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1910Empires Collapse Into Revolutionary ChaosNick Lloyd, Part Two: Lloyd examines how internal instability, marked by Rasputin's assassination, led to Petrogradbread riots and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in early 1917. Kerensky's Provisional Government failed to stabilize Russia, allowing Lenin's Bolsheviks to seize power in November 1917 and sign the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. Despite German victory in the East and Italy's disaster at Caporetto, the Central Powers collapsed in late 1918 under Emperor Karl. The war shattered four empires, leaving an unstable geopolitical landscape across Eastern Europe. (2)

Lenin supposedly said there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. This wasn't one of those weeks. It might have looked like a historic week. The AI circus rolled into the UN with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei addressing the Security Council on the peril facing “humanity as a whole.” Britain and Australia weighed in with middling diplomatic or regulatory AI initiatives of their own. Trump renamed AI as superintelligence. But none of this changed anything. The UN continued its kabuki theater of making global pronouncements without having the power to change even the most local of things. Britain and Australia remained not-great powers with delusions of grandeur. In the autumn of his patriarchy, Trump continued to flail with pathetic powerlessness. And Dario and Sam increasingly seem like bit actors in the unfolding AI drama. So where's all the power in AI? What's this week's real story? In Ezra Klein's New York Times conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare called “an interview for the ages,” Huang, the CEO of the world's most valuable company, reveals himself as the guy running the AI show. The $5 trillion dollar man talks with the quiet authority of the AI headmaster, fearlessly scolding his riotous sixth form. And his most riotous pupils are Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. So, in response to their latest handwringing about AI's existential threat to humanity, Huang's message was unambiguous. If you can't align it, “don't ship it,” he said of these supposedly humanity-destroying AI products, and if you truly cannot contain your own experiments, “then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.” The most revealing part of the Klein interview was about Nvidia's astonishing economic clout in the AI economy. Huang put his chip manufacturer's investment in this ecosystem at around $100 billion — larger, as Klein noted, than Joe Biden's entire CHIPS and Science Act. This guy has serious clout, equivalent to or perhaps even surpassing the US state. He doesn't waste his time at the UN. He's not running wannabe great powers like Australia or Britain. He doesn't play senile semantic games like you-know-who. Huang can lay down the law to Sam and Dario (and Trump) because he doesn't fear them. As the Exponential View's Azeem Azhar reveals in a revealing interview this week with Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson, Nvidia isn't dependent on the walled garden innovators at OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither lab actually buys Huang's hardware — they rent capacity from the cloud companies that do, which makes them tenants rather than customers. Meanwhile the cheaper and maybe even better open weight models now pouring out of China run on the same Nvidia silicon. Whoever wins the AI race, Jensen “Levi Strauss” Huang sells them the chips. So Mr Chips to Sam and Dario: heads you lose, tails I win. Shut up or shut down. That's what happened this week. Five Takeaways •       The Theatre of the UN. Altman and Amodei chose the Security Council rather than the General Assembly — the biggest forum available, and one with at least some teeth. What they want, in Keith's reading, is political globalization: a super-state view of AI, with rules set from New York. But AI has already globalized, through the spread of open-source models, and not in a form they like. His analogy is Facebook's Libra, launched on the condition that every government agree, and dead for exactly that reason. The second motive is liability. The conversation of the past fortnight has moved to who gets sued when something goes wrong, and the only rational answer is the companies that built it — unless they are following rules set by government, in which case liability moves. Both are heading for IPOs. As for Andy Burnham, Keith is unimpressed: Britain built its modern advantage on not regulating, and grasping regulation as the theme of a G20 chairmanship is unlikely to serve either the country or the man.•       Huang Calls the Bluff. The week's main event was Ezra Klein's long interview with Jensen Huang, which Keith calls an interview for the ages. Huang's frame is the engineer's: the Golden Gate was not the first bridge, and the Wright Flyer was not the first attempt at flight; engineering is failure leading to success, and what Altman and Amodei describe as species-like behaviour is to him an engineering problem. His conclusion was blunt, and in his own words: if you can't align it, “don't ship it”; and if the labs genuinely believe their experiments cannot be contained, “then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” because the liabilities — civil and criminal — are incredible. What he objects to is the request for relief: asking for regulation while asking for antitrust and product-liability protection makes no sense to him. Keith goes further: Huang is accusing them of being manipulative liars, and he agrees. Andrew pushed back on the idea that the CEO of a five-trillion-dollar company is speaking from pure engineering conviction — you cannot dismiss Sam and Dario's interests and then treat Huang's as irrelevant. Keith's answer: he isn't pursuing commercial goals, he is angry as an engineer.•       More Than the CHIPS Act. The line Andrew kept returning to. When Huang mentioned Nvidia's hundred billion dollars of investment in the AI industry, Klein muttered that this was more than the entire Biden CHIPS Act — and in that aside sits the argument of the week. Governments, Keith says, are missing two things: vision, and money. They are deep in debt, and even if they had the cash there is little reason to trust what they would do with it. This is not an era of state-led innovation but of bottoms-up innovation, and between seventy-five and eighty-five per cent of it is happening in one dot on the world map. Andrew's caveat is historical — there was a twentieth century in which governments built health services and semiconductors and space programmes, and some people are entitled to be nostalgic for it — but the era has passed, and the UN speeches are its echo.•       Not Dependent on OpenAI. The most useful technical thread, drawn from Nick Thompson's interview with Azeem Azhar. Azhar's point is that Nvidia is not especially dependent on OpenAI and Anthropic, which is part of why Huang can afford to attack them: both labs are renters rather than buyers, taking GPU capacity from the companies who actually purchase Nvidia's hardware. Keith's refinement is that this makes them indirect customers rather than irrelevant ones — every GPU purchase is good for Jensen, and the labs depend on the availability of what others buy. Measured in tokens, OpenAI is far ahead of everyone; measured in dollars, Anthropic does better, because its price per token is higher. On the bubble question Azhar is cautiously optimistic and gives numbers; Thompson is less so; and Andrew's conclusion is the one that matters for anyone watching valuations: the AI economy could quite plausibly prosper without either OpenAI or Anthropic.•       Zuckerberg's Return. The quiet story of the week, and the one both men think is the real news. Meta's Muse is a full-stack agent — models at th...

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PART 5/6. Well my divas, we're officially at the beginning of the end. This episode covers the death of Rasputin, the devastation of Bloody Sunday, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the moment the Romanovs go from Russia's ruling family to prisoners under house arrest.We're also going to meet Lenin again as he makes his return to Russia and watch as the Revolution gains momentum and the fate of the Romanov family becomes increasingly uncertain.If you want to watch the rest of our romanov content you can find it here.Shout-out to our incredible researcher Gracie McCamish and editor Jamie Rose for pulling this together.If you like this series, make sure to subscribe and follow along so you don't miss the episodes as they drop, starting with part 2 next Tuesday and if you're wanting more Hot History you can follow along on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ !'Til next week, Ainslie x

Proletarian TV | 14 September 2026 Chris Williamson, deputy leader of the Workers Party, speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Antifascist international on 5th September 2026. Labour is a party of the warmongers, he says. He gives his opinion that it used to be a party where there were peace activists and socialists, but not any more. Even the so called “Socialist campaign group” of Labour Party MPs are rabid supporters of war with Ukraine. John McDonnell is on record calling for more arms to Ukraine, and stating that arming the fascist Zelensky regime is “the path to peace”! [what difference, then between the “left” labourites and the most rabid neoconservatives like trump, biden, clinton and blair?] Chris gives his opinion that “austerity is a choice”, and recited the modern monetary theory that Britain had a sovereign currency so can simply print as much money as is needed to give people whatever they want. [MMT says essentially that: Money is not real. The government issues bonds. This is welfare for the rich. They put their money there as a cast iron savings guarantee. …but why does capitalism need poverty of the masses? What happens to the bond value if money is printed and circulated without any relation to actual goods produced? What is the relationship between the “first” and “third” world nations? Where does value of a commodity arise? What is wealth? Can one eat money? all of these are questions that MMT does not address, but Marx's capital does, we note] Chris ends by noting that speakers have drawn attention to the repressive nature of the [capitalist] state. Chris says that what we want, however, is to take control of the levers of the state, make the laws and use it as a force for good. [This implies that the capitalist class will surrender their dictatorship at the ballot box. Again, this is not the conception of Marx or Lenin, who realise that the capitalist “democracy” is a dictatorship, that rests upon force in the last analysis, with a good deal of misinformation, propaganda and lies thrown in, as well as on the wealth of the caitalist class. Marx and Engels and Lenin contend that the bourgeois state must be smashed, as it will not answer to the needs of the workers. In its place the workers will have to build a new state. A state of the armed and organised working class themselves. The accomplishment of this task is the historic mission of the working class, and the purpose of the working class revolution. We invite all our comrades to think about this fundamental socialist teaching. Pdf: https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Buy: https://shop.thecommunists.org/produc...] Chris invites the audience to join the anti-conscription league. A body that [quite rightly] undermines the will and ability of the [British monopoly capitalist] state to drive to war

