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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: Excerpt: /391/ Aufhebonus Bonus - Feb 2024
Description:
On our '1914 vibes'. And your questions & comments.Â
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We discuss the parallels between our age (the end of globalisation, the threat of war) with the end of the Belle Epoque in the early 20th century. What might Lenin have to teach us?Â
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We then turn to your questions and comments on:
Palestinians as surplus population
Peripheral countries as 'imitators'
Whether Brexit has led to greater political accountability
Why Ridley Scott sucks
Why contemporary art sucks
Bonapartism and techno-populism
Romanticising dead workers - and old social-democrats
Esoteric knowledge about how the world *really* works
Readings:
Lenin's Lesson for Western Liber...