Latest Chapo trap house Podcast Episodes
The Red Army Victorious: The Conquest of Several Counties in Jiangxi and Fujian in the Spring of 1929
People's History of Ideas Podcast - June 26, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe conquest of Yudu, Xingguo, Ningdu, Longyan, and Yongding counties by the Fourth Red Army. Zhu De reminisces. Also, poetry. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the ...
Mao Tells Zhou Enlai about Guerrilla Warfare
People's History of Ideas Podcast - May 01, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsMao’s April 5, 1929 reply to Zhou Enlai. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930 David Apter and Tony Sai...
The Party Center Attempts to Assert Control over the Red Army and Orders Mao and Zhu to Report to Shanghai
People's History of Ideas Podcast - April 04, 2024 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsA close look at Zhou Enlai’s February 7, 1929, letter to Mao Zedong and Zhu De. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927...
Mao’s March 20 Letter to the Central Committee, and the 5th Red Army’s Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to April 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - March 10, 2024 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsMao plans to expand guerrilla warfare, and meets up with Peng Dehuai in Ruijin. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927...
On the Experience of the National Bourgeoisie in the New Democratic Revolution
People's History of Ideas Podcast - February 04, 2024 20:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsSome reflections on the experience of Shanghai capitalists after 1949 prompted by the ‘Notice to Merchants and Intellectuals’ that Mao issued after taking Changting in 1929. Further reading: Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiang...
A New Communist Order in Changting (March 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - January 13, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsLooking at what Mao and Zhu De did to install a new Communist order after conquering Changting. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Agnes Smedley, The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh [Zhu De] Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power...
Leaving Donggu, Taking Changting (February to March 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - December 07, 2023 18:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsHow the Fourth Red Army spent their time in Donggu, and how they took the first city in the new base area in the Jiangxi-Fujian border region. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Agnes Smedley, The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh [...
From Dabodi to Donggu: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan Continues (February 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - October 19, 2023 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe Mao-Zhu Army raises funds in Ningdu and moves on to the Donggu base area for rest and recovery. Background on Donggu. Link to map of Jiangxi province: https://www.chinamaps.org/china/provincemaps/jiangxi-province-map.html Further reading: Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: Fr...
Running for Their Lives: The Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to February 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - October 12, 2023 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsMao and the Fourth Red Army break the encirclement of the Jinggangshan and retreat across southern Jiangxi with the Guomindang in hot pursuit. Link to map of Jiangxi province: https://www.chinamaps.org/china/provincemaps/jiangxi-province-map.html Further reading/watching on the difficulties of...
Ep 77: Makes Sense To Me
Inside Agitator - October 11, 2023 17:36 - 42 minutestwo unqualified southern gentlemen discuss conflict in the middle east. not that you need to be qualified to stand with the underdog against genocide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Frameworks for Thinking about Tragic Historical Shortcomings of the Socialist Experience
People's History of Ideas Podcast - October 04, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsAnswering a listener question on the Great Leap Forward famine. Further reading: Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past United Nations, “Losing 25,000 to Hunger Every Day” Minhaz Merchant, “Churchill’s Bengal Famine” Karl Marx, Capital Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts Frederick Engels, The ...
The End of the Sixth Congress
People's History of Ideas Podcast - September 28, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsWe wrap up our discussion of the Sixth Congress with a discussion of the political line coming out of the congress, and some related issues. Further reading: Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 vo...
Clashing Communists and Comintern Guidance: The 6th Congress Gets off to a Rocky Start
People's History of Ideas Podcast - September 21, 2023 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsQu Qiubai’s report and proposal are disputed, and the Comintern intervenes to restore order. Further reading: Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes) Daniel Kwan, Marxist Intellectuals and th...
Bukharin on the Nature of the Chinese Revolution in 1928
People's History of Ideas Podcast - September 14, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsOur third (and last) close look at Bukharin’s speech at the 6th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in Moscow in the summer of 1928. Further reading: Nikolai Bukharin, “On the International Situation and the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party” Lenin, “Speech at the First All-Russia ...
