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The German Revolution
🕑 Added 2024-12-10 14:45:18 +0000 UTCAlyson and Breht finally dive into the German Revolution of 1918! Together they discuss this rather ambigious revolution, give a detailed overview of events, and reflect on what lessons we can learn from it. From the toppling of the Kaiser, to the brutal fight between social democrats and communists (including the horrible murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht), to the rise of the Freikorp and the Weimar Republic (and beyond), they help listeners understand the importance, the successes, the failures, and the tragedies, of this often neglected revolution.
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MLDad
What a great episode! Thank you!
Revolutionary Left Radio
Thank you so much for those kind words! We deeply and genuinly appreciate your support. :) I totally agree with your analysis too. Here in Omaha we are working on building collective unity among orgs and to take advantage of the influx of people interested in organizing after the election. Just had a huge meet up with like 50+ people from several different orgs intended to create a shared unity and personal familiarity to help build something bigger. We are even launching a Socialist Night School as an educational program for local organizers and the public. But yes, discipline, unity, solidarity, connecting forms of struggle, etc... this is our task, locally, nationally, and internationally.
Foko
Great episode!! Opening the ep straight into Breht’s absolutely baller ass essay was a beautiful move. You and Alyson are both such brilliant and dynamic orators, your work together is really on a level of its own. Comparing this revolution with the Bolsheviks really underscores the importance of organizational discipline and unity. I’ve thought often about discipline and organization within the military and how the training they undergo creates a person to person solidarity that then forms the basis for their ideological unity. It’s something Che stresses at several points in his writings too, and is part of why I imagine he treated desertion and treachery as seriously as he did. As with meditation as a form of mental discipline, I would be interested to learn about contemporary leftist orgs’ work to build collective unity among themselves - something that I worry is much more difficult to accomplish in the atomized world we live in today.
Colton Burross
Great episode Breht!! I loved this episode and I’m actually moving to Germany next year for school!! I would love in the future if you did an episode on the Weimar Republic! I think it would be awesome to talk about Bertolt Brecht and how much he used theater to contribute to Marxism! Brecht is the father of dialectal theatre and I’m a big fan of The Threepenny Opera which is a critique of capitalism!
