Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American and French revolutions by imagining new societies and mechanisms of power. In their writings we begin to see the roots of Marxian philosophy and draw upon concepts and experiments that would influence Marx and others during the second industrial revolution.

Resources

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

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism | Common Errors in English Usage and More

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

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

Bernie Sanders: It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism

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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®."

Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American and French revolutions by imagining new societies and mechanisms of power. In their writings we begin to see the roots of Marxian philosophy and draw upon concepts and experiments that would influence Marx and others during the second industrial revolution.
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>
<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 | Common Errors in English Usage and More</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>
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>
Bernie Sanders: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780593238714">It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism</a>
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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®."

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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