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We are a Marxist pole of attraction that works both within the DSA and outside of it to support the development of class struggle politics.
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PoliEdPod 8: Beyond the Duopoly? Parties, Unions, and Labor (w/ Catherine Liu)
Welcome to Episode 8 or CU’s PoliEdPod series! In this episode, Catherine Liu joins us for a discussion of recent debates about the relation between Republican and Democratic parties and labor. For background, listeners may want to check out the articles which initiated this debate, by Sorab Amari and Dustin Guastella, along with a contribution […]
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PoliEdPod 7: The Cost of Living Crisis and the State of Capitalism (w/ Costas Lapavitsas)
One of the worlds leading Marxist economists talks to us about the recent problems of inflation, class politics, and the global economy. Check out Lapavitsas’s latest collaborative efforts here: You can listen to the audio-only version of this event in our podcast feed, or you can watch the livestream via YouTube, below:
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Transmissions Ep. 13: James A. Smith of The Popular Show
Hello friends! Welcome to another episode of Class Unity ‘Transmissions’! Our guest for this episode is none other than James A. Smith, co-host with David Slavick of The Popular Show. Smith is also the author of Other People’s Politics: Populism to Corbynism (Zer0 Books, 2019) and coauthor with Mareile Pfannebecker of Work Want Work: Labour […]
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Transmissions Ep. 12: Leftoid Busywork
Welcome to Episode 12 ‘Transmissions,’ a Class Unity podcast. In this lighthearted episode we discuss the question of Leftoid Busywork. We open with an except from The Phantom Tollbooth (1970), an animated adaptation of the novel by the same name, by Norton Juster. In the clip, the young protagonist Milo meets a character named the […]
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Transmissions Ep. 11: Exiting the Vampire Castle – 10-Year Anniversary (w/ Efraim Carlebach)
Welcome to Episode 11 of Class Unity Transmissions! In this episode, we are joined by Efraim Carlebach to discuss the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Mark Fisher’s seminal essay, Exiting the Vampire Castle. Published on November 24, 2013, Fisher’s essay is remembered today as a powerful shot across the bows of what was known […]
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PoliEdPod 6: Marx and the American Civil War
If Marxism is a theory of history grounded in economics, how should Americans understand our own history from a Marxist perspective? What can the critique of political economy tell us about the major events of American life from the Revolution to the World Wars to today? What are the class dynamics animating the most crucial […]
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Fantastic first episode
Y’all might’ve actually convinced me to join Class Unity off that show alone and I hope this thing keeps rolling.