Our Socialist Book Club

1:14:06 | Jul 4th, 2019

Support the Girls is a one-bad-day film following Lisa (Regina Hall), the manager of a sports breastaurant called Double Whammies. This movie explores the worker-manager-owner relationship, the inters...Show More

1:23:45 | Apr 18th, 2019

This week, we read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, a book that dissects the social, historical, and cultural theories implicit in our acceptance of the bullshitization of labor! Truly one of the most ...Show More

59:59 | Mar 5th, 2019

This week's article is a quick overview of one of the economic theories laying the groundwork for leftist discourse on government spending! Read the article here: https://democracycollaborative.org/co...Show More

1:22:56 | Jan 30th, 2019

This week, we're reading We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini! We discuss the novel's historical grounding in Italy's 1969 "Hot Autumn," track the main character's growth from alienated worker to or...Show More

34:22 | Nov 11th, 2018

This week, we read the chapter "Conricerca as political action" by Guido Borio, Francesca Pozzi, and Gigi Roggero, published in the volume Utopian Pedagogy : Radical Experiments against Neoliberal Glo...Show More

1:41:42 | Sep 18th, 2018

This week, special guest and dear friend HUGH joins us to share his experiences as a union organizer and to talk about Jane McAlevey's book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age! M...Show More

2:26:43 | Aug 28th, 2018

In this episode, we talk about the film Sorry to Bother You! We read two interviews with Boots Riley in Vox (https://bit.ly/2MC1h1w) and Jacobin Magazine (https://bit.ly/2ojKHVC). We also draw from t...Show More

56:22 | Aug 2nd, 2018

In this episode, we read "Health, Health Care, and Capitalism" by Colin Leys, published in the Socialist Register, Vol 46, in 2010. Found on pages 7-23 of this PDF: https://bit.ly/2n6UjCz Some topics...Show More