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In this episode Alyson and Breht enter the strange and unsettling world of Nick Land: Marx, Nietzsche, Delueze, cybernetics, accelerationism, and the possibility that capitalism is becoming something more than a human...
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Red Menace is a podcast that explains and analyzes revolutionary theory and then applies its lessons to our contemporary conditions. Hosted by Alyson Escalante and Breht O'Shea.
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What is Red Menace about?
Red Menace is a podcast that explains and analyzes revolutionary theory and then applies its lessons to our contemporary conditions. Hosted by Alyson Escalante and Breht O'Shea.
What has Red Menace covered recently?
Recent episodes include "An Inhuman Future: Nick Land, Techno-Accelerationism, and the Dark Enlightenment" (1 October 2026, 126 minutes), "Che's "New Socialist Man" and the Bodhisattva Revolutionary" (22 September 2026, 62 minutes), and "The New Red Scare: Trump's War on the American Left" (7 August 2026, 92 minutes).
How often does Red Menace publish?
Red Menace publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 102 minutes across 100 episodes.
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Sep 22, 20261h 2mBreht reads the speech he recently gave in-person at the 2026 Socialism Conference in Chicago. In the Speech, he analyzes the role of human subjectivity in revolutionary politics, explicates Che's argument in his famous...
- Aug 7, 20261h 32m
In this episode, Alyson and Breht examine the Trump administration's emerging campaign against what it calls "far-left terrorism." We begin with NSPM-7, the presidential directive encouraging federal agencies to...
- Jul 24, 20261h 23m
In this unlocked patreon episode Breht traces and explains a subterranean philosophical lineage running from Spinoza through Hegel to Marx and Louis Althusser. Beginning with Spinoza's conception of God or Nature as a...
- Jul 13, 20261h 19m
Alyson and Breht reflect on recent Democratic Socialist electoral victories, the ongoing contradiction between the progressive left and the corporate center within the Democratic Party, the principled and strategic...
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- Jun 29, 20262h 4m
In this episode, Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante join forces for a deep philosophical conversation on Marxism, consciousness, and the mind-body problem. Using China Miéville's essay on consciousness and materialism as...
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Alyson and Breht Answer Your Questions
Jun 6, 20263h 13mS0<p>Alyson and Breht spend three hours answering your questions about politics, theory, socialist stragey and much more!<br /> <br /> Watch the video version on Youtube HERE</p> <p>...
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The Worldwide Family of Militant Women
May 12, 20261h 34mS0<p>In this episode, Breht and Alyson sit down with Arlene Eisen to discuss her new memoir, In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women. Eisen reflects on her political formation across the upheavals of the 1960s through...
- Apr 9, 20262h 25mS0
<p>Alyson and Breht apply dialectical and historical materialist analysis to the current war of aggression in Iran. Together they break down the Marxist methodology into its three main parts - dialectics, materialism...
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Iran Under Attack
Mar 2, 20261h 44mS0<p>On this YT livestream (3/1/26) Alyson and Breht discuss the illegal war of aggression launched by the US and Israel against Iran. Throughout the discussion they take live questions from the chat.</p>...
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Guillotines for the Epstein Class
Feb 17, 20261h 47mS0<p>Alyson and Breht discuss a range of current events, including Cuba, the Epstein Files, Iran and much more. </p> <p>Make a donation to Socialist Night School via Venmo @OmahaNightSchool</p> <p>Outro Song: "to each...
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Minneapolis on Fire
Jan 25, 20261h 23mS0<p>Breht discusses recent events in Minneapolis...</p> <p> ---------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p> </p> <p>Outro Music: Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - Song For Alicia</p>
- Dec 24, 20252h 12mS0
<p>In this Christmas special, Alyson and Breht reinterpret Jesus through Jewish mysticism, Christian contemplative traditions, and Buddhist conceptions of Enlightenment, offering an understanding of his teachings and...
- Nov 30, 202516 minS0
<p>This is a small snippet from a much larger patreon exclusive episode, which you can sign up for (and support the show in the process) here: www.patreon.com/revleftradio</p>
- Nov 24, 20251h 47mS0
<p>Most people, even on the Left, only know fragments of Italy's "Years of Lead." This episode pulls the whole picture into focus: the mass worker upsurge after the boom years, the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and the...
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Ceasefire in Gaza, The Monroe Doctrine Under Trump, and a US Economy on the Brink of Collapse
Oct 13, 20251h 42mS0<p>Alyson and Breht analyze current events, including the ceasefire in Gaza and its implications, the newest round of US imperialist aggression against Venezuela, Regime Change aspirations in Iran and Venezuela, the...
- Oct 6, 20251h 42mS0
<p >In this episode, Alyson joins members of the Ultra-Red collective to discuss their recent trip to Central America where they learned first hand about popular education movements of the past and present. The...
- Sep 10, 20251h 16mS0
<p>Alyson and Breht critically engage with the concept of "technofeudalism" from a Marxist (and thus historical materialist) perspective, analyzing its origin and recent popularity, critiquing its depoloyment and the...
- Aug 11, 20251h 59mS0
<p>Alyson and Breht are guests on the Red Star Ministry Podcast, a Christian Communist outlet. Together with the host Christian, they discuss Alyson and Breht's evolving personal relationship with religion and atheism...
- Jul 17, 20251h 35mS0
<p >In this episode of Red Menace, Breht and Alyson dive into Mao Zedong's pivotal 1957 speech On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. This foundational text offers insight into Mao's dialectical...
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