Red and Sasha discuss Activist Study from the Communist Party of the Philippines, Lesson 3, "The Mass Line" and the first part of Lesson 4, "Democratic Centralism."   If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. Activist Study (Araling Aktibista) can be found at https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-4th-Printing.pdf Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie. Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod  Outro music: "Lookin' Up" by The Bar (Bambu and Prometheus Brown)

Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha finish reading Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries." Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651. If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie. Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeod  Outro music: "What Are We" by Savage Family  

Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha continue with part 3 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries." Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651. If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie. Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/    

Shaunsky and Sasha continue with part 2 of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries." Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651. If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie. Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/    

New co-host Red joins Shaunsky and Sasha to review the first section of Alpa Shah's article "What If We Selected Our Leaders by Lottery? Democracy by Sortition, Liberal Elections, and Communist Revolutionaries." Article available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12651. If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social or on Twitter @demarchiccommie. Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/    

Sasha finishes reading Brian Martin's "Democracy Without Elections." Apologies for the echo/reverb in a few places. I was trying to bring in a better microphone, but I obviously don't know enough about audio to get that right.   If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html   Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss section 2 of Brian Martin's essay "Democracy Without Elections." If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected]. The essay can be found on Brian Martin's website at https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/95sa.html   Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

Recorded June 2, 2024 Published June 19, 2024 Shaunsky and Sasha read and discuss the first section of Brian Martin's 1995 essay "Democracy Without Elections."    If you'd like to get involved with the podcast, email us at [email protected], or send us a message on twitter @demarchiccommie  or BlueSky @demarchicroad.bsky.social   Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sasha and Shaunsky review the reading of the Introduction & Chapter 13 "On Democracy" of Cockshott & Cottrell's 1993 book Towards a New Socialism which was read in Episode 1A. To send us questions, comments, or to get involved in the project, email us at [email protected]