Oct 8

Live Show Next Week in Cali | Upcoming Hobbes Course in Chicago

Just a quick pair of announcements for you!We'll be doing a live episode recording at the Radical Philosophy Association's conference at Pomona College at 8pm next Thursday, October 15. https://www.radicalphilosophyassociation.org/rpa-biennial-conference.htmlAnd Gil will be teach ... Show More

1m 35s

Sep 21

142 | Hyperpolitics in the Present

In this episode we discuss the concept of hyperpolitics, as originally conceptualized by Anton Jäger. We contemplate the acute lack of substantive political transformation that has resulted from recent upheavals and movements, and wonder about what it would take to revive the kin ... Show More

58m 44s

Sep 4

141 TEASER | Badiou: Political Subjects and Infinite Truths

In this episode we discuss the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou. Ever since the 1970s, Badiou’s philosophy has been characterized by an untimely systematicity and an ambitious effort to bring together politics, art, science, and love in a unique synthesis under the aegis o ... Show More

14m 55s

May 2025

[BEST OF] Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Organic Intellectuals, & Italian Fascism

ORIGINALLY RELEASED Feb 12, 2020 In this episode, Jon Greenaway and Brenden Leahy return to the show and join Breht to explore the life, thought, and revolutionary legacy of Antonio Gramsci— ... Show More

1h 48m

Aug 2009

Machiavelli: Nigel Warburton and Quentin Skinner

An in-depth discussion of Machiavelli’s The Prince, including its social, historical and moral context and the book’s continuing relevance to contemporary political thought.

47m 58s

Jan 2023

Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning

Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview. Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email Peru ... Show More

2h 26m

Aug 2022

Episode Two (Season 1): Francesca Antonini and Gilbert Achar: Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci

In our second episode, committee member Gilbert Achar is joined by Francesca Antonini to discusses themes from Antonini's 2020 book, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity To learn more about the Deutscher Prize, please visit our website: www.d ... Show More

33m 25s

May 2019

Episode #131 ... Gramsci - Cultural Hegemony

Today we discuss the work of Antonio Gramsci. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast ... Show More

24m 45s

Sep 2023

The Principles of Communism: Friedrich Engels and Communist Political Theory

<div> EARLY RELEASE: Jared from <a href= "https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/">Millennials are Killing Capitalism</a> podcast invited Breht on to talk about Friedrich Engels' draft to the Communist Manifesto entitled <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/ma ... Show More

1h 49m

Oct 2023

The Prince

Ryan and Todd analyze Machiavelli's The Prince by tracing its influence on later political thinkers, including Hegel, Gramsci, and Althusser. They discuss Machiavelli's novelty and his limitations as a thinker of the political act.

1h 14m

May 2025

The State and Revolution | Classics of Marxism #3

Ben, Lotta, Mia, and Peter sit down to discuss Lenin's masterpiece: The State & Revolution. Written just before the events of October 1917, with Lenin having been forced underground, it is the sharpest analysis of the state, and a rebuttal of reformist and anarchist illusions. It ... Show More

57m 26s

Jan 2023

Gramsci & Hegemony w/ Michael Denning

Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview. Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by e ... Show More

1h 4m

Apr 2022

[BEST OF] State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

[Orignally released Oct 2018] Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution. Here is a previous show we here at Rev Left did specifically on the Paris Commune entitled "The Paris Commune: A Br ... Show More

1h 9m

65 | Gramsci's The Modern Prince