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Unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics /// a podcast of documentaries and conversations

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OUT TODAY! 🎧 we spoke w/ Dr. Cornel West about the role that righteous indignation and love play in his politics, what it means to dismantle the U.S. empire, and why he's running for president

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"The U.S. has always accepted killing children. People... know about the settler-colonial history, they know about Vietnam. But I sometimes think that people haven't fully internalized that the fuel of this machine is dead children."

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OUT NOW on PATREON!

an incredibly important and jaw-dropping analysis of how Israel functions as a client state to U.S. empire. Max is always such a powerful and mesmerizing guest—couldn't be more excited to share this one with you✨

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out now! we spoke with ex-IDF soldier and ex-Israeli Meital Yaniv about Zionist indoctrination, Israeli apartheid, Palestinian liberation, and how to heal from zionism

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Only 20 minutes in and already feeling like this should be required listening for everyone and probably also included in all library and info science curriculums

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just published! we spoke w/ Josh Sykes about the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism and why it's crucial to understand revolutionary theory if our revolutionary movements are going to be successful

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NEW EPISODE! we spoke with cory doctorow about the big tech con and why it feels like every single tech product you use is trying to screw you over listen anywhere you get your podcasts! 🎧

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"The sign of a healthy economy should be a drinkable river" - Li An Phoa

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happy 4/20 if you celebrate! 😎 we had a fun and wide ranging convo with distinguished weed guy David Bienenstock about the real history of 4/20, cannabis in the bible, carl sagan, the war on drugs, and much more.

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✨NEW EP✨ We spoke with Krystal Two Bulls and Sumaya Awad about indigeneity, settler-colonialism, and the connections between Turtle Island and Palestine Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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✨NEW PATREON EP✨

We spoke with Nick of the Intervention Podcast and Sina Rahmani of East is a Podcast about nationalism of the oppressed, bourgeois nationalism, patriotic socialism, MAGA communism, and much more.

Available at patreon.com/upstreampodcast✨

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"Since 1967, the geography of the conflict has never changed in reality, even while it was constantly transformed in the discourse of liberal Zionist politicians, journalists, and academies. Palestine was always the land between the river and the sea. It still is."

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✨NEW EP✨ Happy International Women's Day! We spoke with Kristen Ghodsee about economic independence and why women have better sex under socialism. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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thank you! and yes: revolutionary left radio, citations needed, guerrilla history, red menace, means morning news, counterspin, american prestige, chapo trap house

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✨NEW EP✨

We spoke with Max Geller of Palestine Action about the strategy of direct action and their ongoing campaign to target weapons systems that are fueling the genocide in Palestine.

Available at patreon.com/upstreampodcast✨

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✨NEW EP✨

We spoke with @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jodi Dean about climate change, Leninism, and how we on the left can organize and develop a set of concrete, scalable programs that can be put into action at a moment’s notice. 

Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal." – Aaron Bushnell

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✨NEW PATREON EP✨

we spoke w/ Claudia de la Cruz & Karina Garcia of the Party for Socialism and Liberation about the fallacy of "the lesser of two evils," why the Democrats don't care about you, and why we need a party for the working class

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✨NEW EP✨

we spoke w/ @samconniff about everything pirate: the golden age of piracy; pirate labor policies; their social codes of fair pay, fair say, social equality, freedom, and justice; and how we can all be more pirate 🏴‍☠️

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✨NEW PATREON EP✨

we spoke w/ Doug Henwood about modern monetary theory (MMT) and what the problem is with a monetary theory that has so little to say about taxing the rich and class struggle

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✨NEW PATREON EP✨

we spoke w/ Roger Keeran & Joe Jamison about the collapse of the Soviet Union, why it was avoidable, and the role that capitalist counterrevolution had in betraying the first workers' state in human history
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✨NEW EP✨ More people participated in protests in the last decade than at any other point in human history. We spoke w/ Vincent Bevins about why conditions never improved and, in many cases, only got worse.

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crucial words from Dr. Devon Price: "A few people calling out sick from work for a few days is not a general strike a few people delaying all purchases for a few days (but then still making those purchases afterward) is not a general strike...

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✨NEW EP✨ We spoke with Li An Phoa about drinkable rivers & how rivers can only be drinkable when economic systems are post-growth, truly democratic, place-based, and respectful of the commons and Indigenous peoples. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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✨NEW CONVO✨ We spoke with Ghada Karmi about why a single, democratic Palestinian state from the river to the sea is the only just way forward — and how we might get there. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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no new year's resolution because this year it's the conditions that need to change

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"in communism you'll be sent to a work camp" meanwhile in capitalism:

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thanks, and yes, I can see that you're looking for constructive dialogue, which I'm always open to

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hey Bezel, this is Robert, I run our social media accounts and Della and I split up the episodes on the podcast. I saw your critiques on Twitter as well and thanks for sharing them. ďżźWould you be interested in compiling your critiques into a (hopefully civil!) email and sending them to us?

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what is so disorienting and psychologically bewildering about this genocide is that it's being conducted by the sorority girls in your poli sci 101 class who would raise their hands to say the most casually racist and repulsive thing you'd ever heard in your life

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✨NEW CONVO✨ We spoke with Adam Hanieh about the political economies of Palestine and Israel and how material conditions and incentives shape Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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✨NEW CONVO✨ In Pt. 4 of our ongoing series on Palestine we spoke with Sumaya Awad about false solutions and paths of resistance that could actually lead to an end to the genocide and Israeli occupation. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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this is what we mean by "dictatorship of the proletariat"

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✨NEW EP✨ We spoke with Dr. Rupa Marya & Dr. Jess Ghannam about the settler-colonial roots of Israel, Western institutional complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, and how to decolonize medicine. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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when Israel was the bombing the living hell out of Beirut in 1982 to "cleanse" it of Palestinians, Reagan called up Menachem Begin and told him he had gone too far. the slaughter immediately stopped. this just to say that Biden is to the right of Reagan on this one

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✨NEW BONUS EP✨ We spoke with Noura Erakat about the settler-colonial history of Israel, ongoing Palestinian resistance, and the abject failure of the so-called "peace process." Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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✨NEW CONVO✨

We spoke with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (@drcbs.bsky.social) about the Black Scare, the Red Scare, and the ongoing campaign against the revolutionary left in the United States.

Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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this Veterans Day our thoughts are with the brave freedom fighters, guerrilla warriors, and resistance soldiers across the globe and throughout time who have fought the good fight in the face of impossible odds 🇵🇸

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in a bourgeois democracy you may have the "right to vote" but as we can see it makes no difference when one class has a monopoly on power

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✨NEW CONVO✨ We spoke with Prof. August Nimtz about Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the role of electoralism on the U.S. left. Available anywhere you get your podcasts✨

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