The Pete Quiñones Show Episode 1440: Reading 'The Nuremberg System' w/ Thomas777 - Part 6
Oct 27, 2026
Thomas777, a revisionist historian and fiction writer, returns to discuss his book The Nuremberg System. The conversation traces World War I, Bolshevism, and the rise of total politics. They explore revolutionary terror from the Jacobins to the twentieth century, ideological warfare against civilians, Germany’s conflict with the Soviet Union, and Thomas’s inductive approach to historical argument.
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World War I Created Europe’s Revolutionary Crisis
- Thomas777 links World War I, Bolshevik expansion, and Germany’s postwar revolutionary crisis to a broader chain of twentieth-century upheaval.
- He emphasizes that Berlin’s Nazi victory over communist militias reflected actual street fighting, not merely propaganda.
The Failed Promise To Engineer War Away
- Thomas777 argues that scholars increasingly treated war as a solvable systems problem rather than an expression of recurring human conflict.
- He distinguishes Wilson’s opposition to punitive European victors from later portrayals of him as simply another progressive interventionist.
History Was More Than Technological Change
- The discussion presents the twentieth century as a deliberately shaped political transformation, not merely technological disruption or accidental social change.
- Thomas777 criticizes historians who acknowledge human agency while concealing the cadres and institutions cultivating those changes.