In this episode, we welcome political scientist and longtime University of Minnesota professor August H. Nimtz to discuss his book, “Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique.” Nimtz revisits Cedric J. Robinson's 1983 influential “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition” and explains why he believes Robinson's account of the Black radical tradition downplays class struggle, revolutionary politics, and the significance of figures such as Malcolm X. Drawing on his own experiences in the Black freedom movement, field research in Tanzania, and decades of study of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, Nimtz makes the case for a Marxism that takes racism, national liberation, and working-class unity seriously. The conversation ranges from the Grenadian Revolution and anti-colonial struggles in Africa to Malcolm X, Black nationalism, identity politics, and the enduring question of whether the left can build an independent political alternative to the Democratic Party. Nimtz also reflects on Lenin's approach to elections, the meaning of revolutionary parliamentarianism, and why he sees troubling parallels between today's global conflicts and the period leading up to World War I. This is a wide-ranging, challenging conversation about race, class, imperialism, and the political choices facing the left today.   About August Nimtz August H. Nimtz is a political scientist, Marxist scholar, and longtime professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 1971. Raised in New Orleans in a union-oriented household, Nimtz developed an early interest in the relationship between race, class, labor, and political struggle. His research in Tanzania in 1969–70, including field interviews conducted in Swahili, helped shape his work on African politics, Islam, colonialism, and the class dynamics of postcolonial societies. A longtime socialist activist and member of the Socialist Workers Party from 1972 to 1995, Nimtz has written extensively on Marx, Engels, Lenin, Black liberation, electoral strategy, and anti-imperialism. Nimtz's work emphasizes confronting racism while building independent, multiracial working-class political movements.   Resources: Order the book: https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901752/ Webpage: https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/animtz Greg's Substack: https://substack.com/@greggodels929536 Pat's Substack: https://patcummings.substack.com/   #AugustNimtz#AugustH.Nimtz#BlackMarxism#BlackMarxismAMarxistCritique#CedricJ.Robinson#Marxism#Blackradicaltradition#racialcapitalism#Blackliberation#Blacknationalism#revolutionarynationalism#MalcolmX#MarxandEngels#Leninism#socialism#democraticsocialism#SocialistWorkersParty##workingclasspolitics#identitypolitics#labormovement#leftpolitics#progressivepolitics#USpolitics#imperialism#WorldWarI#PatCummings#GregGodels#ZZBlog#ComingFromLeftField#zzblog#mltoday

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.comGood morning to you and a big welcome to the many new subscribers, both paid and unpaid, who have joined the Flying Frisby this week.We are now the Number One riser in Finance and Number Two in the UK, so we must be doing something right.If you have not yet received your Britain On Sale report, you can access it here. (Any issues getting hold of it, DM me or reply to this email - paid subscribers only).BTW the subscription price goes up at midnight tonight, so if you want to lock in the current rate, now is the time to upgrade.So to today's piece, and an important one, I think, as this is going to be a big theme over the next few years. The government is coming for your money. You've earned it. They haven't. Don't let them confiscate it from you, is my advice. I'll explain all.The same situation applies across the western world, but I am going to focus on the UK today.We begin with this Russell Napier interview with Peter McCormack. If you haven't already watched/listened, I urge you to. It is well worth your time. Napier's forecasts, which chime with my own, have grave implications and you are going to need to protect your capital.Napier is a market historian of the old guard, highly respected and, I might add, with good reason. He gets a lot of big calls right.He describes the situation in the UK and indeed most of the West, which we all know. Public sector finances are a mess: bloated, wasteful, deep in debt, an accident waiting to happen.To give you an idea how bad, here's Dan Hannan, Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs:But before you go all out and despair about the decline of Britain, Napier also describes a private sector which is in good shape, lean and hungry. This is an observation we have also made on these pages and why we have been beating the drum that now is a good time to buy British stocks. Hence this report. Britain needs growth, if it is to get out of its mire of government debt, but is not going to get growth while taxes are high and regulation is heavy. All that is required is to unleash growth is government to get out of the way. But it is incapable of doing that. Indeed this current lot shows no sign of wanting to lower tax or lighten up on regulation, so we are caught. Nevertheless, there is this lean beast waiting to escape and that is a positive thing.Moreover, the country needs a huge amount of investment as it moves away from dependence on China for its manufacturing - which must happen for strategic and political reasons. The balance sheet is there in the private sector, says Napier, to make that investment.It might be that some kind of pragmatist comes to power or, more likely, that someone is forced to be pragmatic by the bond market. But we are not there yet.That's the backdrop. Let's come now to Napier's forecast. Our current total debt, public and private sector, stands around 235% of GDP. We are bad but by no means the worst. (Napier is particularly bearish on France, by the way).There are five ways in which we can lower that debt: growth, default, austerity, repression or inflation.You'd need 4% growth which he sees as unlikely, even with the productivity boost that is coming from AI. Austerity is also unlikely because of the Labour backbenches and the numerous promises made and obligations it carries. Default would take too long to recover from (Napier uses the example of Greece). That leaves financial repression, with inflation doing much of the work. Repression and inflation is easiest solution, because it affects fewest people visibly. Visibly is the point. As we know, politicians always choose the path of least resistance.What does repression mean in practice? There are pots of wealth in savings, in insurance and life funds, and in pensions, and the government is coming for it. The biggest victims or targets of this will be old people, for the simple reason that they have the most money. That is where the capital is. Governments will go where the easy capital isI would also add houses to the mix as they are tapping that market too.This wealth grab is all happening quicker than we realise. Mansion taxes are coming, as we know, and word is the threshold will be now brought down from £2 million to $1.5 million. (Talk about mendacious language - anyone know where I can buy a mansion in London for £1.5 million? You can barely get a terraced house for that in Zone 2)Meanwhile, last week the Bank of England did not put up rates, as it should have, were it to honour its mandate to bring inflation down below 2%. Their measure of inflation is 3.1%!The Bank also announced that it will no longer sell the gilts it printed the money to buy through Quantitative Easing (the ones it started selling the day before the Liz Truss Kwasi Kwarteng budget) but instead hold them to maturity. This will considerably reduce selling pressure on the gilt market. If I were Liz Truss or Kwasi Kwarteng, I'd be fuming.But both moves mean yields payable - ie the cost of debt - will not properly affect real inflation or market forces. But who actually understands the sleight of hand that is taking place here?Napier uses the example of a French 50-year bond bought in 2021, as having lost more than 75% of its value. The debt was bought by pensions. The individuals that effectively owned it through their pensions don't even know that they bought it because it's hidden in balance sheets, locked out of reach. That's how this particular raid can effectively be kept a secret.The government is going to force people to buy these bonds. Many will not even know they are doing it, as it will happen remotely via pension funds. Napier calls it “the power of the mandate”, a great term. The UK government already has this power to some degree, through changes to the regulatory framework which can influence what pension funds are permitted or encouraged to hold. (Governments elsewhere in the world that do not currently have this power will soon acquire it, don't you worry).By forcing people to buy bonds, they keep interest rates down, and so the government will be less beholden to “the market” when it wants to borrow and spend.There is plenty of previous for this, bond sales during wars being a prime example. Some kind of regulation will be imposed that demands safe investments and of course bonds and gilts will be deemed safe.This repression will be enacted, effectively, by stealth, and governments will get away with it because it will happen, as both Keynes and Lenin famously observed, “in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” Imagine a government that just cut taxes and spending instead. We can but dream. It's all so dishonest. That's what I hate about it.I was always taught that saving was a good thing, but saving will be villainised. This immediately makes me think of the US in 1933, a story which I cover in the book. When Roosevelt introduced the gold surrender programme, he villainis ed hoarding gold and blamed hoarders for America's woes during the Great Depression. But hoarding gold was just saving and that's what people do. Saving will be somehow villainised, and we will all be required to “play our part” as Andy Burnham put it when imposing illegal immigrant camps on rural villages which don't want them. The subscription price goes up at midnight tonight. If you want to lock in the current rate, now is the time to upgrade.So what can you do? And how do you protect yourself? Where on earth do you put your money?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.comGood morning to you and a big welcome to the many new subscribers, both paid and unpaid, who have joined the Flying Frisby this week.We are now the Number One riser in Finance and Number Two in the UK, so we must be doing something right.If you have not yet received your Britain On Sale report, you can access it here. (Any issues getting hold of it, DM me or reply to this email - paid subscribers only).BTW the subscription price goes up at midnight tonight, so if you want to lock in the current rate, now is the time to upgrade.So to today's piece, and an important one, I think, as this is going to be a big theme over the next few years. The government is coming for your money. You've earned it. They haven't. Don't let them confiscate it from you, is my advice. I'll explain all.The same situation applies across the western world, but I am going to focus on the UK today.We begin with this Russell Napier interview with Peter McCormack. If you haven't already watched/listened, I urge you to. It is well worth your time. Napier's forecasts, which chime with my own, have grave implications and you are going to need to protect your capital.Napier is a market historian of the old guard, highly respected and, I might add, with good reason. He gets a lot of big calls right.He describes the situation in the UK and indeed most of the West, which we all know. Public sector finances are a mess: bloated, wasteful, deep in debt, an accident waiting to happen.To give you an idea how bad, here's Dan Hannan, Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs:But before you go all out and despair about the decline of Britain, Napier also describes a private sector which is in good shape, lean and hungry. This is an observation we have also made on these pages and why we have been beating the drum that now is a good time to buy British stocks. Hence this report. Britain needs growth, if it is to get out of its mire of government debt, but is not going to get growth while taxes are high and regulation is heavy. All that is required is to unleash growth is government to get out of the way. But it is incapable of doing that. Indeed this current lot shows no sign of wanting to lower tax or lighten up on regulation, so we are caught. Nevertheless, there is this lean beast waiting to escape and that is a positive thing.Moreover, the country needs a huge amount of investment as it moves away from dependence on China for its manufacturing - which must happen for strategic and political reasons. The balance sheet is there in the private sector, says Napier, to make that investment.It might be that some kind of pragmatist comes to power or, more likely, that someone is forced to be pragmatic by the bond market. But we are not there yet.That's the backdrop. Let's come now to Napier's forecast. Our current total debt, public and private sector, stands around 235% of GDP. We are bad but by no means the worst. (Napier is particularly bearish on France, by the way).There are five ways in which we can lower that debt: growth, default, austerity, repression or inflation.You'd need 4% growth which he sees as unlikely, even with the productivity boost that is coming from AI. Austerity is also unlikely because of the Labour backbenches and the numerous promises made and obligations it carries. Default would take too long to recover from (Napier uses the example of Greece). That leaves financial repression, with inflation doing much of the work. Repression and inflation is easiest solution, because it affects fewest people visibly. Visibly is the point. As we know, politicians always choose the path of least resistance.What does repression mean in practice? There are pots of wealth in savings, in insurance and life funds, and in pensions, and the government is coming for it. The biggest victims or targets of this will be old people, for the simple reason that they have the most money. That is where the capital is. Governments will go where the easy capital isI would also add houses to the mix as they are tapping that market too.This wealth grab is all happening quicker than we realise. Mansion taxes are coming, as we know, and word is the threshold will be now brought down from £2 million to $1.5 million. (Talk about mendacious language - anyone know where I can buy a mansion in London for £1.5 million? You can barely get a terraced house for that in Zone 2)Meanwhile, last week the Bank of England did not put up rates, as it should have, were it to honour its mandate to bring inflation down below 2%. Their measure of inflation is 3.1%!The Bank also announced that it will no longer sell the gilts it printed the money to buy through Quantitative Easing (the ones it started selling the day before the Liz Truss Kwasi Kwarteng budget) but instead hold them to maturity. This will considerably reduce selling pressure on the gilt market. If I were Liz Truss or Kwasi Kwarteng, I'd be fuming.But both moves mean yields payable - ie the cost of debt - will not properly affect real inflation or market forces. But who actually understands the sleight of hand that is taking place here?Napier uses the example of a French 50-year bond bought in 2021, as having lost more than 75% of its value. The debt was bought by pensions. The individuals that effectively owned it through their pensions don't even know that they bought it because it's hidden in balance sheets, locked out of reach. That's how this particular raid can effectively be kept a secret.The government is going to force people to buy these bonds. Many will not even know they are doing it, as it will happen remotely via pension funds. Napier calls it “the power of the mandate”, a great term. The UK government already has this power to some degree, through changes to the regulatory framework which can influence what pension funds are permitted or encouraged to hold. (Governments elsewhere in the world that do not currently have this power will soon acquire it, don't you worry).By forcing people to buy bonds, they keep interest rates down, and so the government will be less beholden to “the market” when it wants to borrow and spend.There is plenty of previous for this, bond sales during wars being a prime example. Some kind of regulation will be imposed that demands safe investments and of course bonds and gilts will be deemed safe.This repression will be enacted, effectively, by stealth, and governments will get away with it because it will happen, as both Keynes and Lenin famously observed, “in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” Imagine a government that just cut taxes and spending instead. We can but dream. It's all so dishonest. That's what I hate about it.I was always taught that saving was a good thing, but saving will be villainised. This immediately makes me think of the US in 1933, a story which I cover in the book. When Roosevelt introduced the gold surrender programme, he villainis ed hoarding gold and blamed hoarders for America's woes during the Great Depression. But hoarding gold was just saving and that's what people do. Saving will be somehow villainised, and we will all be required to “play our part” as Andy Burnham put it when imposing illegal immigrant camps on rural villages which don't want them. The subscription price goes up at midnight tonight. If you want to lock in the current rate, now is the time to upgrade.So what can you do? And how do you protect yourself? Where on earth do you put your money?

