Super Structure with Julian Feeld

What paved the course for the 1917 Bolshevik revolution? In this first of two parts, we explore the turmoil of World War I, the Czar’s many ignoble failures, the rise of the Narodniks, and the arrival of Lenin and Trotsky. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by Chris Beausang. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Green Apple by Amanaz.

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Bibliography

• Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.
• Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018.
• Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.
• ——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.
• FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.
• International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htm
• Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
• Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.
• Lenin, Vladimir. ‘The Crisis Has Matured’. Marxists.org, 2000. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/20.htm
• ——. The Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats. Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1897/dec/31b.htm#fwV02E107
• ——. What Is to Be Done? Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
• Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.
• Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx 1843 to Capital. Verso, 2015.
• Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. Penguin, 1990.

French protests heat up. Trump taps Russia for oil as the Iran war continues to drive prices up. ICE keeps metastasizing. Flock cameras continue to be misused for personal reasons by (sometimes former) cops. Israeli settler violence in the Palestinian West Bank accelerates further. Lula suffers electoral setbacks in Brazil. And things fall apart between Eritrea and Ethiopia in Tigray. That’s right, it’s another news episode. Our guest is Jake Rockatansky of the QAA Podcast & Spectral Voyager Mini-series. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by Spencer Barrows & Grace Cathedral Park. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Slowburner by Swithold.

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We spoke with writer and journalist Marlon Ettinger about the rise of the far right in France and western Europe more broadly. Your host is Julian Feeld.

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Listen to Sacré Bleu: The French Presidential Election Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacre-bleu-the-french-presidential-election-podcast/id1752354722

Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Fire by Black Savage.

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From World War II to the Global War On Terror, the United States has armed the world in various ways. We break down the history of US Arms Exports with Josef Burton, former diplomat, researcher and writer. Your host is Julian Feeld.

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Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is How Can You Say It by Gloria Ann Taylor.

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A movie about friendship with a Nicaraguan dictator in the process of being overthrown by revolutionaries. Last Plane Out (1983) is the story of an American journalist being sexy, intrepid, and in support of Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. Specifically: Jack Cox, who produced this self-mythologizing movie at the height of Ronald Reagan’s efforts to arm the Nicaraguan counter-revolution. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Baila Chibiquiban by Nico Gomez.

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Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We conclude our two-parter about Indonesian propaganda with an examination of (mostly) anti-communist propaganda under the Suharto administration after the successful coup that deposed Sukarno. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by TooSlick. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Dendang Remaja by A. Romzi and The Hooks.

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Bibliography

• M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300
• Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History
• David van Reybrouk, Revolusi Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
• Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method
• Theodore Friend, Indonesian Destinies
• Elisabeth Jackson, “‘Warring Words’: Students and the state in New Order Indonesia, 1966-1998”
• Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing (2012)

Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We kick off a two-parter about Indonesian propaganda with an examination of “Pancasila”, Indonesia’s official national ideology, and how it was expressed throughout both the Sukarno and — after the coup — Suharto administrations. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by TooSlick. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Evil War by Shark Move.

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Bibliography

• M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300
• Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History
• David van Reybrouk, Revolusi Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
• Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method
• Theodore Friend, Indonesian Destinies
• Elisabeth Jackson, “‘Warring Words’: Students and the state in New Order Indonesia, 1966-1998”
• Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing (2012)

A grotesque and puerile book from 1971 that stoked anti-immigrant panic and inspired such luminaries as Stephen Miller, Marine Le Pen, and Steve Bannon. This episode we explore Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, which helped make “Great Replacement” theory contemporary. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Our guest is Hayden Tank of the Bible Lore Podcast.

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Episode researched and written by Spencer Barrows and Grace Cathedral Jones. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Survivor by Klaus Weiss.

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“The American Empire is more than just a political formation: it’s also a state of mind.” This week’s guest is Daniel Bessner of the American Prestige Podcast. He’s a historian, journalist and the author of Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Daniel Bessner’s Newsletter: https://imperialistrealism.substack.com/

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Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Sandia by Aasma Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou.

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In 2006, despite the unstoppable ascendancy of liberal-capitalist hegemony in the post-Soviet context, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), completed a successful revolution in one of the poorest countries in the world, overthrowing a nearly 250 year old autocratic monarchy aligned with the United States. We trace a brief chronology of the revolutionary conflict, then discuss how the Maoists were so successful in recruiting the masses to their side, particularly women, peasants, and indigenous groups. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by Edwin O’Connell. Edited by Miguel Tanhi. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Ku-Isa Tama Laug by David Darling & The Wulu Bunun.

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