Mass Movement National Democratic Alliances

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN is a multisectoral formation struggling for national and social liberation against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. Founded on the determination and strength of the majority of oppressed classes, BAYAN is an alliance composed mainly of organizations of workers and peasants.)

Kilusang Mayo Uno (Facebook page only. KMU is an independent labour center promoting genuine, militant and patriotic trade unionism. It is genuine because it recognizes the struggle between labor and capital and upholds the legitimate interests of the working class; militant because it relies on the workers collective struggle in defending trade union and democratic rights; and patriotic because it seeks to end imperialist domination and control over the Philippines.)

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Facebook page only. KMP is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth and peasant women)

GABRIELA (Facebook page only. It is nationwide alliance of 200 women's organizations that cut across sectors and regions, plus chapters and support groups of Pinays and non-Pinays in various continents of the world.)

Migrante International (Alliance for migrant and overseas workers to promote migrants’ rights and dignity against all forms of discrimination, exploitation and abuse in the work place and in the community and resist all anti-migrant policies.)

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In this one we sat down with Nick to discuss his time spent in Cuba, the things he learned there, as well as other interesting discussions about the new constitution, agriculture, biotech, etc.

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Suggested Reading: 

"Che: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson

"Cuba: A New History" by Richard Gott

New Cuban Constitution

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"Yo Aprendí" by Danae Suárez

In this one, the crew sat down to discuss the history of Burkina Faso, what created the atmosphere of revolution, some of Sankara's legacy, and what happened after his assassination.

CORRECTIONS: - Jamaica was never a French colony; it was a British colony. - "The US is a one-party state[...]" quote was from Julius Nyerere, the president of Tanzania and not Kwame Nkrumah. - It may have been implied that Structural Adjustment Programs involved implementing privatization and austerity after the loans are paid back, but those are preconditions that must be met before and during the disbursement of the loan.

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Suggested Reading: 

"A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara" - Amber Murrey, ed. "Thomas Sankara Speaks" - Thomas Sankara ”A United Front Against Debt”: Speech to the Organization of African Unity - Thomas Sankara "Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution" - Ernest Harsch "Burkina Faso: Processus de la Revolution" - Babou Paulin Bamouni (in French) "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man" (documentary) "The CFA Franc: French Monetary Imperialism in Africa" - Ndongo Samba Sylla Thomas Sankara - Revolutionary Left Radio (podcast episode)

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HEADS UP: One of the voices on mic here, Hayder, has been accused of sexual harassment in a university position in Lahore. We’re discussing what to do with this episode, but for right now, please be aware of this and choose to listen accordingly. Way back in November of 2018, before we got mics that sounded good, we did an installment of our Patreon-exclusive Dialectics After Dark episodes and we had a lengthy segment talking about the biography of John Brown and the raid on Harper's Ferry.

John Brown is back in the news, so we wanted to release that segment for popular consumption!

(Also, when Ethan starts talking about wool-buyers vs. wool-growers/sellers, he meant the opposite; as in, John Brown unionized people who owned sheep and sold wool. Fuck the wool-buyers)

Outro: "John Brown's Body" by Pete Seeger 

In this one, we sat down with Colette to discuss the history of democratic centralism, and how it has been developed over the years, as well as other forms of democracy from ostensibly socialist origins.

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Suggested Reading:

 Constitution of the Communist Party of the Philippines: https://bit.ly/2MojGOC

Constitution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: https://bit.ly/33IRj30

Parliamentary System of the DPRK: https://bit.ly/2H9bo91

The Soviets and Ourselves: Two Commonwealths by K.E. Holme: https://bit.ly/2YXEYt5

Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform by Grover Furr: https://bit.ly/2ZclRef

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: The Makhno Myth by Jason Yanowitz: http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml

Democratic Centralism by Bay Area Socialist Organizing Committee: https://bit.ly/2Owsq1U

Who runs China? https://bit.ly/2THbQAL

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin: https://bit.ly/2YYuhq8

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Vladimir Konovalov Jazz Orchestra "The Legend of the Araratsky Valley"

In this one, we sat down with Clara Sorrenti of the Canadian Communist Party to talk about a few important historical figures in the Canadian Communist movement, as well as answer some AMA questions.

