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If We Burn w/ Vincent Bevins

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Oct 9, 2023
Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, discusses the absence of disciplined Leninist organizations in global mass protests. Topics include the rise of right-wing power after protests, the concept of Leninism and efforts to avoid mistakes of the Bolshevik Revolution, the influence of the horizontalist model on mass protests, media's role in shaping the narrative of the Arab Spring, misunderstanding of protests in the global South, and the intersection of social media and police repression in mass protests.
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