Intro

Part One

Part Two

Post Show Musings

Outro

The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to identify factors that contributed to the Bolshevik departure from Marxist theory and how nationalism squashed any hope for an internationalist movement. We revisit the words of the theorists and activists we covered in the series from Jeremy Bentham to Eugene Debs and raise difficult questions about the future of socialist activity in the United States specifically and whether new ideas are required to battle the ravages of capitalism.

Chapters

Intro: 00:04:17

Part One: 00:05:41

Part Two: 00:16:08

Post Show Musings: 00:37:16

Outro: 00:55:37

Book Love

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917

Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis

Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx: Das Kapital 

Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future

Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky

Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread

 Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays

Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination.

Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

Resources

The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism

Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'

Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics

The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria

Stanford: Jeremy Bentham

Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Stanford: Karl Marx

Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism

The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations

Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution

The Collector: Revolutions of 1848

Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870

Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography

JSTOR: Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin

Marxists.org: Bakunin

The Anarchist Library: The Federative Principle

The Anarchist Library: Property Is Theft

Jacobin: Why Kautsky was Right

The New Yorker: Dreyfus Affair

The Jacobin: John Dewey

Marxists.org: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism 

Spartacus Ed: Karl Kautsky

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: FAQs

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Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic®."

The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to identify factors that contributed to the Bolshevik departure from Marxist theory and how nationalism squashed any hope for an internationalist movement. We revisit the words of the theorists and activists we covered in the series from Jeremy Bentham to Eugene Debs and raise difficult questions about the future of socialist activity in the United States specifically and whether new ideas are required to battle the ravages of capitalism.
Chapters
Intro: 00:04:17
Part One: 00:05:41
Part Two: 00:16:08
Post Show Musings: 00:37:16
Outro: 00:55:37
Book Love
Joseph A. Schumpeter: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780061561610">Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy</a>
John M. Thompson: <a href="https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=460">Revolutionary Russia, 1917</a>
Bernard Harcourt: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780231195737">Critique and Praxis</a>
Ray Ginger: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781931859400">The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs</a>
Karl Marx: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780140447576">The Communist Manifesto</a>
Karl Marx: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781453886328">Das Kapital </a>
Michael Harrington: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781950691517">Socialism: Past and Future</a>
Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781608464692">Life and Death of Leon Trotsky</a>
Anne Sebba: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781250198648">Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy</a>
Peter Kropotkin: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780141396118">The Conquest of Bread</a>
 Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781604860412">Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History</a>
Emma Goldman: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780486224848">Anarchism and Other Essays</a>
Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781849353793">Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination</a>.
Margaret MacMillan: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780812980660">The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914</a>
Resources
The Collector: <a href="https://www.thecollector.com/what-do-hegel-and-marx-have-in-common/">What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?</a>
Socialist Alternative: <a href="https://www.socialistalternative.org/2021/06/22/robert-owen-and-utopian-socialism/">Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism</a>
Marxists.org: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/events.htm">Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events</a>
Washington State University: <a href="https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/10/12/introduction-to-19th-century-socialism/">Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism</a>
Howard Zinn: <a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/commemorating-emma-goldman-living-my-life/">Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'</a>
Stanford: <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/">Hegel's Dialectics</a>
The History of Economic Thought: <a href="https://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/beccaria.htm">Cesare Beccaria</a> 
Stanford: <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bentham/">Jeremy Bentham</a>
Foundation for Economic Education: <a href="https://fee.org/articles/robert-owen-the-woolly-minded-cotton-spinner/">Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner</a>
Stanford: <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/">Karl Marx</a> 
Central European Economic and Social History: <a href="http://centraleuropeaneconomicandsocialhistory.com/economic-development-in-europe-in-the-19th-century">Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century</a>
Marxists.org: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/index.htm">Encyclopedia of Marxism</a>
The New Yorker: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/karl-marx-yesterday-and-today">Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today</a>
Marxists.org: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/f/i.htm#first-international">Glossary of Organisations</a>
Northwestern Whitepaper: <a href="https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/jmokyr/castronovo.pdf">The Second Industrial Revolution</a>
The Collector: <a href="https://www.thecollector.com/revolutions-of-1848-anti-monarchism-europe/">Revolutions of 1848</a>
Chemins de Mémoire: <a href="https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/franco-prussian-war-1870-71">Franco-Prussian War of 1870</a>
Journal of Modern History: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1877821">1870 in European History and Historiography</a>
JSTOR: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/127358">Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin</a>
Marxists.org: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/bio/">Bakunin</a>
The Anarchist Library: <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-the-principle-of-federation">The Federative Principle</a>
The Anarchist Library: <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-property-is-theft#toc3">Property Is Theft</a>
Jacobin: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2019/04/karl-kautsky-democratic-socialism-elections-rupture">Why Kautsky was Right</a> 
The New Yorker: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/trial-of-the-century">Dreyfus Affair</a>
The Jacobin: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2018/01/john-dewey-democratic-socialism-liberalism">John Dewey</a>
Marxists.org:<a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/rocker-rudolf/misc/anarchism-anarcho-syndicalism.htm"> Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism </a>
Spartacus Ed: <a href="https://spartacus-educational.com/GERkautsky.htm">Karl Kautsky</a>
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: <a href="https://www.bls.gov/nls/questions-and-answers.htm#anch41">FAQs</a>
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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 

Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 

As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 

Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

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