Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-04-26
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 179
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Robert Evans discussed We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us by June C. Nash. Mike Duncan recommended The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis De Tocqueville. Michael Burns recommended Present Age and of the Difference Between Genius and an Apostle by Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages by Robert L. Perkins, and An American Utopia by Fredric Jameson, and discussed On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. Garrison Davis discussed Siege by James Mason.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
Discussed“It's this book called We Eat the Minds and the Mines Eat Us, which is about these indigenous Bolivian tin miners. And one of the things that always struck me about that was, you know, like because they're all they're all literally like sleeping next to each other.”
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis De Tocqueville is a classic historical analysis examining the deep institutional and social continuities that preceded the dramatic upheavals of 1789.
Recommended“There's a great line, I don't have it right in front of me at the moment, but in uh in Toqueville's regime in the French Revolution, which is really dynamite book everybody should read. At the end of it, he lays it out.”
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On the Genealogy of Morals
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche is a foundational philosophical work that investigates the historical evolution of human moral concepts, famously contrasting master and slave morality to critique modern societal values and nihilism.
Discussed“And when Nietzsche is talking about nihilism especially in a book like the genealogy of morality in a lot of other places he is making the argument that sort of Christian European culture and in particularly a Christian European culture influenced by idealist philosophy creates nihilism.”
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Siege
Siege by James Mason is a foundational and disturbing text that outlines the ideology and tactical approaches of accelerationist white supremacist groups like Atomwaffen.
Discussed“He recommends the writing of Nazi accelerationists including James Mason who wrote the influential Nazi book siege uh and the terrorgram collective a group of white supremacists from around the world who organized on the messaging platform Telegram to share guides on how to do terrorism.”
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Present Age and of the Difference Between Genius and an Apostle
Present Age and of the Difference Between Genius and an Apostle by Søren Kierkegaard is a philosophical work that examines the spiritual and moral condition of modern society.
Recommended“I mean a really simple one that I talk about way too much is um Kierkegaard's the present age which you find in this book called Two Ages that's easy to buy. It's normally really cheap or you can just read it online someplace that kind of describes a society in which people get caught up in media and reflection”
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Two Ages
Two Ages by Robert L.
Recommended“I mean a really simple one that I talk about way too much is um Kierkegaard's the present age which you find in this book called Two Ages that's easy to buy. It's normally really cheap or you can just read it online someplace that kind of describes a society in which people get caught up in media and reflection”
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An American Utopia
An American Utopia by Fredric Jameson is a political and theoretical work that explores alternative visions of leftist power, state organization, and dual power structures within the United States.
Recommended“I've been very Frederick Jameson pilled recently and I think I mean I've read Jameson before on and off but recently dove in more deeply and there's one okay I have it arms reach so I can say the title correctly that I've really been enjoying it's um called an American utopia dual power and the universal army by Frederick”
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