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Andre is back! This time they join Rae and Jeremy for a conversation on how to study and read theory. The discussion covers recommended readings, practical reading tips, and other useful guidance to help listeners better undersand and engage with Marxism-Leninism. 
Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video
Beginner Friendly Theory Primers:
Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)

Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki, Buy a physical copy from Aakar Books

Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)

 
Potential Reading Lists For Getting Into The Classics
ML Reading Hub's List

ProleWiki's Absolute Beginner's List

Marxist Internet Archive's List

 
Recommended Auxiliary Theory Texts:
J.M Blaut, Marxism And Eurocentric Diffusionism

Domenico Losurdo, Flight From History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt 

Two Members of the Bolshevik Tendency, Nationhood Or Genocide: The Struggle of the Native People Against Canadian and American Imperialism

Leslie Feinberg, Lavender & Red

Love Is Law: Cuba's Queer Rights Revolution

 
Miscellaneous Mentioned Or Cited Texts for Part 2:
Vladimir Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Kim Jong-Il, Giving Priority To Ideological Work Is Essential For Acomplishing Socialism

Kim Jong-Il, On The Juche Idea

George Jackson, Blood In My Eye

Audiobook reading of the Losurdo essay

On this very special (clip show) espisode, we bring you three separate types of cOnTeNt you can access on Patreon if you so choose. Card Carrying Communist is a bit more fun and less structured--we came up with several dozen bonkers questions which end up randomized for our guests. The Secret Speech allows us to address topics we didn't get to on the main feed. And Q&Rae is pretty much what it sounds like: Rae asks whichever Proles are available at the time a bunch of listener-submitted (and Rae-submitted) questions.
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The gang's all here! On the first classic Proles episode in a while, the crew reads through texts written by Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. We unpack what makes Juche and the DPRK unique inheritors of the tradition of Marxism-Leninism as well as dialectical and historical materialism. Jeremy covers the Juche Idea, Tony talks governance and reuinification, and Rae gives us a look at Korean theater, music, and art.

We've started including a short preview of our bonus episodes at the end of the main feed, so stay around for those!
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Sources:
Kim Il sung (1948-1994)
Reminiscences: With the Century 
Let Us Create South-South Cooperation 
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work 
On Achieving the National Reunification by the Great Unity of the Nation 
Ours is the Socialism of Juche 
 
Kim Jong Il (1994-2011)
On the Art of the Drama 
On the Art of Music
Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable 
On the Juche Philosophy 
 
Kim Jong Un (2011-present)
Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche 
Dissecting Kim Jong Un's Plenum Speech on North Korea's 2024 Plans 
 
DPRK news
http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?MUBAMkAxQA==
http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp/
https://www.nknews.org/
 
Intro Music: 
"ProlesPod Theme" by Ransom Notes
Outro Music:
"Eastern Bloc Beats" by DJ DTA

Rae and Jeremy are joined by returning guest, Frank Gruba-McCallister, for a meander through the philosophy that drives Frank's own, expanding on the role of capitalism in the human experience, as well as the ways in which Marx overlaps and applies to interpretations of mental health and healing. Frank is the co-author of The Revolutionary Psychologist's Guide to Radical Therapy, and runs the r/counterpsych page.
 
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This is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Rather than having a specific topic, our guest Andre will give brief summaries and reviews of a number of texts which they recommend as a foundation for anyone who is interested in Marxism or Marxism-Leninism. I would say that this is a great episode for you to share with left-n00bs who you don't want to go down any dark paths of tendency, but it's also great for those who are looking for things to read on the specific subtopics addressed.

We're talking overcoming anti-AES propaganda, decolonial theory and history, as well as what Andre calls "the endless Cold War."
Reading and Viewing Recommendations:
Andre's Beginner Communist Resource Video
Quote Reading From The Russians Are Coming
Quote Reading From Socialism Betrayed
Main Books And Their Respective Follow-Ups:
Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World

V.L Allen, The Russians Are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism

Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Aimé Césaire, Discourse On Colonialism

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

A.B Abrams, Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order

Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus: Permanent War And The Americanization Of The World

A.B Abrams, Power And Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific (2023 Updated Edition)

Other Cited Texts:
Stuart Hall, When We Are All Enemies of the State

Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach

Basic Curriculum of the Principles of Marxism Leninism (Translated by Luna Nyugun)

Georges Politzer, Elementary Principles of Philosophy (ProleWiki Link) (Foreign Language Press version)

Maurice Cornforth, Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction (Volumes 1-3) PDF Hosted On Prolewiki 

Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade And The Missing Revolution

Domenico Losurdo, Flight from History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt

Agustín Lage Dávila, The Knowledge Economy And Socialism: Science And Society In Cuba

Kyle Ferrana, Why The World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity

Douglas Valentine, The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World

Albert Szymanski, Human Rights In The Soviet Union: Including Comparisons With The U.S.A

Extra Recommended Readings:
E.H Carr, The Soviet Impact On The Western World

Anna Lousie Strong, In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report

Albert Szymanski,
Is The Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today
 
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