The Measures Taken

A podcast by Stephan, Matthew, and Nathan

Categories:

Society & Culture

21 Episodes

  1. The World According to Jane McAlevey

    Published: 8/29/2024

  2. Beach Reads #2: Alexandra Kollontai's "Morality and the New Society"

    Published: 7/30/2024

  3. 'Technofeudalism': The World According to Yanis Varoufakis

    Published: 6/20/2024

  4. 2.03: The Hungarian Soviet Republic

    Published: 5/28/2024

  5. Beach Read #1: Bukharin's 'Historical Materialism'

    Published: 5/1/2024

  6. 'The World According to...' Episode 1

    Published: 4/10/2024

  7. 2.02: 'Left-Wing' Communism

    Published: 2/15/2024

  8. 2.01: Red Terror

    Published: 9/1/2023

  9. 1.12: The Invention of Communism

    Published: 2/27/2023

  10. 1.11: The World War

    Published: 12/2/2022

  11. Interview: Ben Lewis

    Published: 8/4/2022

  12. 1.10: The Agrarian Question

    Published: 5/2/2022

  13. 1.09: The Question of the Party

    Published: 3/12/2022

  14. 1.08: Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Published: 1/19/2022

  15. 1.07: The Woman Question

    Published: 12/13/2021

  16. 1.06: The National Question

    Published: 10/27/2021

  17. 1.05: Early Debates on Imperialism

    Published: 9/20/2021

  18. 1.04: The Revisionist Controversy

    Published: 8/9/2021

  19. 1.03: The Invention of Marxism

    Published: 8/8/2021

  20. 1.02: The Many Lives of Marx's Capital

    Published: 8/7/2021

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The Measures Taken is a project to survey and reconstruct the history of Marxism from the development of mass Social Democracy to our own moment.Recognizing that Bolshevism has lapsed as a living political tendency, those of us who remain committed to revolutionary communist politics and convinced by the Marxist critique of political economy are left searching for a past capable of orienting us in the present. Mindful of the threat of eclecticism and all too cognizant of the infelicities of sectarianism, the hosts of this podcast embrace a non-denominational Marxism.Our purpose is self-education, never the display of expertise. We hope that our listeners extend to us the same principled courtesy we do our forebears: not to judge too [email protected]