Lenin Estiven Montoya Granados, autor de un cuento infantil en Palmira valle del Cauca.

Dmitri Shostakovich: "I have set myself a task fraught with tremendous responsibility, to express in sound the immortal image of Lenin as a great son of the Russian people and as a leader of the masses. I have received numerous letters from all over the Soviet Union with regard to my future symphony. The most important advice contained therein was to make considerable use of musical folklore." In the massively consequential year of 1939, Shostakovich used these words to launch his Sixth Symphony. The piece was meant to have soloists and a chorus alongside the orchestra — perhaps a nod to his Second and Third Symphonies, which were essentially propaganda pieces. Shostakovich even promised to use the poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" by Vladimir Mayakovsky as the basis for his choral text. The Soviet public eagerly awaited this new symphony, which was inevitably going to be compared with his Fifth Symphony — the piece that had brought Shostakovich back into the Soviet government's good graces, and which remains one of his most popular works even as it's also one of his most complex and nuanced pieces beneath its relatively conservative surface. But whether Shostakovich ever actually planned to write this gigantic "Lenin" symphony is highly doubtful, since no sketches of it have ever turned up. Instead, Shostakovich pivoted publicly to describing his new symphony this way: "The musical character of the Sixth Symphony will differ from the mood and emotional tone of the Fifth Symphony, in which moments of tragedy and tension were characteristic. In my latest symphony, music of a contemplative and lyrical order predominates. I wanted to convey in it the moods of spring, joy, youth."[6] As you can see, Shostakovich wasn't actually saying much about the content of the symphony — if anything at all. He was leaving things deliberately ambiguous, and, fittingly, ambiguous is a pretty good description of this highly enigmatic symphony. Everything about this symphony is slightly off. It's in three movements, not the typical four, and it opens with a massive slow movement; the two remaining movements are fast and significantly shorter, together lasting less than the first movement alone. It was written in 1939 — supposedly a year of military triumph for the Soviet Union, given the Stalin pact with Hitler that allowed Hitler to invade Poland and launch World War II — and yet there is not a hint of military triumphalism in it. In short, this symphony confused a lot of people and has always received mixed reviews, whether from musicologists trying to fit it into the traditional "everything in Shostakovich is about Stalin" narrative, or from Soviet critics of the time trying to fit it into Socialist Realist aesthetics. In the end, descriptions of Shostakovich always attempt to put him into a box — silent dissident, Soviet stooge, hero, coward, etc. The truth, of course, is complicated, and this symphony is a great example of the eternal enigma that is Dmitri Shostakovich. Today, on this Patreon-sponsored episode, I'll take you through this wonderful symphony from a musical perspective, trying to parse its unusual form, its unusually lyrical first movement, and the wild, madcap dash of the final two movements. Join us!