Editor's note: We're aware that in January, Clara has renounced her former political beliefs and has developed an unhelpful online presence, to put it mildly. We'll leave the episode up for now, but just know before you listen that she has turned out to be quite a clown (a chauvinist and ableist one at that).

**Correction: Canada entered WW2 when Britain did, but the Communist Party didn't support the war until after the Soviet Union was invaded**

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In the first episode of Ad Vincere Mundi and the first episode in the How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Histomat arc, which deals with the history of Classics as a discipline, Colette breaks down what dialectical and historical materialism are, and then confronts one of the most egregious and poisonous myths about the field: that of classical history as ‘white history’. Intro Music: Pines of Rome: Pines of the Villa Borghese, by Ottorino Respighi. Riccardo Muti conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Musical Interlude: Ύμνος του Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο (Anthem of the Greek National Liberation Front). Maria Dimitriadi, Afroditi Manou. Outro: Roman Festivals: The Epiphany, by Ottorino Respighi. Sergiu Comissiona conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Sources for today’s episode: Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Joseph Stalin; The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, by GEM de Ste. Croix; Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, by Cedric Robinson Recommended further reading: Peasant-Citizen and Slave, by Ellen Meiksins Wood; Invention of the White Race, by Theodore W. Allen; The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations, by Max Weber

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Suggested Reading:

Fort Laramie Treaty: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=42&page=transcript

AIM Quotations, sources, etc.

http://www.aimovement.org/csi/index.html

http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/trailofbrokentreaties.html

http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/history.html

https://prolespod.libsyn.com/episode-22-indigeneity

Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Browns

Down with Colonialism by Ho Chi Minh

Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches by: Mark Diedrich

Settlers by J.Sakai

https://onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com/

In this deviation from our normal formula, we sat down with the lead singer/songwriter for Craig's Brother to have a brief, informal conversation about their past, present, future, as well as ideas about what happened and what indie music looks like now in the U.S.

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"Follow Your Heart" by Craig's Brother

In this one, we sat down with Pres to discuss the long and depressing history of Reproductive Rights, Patriarchy, Eugenics and how they all tie together. SPOILER ALERT: deathtoamerica

CORRECTION: The Proles were lied to; Dep (Depo Prevera) is an injection that is re-administered every three months, whereas the arm implant referred to in the episode is Nexplanon (formerly Implanon) which lasts three years. IUDs can last three to ten years depending on the type.

@marxymarx2 to contact Pres.

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Suggested Reading:

 Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi The Counter-Revolution of 1776, Gerald Horne When The Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection Service, Don Lash Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet Washington   Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, Alondra Nelson   The Social Transformation of American Medicine:  The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, Paul Starr (More liberal standard academic text) Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America, Andrew Cherlin (more liberal  standard academic text)    The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk, Miranda Waggoner   Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis     On how men's reproductive health is under represented: sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1557988314556670  On China's One Child Policy (Warning! This paper is super orientalist/racist and very liberal--read at your own peril. Only snippets of what comes out of this paper are actually interesting and what Pres used in the episode): sci-hub.tw/10.2307/3115224   On Puerto Rico's sterilization program: sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0094582X7700400405   Sterilization as part of plea deal for man: https://insider.foxnews.com/2014/06/24/va-man-required-get-vasectomy-part-plea-deal 

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"A Single Spark" by Xiangyu (you can order the album here)

In this one we sat down with Joel from Anti-Imperialist Parentiposting to discuss the colonial period of Argentinian history, how freedom of slaved was raffled off by the British government, the codification of racism, and how the indigenous groups were targeted and assimilated. 

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Suggested Reading:

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Silvio Rodriguez "El Necio"

In this one, the Proles talk about 5 of the most interesting communist spies and the lies, philandering, and political maneuvers that shaped the 20th century!

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Suggested Reading:

"My Cambridge Friends" by Yuri Modin

"My Silent War" by Kim Philby

"True Believer" by Kati Marton

"Operation Splinter Factor" by Stewart Steven

"An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent" by Owen Matthews

"The Man With Three Faces: The True Story of a Master Spy" by Hans-Otto Meissner

Anna Filoneno-Kamayeva Wiki (portugese)

http://agesmystery.ru/rubriki/lica-razvedki/razvedchiki-nelegaly-maxail-i-anna-filonenko/

"Ningen Zoruge" by Ishii Hanako

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"Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers

In the debut episode of Proles of the Minyan, The Proles declare their support for DC Dyke March’s banning of the Israeli pride flag, present a historical analysis of Jewish symbolism, argue for an abandonment of the Magen David, and advance other symbols, like the Hamsa, that can serve to build Jewish solidarity with Palestinians for our collective liberation.