Bukharin on the Theory of the Productive Forces (and Mao’s counterpoint on New Democratic Revolution)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - May 27, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsBukharin articulates a vision of the Chinese Revolution at the 6th Party Congress which is highly colored by the non-revolutionary Marxism of the 2nd International. Further reading: Nikolai Bukharin, “On the International Situation and the Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party” Andre Gunder Fran...
The ‘Third Period’ of the World Revolution: Bukharin’s Speech at the Sixth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (June 1928)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - May 20, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsNikolai Bukharin kicks off the party congress with a very long speech. Further reading: Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes) E. H. Carr, Foundations of a Planned Economy, vol. 3 Nikolai Bu...
Preparations for the Sixth Party Congress (April to May 1928)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - May 13, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe decision to hold the Sixth Party Congress in Moscow, and some of the political debate inside the Communist Party of China leading up to that Congress. Further reading: Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 19...
Ep 76: Stop-Go
Inside Agitator - May 04, 2023 22:05 - 52 minutesWe talk about the murder of Jordan Neely and the volunteer army of Paul Blarts getting propagandized to kill us and defend T.J. Maxx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 75: All Is Fair In Balloons and War
Inside Agitator - February 26, 2023 05:54 - 50 minuteswe talk about the insane media propaganda regarding balloons, the murder of tyre nichols and trans people Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Bailu Conference: Suppressing Orders from the Party Congress and Preparing to Leave the Jinggangshan (January 1929)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - February 16, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsPotentially explosive guidance arrives in the Jinggangshan from the 6th Party Congress of the Communist Party, and plans are laid to break out of the enemy encirclement. Further reading: Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road ...
The Base Area under Economic Blockade and Unification with the Fifth Red Army (End of 1928)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - February 02, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe national Guomindang center takes note of the Communists’ resilience, and takes charge of organizing a new suppression campaign, which is preceded by a tight economic blockade. Peng Dehuai makes his way to the Jinggangshan. Further reading: Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China...
Ep 74: Rest in Power Tyre Nichols
Inside Agitator - January 30, 2023 21:30 - 48 minutesWe talk about Tyre Nichols and the return of the protest movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 74(Preview): The Media's Complicity
Inside Agitator - January 30, 2023 19:10 - 1 minuteWe talk about Tyre Nichols and the return of the protest movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 73: Cop City's First Victim
Inside Agitator - January 23, 2023 02:20 - 29 minutesRIP TORT. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 72: By Far, The Worst Episode Yet
Inside Agitator - January 07, 2023 18:03 - 41 minutesi truly don't think we talked about even one important thing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 71: Dick Deleware
Inside Agitator - January 06, 2023 04:49 - 46 minutesoh man this one lol. sorry it took a while to put out, we had to edit out like half of it when we started doxxing ourselves. think we originally recorded this a little before thanksgiving. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Vagrants, Mercenaries, and Rich Peasants (November 1928)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - November 27, 2022 18:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsA close reading of a couple portions of Mao’s November 25, 1928 report to the Central Committee. Further reading: Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiang...
Ep 70: Isn't it a Pity
Inside Agitator - November 02, 2022 12:43 - 37 minuteswe discuss the propaganda against trans people, our nation's attachment to the rigid categorizations of each other interpersonal conflicts between friends as you grow older and more radical. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transforming, Building, and Purging the Party (September to November 1928)
People's History of Ideas Podcast - October 31, 2022 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsFinishing our close reading of the resolution of the Border Area Party Congress of October 4 to 6, 1928. Also, the reorganization and purge of the party following the Communist recovery of the Jinggangshan base area after the August Defeat. Further reading: Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Hi...
Opportunism and Self-Criticism: The Jinggangshan Party Congress Resolution of October 1928
People's History of Ideas Podcast - October 20, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsA discussion of the concept of opportunism as it developed in the international communist movement, and a close reading of the self-critical portion of the resolution of the Border Area Party Congress of October 4 to 6, 1928. Further reading: Lenin, “Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second ...
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