Communism: Where Idea Comes From, Claims to Be Going, & Why It Never Get There w/ Amanda Griffiths

On this Heard Tell Podcast Amanda Griffiths returns for a deep dive into Communism that goes past the use of the term as an internet buzzword to where the ideology comes from, where it claims to want to take "the people", and why its adherents never are able to get it where they claim they want to go without authoritarian takeovers. Amanda and host Andrew Donaldson walk through the history of communism from ancient times, who the real Karl Marx was and believed, through Lenin and Stalin, to the regimes of today. Amanda and Andrew also talk about why authoritarianism always seems to be the inevitable and logical conclusion to the communist philosophy, how human nature plays into the ideology, and discusses the "real communism has never been tried" trope. Plus, Amanda with some personal takes both from her own life and being in an academic setting on how we teach, or don't teach, communism, how using the term online for everything you don't like sanatizes the very real human cost, and why American and others who advocate for communism have a blind spot to the historical record of it.

All that and more on this episode of the Heard Tell Podcast

Referenced works:

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes 

Darkness at Noon Paperback by Arthur Koestle

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