Follow them on http://anchor.fm/proles-of-the-minyan twitter @prolesminyan, email [email protected].

Suggested Reading:

Intro Music by Eli Bertram

Outro Music: “Nitsokhn Lid (Victory Song)” by Yiddish Glory

In this special and spicy episode, we sat with Talia to discuss antisemitism in the USSR, especially Stalin-era. What of the doctor's plot? Or the night of the murdered poets? Tr*stky?

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Suggested Reading:

Almazoṿ, S. Ten years of Biro-Bidjan, 1928-1938. New York: ICOR. 1938.

American Icor Commission for the Study of Biro-Bidjan and Its Colonization. Report. New York: Icor. 1929.

Aptheker, Herbert. The fraud of "Soviet anti-semitism". Sydney: Current Book Distributors. 1963.

Brossat, Alain, Sylvia Klingberg, and David Fernbach. Revolutionary Yiddishland: a history of Jewish radicalism. 2017.

Davies, Dave. “Anti-Semitism and the Soviet Anti-Zionist Campaign.” Australian Left Review no. 76 (1981): 24-30.

Furr, Grover. Blood lies: the evidence that every accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is false. New York: Red Star Publishers. 2014.

Furr, Grover. Khrushchev Lied: The Evidence That Every "revelation" of Stalin’s (and Beria’s) "crimes" in Nikita Khrushchev’s Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, Is Provably False. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press and Media, 2014.

Hoffman, Matthew, and Henry Felix Srebrnik. A vanished ideology: essays on the Jewish communist movement in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. 2016.

Kochan, Lionel. The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Losurdo, Domenico, and Luciano Canfora. Stalin: storia e critica di una leggenda nera. Roma: Carocci. 2015.

Mandel, William M. Soviet but Not Russian: The "other" Peoples of the Soviet Union. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1985.

Martens, Ludo, and John Plaice. Another view of Stalin. 1st ed. Raleigh, NC: Proles Press. 2018.

Miller, Moses. Soviet "Anti-semitism": the big lie. New York: Jewish Life. 1950.

Novik, Paul. Jews in the Soviet Union impressions of a two months' visit to the USSR, November-December, 1964. New York: Morning Freiheit. 1965.

O'Connor, Tom. The truth about anti-semitism in the Soviet Union: exposing the fraud perpetrated on the American people. New York: American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists & Scientists. 1949.

Pinkus, Benjamin. The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Rabinovich, Solomon. Jews in USSR. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1967.

Szymanski, Albert. Human Rights in the Soviet Union:. London: Zed, 1984. Tartakower, Arieh. "The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union." Jewish Social Studies 33, no. 4 (1971): 285-306. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.slpl.org/stable/4466668.

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Outro music:

"Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn" (Oh You Foolish Little Zionists) - a Yiddish anti-Zionist song

In this long, information-packed episode, Ethan and our guest Mitch Malloy of Wild Blue Studiosgo through most of the history of art from millions of years ago back before Homo sapiens was a thing up into the very early 20th century. We very briefly cover the Soviet Union and the birth of socialist realism as well as talk about the CIA spreading certain art forms! 

The document with the images and artwork referenced is on the episode page on prolespod.com/episodes.

Also the audio is slightly garbled at a few points in the first several minutes, but it gets better! Sorry about that.

There will be a second episode dedicated to twentieth century art movements, so wait up for that!

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Suggested reading / sources used:

Ways of Seeing, John Berger The Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin Marxism and Art, ed. Maynard Solomon Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Max Raphael The Social History of Art, Arnold Hauser A History of Theatre in Africa, ed. Martin Banham The Necessity of Art, Ernst Fischer Art as a Cultural System, Clifford Geertz The Soviet Theater, Laurence Senelick ReNew Marxist Art History, ed. Barnaby Haran, Warren Carter, Frederic Schwartz Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Literature and Art, ed. Stefan Morawski A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art, Robert Minto "The Quickest History of 20th Century Art in Russia" "The Art of Russia" 

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In this episode, we recorded a live episode at ProlesCon 2019 in Englewood, Colorado with Breht from RevLeftRadio and a bunch of wonderful comrades who hung out with us all weekend. We discussed left media in general, took a handful of audience questions, and then wrapped it up with a "We Could Do a Whole Episode On That" about the true story of "The Hunt for Red October."

