Left Communism: Pannekoek, Bordiga, Luxemburg, & Mattick

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Long time friend of the show, and recurring guest, Brenden joins Breht in the Rev Left bunker to talk about the tendency of Left Communism, the limitations of the term, some key figures and ideas, and much more!

Check out Brenden's podcast, Marxism and Moshpits here: http://marxismandmoshpits.libsyn.com/

Brenden is a member of the Nebraska Left Coalition, which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/

Outro Music: "Skull Clinic" by No Thanks

No Thanks is Brenden's punk band, of which he is the lead singer. Check out and support their music here: https://no-thanks.bandcamp.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.8	Today we have back on the show Brendan Leihy from multiple previous episodes.
0:13.9	This time he is going to discuss with me left communism.
0:17.8	It's a sort of big umbrella term and it covers a lot of different disparate movements.
0:23.2	So we address sort of the complexities and nuances and even failures of the term left
0:27.7	communism itself throughout this but overall I think it's a really interesting worthwhile
0:32.4	introduction into what is left communism.
0:35.6	One of the tendencies that we have yet to do on this podcast so I'm happy to finally be
0:40.2	able to do it.
0:41.2	And as always if you like what we do here at Revolutionary Left Radio you can go to RevolutionaryLeftRadio.com
0:46.6	find our Twitter find our YouTube page and even find our Patreon to support us and in
0:51.2	exchange get some dope moments content.
0:53.8	So having said that let's dive into this episode Brendan Leihy on left communism.
1:00.8	Hi I'm Brendan you may remember me from other episodes or maybe from my podcast Marxism
1:13.2	and Mushpots.
1:14.2	Yeah I can't even I usually like name all the podcasts that you've been on but it's
1:18.2	too many you fucking know Brendan just deal with it.
1:20.7	So I'm not about the Easter ising and Frederick Engels and who knows what else.
1:25.0	So many yeah I can't even remember more.
1:27.3	Alright so Brendan is here today to talk about left communism.
1:31.0	It's been a really long time since we've done a tendency introduction episode.
1:35.2	That's sort of you know what we started doing in the first year of the show.
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