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore Keith Lowe's *Prisoners of History* and the contested world of memorialisation – focusing on one of the strangest and most controversial memorial sites in Europe.Monuments occupy public space, and they impose meaning on it. Walk through any city and you'll find statues placed with particular agendas – to memorialise the past in certain ways, to place a particular interpretation on history. As a result, they are almost always contested. The recent removal of statues associated with the transatlantic slave trade, from Edward Colston in Bristol to Confederate monuments across the American South, provoked a furious reaction from the right, who framed it as a free speech issue. What they were really defending was the right of white supremacy to own and occupy public space.Keith Lowe argues that there is no escaping the monsters of our past. We can try to ignore them, rehabilitate them, or annihilate them – but their absence becomes its own kind of presence. There is only one final course open to us: ridicule.This brings us to Grūtas Park in Lithuania – a sculpture park displaying the statues of Stalin, Lenin, and other Soviet figures that were torn down after independence in 1990. Lithuania's 20th century was one of repeated invasion, occupation, and mass deportation. Around 300,000 Lithuanians were sent to Soviet gulags in the 1940s and 50s. So when independence came, the statues were decapitated, blowtorched, and dynamited. The government then stored the best-known examples in warehouses – until a former wrestling champion and mushroom farmer named Viliumas Malinauskas offered to take them off their hands and build a park.His proposals were extraordinary: tourists arriving on cattle trucks, actors dressed as guards herding them onto trains, barbed wire, guard towers, the whole gulag experience. Critics called it a "Stalin theme park." Over a million people signed a petition against it. Former partisans and political prisoners accused Malinauskas of profiting from their misery.But the park opened anyway – and became a hit. What makes Grūtas Park so interesting, and so troubling, is that it creates a space that is completely ahistorical. It was built in the era of the "end of history," when we thought we could turn the past into a meaningless theme park.History didn't end. Spoiler alert.**Topics covered:**- Keith Lowe's *Prisoners of History*- The contest over public memorials and public space- Francis Galton, eugenics, and the limits of ridicule- Lithuania's experience of Soviet and Nazi occupation- The fate of Stalin and Lenin statues after 1990- Viliumas Malinauskas and the creation of Grūtas Park- The petition, the protests, and the constitutional court ruling- The postmodern, ahistorical aesthetics of the park- The "end of history" and its illusions---*If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us – we are migrating from Patreon to Substack. Details in the show notes.*Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Exclusive ContentBecome a Patron: patreon.com/explaininghistory▸ Join the Community & Continue the ConversationFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/ExplainingHistoryPodcastSubstack: theexplaininghistorypodcast.substack.com▸ Read Articles & Go DeeperWebsite: explaininghistory.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Arktis als neue Frontlinie: Von der Wissenschaftskooperation zur Aufrüstung des Hohen NordensVier Jahrzehnte lang war die Arktis das seltene Beispiel eines Raums, in dem Ost und West trotz aller Rivalität kooperierten. Seit dem Ukraine-Krieg ist diese Ordnung eingefroren, im wörtlichen wie im übertragenen Sinn. Was folgt, ist eine Chronologie des Umbaus vom gemeinsamen Forschungsgebiet zum umkämpften Rohstoff- und Militärraum – und eine Einordnung, was dabei wirklich auf dem Spiel steht.Ein Standpunkt von Jochen Mitschka.I. Die Ursprünge: Sowjetische Pionierarbeit und der Rovaniemi-GeistDie russische Dominanz in der Arktis ist kein neues Phänomen, sondern das Ergebnis jahrzehntelanger, staatlich finanzierter Kontinuität. Bereits 1937 errichteten sowjetische Wissenschaftler die erste driftende Polarstation auf einer Eisscholle im Nordpolarmeer, wie die Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik dokumentiert. 1957 folgte mit der „Lenin“ der weltweit erste atomgetriebene Eisbrecher – bis heute verfügt ausschließlich Russland über eine solche Flotte, wie aus der Technikgeschichte der zivilen Atomschifffahrt hervorgeht. 1977 erreichte der sowjetische Eisbrecher „Arktika“ als erstes Überwasserschiff überhaupt den geografischen Nordpol.Trotz des Kalten Krieges gelang es den acht Arktisanrainern 1996, mit der Ottawa-Erklärung den Arktischen Rat zu gründen – ein Forum, das laut der Analyse der Informationsstelle Militarisierung harte Sicherheitsfragen und militärische Themen bewusst ausklammerte, um Umwelt-, Klima- und Lebensbedingungen der Region gemeinsam zu bearbeiten. Dieser sogenannte Rovaniemi-Geist trug die arktische Kooperation durch die Krim-Annexion 2014 hindurch nahezu unbeschadet, wie das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in seiner Rückschau auf den Arktischen Rat festhält.II. Der Wendepunkt: Klimawandel, Rohstoffschätzungen und IlulissatAb etwa 2008 verschob sich der Blick auf die Arktis grundlegend. Der US-Geological Survey veröffentlichte damals die erste umfassende Bewertung der unentdeckten Öl- und Gasvorkommen nördlich des Polarkreises und bezifferte diese auf etwa 90 Milliarden Barrel Öl und 1670 Billionen Kubikfuß Erdgas. Das schmelzende Meereis, ursprünglich vor allem als Menetekel des Klimawandels wahrgenommen, wurde damit – wie die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in ihrer Analyse zu Bodenschätzen und Seewegen in der Arktis beschreibt, zugleich zum Versprechen auf neue Fördergebiete und Schifffahrtsrouten umgedeutet.Die fünf Arktisanrainer reagierten 2008 mit der Ilulissat-Erklärung, in der sie sich auf das bestehende Seerecht als Rahmen für die Aufteilung der Region verständigten, statt einen neuen völkerrechtlichen Sonderstatus zu schaffen. Damit war formal geklärt, dass der Großteil der vermuteten Rohstoffe ohnehin innerhalb der nationalen 200-Seemeilen-Zonen liegt und kein rechtliches Niemandsland ist, wie es der taz-Bericht zum Ressourcenkonflikt aus dieser Zeit zusammenfasst....https://apolut.net/der-kampf-um-die-arktis-von-jochen-mitschka/

Despite later mythology, Stalin was effectively a nobody during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Unlike Trotsky and Lenin, he was not on the frontline amongst the revolutionaries. How did he reveal his penchant for violence during the Russian Civil War in the following years? And what is the darker story behind his marriage to the young Nadya Alliluyeva? In Episode 2 of this series, Anita Anand and William Dalrymple are joined by Giles Milton, author of The Stalin Affair, to discuss Stalin's role in the fledgling Soviet Union during the violence that birthed it.  Join the Empire Club: Unlock the full Empire experience – with bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to miniseries and live show tickets, exclusive book discounts, a members-only newsletter, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at empirepoduk.com. Empire listeners can use code 'EMPIRE' to get a 10% discount on their first order at this link: https://uk.plaud.ai/empire Try Attio for free at attio.com/empire Email: empire@goalhanger.com Instagram: @empirepoduk Blue Sky: @empirepoduk X: @empirepoduk Assistant Producer: Imogen Marriott Editor: Bruno Di Castri Social Producer: Charlie Johnson Producer: Anouska Lewis Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tras la muerte de Marx, su pensamiento se dividió en facciones. La Segunda Internacional impulsó el debate entre reforma y revolución, con Eduard Bernstein defendiendo una vía gradual y democrática y Rosa Luxemburg criticando ese revisionismo y aceptando el papel crucial de la violencia política. La Primera Guerra Mundial provocó una profunda crisis del internacionalismo socialista, mientras que la Revolución rusa de 1917 dio paso al marxismo revolucionario de Lenin y a la Tercera Internacional. Desde entonces, ya no puede hablarse de un solo marxismo, sino de múltiples corrientes que discutieron sobre democracia, revolución, Estado, capitalismo y dialéctica, marcando buena parte de la política y la filosofía del siglo XX. ÍNDICE 0. Introducción. 1. La Primera Internacional: unir al movimiento obrero. 2. La Segunda Internacional y el nacimiento de la socialdemocracia. 3. Eduard Bernstein y el revisionismo. 4. Rosa Luxemburg: sin revolución, el socialismo pierde su sentido. 5. 1914: la gran crisis del internacionalismo socialista. 6. Lenin y la ruptura revolucionaria. 7. La Tercera Internacional. 8. Rosa Luxemburg y la revolución alemana. 9. ¿Qué ocurrió filosóficamente con el marxismo? 10. De un Marx a muchos marxismos Conclusión Música de la época: Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano (Arvo Pärt) Imagen: Los distintos actores de la evolución del marxismo: Marx, Bernstein, Luxemburg,... Pulsen un Me Gusta y colaboren a partir de 2,99 €/mes si se lo pueden permitir para asegurar la permanencia del programa ¡Muchas gracias a todos!

Andrea Appetito"Ottobre"Edizioni Peoplewww.peoplepub.it"Ottobre": vincitore del Premio Marco Tiberi per la Narrativa.In una città industriale immaginaria e avvelenata chiamata D., un gruppo di adolescenti emarginati – Angelo, Sorellina, Ivan e Cučka – sopravvive tra miseria, prostituzione e sogni di rivoluzione. La morte tragica della madre di Angelo e Sorellina nell'incendio di una fabbrica chimica, causato dall'avidità del magnate Santini, diventa la miccia che accende la sete di giustizia dei protagonisti. Mentre il fratello lavora in un night club travestito da angelo, Sorellina, tra le macerie della fabbrica distrutta, studia Lenin e progetta la rinascita: creare il primo soviet della città. Così il gruppo – tra masturbazioni adolescenziali, dialoghi taglienti e utopie – prepara un gesto simbolico di ribellione che arriverà a scuotere le fondamenta di un mondo corrotto. Andrea Appetito – Nato a Roma nel 1971, ha pubblicato il libro Cluster Bomb (Altrastampa 2002) e partecipato all'antologia di racconti su Roma Allupa allupa (DeriveApprodi 2006) e al libro collettivo El impasse de lo político (Bellaterra 2011). Il suo testo teatrale L'eredità è stato tradotto in portoghese e messo in scena a Rio de Janeiro nel 2006. Ha realizzato cortometraggi come ¿Quién es Pilar? (2005) e il film-documentario L'ora d'amore, presentato al Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma nel 2008. È coautore della sceneggiatura Emma e Maria, finalista al Premio Solinas nel 2014. Presente nell'antologia Sorridi: siamo a Roma (Ponte Sisto 2016), ha scritto i romanzi Tomàs (Effigie 2017) e I Figli della Notte (Lamantica 2024), oltre alla raccolta di racconti Vietato calpestare le rovine (Effigie 2019). Attualmente, insegna filosofia e storia in un liceo nella provincia di Roma.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happened. The hosts unpack the two separate revolutions of 1917, why Lenin and Trotsky were not even in Russia when the first one occurred, and how a well funded minority faction ended up controlling an entire nation almost overnight. They also open the door into a side trip through World War II and the financing of both sides of that conflict, though the chapter is not finished this week. Expect uncomfortable parallels to modern events and plenty of genuine disbelief from the hosts.