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 Suggested Resources:

Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, Diane Carol Fujino

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Full Proles intro by Ransom Notes 

In this episode, we sat down with the man, the myth, the legend: Grover Furr himself. We chatted about his newest book, Stalin: Waiting for...the Truth, which is a clap-back at Stephen Kotkin's dishonest biography "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler". We also talked about Anti-communism in general, as well as the importance of Stalin's legacy and why he isn't, as many people accuse him of, a "Stalin apologist." It's spicy as hell, so buckle up.

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Direct Source Documents/Topics discussed in the show:

Frinovsky's Statement

Budyonny's Letter to Voroshilov concerning the military conspiracy

Transcript of the Tukhachevsky Trial in Russian

Suggested Reading:

Which you can get from Red Star Publishers, Erythos Press,  or Amazon

Stalin: Waiting for...the Truth by Grover Furr

The Moscow Trials as Evidence by Grover Furr

Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan by Grover Furr

The Fraud of the Dewey Commission by Grover Furr

The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre by Grover Furr

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"Soviet National Anthem" by the Red Army Choir

In this episode, we sat down with Henry from Deathnography to discuss social media, leftbook, and...a bunch of random topics because we couldn't stay on task.

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"GoGoGo" by Deathnography

We sat down with rapper and activist, Xiangyu after his second trip to the DPRK to talk about his experiences there, as well as a handful of other interesting topics. 

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炮打司令部 (完整專輯) by Xiangyu

We sit down with Ethan (but not our Ethan) and Taylor (our Taylor) to talk about Simón Bolívar,  Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, the coup attempts, the gains of the revolutions, and the US fuckery in Venezuela.

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Suggested reading: Hugo Chávez  and the Bolívarian Revolution, Richard Gott We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Bolívarian Revolution, George Cicariello-Maher

Suggested viewing:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Kim Bartley & Donnacha Ó Briain

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Outro music: "Uh Ah,  Chávez  No Se Va", Madera

In this one we sit down with Phil after a trip to Guatemala where he reconnected with his family, revolutionary past, and their incredible story, one as old as time, of the US propping up fascists and killing communists.

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Suggested Reading:

"Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution" by Piero Gleijeses

"Bitter Fruit" by Stephen Schlesinger

"Killing Hope" by William Blum

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"Poesia Venenonsa" by Rebeca Lane

In this one we sit down with China Daily reporter, Ian Goodrum, and talk about how western media has portrayed China through its history, and communist countries broadly, as well as a bunch of great anecdotes, and discussions about how we might interpret media. And of course a brief history of The Peoples' Liquor.

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Suggested Reading:

Anti-poverty Drive

Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow

How to Visit a Socialist Country

China in the Modern Day

And of course, China Daily

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Outro music:

"Soviet Official" by Apathy and OC (edited for content)

(*Disclaimer: One of our microphones cut out about 1/3 of the way through recording, and so we were forced to cut most of the banter after that point. We apologize, but are grateful that Andrea had a ton of incredibly interesting information to tell, and so we feel the content didn't suffer)

The Proles sit down with Andrea (@andrea_lakota on Twitter) to discuss how Indigenous folks, decolonization, and a lot of misunderstood terms intersect. It is chocked full of amazing knowledge. 

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Suggested Reading:

 The Transit of Empire by Jodi Byrd

The ABC's of Decolonization: www.onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com

Outro music:

"Mushuk" by Los Nin

We talk about the splitting up of Germany after World War 2, the creation of both the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, discuss what rights GDR citizens had, how many damn Nazis were in the West after the war, and what happened in 1989.

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Suggested Reading:

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Came of It, Bruni de la Motte & John Green The Triumph of Evil: The Reality of the USA's Cold War Victory, Austin Murphy From My Life, Erich Honecker Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, Elaine & Harry Mensh

Outro music: "Es Bleibt Die Sonne," Gerd Michaelis-Chor

We go through the life of actor, singer, civil rights activist, and communist Paul Robeson and talk about how he laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement in the US, how the capitalist powers tried to destroy him, and why it's important for us to remember him.

