Neoliberalism Borrowed From Lenin, Why Can’t We?
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
This week we go all the way back to the beginning to ruminate about what motivated us to start the podcast in the dark days of the pandemic. We open with a passage from Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains that struck a chord with Max. In it MacLean talks about the early days of the nihilistic libertarian society built by Charles Koch who was himself building upon the work of his father in the John Birch Society. Turns out, Koch and the founders of the neoliberal movement were inspired by the organizing principles of Vladimir Lenin. Let that sink in.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:00
Sketch: 00:01:29
Max’s Moment: 00:06:39
A Discussion: 00:41:19
Outro: 01:27:49
Resources
Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
The Family on Netflix
Jeff Sharlet: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, my friends, we are fucked. |
| 0:04.7 | Deliciously, unreservedly, catastrophically fucked, and not the good kind. |
| 0:10.6 | We'll traverse this audio journey together to upend conventional wisdom, |
| 0:14.7 | blow up narratives on the left, right, and middle, |
| 0:17.2 | and use magical devices like facts, logic, and reason to explain how exactly we |
| 0:23.4 | arrived in Bizarro America, the fun house mirror version of what was originally intended. |
| 0:30.1 | I have found myself more and more fully committed to being ungovernable. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll examine exactly how and why we're fucked. |
| 0:40.1 | You want to claim this land as a land of a free? |
| 0:42.9 | Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. |
| 0:46.4 | Dig in to why we can't seem to unfuck ourselves. |
| 0:50.0 | Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, |
| 0:51.7 | if you were more concerned with the American people |
| 0:53.7 | than with your image in a history book. |
| 0:56.1 | Ask why we settle for leaders who fuck us over. |
| 0:59.5 | Please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. |
| 1:02.4 | Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-built and radials. |
| 1:05.9 | And I won't say anything. Just leave us alone. |
| 1:07.9 | Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. |
| 1:09.3 | And see if we can unfuck things just a bit, all by ourselves. |
| 1:15.7 | I do think that as long as you continue, looking at things, |
| 1:20.3 | through that old patriarchal, Cartesian, Antonian lens, |
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