Converting the Christians | By Any Means
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Colten Barnaby is a socialist, former church staffer, fourth-generation Pentecostal pastor’s kid, and self-described Christian atheist. Rather than abandoning Christianity to the right, he’s trying to use the gospel against them—and convince Christians that capitalism, empire, white supremacy, and the American state have a lot more in common with Babylon than the Kingdom of God. We talk about Christianity as a loaded gun, America as a demonic nation, whether Jesus was actually much of a revolutionary, and why the left is leaving millions of religious people on the table. Then we get into...
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Build an Army? | By Any Means
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In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with Atlanta organizer, student, and propagandist Chainslayer about what it actually takes to build political power where you live. Chainslayer traces his path from growing up around journalism and liberal politics, through poverty, violence, jail, Bernie Sanders, the Black Panthers, Fanon, Marxism, and eventually organized socialist politics. They get into the difference between being smart and becoming knowledgeable, why theory matters, and what happens when revolutionary ideas finally leave the book and run into real organizations full of actual...
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Come and Make It? | By Any Means
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In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with Yeezy Prints — amateur gunsmith, 3D-printing advocate, and DIY gun designer — about 3D-printed guns, open-source technology, and what it means to become ungovernable. The conversation starts with guns but quickly becomes about much more: the means of production, the state’s monopoly on violence, and why capitalism depends on keeping tools, knowledge, and power locked away from ordinary people. James and Yeezy get into Appalachia, poverty, Bernie, COVID, the Gatalog, DIY firearms, printer regulation, surveillance, cyberdecks, open-source...
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Occupy DSA? | By Any Means
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In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with organizer James Ray about Chris Rabb’s Philadelphia state house campaign, the internal dynamics of DSA, and what it means to actually fight for the direction of a left organization instead of just critiquing it from the outside. They get into Philly electoral politics, Palestine solidarity work, local chapter organizing, and the messy but necessary reality of building power inside organizations full of contradictions. James Ray makes the case that DSA’s decentralized structure is not just a weakness, but an opening — one where committed...
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Are we all terrorists now? | By Any Means
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Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power. In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American capitalism in a period of growing instability. From leaks and information control to protest, media, and the logic of permanent security, this conversation follows a larger question: if empire...
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Socialism on the Ballot? | By Any Means
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California’s governor race has dozens of candidates. Only two advance. So what does it actually mean to run a socialist campaign inside a political system where the economy is largely controlled privately, major institutions are shaped by wealth, and elections rarely produce change on their own? In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr talks with Peace and Freedom Party gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Robinson about what his campaign is trying to build—and what elections can and can’t actually do under those conditions. Not whether socialism sounds good, but how movements use...
info_outlineInvestigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power.
In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American capitalism in a period of growing instability.
From leaks and information control to protest, media, and the logic of permanent security, this conversation follows a larger question: if empire requires techniques of surveillance, containment, and counterinsurgency abroad, what happens when those same logics begin returning home?
If the boundaries of acceptable politics continue to narrow, and left-wing dissent increasingly becomes something to manage rather than respond to, what does that say about the relationship between security, capitalism, and democracy?
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