Art for the People and the Maoist Communist Union
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
Space from Art For The People and Thomas O'Connell from MCU (Maoist Communist Union) join Breht to discuss these organizations, their aims and goals, the role of art and artists in a revolutionary movement, the impossibility of "non-political art", their shared love of hip hop, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the importance of giving and receiving criticism, communist organizing, and much more!
Space Baby's Songs featured in this episode: Martyrs, Go In, Damn I'm In Debt, and Nothing to Lose
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio on today's episode. I have on Space Baby and Thomas from Art for the People and the new pre-party formation |
| 0:17.5 | Maoist Communist Union as well as from Marxism today the YouTube, we've had on Paul in the past, they work on that as well. |
| 0:26.8 | To talk about specifically art for the people, the artist's role in revolution, hip-hop, space babies music and we kind of you know reflect on our hip-hop influences over the years. |
| 0:40.8 | We talk about Maoism, we talk about the Maoist Communist Union, this new organization. the So it's a wide-ranging conversation that I think specifically artists of any sort and |
| 0:56.1 | organizers of any sort are really really going to find crucial and generative and productive and some real guidance in this in this deep |
| 1:07.9 | episode because we do go quite deep on on these topics so I'm very excited to share this with you and of course I'll |
| 1:15.5 | link to the organizations and everything in the show notes so people who are |
| 1:19.6 | inspired to try to join up and contribute can do exactly that. |
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