Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-06-04
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 37
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Christopher Wong discussed The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher and The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Benedict Option
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher is a conservative Christian book that argues for the intentional withdrawal of believers from mainstream secular culture to build resilient, traditional communities.
Discussed“he's been like a right-wing like Catholic uh I think he's a a right-wing Catholic sort of columnist for a long time and like you know if you go back to like 2017 his big thing was this whole was this thing called the Benedict option”
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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's obsession with like the German postal service is such that like okay, so he he he writes a very famous book about like what a future socialist state is going to be called state and revolution. And like almost all of it is a lie.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Communist Manifesto
“Communist manifesto was one This is 101 [ __ ] people. We You were You were quoting from the Communist Manifesto, huh?”