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  • Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode V)
    Nov 8 2024

    The long march through the text continues as the gang tackles chapter three.

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    https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer

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    15 mins
  • The Socialism of Fools: Weimar National Bolshevism and Strasserism (Part II of II)
    Nov 4 2024

    This is part two of a discussion based on a paper Chris wrote about the concept of "German Socialism" from which groups like the NSDAP, the National Bolsheviks, Conservative Revolutionaries, and Black Front draw the basis for their ideologies.

    Mosse, George Lachmann. The Crisis of German Ideology. 1964. Reprint, New York: Schocken, 1981.

    King, John. “Writing and Rewriting the First World War: Ernst Jünger and the Crisis of the Conservative Imagination, 1914-25.” St. John’s College, 1999.

    Kedar, Asaf. “National Socialism Before Nazism: Friedrich Naumann and Theodor Fritsch, 1890-1914,” PhD diss., (University of California, Berkeley, 2010).

    Krebs, Gerhard. “Moeller van Den Bruck: Inventor of the ‘Third Reich.’” American Political Science Review 35, no. 6 (December 1941), 1088-1089.

    Stachura, Peter D. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust). Routledge, 2014.

    Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair : A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology. 1961. Reprint, Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1974.

    Tourlamain, Guy. Völkisch” Writers and National Socialism : A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890-1960. Oxford Et Autres: Peter Lang, 2014.

    Waite, Robert G L. Vanguard of Nazism : The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.

    Ward, James J. “Pipe Dreams or Revolutionary Politics? The Group of Social Revolutionary Nationalists in the Weimar Republic.” Journal of Contemporary History 15, no. 3 (July 1980): 513–32.

    Woods, Roger. The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York: Macmillan Press ; St. Martin’s Press, 1996, 62.

    Ley, Robert. 1920. “The Program of the NSDAP.” The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program, February. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/25points.asp.

    Paetel, Karl O. The National Bolshevist Manifesto. 1933. Reprint, Coppell Tx: Red Flame Press, 2021.

    Strasser, Otto. Germany Tomorrow. Translated by Eden and Ceder Paul. 1932. Reprint, London: Jonathan Cape, 1940.



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    53 mins
  • Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part VIII)
    Nov 3 2024

    The boys dive in to Dugin's thoughts on civilization, colonialism, and imperialism.
    Don't worry, there are literally no digressions and the guys stay on point the whole time.

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    26 mins
  • The Socialism of Fools: Weimar National Bolshevism and Strasserism (Part I of II)
    Oct 30 2024

    First of all, if you are listening to a version with bad audio, don't worry, I reuploaded a version with good audio and you can probably just refresh your podcasting app to get the newer version.

    This is a discussion based on a paper Chris wrote about the concept of "German Socialism" from which groups like the NSDAP, the National Bolsheviks, Conservative Revolutionaries, and Black Front draw the basis for their ideologies.

    Mosse, George Lachmann. The Crisis of German Ideology. 1964. Reprint, New York: Schocken, 1981.

    King, John. “Writing and Rewriting the First World War: Ernst Jünger and the Crisis of the Conservative Imagination, 1914-25.” St. John’s College, 1999.

    Kedar, Asaf. “National Socialism Before Nazism: Friedrich Naumann and Theodor Fritsch, 1890-1914,” PhD diss., (University of California, Berkeley, 2010).

    Krebs, Gerhard. “Moeller van Den Bruck: Inventor of the ‘Third Reich.’” American Political Science Review 35, no. 6 (December 1941), 1088-1089.

    Stachura, Peter D. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust). Routledge, 2014.

    Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair : A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology. 1961. Reprint, Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1974.

    Tourlamain, Guy. Völkisch” Writers and National Socialism : A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890-1960. Oxford Et Autres: Peter Lang, 2014.

    Waite, Robert G L. Vanguard of Nazism : The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.

    Ward, James J. “Pipe Dreams or Revolutionary Politics? The Group of Social Revolutionary Nationalists in the Weimar Republic.” Journal of Contemporary History 15, no. 3 (July 1980): 513–32.

    Woods, Roger. The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York: Macmillan Press ; St. Martin’s Press, 1996, 62.

