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In this extended episode, Kristen Ghodsee and her daughter enjoy a wide-ranging discussion with two special guests on the music and global influence of Taylor Swift, particularly in light of her recent engagement and rumors of her upcoming wedding in New York on 4 July 2026. Given Kollontai’s own very public romantic life, how could we read Taylor Swift through a Kollontanian lens? This is a deep dive into Taylor Swift’s career and music. Dr. Angelina Eimannsberger recently recieved her Ph.D....
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162 - A.K. 47 - “Formative Years” - Celebrating the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s Birth
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161 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 2026 International Women’s Day from the streets of Berlin
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160 - A.K. 47 - “Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg: Fighters, Martyrs, Heroes"
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159 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 7th Anniversary of the Podcast!
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158 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism
Kristen Ghodsee reads her own December 2025 essay "The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism” This text appeared as the featured essay in the Winter 2025 special issue of Jacobin.de on “Love.” Below are the links to the original essay in English, German, and Spanish. You can also watch the Jacobin Germany issue launch discussion on Youtube here “The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism” "Der Gebrauchswert der Liebe”"La economía política del amor en el capitalismo”الاقتصاد السياسي لل...
- Dec 10, 202521 min
157 - A.K. 47 - The Communist Valkyrie - Part 4
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- Dec 1, 202527 min
156 - A. K. 47 - The Communist Valkyrie - Part 3
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About A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai
Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After the October Revolution, Kollontai became the Commissar of Social Welfare and helped to found the Zhenotdel (the women's section of the Party). She oversaw a wide variety of legal reforms and public policies to help liberate working women and to create the basis of a new socialist sexual morality. But Russians were not ready for her vision of emancipation, and she was sent away to Norway to serve
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