A new report from Defense Priorities has a radical proposal: End US alliances with South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines; drastically cut US military presence in East Asia; declare a non-intervention policy on Taiwan; and shift US military strategy from defending a "first-island chain" defense perimeter to the "second-island chain." Dr. Van Jackson explains the meaning and implications of this proposal and evaluates it from the perspective of anti-militarist anti-imperialism. Based on previous research, he also proposes the standard for "progressive foreign policy," whether progressives and socialists should support this new proposal, and no proposal for changing military strategy has a chance of stabilizing Asia if it does not prioritize the concept of the "Asian Peace." Also this episode: why the 1995 Michael Moore comedy Canadian Bacon explains the US fixation with colonizing Canada in 2026. In the back half of the episode: a mini-lecture on imperialist accounts of World War One, comparing how W.E.B. Du Bois and V.I. Lenin both theorized empire as the cause of World War One but in starkly different ways. W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk” (1920), https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Du_Bois_White_Folk.pdf.  V.I. Lenin, “Chapter 1: The Principle of Socialism and the War of 1914-15,” in Socialism and War (1915), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s-w/ch01.htm.  Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/ Watch Un-Diplomatic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@un-diplomaticpodcast Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the individuals and not of any institutions.

CAPTION 1945 YALTAJoseph Stalin's Lifetime Reading HabitsGeoffrey Roberts, author of Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, Part One: Roberts introduces Joseph Stalin's expansive personal library, estimated to have reached 25,000 texts by his death, though only a 5,500-book fraction survived intact. Roberts traces Stalin's lifelong reading journey starting from his studious youth in Georgia and seminary education to his adult life as an omnivorous Marxist intellectual. He highlights Stalin's structured book classification scheme, which kept works by key Marxist thinkers like Lenin and his rival Leon Trotsky separated for special study. (1)

What connects Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nazi Germany, Soviet communism and the Cold War to an ancient altar mentioned in Revelation? Jonathan Cahn joins Mondo Gonzales to continue unraveling the mystery of the Altar of Pergamon—the ancient structure Jesus identified with “Satan's throne.” Cahn traces its journey from ancient Pergamon to Berlin and explores the striking historical connections he sees between the altar, the resurrection of Marxism, Lenin's return to Russia, Stalin's rise and the Soviet Union's emergence as a global superpower.

What connects Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nazi Germany, Soviet communism and the Cold War to an ancient altar mentioned in Revelation? Jonathan Cahn joins Mondo Gonzales to continue unraveling the mystery of the Altar of Pergamon—the ancient structure Jesus identified with “Satan's throne.” Cahn traces its journey from ancient Pergamon to Berlin and explores the striking historical connections he sees between the altar, the resurrection of Marxism, Lenin's return to Russia, Stalin's rise and the Soviet Union's emergence as a global superpower.

Patrick addresses heartfelt questions from callers grappling with challenges to their faith, loss, and family tensions, offering warm encouragement and practical advice rooted in Catholic teaching. He reflects on difficult topics like attending a non-Catholic grandchild’s baptism, the responsibility of godparents, and the pain of witnessing loved ones stray from the faith. Listeners also share stories of loss, caregiving, and rediscovering their spiritual path, prompting Patrick to emphasize conviction, compassion, and the enduring importance of prayer and presence. Pete - My 3-year-old grandson was baptized a year ago. My son is going to rebaptize him in a Protestant Church. Is this ok? (00:32) Brian – Shouldn’t the parents get out of the way and let the kids raise their family their own way? (14:20) Patrick shares emails from listeners sharing their 9/11 experiences (20:13) Lisa (email) - My father died very suddenly leaving my mom in the midst of Alzheimer’s, and I was thrust into caring for her. It was one of the hardest years of my life. It was also one of the biggest blessings Elizabeth (email) - Your dad with Alzheimer’s is such a gift right now Alicia (email) - I slowly lost my parents as their health declined (my mom had Alzheimer's and my dad kidney failure) and dealing with their dying within four days of each other Miki (email) You mentioned in the past a book you wrote for girls and boys on finding the right spouse. John - What is the role of godparents in a situation where kids are rebaptized in another faith? (26:39) Monica - We are powerless when it comes to other people's decisions. It’s possible to find peace when divorce comes against your will (28:55) Carlos - My kids want to know how dinosaurs work their way into the bible which don't mention them in the creation story? Michael - Can a loved one see us from heaven? (33:22) James - What is your opinion on incorrupt saints' bodies? I heard Lenin's body is incorrupt. What is your opinion? (38:33) Jerry – The pastor at school would not allow children of gay parents to enroll in the school. Does the pastor have that prerogative? (40:33) Natalie - If you knew someone was coming to hurt your family, does that justify ending a child’s life so they would not be brutally murdered? (47:35)

‘…millions DEAD!!!' The ‘Sealed Train' to St Petersburg, Lenin & the Russian Revolution, 1917. To help support this Podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver on Patreon.comhttps://www.patreon.com/neiloliver To Donate,go to Neil's Website:https://www.neiloliver.com Gold Bullion Partners,for more info about buying gold & silver go to this affiliate link,https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/download-our-complimentary-guide-neil-oliver/ Shop:https://neil-oliver.creator-spring.com Neil Oliver YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@Neil-Oliver Rumble site – Neil Oliver Official:https://rumble.com/c/c-6293844 Instagram - NeilOliverLoveLetter:https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverloveletter Podcasts:Neil Oliver: News Comment HistoryNeil Oliver: HistoryNeil Oliver: InterviewsAvailable on all the usual providershttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-news-comment-history/id1513737418https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-history/id1871225730https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-interviews/id1869660872 #NeilOliver #Revolution #RussianRevolution #Lenin #TzarNicolasII #history #travel #culture #ancient #historyfact #explore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evoca la vida del político Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili centrada en sus años de formación, su relación con Lenin, la primera vez que estuvo al mando de hombres armados y conoció el sabor del poder...

What does it feel like, in our bodies, to be in a Marxist reading group or an anarchist direct action collective? What unexamined stories, from our profoundly traumatizing experiences of development, do we carry into political organizing structures? What relational patterns do we experience in situations ranging from families to graduate school that we then repeat, using new language and frames of reference, when we try to save the world? What does it mean to be a revolutionary, in terms of the core relational and perceptual shifts we wish to effect in ourselves and others? Do political groups kinda resemble cults sometimes? In this episode, Arnold and Adam speak about their highly overlapping experiences of political engagement and philosophical reflection. Adam, a psychotherapist and social worker with an extensive background in Marxist theory and practice, is the host of the Subjective Conditions podcast, which returns from hiatus this fall, focusing on “the mind and the body under capitalism.” His other projects include the Red Library podcast, the Capillaries theory blog, and a forthcoming book called Saturn's Maw, draft chapters of which are spread between Capillaries and his psychotherapy website. 

In this episode of Beyond Running, host Mau Diaz sits down with Lenin Grullon, co-founder of Boogie Down Bronx Runners, to talk about almost ten years of building one of NYC's most respected community running crews. They talk about what it actually took to build a running club from scratch, how Lenin's "community first" philosophy shaped every decision along the way, and the challenges of staying true to that mission as the club grew from a handful of runners into a full-blown family. Lenin opens up about the early mornings, the doubts, and the moments that made it clear this was bigger than just running. The conversation also crosses borders. Mau and Lenin dig into the story of when Lenin brought Boogie Down Bronx Runners to Oaxaca to experience Aire Libre in person, and what it meant for two running communities from completely different worlds to connect through the same love of the sport. It's a reminder that running has a way of building bridges, no matter where you're from.  

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 until he died in 1953. He was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people; tortured additional millions; annihilated cities and entire countries; and caused suffering that lasted for a half century after he died. Most of his victims were from his own country. But he also spread misery and fear around the world.

Dall'attacco militare di gennaio all'accordo sul petrolio della settimana scorsa, che dovrebbe dare agli Stati Uniti accesso alle enormi riserve venezuelane: chi comanda davvero in Venezuela? Con Stefano Pozzebon, corrispondente di CNN. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Il link per abbonarti al Post e ascoltare la puntata per intero⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. I consigli di Stefano Pozzebon – La tomba di Lenin di David Remnick – Le fotografie di Nelson Garrido – La musica di Simón Díaz Sul Post – Molte cose non tornano nell'accordo di Trump per il petrolio venezuelano – Le prime foto di Maduro pubblicate sui suoi profili social dalla cattura – Il governo del Venezuela ha scaricato Maduro? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The extreme right and left wing unite at their extremes in totalitarianism and a god complex. Yet the battle between autocracies and democracies continues like some externalized projection of an internal split in the human psyche; as if the ancient archetypes of good and evil, light and dark, creation and destruction, hubris and nemesis are fighting out a cosmic battle on an earthly and human plane. If we are possessed by archetypes so deeply unconscious as to be capable of destroying us, then the beginning of an answer, as in all depth psychology, is to make the unconscious conscious, and awaken.

