#117: Revolution, Ideology, Cyber Anarchism and Nation/Network State with Nick Lee

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.

My guest today is Nick Lee. He is a university instructor of Sociology and Humanities and Co-Host of the Revolution and Ideology program.

We discussed:

• Nick’s combined background of finance, technology, sociology and phycology
• Brief introduction of the Revolution and Ideology podcast
• How do we judge whether a revolution is successful or not?
• What’s Cyber Anarchism? What’re the responses to Balaji’s Network State/Union essays on 1729.com?
• Are we conditioned to be settlers or nomads?
• What’s the definition of a state? What’s the rule of violence?
• How do ideologies and -isms affect people’s life and behaviour? Can we escape from ideologies?
• What misunderstanding from the mass about anarchism?
• How can we challenge the status quo and build the Network State?
• What are technology debt and ideology debt?
• Is China a real Communism country? What about Russia?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

• Revolution and Ideology podcast
• French Revolution
• American Revolution
• Cyber Anarchism
• Network State/Union by Balaji Srinivasan
• 1729.com
• The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
• Max Weber's definition on Nation State
• Rogers M. Smith
• Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony
• Cultural Revolution
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
• Werner Herzog's films
• Anarchism as a philosophy
• Lenin’s Conception of Socialism

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