ISM | Ideas Meet Power · A narrative history of political ideologies
S1E9 Marxism vs. Anarchism: The Question of the State
·34 min·3 clips
Sailors on frozen ice face Bolshevik guns, fighting to save the revolution from party tyranny.
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A grounded account of how socialist ideals split over power, authority, and control.
This episode treats socialism less as a slogan than as a hard political argument, beginning with Kronstadt in March 1921 and widening out to the disputes that shaped modern socialism.
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You want the argument over collective control that turned socialism into a fight over power.
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