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Spectre of Communism

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Are you a communist? Think we need a revolution? Tune into the official podcast of the Revolutionary Communist International, for communist theory, analysis and history, every week! Under the crisis-ridden capitalist system, humanity lurches from one disaster to another. War, poverty and precarity are facts of life for millions. Given the circumstances, it is no surprise that an unprecedented number of workers and young people are being drawn to the revolutionary banner of communism. But what does it mean to be a communist? What is the communist perspective on the most pressing questions facing humanity: like armed conflict, the climate crisis, technological development, inequality, and so on? In what philosophical and historical traditions do we stand? How do we answer typical right-wing objections to communism? The purpose of this podcast is to arm our listeners with the ideas and arguments necessary to defend the principles of communism, to win others over to a revolutionary perspective, and develop their own mastery of Marxist theory.

Latest episodes

  • Class War in the USA: The Untold Story – Part One (1877-1938)

    September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

    Mass strikes; gun battles with scabs, cops and Pinkertons; revolutionary communists on the picket lines. This is the real history of the American labor movement that Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t want you to hear.While often presented…

  • How did Stalin and Mao fight imperialism?

    June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    Imperialism threatens humanity. Our burning task is to overthrow it – but how? Many revolutionaries have turned to Mao and Stalin for answers, as they are associated with the biggest blows to imperialism in world history: the Russian and…

  • The 1926 General Strike: Britain's revolution betrayed

    May 26, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

    A stereotype holds that British workers have always been conservative and averse to radical class struggle. But a century ago, they waged a general strike that reached revolutionary proportions, threatening the very foundations of…

  • How Adam Smith influenced Karl Marx

    April 28, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

    Did you know that Adam Smith, the poster child of free-market capitalism… was also a major influence on Karl Marx?  While Smith is celebrated today as the father of capitalism and Marx as the founder of communism, they are actually part…

  • Imperialism in the 21st century – what Lenin would say today

    March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

    Spectre of Communism – the theoretical podcast of the RCI – kicks off a new season by exploring one of the most fundamental and important topics of today: imperialism 💵First explained by Vladimir Lenin in his 1916 book of the same name…

  • The Communist Manifesto Explained

    December 28, 2025 · 2 hr 14 min

    “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism!” These immortal words from the Communist Manifesto (and the title of this podcast!) herald the most important piece of political literature ever written. In our final episode of the…

  • The Philosophy of Despair: Postmodernism Explained

    December 16, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min

    The term ‘postmodernism’ is thrown around a lot by right-wing shock-jocks like Jordan Peterson, often in tandem with Marxism: although these two sets of ideas are totally opposed. In this episode, leading comrade Hamid Alizadeh takes on…

  • Communist Answers Most Searched Questions

    December 9, 2025 · 1 hr 21 min

    How did Stalin outmanoeuvre Trotsky and take power following Lenin’s death? What do Marxists mean by ‘value’? And what does it really mean to ‘master the dialectic’? We went back to social media and asked for some more burning questions…