Red Menace
Hosted by Breht and Alyson and Alyson Escalante · Red Menace
4.9from 1,138 ratings
- 111
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 1,138
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 667K
- YouTube views
About Red Menace
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.
- Publisher
- Red Menace
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 111 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
An Inhuman Future: Nick Land, Techno-Accelerationism, and the Dark Enlightenment
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Che's "New Socialist Man" and the Bodhisattva Revolutionary
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The New Red Scare: Trump's War on the American Left
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An Inhuman Future: Nick Land, Techno-Accelerationism, and the Dark Enlightenment
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And as Brett pointed out, this anti-humanist impulse is not specific just to fascist or right-wing thinkers. Within Marxist debate itself, you have figures like Althusser, who I'm quite fond of in some ways, who really suggest that Marxism itself ought to be anti-humanist. They reject the ideas of alienation, species being, appeals to nature... as sort of Hegelian leftovers in the younger writing some marks, and say that by the time that we get to the older marks, There's a fully kind of structuralist scientific understanding of capitalism, not based on these normative appeals, but the way contradictions logically play themselves out. […]
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- YouTube views
- 667,290
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,138 ratings
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- Quality
- 79
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Red Menace?
Breht and Alyson and Alyson Escalante host the show. Published by Red Menace.
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