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Podcast: Conspirituality
Episode: Bonus Sample: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 2)
Description: This bonus episode is Part 2 of Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism.
I start in the 1870s with Marx and Bakunin fighting over the joys and traumas of the Paris Commune. Marx sees it as an imperfect but historic prototype of a workers’ transitional state, cut down before it could consolidate power. Bakunin reads it as a betrayal of anarchist principles — too willing to replicate the machinery it meant to overthrow. Out of that conflict comes a rift that still haunts us: should revolution be disciplined, organized, and strategic, or spontaneous, horizontal, and permanently suspicious of institutions?