S8 Ep256: THE LINEAGE OF VIOLENCE: FROM BABEUF TO THE PARIS COMMUNE Colleague Professor Sean McMeekin. This segment explores the intellectual roots of communist violence, starting with the French agitator Gracchus Babeuf. Inspired by radical Enlightenment thinking,
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | The new book is to overthrow the world, the rise and fall and rise of communism. |
| 0:36.6 | Professor has done us the |
| 0:38.3 | favor of putting together in a continual narrative how the idea of communism, the Communist |
| 0:45.5 | Manifesto, penned by Karl Marx with Friedrich Engels, his co-pilot, how that has influenced |
| 0:53.8 | different cultures where it never was native. |
| 0:57.0 | Travel that book, those phrases have traveled around the world and continue to reverberate. |
| 1:03.0 | But I learned from the professor that communism, Marxist-Leninism or just Marxism, |
| 1:10.0 | prospers only in conjunction with extreme violence. |
| 1:14.8 | As the professor says again and again, |
| 1:17.3 | no communist dictatorship has ever come to power through the ballot box. |
| 1:21.2 | It's extreme violence and the disintegration of norms, |
| 1:25.6 | that's the modern word we're using, |
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