[BEST OF] The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jun 18, 2021
Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to the show, this time to discuss the life, work, and legacy of the famous Marxist Feminist Alexandra Kollontai. We discuss her life, her radicalization, her relationship with other famous revolutionaries, her role in the October Revolution, her enduring contributions to feminism, Marxism, and proletarian history, and much, much more.
Check out Kristen's work here: https://kristenghodsee.com/
Check out AK-47, Kristen's podcast dedicated to Kollontai here: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast
Here are all the previous episodes of RLR that Kristen has been a guest on:
Red Hangover: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/red-hangover-legacies-of-20th-century-communism-w-dr-kristen-r-ghodsee
International Women's Day: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/womens-day
Women Behind the Iron Curtain: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/women-under-socialism
Outro Music: "Blame Game" by Beach Bunny
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | I have a wonderful episode for you today. |
| 0:11.3 | We have back on the show, Professor Kristen Gottzee who's been on Rev. |
| 0:15.0 | left numerous times for numerous fan favorite episodes. |
| 0:18.5 | This time she's on to talk about the Marxist feminist Alexandra Collentine. |
| 0:24.5 | This is a deep dive into her life and then in the second section into her philosophy |
| 0:29.9 | and contributions to feminism, to Marxism, to the struggle for liberation on all fronts. |
| 0:37.3 | And you can tell when you listen to Kristen talk about Collentine, how deep of an influence |
| 0:45.0 | she has had on Kristen and Kristen just talks fluently and can talk for hours about |
| 0:50.1 | how Collentine could not have asked for a better guest to cover the life and work of |
| 0:55.6 | this amazing, proletarian and feminist hero. |
| 0:58.9 | So without further ado, we're just going to get right into the episode. |
| 1:01.7 | I will say this though that since Kristen has been on so many times in the show notes |
| 1:06.0 | to this episode, I'll make sure to actually link all the times that Kristen has been |
| 1:10.3 | on Rev. left. |
| 1:11.3 | So if you like this episode, which I'm sure you will, and you haven't heard some of those |
| 1:15.4 | previous interviews and discussions that we've had, they'll be in the show notes so you |
| 1:19.6 | can go back and sort of check out all the times that Kristen has a blessed Rev. left with |
| 1:24.1 | her presence. |
| 1:25.1 | And lastly, if you stick around to after the outro music, you'll hear me read an article |
| 1:30.1 | by Kristen on Collentine, called the most famous feminist you've never heard of, in which |
| 1:36.3 | among other things she tells a fascinating story about how Collentine helps German Jews |
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