Xexizy is a Marxist YouTuber who is determined to bring about the social revolution through the internet, somehow and in this episode, we discuss The Critique of the Gotha Program, the idea of labor certificates, and the notion that socialism is achieved in stages.

Here's a link to Xexizy's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ

This week’s podcast is available in full for our patrons. Our patrons usually get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared. They also get access to our History of Communism video series, interviews with authors for our monthly book club, and pretty soon a reprised series called Pop the Left.

Ashley Frawley is the author of the Semiotics of Happiness, a University lecturer and a reader at Zero Books. This week she returns to discuss a recent lecture she gave at for the Academy of Ideas on the pitfalls of turning to psychology to fix social political problems.

This week’s podcast is available for everyone. Our patrons get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Patrons also receive access to our new video series called The History of Communism and get access to the Capital Reading group. Book Club members receive electronic copies of new Zero Book titles every month and are invited to an online discussion group.

In this excerpt from their discussion, Derick and Camilo Gomez discuss the rural–urban divide in Latin America and the changing face of Christianity across the America

In this excerpt from their discussion, Derick and Camilo Gomez discuss the rural–urban divide in Latin America and the changing face of Christianity across the America

In the third and final part of their conversation, Derick and Matthias Wasser take a look at Sam Francis’s book Leviathan and its Enemies to discuss fascist class analysis. They also discuss the future of the alt-right and the disparity between the radical left and right when it comes to political violence.

Michael Brooks is the host of the Michael Brooks show, the co-host of the Majority Report, and the author of the upcoming Zero Books title "Against the Web: A Cosmpolitan Socialist Answer to the IDW & the New Right." In this episode we discuss the most pressing news items from about two weeks back.

This week’s podcast is available for everyone. Our patrons get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Patrons also receive access to our new video series called The History of Communism and get access to the Capital Reading group. Book Club members receive electronic copies of new Zero Book titles every month and are invited to an online discussion group.

David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest. He is the author of Freedom as a Value, Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth, and the Zero Books title Zinnophobia.

This week’s podcast is available for everyone. Our patrons get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Patrons also receive access to our new video series called The History of Communism and get access to the Capital Reading group. Book Club members receive electronic copies of new Zero Book titles every month and are invited to an online discussion group.

In this second part of a three part conversation, Derick and Matthias Wasser continue to discuss contemporary fascism along with associated topics, including the history of racial conceptions in historical fascist formations, Third-Worldism, Zionism, and the attraction of modern conservatives to Catholic and Eastern Orthodox forms of Christianity.

Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor, a logic nerd, a columnist for Jacobin, and the author of Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. This conversation on the podcast came out of a twitter battle Burgis and I engaged in on the topic of the State Capitalist theory and the question of whether the Soviet Union was State Capitalist. This is the second half of a two-part conversation.

This week’s podcast is available for everyone. Our patrons get access to two podcasts every week: Symptomatic Redness and Zero Squared, but if you’re listening on our free feed you’ll always be able to access one or the other podcasts each week. Patrons also receive access to our new video series called The History of Communism and get access to the Capital Reading group. Book Club members receive electronic copies of new Zero Book titles every month and are invited to an online discussion group.

In this, the first part of a three part discussion on fascism, Derick and Matthias Wasser discuss the recent history of the American right, whether the alt-right are relevant anymore, racialism, the definition of fascism, and much more besides.

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