The booknotes series of podcasts on Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, by James H. Billington continues as Aaron reads more of his notes. Another "birth pangs" quote pops up, this time from Karl Marx. The revolutionary fire moves from Europe eastward into Russia as the nineteenth century begins to wane.
Topics include: communitarian, religion, politics, Communism, Marx, Hegel, Saint Simonianism, League of the Just, Communist League, democracy, violence, proletariat, red flag, blood, dictatorship, social revolution, Proudhon, media as diversion, cartoons, communications technology, Masonry, secular transformation, Napoleon III, Paris Commune, Third Republic, internationalism, Bakunin, populism, Wagner, machine, Germany, Fabian Society, Russia, explosives, anarchy, nihilism, scientism, blood, extremists, disinformation, amoral elite, terrorism, economic depression, general strike, fasci, Mussolini
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