Real Progressives

Israel labeled #Palestinian journalists as terrorists. Then deliberately killed them. Why? b/c those #journalists broke the illusion. War is not a game or an action movie. It's dead children & innocent civilians. #Gaza Full ep ft Robin Anderson Sat 6/6 @ 8am ET. Link to all our ep in comment 👇

Some Yellow Vests had never been in demonstrations before. But they learned and grew. Teachers, nurses, doctors, professors joined. A universal battle against cuts to healthcare & transportation & education. Link to full ep ft Ida Susser in comment below 👇 #healthcare #education #podcast

France 2018: President Macron taxed diesel - the only gas poor ppl could afford. Public transport gutted. Hospitals closed. Poor ppl depended on diesel cars. Then Macron taxed that. The Yellow Vests were born. Full ep Sat 5/30 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our eps in comment 👇 #diesel #PublicTransport

No Kings is a slogan with no teeth, co-opted by the corporate Democrat machine. The MAGA movement is just top-down demagoguery. The Yellow Vests in France were grassroots with real demands and direct action. Full ep Sat 5/30 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #grassroots #France

The ruling class owns everything, including our minds through media. But without targeted messaging about who causes societal problems, nothing changes. We need to get to the root - capitalism Link to full ep ft Mickey Huff of projectcensored.bsky.social in comment below 👇 #ClassWar #capitalism

Israel killed hundreds of journalists. But the corporate media didn't cover it. Young people saw it on TikTok - so a billionaire bought it. Not to improve it. To control what you see. Full ep ft Mickey Huff of projectcensored.bsky.social Sat 5/23 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our ep in comment below 👇

The seven richest billionaires in the world? All media barons. #Bezos owns #WashingtonPost & Musk owns X & the Ellisons #CNN - they don't need the public’s approval. They just need us distracted. Full ep ft Mickey Huff of projectcensored.bsky.social Sat 5/23 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our ep below 👇

How to convince the American ppl to change their views on communism? Ho Chi Minh won millions of Vietnamese who didn't even know what that term meant. He empathized with & empowered them. Link to full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social in comment below 👇 #American #communism

Millions of Vietnamese faced poverty & famine after the war. The US leveraged that suffering: pay back $145m of the fascist regime's debt, or the embargoes stay. Full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social 5/16 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #poverty #famine

80% of Vietnam would have voted for communist Ho Chi Minh in 1956. That's why the US maintained its fascist dictatorship in the south, sowing the seeds for the Vietnam War. Full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social Sat 5/16 @ 8 am ET. Find link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #fascist #VietnamWar

#Debt ratio above 200%? #Japan proved it doesn't matter. The Bank of Japan keeps rates exactly where it wants. Bet against that and you lose. Link to full ep ft Randy Wray in comment below 👇

$31 trillion in debt and deficits rising. Paulson says get ready for doomsday - bond markets on strike! But he also said the Fed could keep buying. So what's the problem? There is none. Full ep ft Randy Wray Sat 5/9 at 8 am ET. Find all our eps in link below 👇 #debt #bonds

On April Fool's Day, #Trump said daycare is a "scam" the federal government can't afford. But the federal government can't run out of #money because it issues the currency. States cannot. Full ep ft Randy Wray Sat 5/9 at 8 am ET. Find all our eps in link below 👇

The Soviet Union was far from perfect, but what they achieved in two decades, starting from basically zero, is a testament to what democratic centralism and a workers' state can build. Link to full ep ft Jeremy from @prolespod.bsky.social in comment below #ClassWar #socialism

Parliamentary democracy under capitalism is not real democracy. It's a shadow. A sham. A distorted reflection. Jeremy from Proles Pod explains. Full ep drops Sat 5/2 @ 8 am ET Link to full ep in comment below 👇 #capitalism #democracy

The #Soviet Union was the first #socialist experiment. They had no example for guidance. Single-party state? Not ideal. But they were blazing trails while dealing with sabotage. Full ep ft Jeremy from Proles Pod Sat 5/2 at 8 am ET Find link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #Soviet #socialist

The #Soviets were workers' councils. They functioned like #unions but were explicitly socialist - fighting for workers' rights as a stopgap until revolution. Full ep ft Jeremy of @ProlesPod. Ep link in comment below 👇

Your idea didn’t pass? Debate beforehand. Unite afterward. That's revolutionary discipline. The capitalist class will exploit any division. Full ep Sat 4/25 @ 8am ET. Macro N Cheese link in comment below 👇 #debate #capitalist

Free healthcare? Free daycare? Robust public transit? You'll still need a revolution to make them happen. Marxist-Leninists understand capitalism cannot be reformed into socialism. New ep ft Jeremy from Proles Pod 4/25 @ 8am ET. MNC link in comments 👇 #socialism #revolution #MacroNCheese

To address issues like the climate crisis and economic inequality, we need a real democracy. One which we do not have. How do we vote our way out of oligarchy? Link to full ep ft Jim Byrne of MMT101.org in comment below.👇 #ClimateCrisis #EconomicInequality

Govts aren't like households.️ The 'we can't afford it' lie keeps us trapped. MMT says: resources are finite - money is not. The govt’s real job is managing resources, not balancing a checkbook. Full ep ft Jim Byrne of MMT101 Sat. 4/18 8am ET. Podcast link in comment below 👇 #MMT #resources

The federal government doesn't need your tax money to spend.️ It creates currency whenever it votes to spend. Federal taxes don't fund anything, but they give money value. Full ep ft Jim Byrne of MMT101 drops Sat. 4/18 8am ET. Podcast link in comment below 👇 #taxes #money

