Electoral Theory and Strategy of Marx and Lenin w/ August Nimtz [Remaster]
Guerrilla History
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4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
In this fully remastered 3+ year old episode of Guerrilla History, we brought on Professor August Nimtz to talk about his book, The Ballot, The Streets, or Both? From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution. This book takes a look at the theoretical and strategic groundings and evolution of electoralism via the writings of Marx/Engels and Lenin. A conversation that will add a lot of historical nuance to the debates that we have every election season in the "western democratic" countries!
August Nimtz professor of political science and African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota. His book The Ballot, The Streets, or Both? is available from Haymarket Books. His other books include Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (SUNY Press), Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic' (Lexington Books), and Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan).
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| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. |
| 0:32.4 | This is co-host Henry Huckemaki, and today for you, we are bringing a fully remastered edition of our classic |
| 0:39.5 | episode, Electoral Theory and Strategy of Marx and Lenin, with Professor August Nymphs. This is an |
| 0:47.0 | episode that focuses on Professor Nymphs's terrific book, The Ballot, the Streets, or both, |
| 0:53.3 | from Marx and Engels to Lenin in the October |
| 0:55.8 | Revolution. This episode was originally recorded and released over three years ago, but |
| 1:01.8 | seeing as we are in an upcoming U.S. election cycle, we feel that this episode is as |
| 1:07.1 | apropos as ever. The majority of our listeners are located outside of the United |
| 1:12.3 | States, but a large number of you are inside of the United States, and this episode in |
| 1:18.3 | particular will probably be useful for you as you think about how electoralism in itself |
| 1:25.4 | should be viewed within the context of the United States' system as of now. |
| 1:31.3 | That is not to say that if you are not located in the United States, that you will also not find |
| 1:36.6 | this to be a useful episode. This theorization and strategy, looking back at the examples of Marx |
| 1:43.1 | and Lenin, is really fruitful discussion to |
| 1:46.2 | understand how we should think of electoralism more broadly and how we should be organizing |
| 1:51.6 | within and outside of election cycles following the examples of those great forebears before |
| 1:57.7 | us. So we hope that you enjoy this remastered edition of the episode |
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