Update: we did more research and found the colleges that wouldn't play Rutgers b/c Robeson was on the football team! William & Mary, Georgia Tech, and Washington & Lee! 

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Suggested Listening:

"Joe Hill" "Anthem of the Soviet Union" "Shlof, Mein Kind" "The Volga Boatmen" "Go Down Moses" 

Suggested Reading:

Paul Robeson, Martin Bruml Duberman, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary, Gerald Horne Paul Robeson: A Watched Man, Jordan Goodman Paul Robeson's Testimony before HUAC, 1956 

Outro music:

"Old Man River" - Paul Robeson

It's been a whole freaking year since we first recorded and posted our animated first episode on the German Revolution! We are amazed and humbled by all that has happened since then, and in celebration we took live calls for two hours to meet and chat with some fantastic people and answer a few questions. Join us as we let our hair down, drink too much, and talk to ya'll.

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 Outro Music: "Dr Wily's Castle Theme" by Takashi Tateishi

In yet another spicy episode that is sure to anger some folks, we talk with Ty (@spirit_of_17 on twitter), who got back not too long ago from a year living in China, and wanted to give us his take on what he experienced and saw, and what we think of where China is in the era of Xi.

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 Suggested Reading:

Guide on general anti communist myths here.

Reading guide on China specifically here.

 Outro Music: Xiangyu "Rumors and Slanders" Translated video can be found here.

What better way to ring in the New Year than this spicy episode on feminism, where we take shots at feminist movements of the past, men (of course) and some of the left. Special guest @socializm_ brings the fire. Ya'll are guaranteed to either love it, or hate it. 

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 Suggested Reading: "Caliban and the Witch" by Sylvia Federici

"Undemocratic Legacies: First Wave Feminism and the Somocista Women's Movement in Nicaragua" by V. Gonzalez-Rivera

"Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized" by Joan Acker

"The Dialectics of Sex" by Shulamith Firestone ("The Dialectics of Sex" was utilized to cover the history of the first wave feminism in the United States. For that reason we recommend the book merely for the first chapter. However, the author offers iffy analysis against Marx and misquotes Engels that makes their overall argument faulty. This work has been critiqued by Ghandy (CC member of the CPI) in her works, “Philosophical trends in the modern feminist movement.” Still recommend that chapter spoken about but keep that in mind when you read the works in its entirety)

 Outro Music: "Rocky's Revenge" by Rocky Rivera

In this episode, we go from the discovery of nuclear fission up to the most recent state getting a nuclear weapon, and in between we talk about the Manhattan Project, Soviet spies, Hiroshima, US nuclear testing, and the DPRK having a nuke. This episode has some of the darkest moments we've had on the podcast and also some incredible silliness. Enjoy!

Suggested Reading/Viewing - 

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists, Alexei B. Kojevnikov

Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, Diana Preston

Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History, Kai Bird & Lawrence Lifschultz

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race, Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, Kate Brown

Hiroshima, John Hersey

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos, Judy Pasternak

Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Controversy, Joseph Albright & Marcia Kunstel

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1366164/Israel-reveals-secrets-of-how-it-gained-bomb.html

A Bomb in the Basement: Israel's Nuclear Option

Outro music:

Gang of Four - "I Found That Essence Rare"

Comrades, you are going to love this episode. Come along with us as we deep dive into the life of one of history's most remarkable and patient revolutionaries, from his childhood up to WW2. Ezra also shares a great anecdote about Route 559.

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 Suggested Reading: "Ho Chi Minh: A Life" by William Duiker

  Outro Music: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan

Have you ever wondered where the montage came from? Do you enjoy hearing Ethan plug theatre in an episode about cinema? Do you never tire of hearing Justin defend Stalin even when he clearly did some things wrong? Then you will LOVE this raucous and informative episode on the history of film and cinema within the Soviet Union (and a bit before)!

*CORRECTION* While Prussia was a principality in the HRE, Prussia was never part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our bad!