Socialists don't transform government - they get transformed into ministers of capitalism as Rosa Luxemburg observed. AOC and the Squad are proof. Steve Grumbine discusses solutions outside of elections. Link to full ep in comment below 👇 #capitalism #AOC #elections

National debt fear is a lie. Sovereign currency means spending isn’t constrained by taxes. Austerity is 100% manufactured. Full ep ft Steve Grumbine drops Sat. 4/11 8am ET. Ep link in comment below. #NationalDebt #Austerity #LearnMMT

Why no Medicare for All if everyone wants it? Because voters don’t actually rule. Welcome to oligarchy - full ep ft Steve Grumbine drops Sat. 4/11 8am ET. Ep link in comment below. #MedicareForAll #Oligarchy #ClassStruggle

No one really believes in mainstream economics anymore. With inequality exploding and violence escalating, we're in a good place to propose a framework that connects the dots. Full ep ft Clara Mattei: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #economics #inequality

Capitalism traps us w/ invisible coercion, not force. You don't need a knock at the door to make you work. You need to survive. This is how exploitation hides in plain sight. New ep ft Clara Mattei 4/4 8am ET. Find all our ep @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #capitalism #exploitation

Capitalism isn't just an economic beast - it's a social, economic, AND political beast. Clara Mattei explains in our next ep which drops 4/4 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #Capitalism #ClassStruggle

Why do some in the MMT community defend the Eurozone and the Euro? As Carlos García Hernández states, “It is insane and nobody says anything.” Full ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #MMT #Eurozone

First, have a clear economic program. Second, get the majority behind it. Lenin understood. Carlos García Hernández elaborates through an MMT lens. Full ep. drops Sat. 3/28 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #ClassWar #Lenin #MMT

Can teaching people about MMT really overcome the cultural hegemony of the ruling class? Carlos Garcia Hernandez and Steve Grumbine discuss. Full ep drops Sat 3/28 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #LearnMMT #CulturalHegemony #ClassWar

Is the European Union the closest thing to fascism today? Thomas Fazi elaborates. Full ep. realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #EuropeanUnion #fascism

It's not just about getting you to vote for a candidate. It's about getting you to believe in the process itself.️ Full ep. ft. Thomas Fazi drops 3/21 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #democracy #propaganda

The first Secretary General of #NATO summed up its purpose best: “Keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." Thomas Fazi elaborates on the impact #USempire has on this alliance. Full ep. drops Saturday 3/21 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

Without a free press, we don’t have a democracy as Fadhel Kaboub explains. Full ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

The #OpiumWar wasn't just about drugs. It was about #tradedeficits -- @FadhelKaboub explains. Full ep. drops Sat. 3/14 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep. @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

Think MMT is just ‘printing money’? Think again. @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social explains why the framework is really about mobilizing capacity & avoiding debt traps. Rethink what you know about #inflation – full ep drops Sat 3/14 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #MMT

Don’t blame immigration for your economic woes. Blame the Epstein class. Erald Kolasi exposes how capitalism pits us against each other to impede working class solidarity. Full ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #immigration #capitalism #ClassStruggle #immigration #capitalism #ClassStruggle

Austerity isn't accidental - it's structural to #capitalism. The #JobGuarantee threatens the "triple constraint": fiscal #austerity, monetary austerity & power to fire. Why it won't happen. Full ep ft Erald Kolasi drops Sat 3/7 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese

Why did so many flee Latin America in the 1980s? US empire destabilized leftist govts, armed rebels, destroyed regions to prevent communism. The real roots of migration. Full ep ft Erald Kolasi drops Sat 3/7 @ 8am ET Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #migration #ForeignPolicy

From the Gaza genocide to ICE protests in suburban US, “Things are gonna have to get a lot worse before they get better.” A raw convo about boomer burnout, youth rage & boot-stomping fascism. Full ep ft Peter Byrne of Project Censored: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #ICE #Gaza #fascism

Can rogue military AI be shut off by humans? Peter Byrne of Project Censored breaks down why the 'shut-off switch' is disappearing and who or what is really in control. Full ep. drops Sat. 2/28 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #AI #warfare #technology

From class war to nuclear war - Peter Byrne of Project Censored details how hypersonic glide missiles evade detection, tactical nukes are back, and AI is now baked into Nuclear Command & Control. Full ep drops Sat 2/28 @ 8am ET Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #AI #NuclearWar

Capitalism may destroy the basis for social & natural reproduction within 100 yrs. Ali Kadri explains how we now make things for sale, not use & pay dearly for the pollution capital produces for profit. Full ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #capitalism #profit #nature

Workers who police other workers are personifications of capital, not revolutionaries. Ali Kadri discusses class unity under capitalism & why the death industry always wins under this system. Full ep drops Sat 2/21 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese

Capitalism commodifies everything in the name of profit for a few over social & environmental wellbeing. Ali Kadri gives a searing critique of capital’s parasitic relationship to humanity & nature. Full ep drops Sat 2/21 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese #capitalism

Is full employment under capitalism a steppingstone to socialism or a reformist trap? Australian unionist Owen Bennett details the ’60s ideological shift that changed the Left’s strategy for several decades #employment #capitalism #socialism Full ep: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

10% of Australian workers can't find full-time work. That's the real injustice. Historian and unionist Owen Bennett counters #union opposition to the #JobGuarantee - full ep. drops Sat. 2/14 @ 8am ET. #LearnMMT Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

Australian historian & unionist Owen Bennett presents his idea for a path to implementing a #JobGuarantee to combat #austerity - full ep. drops Sat. 2/14 @ 8am ET. #LearnMMT Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/