Best Dialectical Materialism Podcasts (2026)

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[BEST OF 2025] Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview 2:35:29

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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 - from physics and chemistry to evolution, human consciousness, and ecol…

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What is Dialectical Materialism? 48:29

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Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 8, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.…

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2025: Communist Year-in-Review 26:42

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✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers 📰 Get In D…

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PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 01/06/2026 16:25

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The Venezuelan Regime Change that Wasn't, Oil Companies don't Want Venezuelan Oil, Machado Sidelined by Trump, Israeli False Flags, Israel Persecutes Christians, AIPAC Goes Underground, The CIA's Role in the Ukraine War, Ukraine War Summary 2025... Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Me…

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[BEST OF 2025] From Reagan to Trump: Neoliberalism, Class War, and American Decadence 1:56:10

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Nov 5, 2025 In this episode, public school history teacher Gianni Paul joins Breht to trace the historical roots of our current crisis — stagnant wages, mass homelessness, collapsing infrastructure, rising fascism, Gilded Age inequality, and a beaten down working class — back to Reagan's counter-revolution against the New Deal and the forty-year ne…

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[BEST OF 2025] Farce, Finance & Fascism: Margaret Kimberley on Empire in Decay 1:17:42

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Jun 18, 2025 In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Margaret Kimberley—senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and a leader in Black Alliance for Peace—joins Breht to dissect the spectacle of American decline and, as usual, Kimberley offers a razor-sharp analysis of late-stage capitalism's collapse into cruelty, chaos, and confusion. Toget…

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On Venezuela... (with Guerrilla History and Red Menace) 1:50:31

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recorded January 3rd 2026 Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace's 2025: A Year in History! A fantastic discussion with blistering analysis from the crew. We discussed US criminal assault on Venezuela and its consequences geopolitically and economically on US empire and its designs in Latin America and implications for West Asia and especially subversion o…

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[BEST OF 2025] On The Ground in Gaza: Serving the People in Palestine 1:17:19

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Feb 10, 2025 Willy Massay returns to the show to discuss his recent (second) trip to Gaza as a medical volunteer. He got back two weeks ago and stayed for over a month. He discusses his heart-wrenching experiences, the wintry conditions and terrible air quality in Gaza and how both are impacting the health of every single Palestinian on the ground.…

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[BEST OF 2025] The Sufi Path of Rumi: Islamic Mysticism and The Journey to Divine Love 2:08:49

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Feb 17, 2025 Dr. Rory Dickson is a professor of Islamic Religion and Culture and author of several publications on Sufism, the mystical path within Islam. He joins Breht to have an incredibly deep conversation about the Sufi poet Rumi, his life and work, Rumi's relationship to his teacher Shams of Tabriz, the concepts of fana (annihilation of the s…

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[BEST OF 2025] Anti-Capitalist Parenting: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea (Upstream Podcast) 2:12:00

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Jun 25, 2025 One of the most radical things you can do is live your life in direct opposition to the forces that control our society. Not just fighting for policies or organizing your community, although those are certainly important parts of it, but also living with values that oppose the values of our dominant society. And even more importantly, …

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[BEST OF 2025] On Technofeudalism: Rent Seeking in Late Stage Monopoly Capitalism 1:16:16

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Sep 10, 2025 Alyson and Breht critically engage with the concept of "technofeudalism" from a Marxist (and thus historical materialist) perspective, analyzing its origin and recent popularity, critiquing its depoloyment and the implication that it represents a "new mode of production", explaining related concepts like rent-seeking, discussing the ro…

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On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part IV) 1:43:19

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This week, the Regrettable Christian Caucus finishes Chapter II of Laudato Si' by the late Pope Francis. You can follow along by grabbing the PDF from Verso or from the Vatican website. This Papal Encyclical calls for urgent action to address the global environmental crisis, critiques consumerism, blind developmentalism, inequality, and profit seek…

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Jesus Christ Beyond Belief: A Mystical Reading of the Gospels 2:11:52

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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 than metaphysical propositions to be believed. Drawing heavily on the…

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Jesus Christ: The Revolutionary Mystic 2:08:43

