In today’s cure for insomnia episode, we explore the origins of the ISMs the pundit class abuses each and every day. We’re focusing on the big ones. Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Marxism and Capitalism. The show covers the theorists who created these theories, touch on the circumstances that inspired their thinking and how far from these concepts we have moved as a society. Plus, we’ll talk through how most of these theories (except fascism) are more alike than we’ve been led to believe. (99 and Manny note: “Not the most scintillating episode, but Max was so excited we didn’t have the heart to tell him.”) 

Resources

Truthdig: Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism

Book Love

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Pod Love

Pitchfork Economics

American Scandal: The Ice Pick Surgeon

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