Hello and welcome back to ACFM. This is producer Matt with a few words about what you're about to

hear. This will be our 20th trip with ACFM, and to celebrate, we wanted to pick a topic that

would do justice to such a momentous milestone. So naturally, revolution was the order of the day.

However, when we started putting the show together, myself and my co-producer, Chau,

realized we were going to need quite a lot of space to do justice to such a big topic.

So, what follows is a kind of group microdose in which Nadia, Jeremy and Keir collectively tell

the history of 400 years of revolutionary struggle, beginning with the English Civil War,

and bringing us up to around the mid 20th century. We think it worked really well as a microdose

on its own, but it's also intended to serve as a bit of a supporting text for the full trip.

We hope you'll listen to both as well as a microdose with Rodrigo Nunez that's coming,

and we hope this does justice both to such a big topic and also to 20th trip with ACFM.

Let's do the history boys. Come on. All right, the word's revolution. I mean, it comes from like

the same route as revolve, and there is this real change in its meaning. So, people think of history

as moving through revolutions, meaning not like an upturning of everything that currently exists,

but just a kind of literally a cycle. I mean, think about the word cycle, both cycle and

revolution. They mean something going around. And then sometime around the sort of 18th century,

the term revolution takes on a completely different meaning really in the political discourse,

and it means like a complete overturning of the current order. I want to stick with that image for

a second because there's revolutions which are a clean revolution. So, as in we've got a wheel

and it's going round, but then there's something in between before what you just said Jeremy,

which is a weighted revolution. So, if you think about a sphere or something spinning round,

but it's got a weight in it, then every time it turns round, it's going to turn round,

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