Cosmopod

Cosmopod is the official podcast of Cosmonaut Magazine, a project dedicated to expanding the project of scientific socialism in the 21st Century. In our feed we have a combination of podcast episodes and audio articles from our website.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 1h15m. Bisher sind 299 Folge(n) erschienen. Alle 4 Tage erscheint eine Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 21 hours 52 minutes

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Pull the Plugs? Labor, Power, and the Rise of Fossil Capitalism


Join the Cosmonaut Ecocrew as they discuss Andreas Malm’s piercing 2016 text Fossil Capital and attempt to dispel the myriad of myths that have been erected around the energetic transition to coal. The fateful intertwining in mid-19th century...


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 November 21, 2020  1h17m
 
 

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Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s , arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Cliff Connolly reads the article aloud.


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 November 15, 2020  29m
 
 

Organizing the Oppressed with Mara & Janaya of Philly Socialists


Rudy and Annie join the two co-chairs of Philly Socialists, Mara and Janaya, for what starts as a conversation on the issues women and non-men comrades face when organizing, and ends up being a discussion of Philly Socialists' base-building activities...


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 November 8, 2020  1h23m
 
 

Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The “Three-Line Struggle” in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward


Matthew Strupp examines economic debates in China during the leadup to the Great Leap Forward and assesses comparisons made between Mao and Bukharin. Cliff Connolly reads the article aloud.


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 November 6, 2020  27m
 
 

Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz


Parker and Peter join August Nimtz, the author of Lenin's Electoral Strategy (now reprinted as The Ballot, The Streets-- or Both) to discuss how Lenin and the Bolsheviks approached electoral politics and what we can learn from them to apply to today's...


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 October 31, 2020  58m
 
 

Knowledge Democratization, Bourgeois Specialists and the Organization of Science in the Early Soviet Union


For the first instalment of our in-depth study of Soviet Science, Djamil, Donald and Rudy sit down to discuss the scientific institutions and the practice of Science in the early Soviet Union up to the conclusion of the Stalin Revolution. They start...


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 October 25, 2020  1h38m
 
 

The Politics of Drugs and Harm Reduction with Michael Gilbert


Annie and Cliff join Michael Gilbert, a public health technologist and a harm reduction organizer for a conversation on how communists should relate to harm reduction efforts. They discuss the reasons why people use drugs, the role of drug...


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 October 18, 2020  1h20m
 
 

Hold Your Fire!: A Warning to the Left


Daniel Newman urges patience and caution in the face of current political turmoil. Cliff Connolly reads the article aloud.


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 October 12, 2020  25m
 
 

The Zhenotdel and Women's Emancipation in the Central Asian Republics with Anne McShane


Donald and Lydia join human rights lawyer and fellow Marxist Anne McShane to discuss her recent PhD thesis on the Zhenotdel, the women's department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They discuss the origins of the Zhenotdel,  how it...


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 October 4, 2020  1h31m
 
 

Marxist Center Double Feature


Two articles from the archive pertaining to MC.  The first is Building Revolution in the USA: Notes on Marxist Center Conference, 2018, by Parker McQueeney and Donald Parkinson. The second article is For the Unity of Marxists with the...


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 September 25, 2020  1h14m