Communism represents humanity's largest-ever attempt at total societal reinvention—briefly ruling ONE-THIRD of the human race! we both independently marked communist territories as completely different civilizations from what came before.

This episode reveals why communism ultimately failed to establish itself as a lasting civilization despite controlling massive territory and populations. I explore its theological and sociological underpinnings as a functional religion, avoiding philosophical naval-gazing by focusing on historical evidence.

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SOURCES:

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley

The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

Envy by Helmut Schoeck

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilChrist

A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth

Dominion by Tom Holland

A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

Mao by Jung Chang

Atrocities by Matthew White

The Origins of Ideology by Immanuel Todd

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian

Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt

Europe by Norman Davies

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

Intellectuals by Thomas Sowell

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt

A History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel

The Seven Types of Atheism by Gray

Behave by Sapolsky

The Genetic Lottery by Harden

Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson

The History of Philosophy by Will Durant

The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

Seeing Like a State by James C Scott

The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon

A History of the English Speaking World since 1900 by Andrew Roberts

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