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On this episode, our first premium episode, we continue talking about IDEOLOGY.

SOCIALISM v CAPITALISM.

TWO IDEOLOGIES ENTER, ONE IDEOLOGY LEAVES.

Or something like that.

What are they? How are they different?

This episode is a very quick overview of SOCIALISM. If you want to know more, we suggest you read a fucking book.

Part One of our mini-biography of everyone’s favorite wheelchair pilot, FDR. His family background (opium traders), his rise, his polio, his affairs, his reforms, his ballsy attitude, his assassination attempt, his concentration camps and how incredibly fucked America was when he was sworn in. In 1933, the US was in dire straits. Three years into the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and a third-rate military. When he died in 1945, it was the world’s leading economic and military superpower.

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili aka STALIN. Unlike Churchill and Roosevelt, Joseph wasn’t born into the elite classes of society. His father was a cobbler; his mother, a housemaid. As a young man, he trained to become a priest, but it didn’t take. Soon afterwards he discovered the writings of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, and joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, ending up the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a fascinating character. His reputation as a “great man”, as the brave British wartime leader who defeated the Nazis, hides his reputation before and after WWII – a racist who enjoyed participating in “a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples” and who even his peers thought had extremely racist views. We’re not here to demonise Churchill, but, on the other hand, it’s our job to peel away the layers of mythology to find the real man who popularised the term “the Iron Curtain”.

If you like our intro music, it’s by the very great Jofre Horta Antoniou!

If you like our intro music, it’s by the very great Jofre Horta Antoniou!