    Ley, Robert. 1920. “The Program of the NSDAP.” The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program, February. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/25points.asp.

    Paetel, Karl O. The National Bolshevist Manifesto. 1933. Reprint, Coppell Tx: Red Flame Press, 2021.

    Strasser, Otto. Germany Tomorrow. Translated by Eden and Ceder Paul. 1932. Reprint, London: Jonathan Cape, 1940.


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Patreon Preview -- The Tragedy of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
    Oct 25 2024

    In what turns out to be an offshoot of our Czechoslovak socialism series, we dive in to the ill fated and short lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. This also turns out to be incredibly relevant to anyone who is following along with our series on Otto Bauer and the national question.

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    14 mins
  • Real Grouchy Old Man Hours: What's Left of the Left?
    Oct 21 2024

    This week it's just the Regrettable brothers and we are talking about "leftism" and whether the category of "left" still holds any meaning.

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    46 mins
  • Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode V)
    Oct 9 2024

    Wherein we cover the entirety of Chapter 2, dealing with the concept of the nation state.

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    https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer

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  • UNLOCKED -- Socialism With a Human Face: The Prague Spring and Its Defeat (Czechoslovak Socialism Part II)
    Sep 30 2024

    Continuing what has become a series on Czechoslovak Socialism, we dive into the attempt to reform the Czechoslovak system. The official ML narrative and the liberal narrative about the Prague Spring are the same, they say that it was an attempt to re-establish bourgeois democracy. However, it seems clear that the intentions of its participants were the opposite. They appear to have been a genuine attempt to revitalize and push forward the communist project.

    The Action Programme of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

    https://www.marxists.org/subject/czech/1968/action-programme.htm

    Stoneman, Anna J. “Socialism With a Human Face: The Leadership and Legacy of the Prague Spring.” The History Teacher49, no. 1 (2015): 103–25.

    Prague Spring Archive at MIA (worth browsing for historical first impressions)

    https://www.marxists.org/subject/czech/index.htm

    The Prague Spring of 1968: a glimpse of socialism?

    http://isj.org.uk/the-prague-spring/


    Liehm, A. J. (1978). The Prague Spring and Eurocommunism. International Journal, 33(4), 804. doi:10.2307/40201691

    Skilling, H. Gordon. "The Prague Spring Reassessed." Slavic Review 38, no. 4 (1979): 663-66. doi:10.2307/2496570.

    Reform and Counter-reform in Bureaucratic Power

    https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/reform.html



    Music: Karel Kryl - Veličenstvo kat

    (English Translation)

    In a gloomy light of a gothic hall

    the scared profiteers are gazing into their missals

    and a horde of slayers is asking for blessing

    After all the first of the knights is his majesty executioner

    Aaah look the first of the knights is his Majesty Executioner

    Priest – the devil who served the mass

    is wearing a stole made from a hangmans slope

    Having a bottle of vitriol under the purple rochet

    The smell of sulfur coming from the mortars

    is crawling under the red hood of the first from all the knights

    his Majesty Executioner

    Aaah to the first of knights look it is his Majesty Executioner

    On the national flag there is

    an emblem with guillotine

    And the barbed wire

    smells by something decayed

    In our region is a flock of raven nesting

    the master hangman reigns these people

    The king is kneeing infront of Satan

    eagers to have the sceptre

    And the rabble is hanging the wise council

    at the plane tree

    And the heretic crowd is exhilarated and rejoices

    After all the first of knights is his Majesty Executioner

    Aaah the first of knights is his Majesty Executioner

    At a streetcorner a murderer is holding a lecture about moral

    Infront of the prison's door the guardians are walking

    From the military armour plate the black sign proclaims

    that the first of the knights is his Majesty Executioner

    Aaah that the first of the knights is his Majesty Executioner

    Over the government palace

    rises the flag with guillotine

    The children love the ice cream cornets

    The judges were upset about them

    so they killed their ice cream man

    A horrible state it was,

    as you had to watch

    the writing beeing forbidden

    and the singing beeing forbidden

    And they didn't have enough

    they commanded the kids

    to pra

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    1 hr and 5 mins