Workers' Lit

Lenore and Jen are joined by Rae of ProlesPod to discus Gabriel Rockhill's new book, "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" You may be asking: what is a piper? Well, that part's not important.
What IS important is the way the CIA and other U.S. government forces spent the 20th century infiltrating the media and every level of academia, squelching dangerous opposition, promoting capitalist propaganda, and even bolstering controlled left opposition that posed no threat to U.S. empire.
ProlesPod is a podcast about history, politics, and culture... without the liberalism. You can listen to ProlesPod here or wherever you get your podcasts.
If this episode interests you, why not go check out the book itself? You can buy it here.

Last time we covered Stephen King, we were walking a long ways. Now we're running. We're speeding up, folks!
Today we're covering King's 1982 dystopian novel, "The Running Man." Joining us are Evan and Bill from the "Left of the Projector" podcast. Together, we'll get mad at how clearly Stephen wrote this book in just one week and then...didn't fix it.
Topics include the fetishization of the working class, super-individualism, King's recurring bigotries, and 9/11.
If you're wondering if there's a version of this story we like, you're in luck! In just a few days a pt 2. about the 2025 Edgar Wright adaptation will be up on Left of the Projector feed, ft. Aysha, Lenore, and Jacob, so go over there and subscribe to those fine folks to be ready to hear it!
Listen to Left of the Projector here or wherever you get your podcasts

It's a bonus interview with the great science fiction author, Nick Mamatas!
We talk about Nick's new book, the horrors of Silicon Valley, and Shakespeare adaptations.
Don't miss out: go get your copy of "Kalivas! Or Another Tempest" right now.
You can follow him on Bluesky @nmamatas.bsky.social

2026 is an election year, and we have no intention of ignoring it!

We are joined by candidate for Governor of Georgia, Representative Ruwa Romman.

Ruwa represents GA’s 97th House of Representatives district in Gwinnett County and is the first Muslim and Palestinian woman to ever be elected to the GA House of Representatives. She is a long time organizer, served as a delegate of the Uncommitted movement in 2024, and has a plan to build an affordable, better Georgia for ALL, not just the 1%.

In this conversation we hit on hot-button issues such as internal Democratic Party conflict, police and ICE brutality, overcoming identity-based gaps in building a winning coalition, and the importance of building a mass movement that will not only bring good candidates into office, but govern alongside them and hold them accountable.

Not from Georgia? No worries, this conversation has something for everyone!

Want to read more about, donate to, and/or volunteer to the Ruwa Romman Campaign? Check out her website here!
https://www.ruwaforgeorgia.com/

Episode art comes from AP photo of Representative Ruwa Romman.

We promise we're super mature with Philip K. Dick's last name. Mostly.

This week we're taking on Philip K. Dick's 1956 sci-fi novelette, "The Minority Report." What if you could solve crime before it happens? What if said process led to a lot of violence and exploitation? What if you dealt with all that that while worrying that your wife was cheating on you with your hotter assistant? That's more or less the vibe here.

We go further and discuss science fiction's broader contribution (positive and negative) to our culture's political imagination, and think about the future of the genre.

We couldn't have done this without our remarkable guests: Dalton and Dylan of The Pod Universe. If you like cool sci-fi, great podcast, and boundless creativity, you'll love their work. After all, they're making a whole cinematic universe...in podcast form!!

Check out The Pod Universe here.