Today on the show we're talking about indigenous artists. Some have been on our radar for years, others are newer faves. But all of them remind us that indigenity is past, present and future. Discussing music by Mare Advertencia, Lido Pimienta, La MafiAndina, Armacústica, LENIN, Natalia LaFourcade and Ruben Blades Order our new book, MUE´VELO here: bit.ly/433NaH0 Check out our book events: radiomenea.com/events

Wat bracht de CIA-baas naar Moskou? Het bezoek blijft omgeven met vragen. Om Rusland vandaag te begrijpen, moeten we terug naar Lenin, Stalin en de revolutie.⁠Doe een kleine donatie

Has the altar of Satan, discovered in the city of Pergamon, shaped the darkest events of the past two centuries? This is a deep dive with bestselling author Jonathan Cahn into his thrilling new book “The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World. Also, who was the strange male voice that told Lindsey Clancy to kill her children and herself? Is this psychosis or demonic possession, and might she be “not guilty by reason of demonic possession”? (2:14) Lindsay Clancy's Two Side(6:28) Are Psychiatrists Reliable?(11:05) Possession, Psychosis, or Murder(20:29) Guest Intro: Jonathan Kahn(21:06) Writing The Harbinger's Origins(29:15) The Throne of Satan(33:52) Digging Up the Altar(39:09) Hitler Born, Altar Assembled(42:36) Nazi Rise, Altar Unveiled(47:55) The Holocaust's Hidden Etymology(51:28) Karl Marx's Satanic Turn(54:16) Stalin, Lenin, and Altar(1:00:44) Cuban Missile Crisis, Pergamon(1:07:26) Obama and the Altar(1:11:07) Antichrist and Temple Mount If you’re tired of broken healthcare you need to choose the right pharmacy. Check them out at allfamilypharmacy.com/dinesh and use code DINESH10 to save 10% off your next order. Leave the old “buy and hold” crypto strategy behind at https://DineshCrypto.com ! Purchase crypto with military grade encryption and American customer service. Hundreds of crypto holders have saved MILLIONS thanks to BlockTrustIRA’s Animus AI. Visit https://DineshCrypto.com and receive up to $2,500 in FREE bonus crypto! America has nearly 39 trillion dollars in debt! Are you protected from this pending disaster? Go to http://DineshGold.com and get up to 10% in bonus gold or silver. I’m on substack! Check out what I have to say here: https://dineshdsouza.substack.com/ For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (706) 262-4774 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dinesh" Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Dinesh D'Souza is an author and filmmaker. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was a senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He also served as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of many bestselling books, including "Illiberal Education," "What's So Great About Christianity," "America: Imagine a World Without Her," "The Roots of Obama's Rage," "Death of a Nation," and "United States of Socialism." His documentary films "2016: Obama's America," "America," "Hillary's America," "Death of a Nation," and "Trump Card" are among the highest-grossing political documentaries of all time. He and his wife Debbie are also executive producers of the acclaimed feature film "Infidel." — Want to connect with Dinesh D'Souza online for more hard-hitting analysis of current events in America? Here’s how: Get Dinesh unfiltered, uncensored and unchained on Locals: https://dinesh.locals.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dsouzadinesh Twitter: https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza Rumble: https://rumble.com/dineshdsouza Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dineshjdsouzaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we step back from the specific history of Congo to examine the broader theoretical framework of neocolonialism – and how the decline of formal empire prepared the ground for the neoliberal revolution.Drawing on thinkers from Marx and Lenin to J.A. Hobson and Rosa Luxemburg, we explore the purpose of empire from the perspective of capital: the pursuit of cheap resources, cheap labour, and captive markets. Britain's transformation from a middling European kingdom to a global superpower was built on the extraction of wealth from its colonies – from the opium trade with China to the slave‑based sugar and cotton economies to the systematic deindustrialisation of India.But what happens when empire becomes unsustainable? In India, the British lost control of the Indian Army in 1946, and with it, their ability to monopolise armed force. By the 1950s and 60s, most of Britain's African colonies were gone. Yet the flow of wealth from the Global South to the City of London did not stop. It continued through neocolonialism – debt, the Bretton Woods institutions, corporate infiltration, and support for pliant regimes.And then came neoliberalism. As the returns from empire declined, capitalist elites in the Global North turned inward, cannibalising their own societies through privatisation, the erosion of welfare states, and the breaking of organised labour. The neoliberal revolution was, in part, a response to the crisis of empire – a way to maintain elite wealth and power when the old imperial structures could no longer deliver.We also consider the explicitly colonial and eugenic thinking of some neoliberal architects, and the destructive consequences of imposing market logic on societies with no history of it. From the mass unemployment of Thatcher's Britain to the ongoing exploitation of Africa, the arc of capital bends towards extraction – and the people always pay the price.Topics covered:Marxist and liberal theories of imperialism (Hobson, Lenin, Luxemburg)Britain's transition from formal empire to neocolonialismThe loss of control over the Indian Army in 1946The Bretton Woods institutions and the weaponisation of debtNeoliberalism as a response to the decline of empireThe cannibalisation of Western welfare statesThe role of organised labour and the defeat of the minersThe eugenic and colonial thinking of neoliberal theoristsIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us – we are migrating from Patreon to Substack. Details in the show notes.Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Exclusive ContentBecome a Patron: patreon.com/explaininghistory▸ Join the Community & Continue the ConversationFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/ExplainingHistoryPodcastSubstack: theexplaininghistorypodcast.substack.com▸ Read Articles & Go DeeperWebsite: explaininghistory.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daniel Tutt and returning guest C. Derick Varn join Steve to discuss their new book, The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, whose title states its thesis outright. When the left speaks of a unified people confronting a corrupt elite, it conceals the real stratifications inside the working class and borrows a Manichean framework that functions identically on the right. Their argument: since 2008, from Occupy through Syriza, Podemos, Corbyn, and Sanders, left populism has served to extinguish the class antagonism at the center of socialism, operating as a new Popular Front in which liberalism holds the upper hand.The conversation lands directly on this show's own history. Varn is blunt about his long-running argument with MMT advocates: he never disputed the nature of the currency, he disputed the analysis of power. They are not going to let you have a Job Guarantee, because it removes their ability to discipline workers. Steve agrees, describing his own path out of economism and the trap of thinking a basket of policies and a few more progressives in office adds up to a threat to capital.On class consciousness, Varn is careful with a term he calls one of the most abused in socialist history. The reason to organize around the working class is not its victimhood. It is that the working class already possesses, collectively, the skills to reproduce society. The differences within the working class are resolvable. The difference between the working class and those who live off its labor is not.They close on electoralism. Varn's formulation: electoralism is a tactic, not a principle. Democracy is the principle. Tutt points to Lenin's actual position, that ballots are justified only alongside extra-parliamentary means and on terms of strict class independence. The Popular Front let liberalism lead. The United Front did not.If you've followed this show from Ep 218 - Beware! the Counter-Revolution with C. Derick Varn, through Ep 318 - The Death of the Left? with Simon Winlow & Steve Hall, Ep 371 - You Can't Vote Away Colonialism with Fadhel Kaboub, and Ep 388 - From Theory to Praxis: Lenin's Revolutionary Formula with Breht O'Shea, this episode is the strategic argument those conversations kept circling. Daniel Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family and How to Read Like a Parasite. His writing has been featured in Jacobin, Current Affairs, Philosophy Now and Aeon Magazine. He is the host of the Emancipations podcast and study group collective. Find him on Twitter @TuttReal or his Substack: https://danieltutt.substack.com/aboutC. Derick Varn is an author, poet, and educator, and host of the podcast Varn Vlog, where he publishes podcasts and series on the great thinkers, and interviews authors and academics. He is the author of Apocalyptics and Liberation and All That Bright Etc. He has been a union rep for the past six years. Find him on Twitter @TheRealVarnVlog or his podcast https://varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/

In part two of our deep dive into China (and part four of our socialist organization series), we break down how Mao attempted to dialectically sublate a national front and a united front. We explore the structural inclusion of the "patriotic national bourgeoisie" into the block of four classes (symbolized by the stars on the Chinese flag) and contrast it with classical Soviet developmental theory and orthodox Marxism.We also dive into:- The historical debate between Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lenin, and Trotsky.- Why modern "Hoxhaists" and Left Communists consider New Democracy to be revisionist.- The evolution of class structures under Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" doctrine (allowing billionaires into the Party).- The reality of modern China's development: Is it a transitioning socialist project, or an hyper-competent form of state capitalism and developmental liberalism?Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for Episode 5, where we pivot to National Frontism and National Bolshevism.Journal ArticlesDirlik, A. (1970). The ideological foundations of the Chinese Revolution. Journal of Contemporary History, 5(3), 39–54.Dittmer, L. (1977). Line struggle: Notes on its organizational context and theoretical development. Modern China, 3(3), 303–312.Fogel, J. A. (1980). Ai Siqi, establishment intellectual by Joshua A. Fogel. Modern China, 6(1), 23–47.Hammond, E. R. (1978). Marxism and the mass line [Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.Korolev, A. (2017). De-ideologized mass line, regime responsiveness, and state-society relations. China Review, 17(2), 7–36.Lyman, S. V. (1970). The Chinese Communist Party in the United Front, 1937–1945 [Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.Mazur, M. G. (1995). The United Front of the 1940s: A social and cultural perspective. Modern China, 21(4), 431–456.Selden, M. (1971). The Yenan Way in revolutionary China. The China Quarterly, (45), 263–294.Steiner, H. A. (1951). Current mass line tactics in Communist China. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 277(1), 422–436.Teiwes, F. C. (1978). The origins of rectification: Inner-party purgation in the 1930s. The China Quarterly, (74), 181–201.Tokuda, N. (1971). The mass line during the Yenan period. The China Quarterly, (47), 1–18.Townsend, J. R. (1967). Political participation in Communist China. University of California Press.Womack, B. (1980). The phase of de-Maoization in China. China Report, 16(1), 7–21.Womack, B. (1991). Mao Zedong and the sinification of Marxism. The China Quarterly, (126), 1–15.Young, G. (1980). On New Democracy and the transition to socialism. Modern China, 6(1), 3–22.Books & Primary SourcesCoble, P. M. (2023). The collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek lost China's civil war. Cambridge University Press.Elbaum, M. (2018). Revolution in the air: Sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. Verso Books.Hirata, K. (2024). Making Mao's steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the transnational origins of Chinese socialism. Cambridge University Press.Karl, R. E. (2010). Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world: A concise history. Duke University Press.Li, H. (2024). Fighting on the cultural front: U.S.-China relations in the Cold War. Columbia University Press.Lin, C. (2019). Mass line. In C. Sorace, I. Franceschini, & N. Loubere (Eds.), Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political concepts from Mao to Xi (p. 122). ANU Press.Lovell, J. (2019). Maoism: A global history. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.Lowe, D. M. (1966). The function of "China" in Marx, Lenin, and Mao. University of California Press.Mao, Z. (1940). On New Democracy. Marxists Internet Archive.Mao, Z. (1977). A critique of Soviet economics. Monthly Review Press.Moufawad-Paul, J. (2016). Continuity and rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist terrain. Zero Books.Schram, S. R. (Ed.). (2005). Mao's road to power: Revolutionary writings 1912–1949: Vol. VII. New Democracy, 1939–1941. M.E. Sharpe.Zheng, Q. (Ed.). (2020). An ideological history of the Communist Party of China (Vol. 2) (L. Sun & S. Bryant, Trans.). Royal Collins Publishing Group.Send us Fan Mail Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer 

