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This is The Revolution This Is The Revolution
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The purpose of this show is to educate people on revolutionary strategy, theory, tactics, and analysis using popular culture. While there are many other podcasts and shows discussing politics and popular culture, there doesn't aren't many that actually talk about and break down the mechanisms of how social change, let alone revolution, is carried out. I believe that my 12 years of experience as a political organizer and educator, along with my lifelong nerdom, will allow me to create useful content that can hopefully inspire and support those engaged in changing the world.
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The Sopranos and Power
An introduction to power using the definition of the legendary training center the Midwest Academy. We'll use the early 2000s surreal crime drama The Sopranos to better understand power and a universal approach to developing a basic strategy based on that definition of power.
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Firefly and Revolutionary Robbery
Explore the world of Firefly, an early 2000s Space Western featuring a crew of smugglers with hearts of gold. The crew pulls off a train heist and helps us understand the concept of Revolutionary Expropriations or Revolutionary Heists/Robberies. We'll be using frameworks established by Lenin, Stalin, and the United States Navy to understand how they work.
Special thanks to Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast for the inspiration!
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The Lion King, Coups, and Revolutionary Coups
We interrogate the concept of the Coup using University of Cambridge sociology professor David Lane's work and early 90s smash hit The Lion King. Uses the framework to discuss the white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina and Thomas Sankara's 1983 coup in Upper Volta that established Burkina Faso as a temporary socialist and feminist project.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Types-of-Political-Change-Putsch-Coup-detat-Revolutionary-Coup-detat_fig1_227617553
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Pink Floyd and Student Uprisings
Learn some of the mechanics and theory behind Student Uprisings with the help of Pink Floyd's 1979 "Another Brick in The Wall Part 2" and the 1976 student led Soweto Uprising in South Africa. Covers tactical advice and some long term strategy for those interested in the power of student organizing. Dedicated to the memories of: Govinda Premnauth and Joseph Rodriguez.
Sources:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-2-number-1-969667/
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/youth-struggle
https://web.archive.org/web/20130515033714/http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2006/06/19safrica.html
https://www.forstudentpower.org/
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Mean Girls and How to Overthrow Dictators
We use the framework of Gene Sharp's "pillars of support" and what may very well be the greatest high school movie of all time, Mean Girls, to explain how movements can go about analyzing and overthrowing the regimes that rule over them.
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Legend of Korra and Political Assassinations
We cover Legend of Korra, the sequel show to Avatar the Last Airbender, and how it relates to the concept of propaganda of the deed, specifically leftwing assassinations. We cover the base basics of anarchist philosophy and provide a pre-Russian Revolution example of how leftwing assassinations are meant to build a movement.
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Customer Reviews
Shockingly Delightful
This show kind of creeps up on you while you’re opening the mail on a workday evening. You’re unsuspecting and maybe you even forgot you subscribed. While you’re wrestling with that weird sensation of a hollow pit suddenly opening up in your stomach as you glance at your bank statement, this show jumps out of nowhere and proves itself to be utterly delightful. Idk.. I guess I just like the way the main host does things. Yes, this is a podcast that goes into detail about various revolutionary tactics and strategies using historical and contemporary examples. Yes, it’s a show that even explains how revolutionary actions should or should not be applied in the present day should we ever decide it’s time to really light things up. But, most importantly, it’s a show that discusses some of the best cartoons produced in the 1990s. I can’t listen to this show without feeling a desperate need to eat lucky charms while watching Garfield and friends on a Saturday morning…. Daydreaming of a world without Mondays and dreaming of nuclear war.
Awesome podcast!
Love how you tie cartoons to politics! This pod is informative, funny, and bite sized for those of us who want to learn a bit but don’t have an extra hour to spare
This is brilliant. Akin in hilarious and brilliant.
I just found this podcast and am now hooked. I and am so excited for new episodes to be released. The host also has an awesome podcasting voice.