- 210
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 67
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 3K
- YouTube views
About The Socialist Shelf
Your favorite podcast about literature for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Lenore, Jen, and One Other. New episodes on Mondays. Patreon: Patreon.com/workerslit Contact us at workerslit@gmail.com.
- Publisher
- Workers' Lit
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 210 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Health Communism, ft. Jake Flores
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Summer Sons: 5 years later. A Retrospective with Lee Mandelo
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks," ft. Caleb of Kill the Computer
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Health Communism, ft. Jake Flores
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's interesting because like a lot of anti-psychiatrists that kind of lead into the movement we're talking about here would make arguments about like, oh, mental health doesn't exist. It's only a product of capitalism. So if we destroy the capitalism, then, you know, you undo it. I've thought that before. I think it's wrong, but I think it's the thing that I moved past. What you're saying is like health is like inextricably like a concept that has been defined by capitalism and like from the beginning. So I literally had I asked Bia like last time she was on my show. I said, hey, can you define health like outside of capitalism? […]
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- Jake Flores
- Lee Mandelo
- Caleb
- Jonathan Sims
- Josh Boerman
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- YouTube views
- 2,592
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 23 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 44 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 82
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