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"Ideas for the Struggle" by Marta Harnecker

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2024 73:02


This is a reading of Marta Harnecker's "Ideas for the Struggle", read by Red Star member Megan Romer.

Zenith Interview: NPC Election

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 54:35


Red Star member Zoe interviews outgoing NPC members Jenbo and Jen M along with Red Star NPC candidates Megan R and John L about the past two NPC terms, what they've learned and what they've accomplished, and what our hopes are for the upcoming DSA convention and NPC term.

Zenith Interview: EWOC and Local EWOC

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 46:33


Red Star member Matt interviews EWOC volunteer and Communist Caucus member Matthew about EWOC, local EWOC, and different approaches to labor organizing in DSA.

Red Start (July 2023): Protagonism, Socialist Leadership & Socialist Organization

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 65:19


00:00 - LeftRoots, "Protagonism, Socialist Leadership, and Socialist Organizing" 49:12 - Harnecker, "Ideas for the Struggle: Convince, Not Impose" 53:50 - Michael Lebowitz, "Protagonism and Productivity"

Four Readings on Dialectics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2023 56:44


An audio recording for the 6/21 RED START reading hosted by @hanginoutonline Sam Heft-Luthy. Timestamps: 0:28 - "Dialectical Materialism" from Constructive Criticism 12:30 - Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital — by Karl Marx 20:15 - Fragments on Dialectics - from "Dialectics of Nature" by Frederick Engels 41:43 - The Principal Contradiction and the Principal Aspects of a Contradiction — From “On Contradiction” by Mao Zedong

Rebuilding the Left - Red Start Selections (Audiobook)

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 107:11


This is a book reading of excerpts from Marta Harnecker's "Rebuilding the Left."

Imperialism pt 2 (Venture Capital and Lenin's Imperialism text) - Red Start Political Education Session

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 16:00


An edited live recording of comrade Michael's Red Start session on the second half of Lenin's "Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism" (recorded September 7, 2022). In this session, comrade Michael explains Venture Capitalism from a socialist perspective and extends Lenin's theory to more modern economic developments.

Imperialism pt 1 - Red Start Political Education Education Session

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 25:00


An edited live recording of comrade Joseph's Red Start session on the first half of Lenin's "Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism" (recorded August 31, 2022).

Blood In My Eye - Red Start Political Education Session

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2023 44:31


An edited live recording of comrade Greg's Red Start session on George Jackson's "Blood In My Eye" (recorded August, 2022).

Red Start Political Education Session: Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 31:29


An edited live recording of our 7/2022 Red Start session on "Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry" by William Z. Foster.

Caliban and the Witch - Red Start Selections

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2022 85:14


00:00:03 Introduction 00:24:07 The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women-Introduction 00:31:48 Capitalist Accumulation and the Accumulation of Labor in Europe 00:40:05 Land Privatisation in Europe, the Production of Scarcity, and the Separation of Production from Reproduction 00:44:13 Population Decline, Economic Crisis, and the Disciplining of Women 01:42:49 The Devaluation of Women's Labor 01:12:18 Women: The New Commons and the Substitute for the Lost Land 01:14:27 The Patriarchy of the Wage 01:23:06 Capitalism and the Sexual Division of Labor

Fascism and Social Revolution by R.P. Dutt (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2022 87:35


R. Palme Dutt was born in the U.K. in 1896, and came of age during the lead up to World War I. He was a conscientious objector, and after the war ended, he joined the newly-formed Communist Party of Great Britain. He was a strong supporter of the Soviet Union, and was an important figure in the Comintern, where he eventually rose to leadership of the CPGB and also served as an advisor to the Communist Party of India. In Fascism and Social Revolution Dutt places the emergence of fascism in Europe in the context of the capitalist liberal democracies that spawned it, and carefully lays out the conditions of its emergence and the functions it performs. Drawing on Leninist ideas about Imperialism, Dutt sees fascism as another step in Capitalism's degeneration. Writing well before the Second World War and the atrocities that carved the word Fascism into history, Dutt's analysis is prophetic, both for his time and our own. This recording covers Part 1 of the reading for the Red Start discussion. TIMESTAMPS (00:03) Introduction (11:26) Chapter 1 Summary (12:23) Chapter 1 (13:41) Chapter 2 Summary (14:27) Chapter 3 (17:22) Chapter 3 Summary (18:27) Chapter 3, Section 3 (21:39) Chapter 3, Section 3 Summary (24:50) Chapter 3, Section 4 (29:58) Chapter 3, Section 4 Summary (32:30) Chapter 3, Section 5 (45:14) Chapter 3, Section 6 (53:22) Chapter 4 (56:55) Chapter 4, Section 1 (58:45) Chapter 4, Section 1 Summary (1:03:45) Chapter 4, Section 2 (1:10:25) Chapter 4, Section 3 (1:21:22) Chapter 4, Section 4

Organizing Methods In The Steel Industry (Unabridged)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 48:33


This is an unabridged audiobook-style reading of William Z. Foster's 1936 pamphlet 'Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry,' the first known how-to guide for organizers. In the years following the violently-busted 1919 steel strike, of which Foster had been a lead organizer, steel organizing in the USA had ground to a halt. After the signing of the National Labor Relations Act by President Roosevelt, a new generation of organizers were ready to give it another go and Foster shared what he had learned through the previous failed drive, carefully politicizing the courses of action that would be required in order to achieve union militancy. Reading by Megan

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief by Henry M. Robert III et al.

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 32:21


Listen to this recording of our discussion of "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief," a summarized version of the parliamentary rules most DSA chapters operate under.

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Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2021 31:56


After a brief hiatus, Red Start is back on! We'll aim to host a session about once a month. Stay tuned for updates at https://twitter.com/redstarsf Listen to this recording of an introduction to "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" by Joseph Stalin, as well as a Q&A that touches on DSA's national platform, the difference between Marxism and anarchism, and whether things do, in fact, exist.

The Wretched Of The Earth (Part 2)

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 25:24


The LAST Red Start Session (at least for this phase). Plus a nice discussion on "the party" and the state of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Wretched Of The Earth (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2021 30:08


Register for next time at https://bit.ly/redstartreg NOTE: When Sam says that one of the priorities resolutions is to give everyone a dog, this is a JOKE because on the zoom screen, several participants had dogs. There are only four priorities resolutions going up for chapter consideration, and the chapter remains neutral on the position of cats vs. dogs.

Neocolonialism: The Final Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah (Part 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2021 28:21


Register for future sessions at https://bit.ly/redstartreg

Neocolonialism: The Final Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 32:08


Register for future sessions at https://bit.ly/redstartreg

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