Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-05-21
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 35
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Mentioned: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and others and The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a sweeping archaeological and anthropological study that challenges conventional narratives about social evolution, inequality, and the origins of human civilization.
Discussed“today's episode um I am happy to announce that I finally finally finished Dawn of Everything by Congru. It took it took a while, you know, there was some point in time, some weeks that just went by where I didn't even like make a dent.”
Where to get it
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The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is a foundational political text written between the February and October revolutions of 1917, outlining the Bolshevik vision for a future socialist state and the transition from capitalism to communism.
Discussed“Lenin wrote like a pamphlet about it calling it the dual power and looked at it as like a thing that needed to be like overcome by you know workers in Russia um to like establish a worker state um which they kind of outlined in a book called state and revolution”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“What what I've learned the most is that I need to finish reading all my books so that I can read The Dawn of Everything. Um, I know. I like I like got it for my dad for Christmas because I knew that it would be”