Dan from Work Stoppage and Red Game Table tells us about the chilling history of the US and its intelligence apparatuses' collaboration with the Nazis, including how the CIA took Nazi human experimentation research and ran with it, leading to p

2021: A Land of Contrasts

Dec 23rd, 2021 1h 44m

Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan look back on the year, going through the major events of each month and going on some longer digressions about COVID-19 vaccine backlash, critical race theory, the hope of labor struggle, and how easy it was to assassin

11 - Ideology and Reaction in Horror

Nov 8th, 2021 2h 21m

In this episode originally intended to be recorded and released before Halloween, we go over the social/political trends undergirding 90 years of US horror cinema decade by decade. Eilex shares a few frightening Latin American folktales and the

Interlude - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putting Hydrogen Peroxide in My Nebulizer

Oct 3rd, 2021 1h 24m

This is a non-standard ITF episode because we had Jeremy back but we didn't have anything prepared, so we did an off-the-cuff roundup of the state of things, including blowing off steam about COVID, reading some absurd financial press opinions

10 - Happiness

Sep 4th, 2021 1h 47m

ITF's first in-person episode! As a result, Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan have a wide-ranging and somewhat freeform discussion about happiness, what it means, how it's measured, and why capitalist ideology wants to quantify it.Outro: "It Was A Goo

9 - Conservation and Capitalism

Jun 13th, 2021 1h 34m

We interview conservationist Jules Jackson about the field of conservation, its relationship with corporations and its use in global capital, the narratives involved in eco-tourism, and how solving environmental problems is framed as an individ

8 - A Brief History of Medical Racism

Apr 17th, 2021 2h 23m

Savanah and Alekx cover a bit of the history of racism within the US medical field. A LOT is covered here, from medical training to prejudice in doctors to the concept of IQ and much more. This gets graphic at points, so please use caution. Re

Episode 7 - Cowboys

Mar 1st, 2021 1h 23m

In this free-ranging and discursive discussion, Alekx, Eilex, and Ethan talk about Western films (cowboy movies, not the whole capitalist cultural category) and how they portray Mexico and Mexicans, how the films launder settler Manifest Destin

Episode 6 - Laos

Jan 30th, 2021 1h 47m

Ethan goes over the history of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic from French colonization up until about present day, and Alekx describes modern Laos and its struggles and achievements.

Episode 5 - Horror

Oct 16th, 2020 2h 6m

In this collaboration with The Tolerant Left, we're in full cultural theory mode to talk about all manner of spooky topics: the nature of where many fears come from, the gendered and racialized aspects of fear, portrayals of mental illness in h

Episode 4 - Carbon, pt. 1

Sep 14th, 2020 1h 17m

In this wide-ranging episode first part of a two-part series, Ethan talks about the history of fossil fuel extraction and how it has shaped global capitalism.Outro: "III. Speech" from Anthracite Fields, Julia WolfeSuggested reading:Andrews

Episode 3 - Interkosmos

Aug 18th, 2020 2h 11m

William and Ethan explain the history and various missions of Interkosmos, the program that sent socialist cosmonauts from all over the world into space on Soviet ships.Outro: Sun Ra, "Interstellar Low Ways"Further Reading: Burgess, Colin

June Update

Jun 26th, 2020 59m 23s

No June episode!Instead, enjoy this talk from Angela Davis in 1972: "Oppression and Repression in the US" at California State University - Fullerton.

Episode 2 - Creation

May 17th, 2020 2h 30m

In this wide-ranging episode, we talk about some specific examples of art used in a communist and/or revolutionary setting throughout history.

Episode 1 - Pandemic

Apr 12th, 2020 2h 9m

We discuss what's on everyone's mind: COVID-19 and the various responses to it around the world. We talk about the current timeline, talk about how states deal with pandemics, go over some some historical responses of socialist countries to var

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