Criminal Anarchy w/ Aaron J. Leonard

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism.

It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901.

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Article on the book: https://truthout.org/articles/how-a-century-of-anti-communism-cleared-the-way-for-trumps-authoritarianism/

Video: Trump says "we took free speech away": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VqMY8djOM

Indypendent article on Antifa: https://indypendent.org/2025/10/what-is-antifa/

Song: billy woods - Source Awards

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0:00.0	Oh, you mean for the audio book?
0:07.0	For the audio book, yeah, yeah.
0:08.5	Who do you want to read?
0:09.4	Who do I want to read it?
0:12.4	James Earl Jones has passed away, exactly.
0:16.0	Who?
0:16.7	James Earl Jones.
0:18.3	Oh, yeah, right, right?
0:20.6	Now, I'm thinking like Mousséong, you know, you could AIM.
0:24.6	That would be an interesting one.
0:26.2	Okay, so you'd have Mao reading it in his, but it translates to English.
0:32.4	So it would be like something like that.
0:34.3	I've never heard Mao talk?
0:36.3	He's got a very high-pitched voice.
0:38.1	I don't think I have.
0:39.1	Yeah, also Huey Newton, terrible voice.
0:42.2	Oh, really?
0:43.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:44.0	You pull up some clips.
0:46.4	There's a reason Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seal were kind of the spokesman.
0:52.0	Huey just didn't, he's not an orator.
0:54.5	Well, the goat was Paul Robeson.
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