Communist Potato Salad

We were really surprised after checking the metrics recently to see that people from all over the world have been listening to our podcast over the last year, and so we decided to give it another go. This episode is a little bit of housekeeping, where we talk about what we were up to during our hiatus, and what our plans are now that we're back, and we talk about other stuff too, like the slow disintegration of society, and community building despite that.

Venus shares a boots on the ground 1st person view of the capitalist-created human rights disaster unfolding in Texas right now. DSA National Mutual Aid Working Group: https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/mutual-aid-working-group/ DSA Corpus Christi Mutual Aid: http://www.corpuschristidsa.org/mutual-aid.html DSA Houston Mutual Aid: https://www.mutualaidhou.com/ DSA North Texas Mutual Aid: https://ntxmutualaid.org/ DSA Dallas Mutual Aid: https://t.co/m1OmsLcxWu?amp=1 DSA Austin Mutual Aid: https://t.co/yLMD6PyVn5?amp=1 DSA San Antonio Mutual Aid: https://www.sanantoniodsa.org/donate The Texas Jail project: https://www.texasjailproject.org/ The Texas Jail Project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/txjailproject?lang=en

This week we talk about what the f**k just happened with the Coup attempt, and the impeachment trial. Next week we're going to start reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and invite you read it with us: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260297860_Paulo_Freire's_Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed

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We review the new Netflix release "The Social Dilemma" and share our thoughts about what they got right, what they got wrong, what they overstated, and what they ignored. Then we check in with Asher about the national Green New Deal summit that the DSA held this past weekend. After that, we slowly devolve into madness.  We will be back next week with Chapter 1 of "Fighting Fascism" by Clara Zetkin.

Fighting Fascism: How To Struggle and How To Win by Clara Zetkin: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1088-fighting-fascism Justice for Jacob Blake: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16e4KEe3hLt4oTJOnwD4t41-_bJ--1BLn2Vjk7SiU65s/mobilebasic

Kacy and Asher discuss the Communist Manifesto, Chapter 4, and the appendix, "Is the Manifesto Still Relevant.

We start out our recording sessions by checking in and asking how one another are doing, and then usually cut that part and focus on discussing the book we are reading. But this week, there's a lot of stuff going on, and our check in took a lot of unexpected turns, and it ended up generating a lot of really good conversation that we both felt really good about being able to have, and we hope that it resonates with you as well. We will come back next week with Chapter 4 of the Phil Gasper annotated edition of the Communist Manifesto, as well as the Appendix, "Is the Communist Manifesto Still Relevant?"

We read the Communist Manifesto together, and you can too! Its Kacy's first time reading it, Asher has read it a few times but isn't am expert. Please call in with your thoughts and questions! This week we cover chapter 3.

Kacy is reading the Communist Manifesto for the first time! We are reading the Phil Gasper annotated edition available at Haymarket, read along with us at home, and please call in with questions and comments! Details in the episode!