 “He's not a trustworthy witness to his own story. Everything is ten times bigger and better than it really was — except when he was accused of crimes, in which case he can't really remember anymore.” — Joby Warrick on Carlos the Jackal Yesterday, WOLA's Adam Isacson and John Walsh described how the US government has appropriated the term “narco-terrorism” to justify their Latin American killing spree. Today, we talk the real thing. Pulitzer Prize-winning Joby Warrick has a new book out about the rise and fall of Carlos the Jackal, who he calls the “original super-terrorist.” So who was Carlos the Jackal? Originally he was named by his Venezuelan Marxist father Ilich in homage to Lenin. Then he renamed himself Carlos, borrowing from a fake passport the French police happened to find in 1975. While The Jackal came from the London Guardian after reporters spotted Frederick Forsyth's best-seller on the bookshelf of his London safe house. Ilich (i.e. Carlos) loved it. Anything for attention. Especially from the capitalist media. His career, as a proxy Palestinian terrorist, was equally audacious. His solo debut, at 24, was the attempted London assassination of Marks & Spencer chairman Joseph Sieff. Two years later, Carlos waltzed into OPEC headquarters in Vienna and kidnapped most of the world's oil ministers, a terrorist heist that, Warrick reveals, was financed by Muammar Gaddafi. Then all of Carlos' yesterdays — and there are many, as Warrick discovers when he interviews him in his French jail. He spent twenty years on the run, mostly barely camouflaged in faded Eastern European hotels. The Mossad didn't even consider him worth assassinating. By the eighties he had become a gun for hire who'd stopped attacking Israelis. And at 75, in his convent-turned-prison outside Paris, the world's original super-terrorist cooks his own meals, repeats old leftist slogans, and misremembers everything except his innocence. In spite of his pathetic fate, Carlos matters because, as Warrick notes, the Jackal model is back in fashion. Russia and Iran now hire petty crooks on Telegram for a few hundred dollars to firebomb synagogues or assassinate dissidents. Gaza's tragic hopelessness echoes the post-1967 conditions that bred the first wave of Palestinian terror. Social media is now infested with wannabe violent influencers. The day of the Jackal, then, is not only our history but also our future. Five Takeaways •       Interview with the Jackal. Warrick negotiated for over a year — with Carlos, then with a French government determined he not be glorified, since his gravest crimes were against French citizens — for roughly ninety minutes in March 2025, no recorder, no camera, notebook only. The prison is a converted sixteenth-century convent outside Paris where the Nazis once tortured members of the Resistance; inside it, Carlos remains the big man on campus — guards call him Carlos, not Ilich, and he keeps a large cell, cooks his own meals, and browses the internet. At 75 he is natty, polyglot, charming — and stooped, forgetful, repeating himself into what Warrick calls a fog of old memories. As a witness he is worthless: everything ten times bigger and better than it was, except the crimes, which he suddenly cannot recall.•       Ilich, Carlos, Jackal: An Accidental Brand. His ardent-Marxist father named his three sons Vladimir, Ilich, and Lenin, after the founder of the Soviet Union. “Carlos” came from a fake passport — Carlos Martinez — that French police happened to seize in 1975; the pudgy dark-glasses photo the world memorized was a passport fake he remains embarrassed by. “The Jackal” was coined by the British tabloids after reporters prowling his London safe house spotted Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal on the bookshelf. He embraced all of it: a true believer whose slogans still pour out in prison, welded to a massive ego that always placed Carlos at the center of the revolution. Had Instagram existed, Warrick agrees, he'd have used it — the pre-digital influencer, with the world's press as his platform.•       From Five Bullets to Kidnapping OPEC. His 1970 baptism of fire in the Black September fighting hardened him past the point of return; his solo test, at 24, was the attempted assassination of Marks & Spencer chairman Joseph Sieff — an old gun, five bullets, a jam, and a bullet deflected by the victim's teeth (“good old Milk Marketing Board,” Sieff told the BBC from his hospital bed). The masterpiece came in December 1975: a 26-year-old walks into OPEC's Vienna headquarters mid-conference, takes the world's oil ministers hostage, extracts a plane and a ransom, and flies them to North Africa — the most audacious terrorist act Warrick can name. The book's scoop settles who sponsored it: not Saddam Hussein, as biographers and a 2010 docudrama claimed, but Muammar Gaddafi — the autocrat pioneering the criminal proxy with no return address.•       Twenty Years, No Capture — and a Mossad Pass. The world's most wanted man spent two decades in comfort: Budapest his favorite hideout (good meals, nice hotels — Carlos insisted on top-flight everything), the Hungarians, East Germans, and Romanians almost proud to host their superstar guest, Assad's Syria always available. The run ended only when the Bloc fell and the Arab states tired of him; the French and Americans finally tracked him to Khartoum in 1994. The great deflation is the Mossad: they never bothered with him. His mentor Wadi Haddad — the true operational genius — they hunted and killed; Carlos, by then a mercenary who'd stopped attacking Israelis, simply fell down the priority list. The world's most fearsome terrorist wasn't worth Israel's effort.•       The Return of Violent Chaos. Warrick's closing argument, and the reason this history is news: the Gaddafi model has been rediscovered. Russia and Iran now hire criminals — recruited on Telegram, paid a few hundred dollars in crypto — to throw grenades into synagogues, set fires, and assassinate dissidents: hundreds of incidents already, most under the radar, none traceable to Moscow or Tehran. The modern Carlos works for whoever pays; ideology has left the business entirely. Gaza's hopelessness, meanwhile, mirrors the post-1967 despair that launched the first international terror wave — and we are not prepared. As for America's own extrajudicial turn, from drone war to boat strikes: “There's no precedent... it is a grave change for us as Americans. Very troubling to me.” About the Guest Joby Warrick is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and veteran national security correspondent for The Washington Post. His books include The Triple Agent, Red Line, and Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist (Scribner, August 18, 2026), built on newly declassified archives, secret police files, and a rare interview with Carlos himself, is out next week.

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience. Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly's personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund's armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund's rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund's story for the Jewish left today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly's personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund's armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund's rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund's story for the Jewish left today.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

James Lindsay led the 2018 Grievance Studies Affair, a hoax so effective it got a chapter of Mein Kampf rewritten as feminist theory accepted into a peer-reviewed journal. Since then he's built New Discourses around defining the woke formula of critical theory plus Leninist tactics, and how the formula appears on the left and the right. In this conversation, Lindsay traces "woke" back through Lenin's vanguard model and a 1937 Nazi corporate law that literally invented the word "stakeholder," then applies the same framework to Tucker Carlson, breaking down why he meets every box on the definition. James connects totalitarian ideology to clinical narcissism, explains why government incentive structures guarantee corruption regardless of who's in charge, and shares firsthand accounts from parents whose teenage sons are being radicalized into neo-Nazi forums. The conversation closes on JD Vance and his documented ties to post-liberal, Catholic integralist thinkers. Lindsay's  books: The Marxification of Education  Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody Race Marxism Timestamps: 03:07 Who is James Lindsay: anti-totalitarian researcher 04:18 The Grievance Studies Affair, explained 07:08 Cynical Theories and writing from a left-wing perspective on purpose 10:42 Defining "woke" begins 12:06 Critical theory's roots, back to Marx 13:53 The two components of woke: critical theory + Leninist behavior 19:20 Woke left vs. woke right, and the "Animal Farm" stakeholder model 25:33 The Nazi Shareholder Act of 1937 — the real birth of "stakeholder" 29:54 Do people actually understand this system? 31:17 Why everyone should listen to people who escaped communism 32:08 Totalitarianism as institutionalized narcissism 35:25 Why government incentive structures guarantee corruption 40:15 Bill Gates and the "Messiah complex" 43:01 Marx's Communist Manifesto, reread through narcissism 45:16 What happened to Tucker Carlson? 46:09 The case for why Tucker Carlson is "woke right" 50:15 Tucker's 2019 shift and Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act 53:06 How much of Tucker's audience is bots? 54:00 How much real power does Tucker actually have? 58:13 Hitler's "My Secret Book" and the targeting of youth 59:59 Parents' stories: kids radicalized into neo-Nazi forums 1:03:48 Where does JD Vance fall in the "woke right"? 1:05:53 Patrick Deneen's Regime Change and replacing the Constitution 1:06:16 Catholic integralism and Vance's economic worldview 1:08:42 The Iran MOU controversy and the operation against Vance

