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In this episode, we go from the discovery of nuclear fission up to the most recent state getting a nuclear weapon, and in between we talk about the Manhattan Project, Soviet spies, Hiroshima, US nuclear testing, and the DPRK having a nuke. This episode has some of the darkest moments we've had on the podcast and also some incredible silliness. Enjoy!

Suggested Reading/Viewing -

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists, Alexei B. Kojevnikov

Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, Diana Preston

Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History, Kai Bird & Lawrence Lifschultz

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race, Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, Kate Brown

Hiroshima, John Hersey

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos, Judy Pasternak

Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Controversy, Joseph Albright & Marcia Kunstel

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1366164/Israel-reveals-secrets-of-how-it-gained-bomb.html

A Bomb in the Basement: Israel's Nuclear Option

Outro music:

Gang of Four - "I Found That Essence Rare"

Comrades, you are going to love this episode. Come along with us as we deep dive into the life of one of history's most remarkable and patient revolutionaries, from his childhood up to WW2. Ezra also shares a great anecdote about Route 559.

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Suggested Reading: "Ho Chi Minh: A Life" by William Duiker

Outro Music: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan

Have you ever wondered where the montage came from? Do you enjoy hearing Ethan plug theatre in an episode about cinema? Do you never tire of hearing Justin defend Stalin even when he clearly did some things wrong? Then you will LOVE this raucous and informative episode on the history of film and cinema within the Soviet Union (and a bit before)!

*CORRECTION* While Prussia was a principality in the HRE, Prussia was never part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our bad!

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Outro Music: "At Dawn" by Alyens

Sources/Suggested Reading/Viewing:

Further reading:

Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, Jay Leyda

The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema, ed. Anna Lawton

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

Directory of World Cinema: Russia, Birgit Beumers

Film viewing:

Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein (1925)

Man With A Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov (1929)

October: Ten Day That Shook The World, Sergei Eisenstein (1928)

Volga-Volga, Grigori Aleksandrov (1938)

Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears, Vladimir Menshov (1980)

Join the Proles with comrade Natalie as they discuss the incredibly deep and important history of the DPRK, Natalie's upcoming project and a bit of Seeing Red!

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Sources/Suggested Reading:

10 Volume Series "Understanding Korea"

"Understanding Workers' Party of Korea"

"Socialist Korea - A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development"

"Korea's Division and Its Truth"

"War Veterans' Reminscences"

Outro: Moranbong Band "Without a Break"

Spicy content warning! Join the proles as they unveil the hilarious, soon-to-be patreon-only spinoff, Dialectics After Dark, where we read through headlines and news and react, let our hair down and spend a little more time being ridiculous. Being that this is our first run-through with this format, please forgive the roughness. It will polish up a bit in the future

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Here's that link Ethan wanted to put in the show notes: https://keywordsforcapitalism.com/

Grab your favorite beer...or coffee...or chocolate milk, and join the Proles w/ special guests Coffee With Comrades, as they discuss some current events, The Paris Commune, and some spicy discussions about the dictatorship of the proletariat!

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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Manifesto of the Paris Commune" by the Parisian Communards; "The Civil War in France" by Karl Marx; "The Paris Commune: Our First Revolution" on YouTube; "The Meaning of the Paris Commune w/Kristen Ross" The Majority Report on YouTube; "1871: The Paris Commune," Libcom.com; "The Fires of Paris: Why Do People Still Fight About The Paris Commune?" The New Yorker; "On The Barricade" Victor Hugo; "State and Revolution" V.I Lenin

Outro: Tony Babino, "L'Internationale"

Gather around the table and join the Proles as special guest Brett from Rev Left Radio comes on to discuss Mao and the Cultural Revolution!

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Sources/Suggested Reading: Hun Suyin, "Wind in the Tower"; J-Moufawad Paul, "Continuity and Rupture"; William Hinton, "Fanshen"; Aaron Leonard, "Heavy Radicals"

Outro: Bambu, "Chairman Mao"

Join the Proles as get super drunk and discuss the controversial topic of left terrorism, its history and how to interpret it. Also a raucous "Seeing Red" segment.

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Sources/Suggested Reading: "Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism" by Trotsky; "Revolutionary Adventurism" by Lenin; Terrorism and Communism" by Kautsky; "Europe's Last Red Terrorists" by Kassemeris

Listener submitted correction:

"I'm writing you here because there are serious errors in accounting of "left terror" in this podcast. Most of them is ignoring that large amount of attack attributed to the leftist were actually work of Stay Behind Armies of right wing fascist units run by NATO forces. Specifically kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro was exposed as work of Italian fascists directed by CIA that wanted to prevent formation of unified communist-socialist government under Alod Moro.

Also you have some names of specific NATO / US intelligence operations mistaken. By operation you mistakenly call Paperclip you most likely mean Operation Gladio that is Italian branch of NATO run Stay Behind Armies operations. Operation Paperclip is entirely different operation conducted at very end of WW2 by US military intelligence to extract large number nazis and nazi collaborators from Germany in to US."

As always we welcome corrections, as we realize that we, or our guests, can make mistakes.

Join the Proles as they interrupt Ethan incessantly and discuss the interesting and often ignored topic of Salvador Allende's top secret project CyberSyn. Also the first ever "Seeing Red" segment.

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Sources/Suggested Reading:

"Cybernetic Revolution" by Eden Medina "Towards a New Socialism" by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cattrell

Join the Roundtable as we sit down and discuss the tragic collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as several other topics, including a particularly spicy conversation about censorship and free press.

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Sources/Suggested Reading: Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today, Albert Szymanski Khrushchev Lied, Grover Furr