Red Menace: "What Is To Be Done?" - Lenin

Chris Alfonso joins Breht to have a wide ranging discussion on the dialectics of our personal and political lives. In the process, they discuss Marxist philosophy, Dialectial materialism, the mass line and its development, Chris's oragnizing and education work in prisons, the pro ...  Show more

Alyson and Breht reflect on recent Democratic Socialist electoral victories, the ongoing contradiction between the progressive left and the corporate center within the Democratic Party, the principled and strategic approach to this development that Marxists should take, the impli ...  Show more

An episode done on Rev Left last year in which Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution. ------- Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective! You can find them on twitter or insta @Barbaradical. Plea ...  Show more

On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht discuss The Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin Full text here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm The video episode can be found on youtube at: https://youtu.be/XB2Cbir6ac ...  Show more

Lenin's Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder is a classic text of Marxist polemical theory, sharply critiquing ultra-leftist tendencies emerging after the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin argues against dogmatic purity and revolutionary impatience, insisting that revolutionaries ...  Show more

What Is To Be Done? This is the question so profoundly posed by the Russian Revolutionary and Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, in his landmark text of the same name. Although it was written well over a century ago, this text, the questions it asked, ...