Demarchic Communism Podcast

Episode 12 -"Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism?" -Lenin

Shaunsky and Sasha read "Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism?" which is the 11th chapter (of 13) of Lenin's pamphlet The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It.
Text available at Marxists Internet Archive at https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11.htm#v25zz99h-360
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod 
Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2024-10-20_Episode-11_(Series-2_Episode-2)_ARAK_Lesson-4-cont'd

Shaunsky, Red, and Sasha finish up Lesson 4 of Araling Aktibista.
 
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) can be found at https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod 
Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 

2024-10-03 S02:E001 (Episode 10) Activist Study Lessons 3 & 4, Part 1

Red and Sasha discuss Activist Study from the Communist Party of the Philippines, Lesson 3, "The Mass Line" and the first part of Lesson 4, "Democratic Centralism."
 
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) can be found at https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod 
Outro music: "Lookin' Up" by The Bar (Bambu and Prometheus Brown)

2024-09-15 S01:E009 "What If We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 4

Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha finish reading Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod 
Outro music: "What Are We" by Savage Family
 

2024-09-01 S01:E008 "What If We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 3

Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha continue with part 3 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
 

2024-08-18 S01:E007 "What if We Selected Our Leaders By Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 2

Shaunsky and Sasha continue with part 2 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
 

2024-08-04 S01:E006 "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery?" by Alpa Shah, Part 1

New co-host Red joins Shaunsky and Sasha to review the first section of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries."Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651.
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
 

2024-07-21 S01:E005 "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 3

Sasha finishes reading Brian Martin's "Democracy Without Elections."
Apologies for the echo/reverb in a few places. I was trying to bring in a better microphone, but I obviously don't know enough about audio to get that right.
 
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html
 
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 

2024-06-16 S01:E004 "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 2

Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss section 2 of Brian Martin's essay "Democracy Without Elections." If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me.The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html
 
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 

2024-06-02 S01:E003 "Democracy Without Elections" by Brian Martin, Part 1

Recorded June 2, 2024
Published June 19, 2024
Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss the first section of Brian Martin's 1995 essay "Democracy Without Elections." 
 
If you'd like to get involved with the podcast, email us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me, or send us a message on twitter @demarchiccommie 
or BlueSky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
 
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/