Demarchic Communism Podcast

6: "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/
 
 

Episode 5: "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/
 

Episode 4: "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/
 

Episode 3: "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/

Episode 2: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Introduction & Chapter 13 "On Democracy" - Discussion

Sasha and Shaunsky review the reading of the Introduction & Chapter 13 "On Democracy" of Cockshott & Cottrell's 1993 book Towards a New Socialism which was read in Episode 1A.To send us questions, comments, or to get involved in the project, email us at demarchiccommunism@proton.me
 
 

Episode 1: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Introduction & Chapter 13 "On Democracy" - Reading

Sasha reads the Introduction and Chapter 13 "On Democracy" of 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 by Cockshott and Cottrell (1993).
 
Full text of 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 at https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
link to The Trouble with Elections: Everything We Thought We Knew About Democracy is Wrong by Terry Bouricius
https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elections?r=cvh3h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=substack
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/

Episode 0: Introducing the Demarchic Communism Podcast

Sasha briefly discusses what Demarchic Communism is, what the show will be about, how it will be formatted, and asks for volunteers interested in being part of making it a collective effort.To get involved with the podcast, email demarchiccommunism@proton.me.
 
transcript: https://tinyurl.com/jbuv8ju9