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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 than metaphysical propositions to be believed. Drawing heavily on the…

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PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 12/20/2025 16:18

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Well, here is a release that is back on our old schedule, but we won't be on this schedule for long. In fact, this is our last geopolitics episode of the year. We will resume in the New Year on a bi-weekly schedule. Trump's Acts of Piracy, Genocide in Darfur, Officer Exodus from the IDF, Europe Hopes to Prolong Ukraine War, More Russian Gains and U…

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S2E13: We're back! Catch up with the Revolutionary Rhetoric boys! 1:12:48

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Send us a text Oh boy it's been so long! Even the upload for this episode was super late so the info is a little out of date but we hope you still enjoy! The conversation jumps all over the place as the boys catch up on the last 2 month's worth of news. Donate: Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) https://www.pcrf.net/ This podcast is available …

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Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Returns: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part IX) 15:06

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The boys are back, well... some of the boys. Picking up after a year long hiatus, Jason and Varn are ready to get down to finishing off Dugin. Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. -------------------------------------- Varn Vlog https://varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/ --------…

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The Anti-Vietnam War Movement: What Communists Should Learn 1:42:45

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Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.…

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Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilizational Factors in CPC Governance 1:46:15

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What does it really mean to speak of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"? Is it simply a matter of policy and political economy, or does it require grappling with thousands of years of civilizational history, philosophy, and culture? In this episode, Breht is joined by Zhao, the mind behind Goods for the People and author of Chinese Characteri…

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Debunking Stalinist Myths About Lenin and Trotsky 53:23

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Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.…

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The Gang Resolves the Contradictions (Unlocked) 1:08:57

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This is a Patreon episode we liked so much that we unlocked it for everyone to hear. We hope you enjoy it. This week, Jason and Ben sat down to acknowledge and resolve all the contradictions that have manifested in our discussions on this podcast. Actually, we don't resolve anything, but we do acknowledge some things. Our listeners will know that w…

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Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle Part 2: Labor Organizing, The Working Class, and Proletarian Internationalism 2:07:39

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Breht speaks with veteran organizer, revolutionary strategist, Elder of the movement, and author Eric Mann. Together they discuss Eric's life and work, including his book on George Jackson, the Hard Hat riot against Vietnam protesters, how to organize effectively in the work place, Eric's personal relationship with Howard Zinn, the importance of re…

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[BEST OF 2025] Dialectics of Nature: Engels on Dialectical Materialism as a Worldview 2:35:29

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What is Dialectical Materialism? 48:29

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2025: Communist Year-in-Review 26:42

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PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 01/06/2026 16:25

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[BEST OF 2025] From Reagan to Trump: Neoliberalism, Class War, and American Decadence 1:56:10

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[BEST OF 2025] Farce, Finance & Fascism: Margaret Kimberley on Empire in Decay 1:17:42

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On Venezuela... (with Guerrilla History and Red Menace) 1:50:31

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[BEST OF 2025] On The Ground in Gaza: Serving the People in Palestine 1:17:19

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[BEST OF 2025] The Sufi Path of Rumi: Islamic Mysticism and The Journey to Divine Love 2:08:49

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[BEST OF 2025] Anti-Capitalist Parenting: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea (Upstream Podcast) 2:12:00

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[BEST OF 2025] On Technofeudalism: Rent Seeking in Late Stage Monopoly Capitalism 1:16:16

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On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part IV) 1:43:19

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Jesus Christ Beyond Belief: A Mystical Reading of the Gospels 2:11:52

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Jesus Christ: The Revolutionary Mystic 2:08:43

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PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 12/20/2025 16:18

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S2E13: We're back! Catch up with the Revolutionary Rhetoric boys! 1:12:48

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Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Returns: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part IX) 15:06

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The Anti-Vietnam War Movement: What Communists Should Learn 1:42:45

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Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilizational Factors in CPC Governance 1:46:15

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Debunking Stalinist Myths About Lenin and Trotsky 53:23

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The Gang Resolves the Contradictions (Unlocked) 1:08:57

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Eric Mann on Revolutionary Struggle Part 2: Labor Organizing, The Working Class, and Proletarian Internationalism 2:07:39