Dialectics & Liberation: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism

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[BEST OF 2025] Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview

Jun 16, 2025 In this episode, Alyson and Breht explore Friedrich Engels' Dialectics of Nature, a bold and underappreciated attempt to apply dialectical materialism to the natural sciences. Often dismissed or misunderstood, this unfinished work offers a sweeping view of reality - ...  Afficher plus

Jesus Christ: The Revolutionary Mystic

In this Christmas special, Alyson and Breht reinterpret Jesus through Jewish mysticism, Christian contemplative traditions, and Buddhist conceptions of Enlightenment, offering an understanding of his teachings and words as attempts to articulate the ineffable and non-dual, rather ...  Afficher plus

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Buddhism and Marxism with Breht O'Shea
Upstream

When you think about the philosophies and practices of Buddhism and Marxism, you might not immediately think that they have much in common. However, you might be surprised at how much overlap and complementary resonance there actually is between these two rich and beautiful tr ...

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What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante (Upstream Interview)
Red Menace

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, ...

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What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante
Upstream

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, ...

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The Coddling Of The American Mind
If Books Could Kill

TRIGGER WARNING: if you're a SNOWFLAKE college professor afraid of how your students are expressing themselves, you might need a SAFE SPACE, because Michael and Peter are discussing "The Coddling of The American Mind," a book about campus culture that's lig ...

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