The LRB Podcast

A History of Revolution

Nov 23, 2021

59:16

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The World Cannot Live Without Utopian Revolutions, Enzo?

03:31

Antisemitism and Revolutionary Modernism

03:24

Is Dialectical Images Important to the History of Revolutions?

02:52

Introduction

2min

The New Left and the New Left in Italy

4min

Revolution as an Interpretive Key to Modern History?

2min

The Raft of Medusa by Teardor Gericos

2min

The Black Man in the Haitian Revolution

2min

The History of Revolutions

3min

Is Dialectical Images Important to the History of Revolutions?

3min

Antisemitism and Anti-Revolutionary Thoughts

2min

What Is the Relationship Between Religion and Revolution?

4min

10.

Against Institutional Religion

5min

11.

What Is the Dimension of Revolution?

3min

12.

Revolution as a Global Process

2min

13.

Marxism and the Jewish Question

3min

14.

Marxism and Antisemitism

3min

15.

Antisemitism and Revolutionary Modernism

3min

16.

Did the Left Abandon Revolution?

2min

17.

Stalinism Was Not a Counter-Revolution

2min

18.

Are the New Anti-Capitalist Movements Orphans?

5min

19.

What Do You Like About the Left-Wing Movements?

3min

20.

The World Cannot Live Without Utopian Revolutions, Enzo?

4min

Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebellion in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down authoritarianism. Are revolutions, as Marx suggested, the ‘locomotives of history’, or, as Walter Benjamin saw it, the emergency brake? And what can modern political movements learn from their revolutionary forebears?

Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/revolutionpod

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Music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks

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The LRB Podcast

A History of Revolution

The World Cannot Live Without Utopian Revolutions, Enzo?

Antisemitism and Revolutionary Modernism

Is Dialectical Images Important to the History of Revolutions?

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