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Revolutionary Left Radio

Dialectics & Liberation: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Breht reads a speech he recently gave at Arizona State University on the topic of dialectial materialism, Buddhism, and Marxism.

Huge shout out to the ASU Zen Devils and MECHA de ASU for inviting Breht out to Arizona to give this speech, meet listeners, and visit the Sonoran Desert for the first time!
Learn more about MECHA here: https://linktr.ee/MECHAdeASU
If you are interested in having Breht give a speech at your university, contact us at [email protected] with the header "Speaking at our University", so that we can siff out the invites from the other messages!
Outro music: "Be Brave" by Modest Mouse

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

0:09.5

So in today's episode I'm going to be reading a speech that I wrote for an event that I

0:15.0

was invited to at Arizona State University.

0:18.9

A Marxist-Leninist organization called Mecha got together with a Zen Buddhist club on

0:24.6

campus called the Zen Devils and they came together and they were thinking who could

0:29.2

be a good speaker that would come and sort of bridge the gap between our two organizations,

0:33.6

one Marxist and one Buddhist and someone thought of me, Brett from RevLeft and so luckily

0:42.1

they are on the same campus as Professor Alexander Ovenia who is a friend of mine and multiple

0:47.7

guests on RevLeft and on Gorilla History at this point as well.

0:52.4

They reached out to him, got my email through him, invited me out and through their university

0:58.2

compensated me quite nicely for the speaker's fee and I went out there this past week and

1:04.4

I performed this speech.

1:06.1

I did a two hour podcast beforehand with Chewy from Mecha who which I'll release as

1:11.4

soon as he sort of edited it finishes it up, sends it over to me, I'll put it out on

1:15.6

our platform as well.

1:17.4

He hosts a podcast called Heat Wave which I highly recommend people go check out and again

1:22.5

shortly it'll be on the RevLeft feed.

1:24.4

When we post that podcast episode I'll also make sure to link to Heat Wave and their

1:29.0

organization so people can check it out.

1:32.5

But it was a wonderful, wonderful trip and I did this speech and it was very well received

1:39.4

and overall incredibly enjoyable and I wanted to be able to share this speech with more people.

1:45.0

And importantly, if you are at a university, if you are a part of a club or an organization

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