Matt Slayer sits down with Canadian comedian Simon King for a fast, filthy, and surprisingly thoughtful ride through comedy, chaos, politics, and the weird machinery of modern life. What starts with jokes about OF, The Hub, comedy specials, AI-written eulogies, and s***ide hotline telethons quickly turns into a sharp, darkly funny conversation about what it means to be a working comic in a world run by algorithms, bots, and questionable incentives. Simon talks about touring in the U.S. as a Canadian, the strange instability of modern America, border anxiety, and why Canada's relationship with the States has shifted from neighborly familiarity to genuine concern. He and Matt dig into the realities of comedy today: crowd work clips, viral fame, bought followers, club economics, content pressure, and why Simon prefers “artisan small batch” audiences who actually know what they came to see. Along the way, Matt and Simon riff on stolen art, Lenin's body, mutton, corporate gigs, Saudi money, guns, masculinity, generational change, and whether humanity has any shot at making it another hundred years. It's an episode full of grim punchlines, honest self-reflection, and the kind of unruly tangents that make And Now We Drink feel less like an interview and more like eavesdropping on two funny people trying to make sense of a burning world. Cover your shame in our wares. New Merch! anwd.net/merch The Patreon is full of exclusive content and directly supports the show. patreon.com/mattslayer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Matt Slayer sits down with Canadian comedian Simon King for a fast, filthy, and surprisingly thoughtful ride through comedy, chaos, politics, and the weird machinery of modern life. What starts with jokes about OF, The Hub, comedy specials, AI-written eulogies, and s***ide hotline telethons quickly turns into a sharp, darkly funny conversation about what it means to be a working comic in a world run by algorithms, bots, and questionable incentives. Simon talks about touring in the U.S. as a Canadian, the strange instability of modern America, border anxiety, and why Canada's relationship with the States has shifted from neighborly familiarity to genuine concern. He and Matt dig into the realities of comedy today: crowd work clips, viral fame, bought followers, club economics, content pressure, and why Simon prefers “artisan small batch” audiences who actually know what they came to see. Along the way, Matt and Simon riff on stolen art, Lenin's body, mutton, corporate gigs, Saudi money, guns, masculinity, generational change, and whether humanity has any shot at making it another hundred years. It's an episode full of grim punchlines, honest self-reflection, and the kind of unruly tangents that make And Now We Drink feel less like an interview and more like eavesdropping on two funny people trying to make sense of a burning world. Cover your shame in our wares. New Merch! anwd.net/merch The Patreon is full of exclusive content and directly supports the show. patreon.com/mattslayer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Matt Slayer sits down with Canadian comedian Simon King for a fast, filthy, and surprisingly thoughtful ride through comedy, chaos, politics, and the weird machinery of modern life. What starts with jokes about OF, The Hub, comedy specials, AI-written eulogies, and s***ide hotline telethons quickly turns into a sharp, darkly funny conversation about what it means to be a working comic in a world run by algorithms, bots, and questionable incentives. Simon talks about touring in the U.S. as a Canadian, the strange instability of modern America, border anxiety, and why Canada's relationship with the States has shifted from neighborly familiarity to genuine concern. He and Matt dig into the realities of comedy today: crowd work clips, viral fame, bought followers, club economics, content pressure, and why Simon prefers “artisan small batch” audiences who actually know what they came to see. Along the way, Matt and Simon riff on stolen art, Lenin's body, mutton, corporate gigs, Saudi money, guns, masculinity, generational change, and whether humanity has any shot at making it another hundred years. It's an episode full of grim punchlines, honest self-reflection, and the kind of unruly tangents that make And Now We Drink feel less like an interview and more like eavesdropping on two funny people trying to make sense of a burning world. Cover your shame in our wares. New Merch! anwd.net/merch The Patreon is full of exclusive content and directly supports the show. patreon.com/mattslayer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE!Alright, welcome back to Žižek & So On. This is another PATREON EPISODE in our ongoing series on the systematic aspects of Žižek's thought & we're taking a look at Adrian Johnston's critique of Slavoj Žižek.Can you have a materialism without matter? Does a genuine dialectical materialism need a detour through theology and the mystical "Night of the World"? What happens when you try to ground the emergence of subjectivity in the bizarre realities of quantum physics?Along the way we get into the transcendental ontological parallax, Lenin's Materialism and Empiriocriticism, the crisis of the disappearing electron, Penrose's microtubules, and why kicking away the theological ladder might be harder than it looks.Up next we move from the quantum void to the delegation of enjoyment with Robert Pfaller on Interpassivity.To follow along with all the episodes in this series and to get access to all our interviews, patreon episodes, and SHORT SESSIONS support us here!See you in Paris or the Urgrund, Ž&…

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 174 The Democratic Socialists of America are making a bid to take over the Democratic Party, echoing the grim historical chapter during which Lenin's Bolsheviks abolished the more moderate Mensheviks from the future of Russian politics. They, like their historical predecessors, from whom they take inspiration, are Communists, and they have a party platform. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay reads quickly through the entire DSA party platform (https://program.dsausa.org/) so that people can hear for themselves just how crazy it is. Join him for an eye-opening read, and check out his longer exploration of this platform on the New Discourses Podcast. Join us for the Preserving Liberty Conference at Sea!: https://ndcruise.com Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #dsa

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." Steve's guest, Breht O'Shea of Rev Left Radio and Red Menace podcast, believes that dedicating one's life to fighting for this vision, even without knowing the outcome, is more meaningful than pursuing capital's vision of wealth and status. Steve invited Breht to help tackle one of the most misunderstood and weaponized texts in Marxist theory: Vladimir Lenin's Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, a book sometimes misused as a cudgel to pressure leftists into voting for the Democratic Party. To set the record straight, Breht places the 1920 pamphlet in its proper historical context. It was written after the successful Bolshevik Revolution to advise European socialist movements on how to avoid fatal mistakes. Together, Breht and Steve break down Lenin's dual critique: the ultra-left "infantile" error of purity-spiraled sectarianism, and the right-wing "opportunist" error of liquidating the revolutionary movement into bourgeois liberal politics. Lenin's strategic genius lies in maintaining firm revolutionary principles while remaining tactically flexible. The discussion extends beyond the text to cover the necessity of organization and discipline (democratic centralism), the constant threat of counter-revolution, the failure of social democracy, and how fascism functions as capitalism's immune response to left-wing threats. Breht O'Shea is the host of Rev Left Radio, the co-host of the Red Menace podcast, and author of the upcoming book "Letters to a Young Revolutionary" published by Iskra Books.  Check out Real Progressives website HERE Check out Macro n' Cheese podcast HERE Subscribe to their Substack HERE Sub to their YouTube page HERE

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 213 In the 1960s, a radical Islamic Salafist named Sayyid Qutb wrote a short little radical book called Milestones (https://amzn.to/4bn9hMX) in which he laid out a new vision for what the world usually calls "Islamism" today. That model wasn't just rooted in a backwards-looking radical fundamentalist vision of Islam called Jihadist Salafism as taken up by the Muslim Brotherhood; it was also based directly on Vladimir Lenin's radical model for creating and installing Communism through Bolshevism, particularly Lenin's 1902 booklet called What Is To Be Done? (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/) The prescription is for an ideologically pure radical vanguard to take control and pull the ideology into global dominance, even against its own moderates. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay continues his reading of Milestones in a fourth volume, outlining the nature of this vanguard approach as Qutb explains it in his third chapter and tying it definitively to other radical ideological movements, especially Lenin's Communism. Join him for a very enlightening reading. Join us for the Preserving Liberty Conference at Sea!: https://ndcruise.com Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Islam

Astrophysicist Hugh Ross has investigated haunted houses, confronted witchcraft covens, and lectured Soviet scientists in rooms with 20-foot portraits of Lenin on the wall. He returns to Blurry Creatures for a members-only story-time episode and holds nothing back. Kitchen utensils floating in midair. An entire block of witch covens in Pasadena that police refused to enter. A translator in Cold War Russia whose uncle gave his life to Christ from secondhand lecture notes.Ross also dismantles the case for manned Mars missions using hard radiation data NASA does not like to talk about. He explains why the laws of physics exist specifically to make sin costly and why Revelation describes a new creation operating under entirely different rules. He weighs in on Genesis 6, the sons of God, and what Sasquatch would have to be if it stands over nine feet tall. This is Hugh Ross unplugged. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices