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No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part II)
Season 5 Episode 20
This week we continue our series reading from Rodney Hilton's collection of essays about the Crisis of Feudalism. These are pretty short essays, but …
2 years, 4 months ago
Patreon Preview -- The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Season 5
This week we discussed a book about the collapse of the Soviet Union and guess what, it wasn't the result of the United States' efforts to defeat the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Pessimism is an Optimism: A Return to Dialectical Pessimism
Season 5 Episode 19
The original dudes are back, with an original dudes topic revisiting our pessimism (because of intellect) and our optimism (because of will). No it's…
2 years, 5 months ago
No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part I)
Season 5 Episode 18
This week we start a new series where we read from Rodney Hilton's collection of essays about the Crisis of Feudalism. These are pretty short essays,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso (Part IV)
Season 5
Welcome to our fourth reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso. This week we discuss the revolutionary intellec…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Dialectic of Degrowth: Socialists and the Burden of Ecological Disaster
Season 5 Episode 17
We think degrowth is going to be necessary, but we also think the debate about degrowth has been all wrong. We read the newest issue of Monthly Revi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Patreon Preview: Replacing the Dead by Mie Nakachi
Season 5
Back with another book that Chris read in grad school, this time we are dealing with the problem of repopulating the Soviet Union after the Second Wo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lumpenization and its Discontents: Disagreements About the Lumpen Classes
Season 5 Episode 18
This week the Law Boyz are back with a special guest, Kevin. We discuss the concept of the lumpenproletariat and their historical role as foot soldie…
2 years, 6 months ago
Patreon Preview: Daddy Masaryk and Czechoslovakism
Season 5
I know we said we were done with our Czechoslovak Socialism series, but like George Lucas we just couldn't leave well enough alone and have made a pr…
2 years, 7 months ago
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism: The End of Techno-Feudal Reason (Part V of V)
Season 5 Episode 16
No Royal Road is back with part four of our discussion of Evegny Morozov's
"Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason."
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2 years, 7 months ago