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 Outro Music: "At Dawn" by Alyens

Sources/Suggested Reading/Viewing:

Further reading:

Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, Jay Leyda

The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema, ed. Anna Lawton

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

Directory of World Cinema: Russia, Birgit Beumers

Film viewing:

Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein (1925)

Man With A Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov (1929)

October: Ten Day That Shook The World, Sergei Eisenstein (1928)

Volga-Volga, Grigori Aleksandrov (1938)

Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears, Vladimir Menshov (1980)

Join the Proles with comrade Natalie as they discuss the incredibly deep and important history of the DPRK, Natalie's upcoming project and a bit of Seeing Red! 

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Sources/Suggested Reading: 

10 Volume Series "Understanding Korea"

"Understanding Workers' Party of Korea"

"Socialist Korea - A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development"

"Korea's Division and Its Truth"

"War Veterans' Reminscences"

Outro: Moranbong Band "Without a Break"

Spicy content warning! Join the proles as they unveil the hilarious, soon-to-be patreon-only spinoff, Dialectics After Dark, where we read through headlines and news and react, let our hair down and spend a little more time being ridiculous. Being that this is our first run-through with this format, please forgive the roughness. It will polish up a bit in the future

For those who don't know already, you can get access to these, as well as other great perks by donating at www.patreon.com/prolespod

Here's that link Ethan wanted to put in the show notes: https://keywordsforcapitalism.com/ 

Grab your favorite beer...or coffee...or chocolate milk, and join the Proles w/ special guests Coffee With Comrades, as they discuss some current events, The Paris Commune, and some spicy discussions about the dictatorship of the proletariat!

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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Manifesto of the Paris Commune" by the Parisian Communards; "The Civil War in France" by Karl Marx; "The Paris Commune: Our First Revolution" on YouTube; "The Meaning of the Paris Commune w/Kristen Ross" The Majority Report on YouTube; "1871: The Paris Commune," Libcom.com; "The Fires of Paris: Why Do People Still Fight About The Paris Commune?" The New Yorker; "On The Barricade" Victor Hugo; "State and Revolution" V.I Lenin

Outro: Tony Babino, "L'Internationale"

Gather around the table and join the Proles as special guest Brett from Rev Left Radio comes on to discuss Mao and the Cultural Revolution!

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Sources/Suggested Reading: Hun Suyin, "Wind in the Tower"; J-Moufawad Paul, "Continuity and Rupture"; William Hinton, "Fanshen"; Aaron Leonard, "Heavy Radicals"

Outro: Bambu, "Chairman Mao"

Join the Proles as get super drunk and discuss the controversial topic of left terrorism, its history and how to interpret it. Also a raucous  "Seeing Red" segment.

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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism" by Trotsky; "Revolutionary Adventurism" by Lenin; Terrorism and Communism" by Kautsky; "Europe's Last Red Terrorists" by Kassemeris

Listener submitted correction:

"I'm writing you here because there are serious errors in accounting of "left terror" in this podcast. Most of them is ignoring that large amount of attack attributed to the leftist were actually work of Stay Behind Armies of right wing fascist units run by NATO forces. Specifically kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro was exposed as work of Italian fascists directed by CIA that wanted to prevent formation of unified communist-socialist government under Alod Moro.

Also you have some names of specific NATO / US intelligence operations mistaken. By operation you mistakenly call Paperclip you most likely mean Operation Gladio that is Italian branch of NATO run Stay Behind Armies operations. Operation Paperclip is entirely different operation conducted at very end of WW2 by US military intelligence  to extract large number nazis and nazi collaborators from Germany in to US."

As always we welcome corrections, as we realize that we, or our guests, can make mistakes.

Join the Proles as they interrupt Ethan incessantly and discuss the interesting and often ignored topic of Salvador Allende's top secret project CyberSyn. Also the first ever "Seeing Red" segment.

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 Sources/Suggested Reading:

"Cybernetic Revolution" by Eden Medina "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cattrell

Join the Roundtable as we sit down and discuss the tragic collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as several other topics, including a particularly spicy conversation about censorship and free press.

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 Sources/Suggested Reading: Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today, Albert Szymanski Khrushchev Lied, Grover Furr

The proles sit down and discuss the long and rich history of the Soviet Space Program in this raucous and informative discussion! 

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Outro Music - "How We Saw Yura Off On His Flight" - Yuri Gulyaev