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Marxist theory, revolutionary history, and current events, brought to you by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Join us in the fight for a communist future!

    How can communists use elections?

    How can communists use elections?

    Fiona Lali's election campaign shows that revolutionary ideas can connect with wide layers of people. In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Morley to discuss elections, parliaments, and broader questions around communist methods and tactics.

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    • 58 min
    Why bourgeois democracy is a dictatorship of the rich

    Why bourgeois democracy is a dictatorship of the rich

    We’re told we live in a democracy, but whether we vote for Starmer or Sunak, we’re going to get pretty much the same thing. What’s democratic about that?

    We’re told we have rights like freedom of speech and a free press, but the government is banning protests and the newspapers are all owned by billionaires. What’s the point of these “rights” if they don’t actually mean anything?

    The fact is that the world is run by and for the rich. They decide everything and the rest of us don’t get a say. That isn’t democracy, that’s a dictatorship.

    In this episode of Marxist Voice, Ben Gliniecki proves that what we live in today isn’t a real democracy. Instead, he will give a vision of what a real, socialist, democracy would look like, along with how communists can best fight for it.

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    • 42 min
    Why Capitalism can't escape the crisis

    Why Capitalism can't escape the crisis

    15 years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the economy is once again taking a turn for the worse. The past decade and a half has seen capitalism go from disaster to disaster. Instability and chaos are the new normal.

    Whether it’s environmental crises, economic crises or political crisis, the world has lurched from one extraordinary event to another. But every measure the bourgeois take to solve one crisis only creates another.

    The bourgeois economists have started calling this a “permacrisis” or “polycrisis”. But this is nothing more than a description of the symptoms. It tells us nothing about the cause.

    In this episode of Marxist Voice, Niklas Albin Svensson will explain why the capitalist system has found itself in a dead end and why there is no way out without a communist revolution.

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    • 38 min
    The German Revolution Of 1918

    The German Revolution Of 1918

    The events of the German revolution are some of the most tragic in the history of the world workers movement. One year after the Russian revolution, the German workers rose up, overthrew the Kaiser, and set up Soviets all over the country.

    But unlike the Russian revolution, where the Bolshevik party had been founded 14 years in advance, the revolutionary party in Germany, the Spartacus league, was founded one month after the revolution began. As a result, they were caught unprepared, and the revolution was beheaded.

    In this episode of Marxist Voice, Andy Southwark will explain the events of the German revolution to draw out the need for us to build a tempered revolutionary leadership, ready for the class struggles ahead.

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    • 49 min
    What Is Stalinism?

    What Is Stalinism?

    The events of the Russian revolution were the greatest in all human history. For the first time, the exploited masses fought back and won. The revolution birthed the most progressive state the world had ever seen, with the Communist International — led by Lenin and Trotsky — becoming a beacon of internationalism, inspiring workers and poor everywhere.

    And yet, within 10 years, the Soviet Union had degenerated into a bureaucratic and totalitarian regime. The Communist International went from a harbinger of world revolution to a tool for the narrow, national interests of the Soviet bureaucracy, with Stalin at its head.

    In this session, Rob Sewell will discuss the main processes that led to the degeneration of the Russian revolution, answering the question: What is Stalinism?

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    • 42 min
    Why revolutionary communist Fiona Lali is standing for election

    Why revolutionary communist Fiona Lali is standing for election

    Following her takedown of Suella Braverman, and with a surge of grassroots support, Fiona Lali is standing as a revolutionary communist candidate for Stratford and Bow in the upcoming general election. Vote for Fiona! Bring down the warmongers!

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    • 16 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
37 Ratings

37 Ratings

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These podcasts are informative and a great listen for when you’re at work. What could be better, while making the fat capitalist bosses rich, than injecting your audio waves with a healthy dose of revolutionary theory?

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MMT Straw Man :((

Listened to the Marxism, Keynesianism and MMT episode - spent a lot of time saying “I’m not going to construct a straw man of MMT” before proceeding to construct a straw man of MMT. Disappointing, but not surprising unfortunately.

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