Demarchic Communism Podcast

10: 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺, Part 1, Lessons 3 & 4

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)

9: "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
 

8: "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/
 
 

7: "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/
 
 

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/