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The Futurist Manifesto
History Re-Read - November 30, 2021 03:00 - 1 hourFuturism fuelled Italian Fascism, aesthetically; its Russian variant inspired a worker’s revolution and then ameliorated the early years of communism for an erstwhile bourgeois class that then had to behave itself in keeping with proletarian principles. In addition to the analysis, there is the...
The Italian Fascist Manifesto (1919)
History Re-Read - November 29, 2021 03:00 - 3 minutesMussolini had been in peacetime editor of Avanti, the main social newspaper. He was now owner of what was to be the essential organ of the Fascist movement in Italy from 1914. This was ‘The People of Italy.’ Here, the Manifesto of the Fascist Struggle or simply the Fascist Manifesto was first pub...
Marinetti’s Call from The Summit
History Re-Read - November 22, 2021 03:00 - 6 minutesFuturism for Marinetti was about capturing the movement of the machine in art, at immeasurable, still more, unimaginable levels of speed prior to the industrial revolution. The motor car exemplified this. Futurism was about both the violence implicit in the impact of industrialization on society ...
Demands of the Futurist Manifesto
History Re-Read - November 15, 2021 03:00 - 7 minutesWhere Italian Futurism exulted the machine, Russian Futurism was more about the folk traditions of the country. Despite the Russian Futurist expressing no interest in paying homage to their Italian forerunners, the movement in both these countries had much in common. Chiefly, a call for a complet...
Marinetti’s Car Crash
History Re-Read - November 08, 2021 03:06 - 7 minutesit could be argued that prior to 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was a failed writer, and that the Futurist Manifesto was something of a publicity stunt. He had had little success with a drama for the stage performed in Paris the same year the Manifesto appeared, and similarly disappointed with...
The Futurist Manifestos (Italy and Russia: 1909 and 1912)
History Re-Read - November 01, 2021 03:00 - 42 minutesFuturism fuelled Italian Fascism, aesthetically; its Russian variant inspired a worker’s revolution and then ameliorated the early years of communism for an erstwhile bourgeois class that then had to behave itself in keeping with proletarian principles. Today, Futurism has become part of the co...
Extract from Chapter 3 of the Communist Manifesto
History Re-Read - October 25, 2021 03:00 - 15 minutesHere, Marx and Engels, discuss three kinds of socialism: Feudal Socialism, Petty-Bourgeois Socialism, and German or "True," Socialism. They talk about each as a stepping-stone to Communism. Each a penultimate stage in the march of history. The literature and no less the readership relating to ea...
Extract from Chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto
History Re-Read - October 18, 2021 03:32 - 6 minutesHere Marx and Engels state their case for the Communist movement as being in the vanguard or all other workers’ movements. Through the manifesto’s stated tenets, Communism is given a doctrinal importance, with the implication that dissent from other proletarians is as much a threat to the movemen...
Extract from Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto
History Re-Read - October 11, 2021 03:00 - 8 minutesThe long history of class struggle is explained in beautiful English, full of Latinate syntax. Marx and Engels then go on in the same rhetorical vein, evocative of Cicero, no less, to describe the way capital in relation to manufacturing has reduced artisanal skills to mere labour, to be bought a...
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
History Re-Read - October 04, 2021 03:00 - 44 minutesThe German Communist Party (the DKP), campaigning in this year’s German elections had a banner proclaiming Die Krise heißt Kapitalismus! A Crisis Called Capitalism. This claim has been central to Marxist thought since 1848, when the manifesto was published more or less at the same time in Frenc...
On Liberty (Extract from Chapter 4)
History Re-Read - September 27, 2021 03:17 - 7 minutesMill insists society cannot be founded on a contract. It is up to the individual to be conscious of their responsibilities to others. He goes on to make the distinction between moral outrage, where punishment should only amount to the ‘disapprobation’ of others, if those others are in no way harm...
Coming Soon: New Season
Hidden Perspective - September 25, 2021 02:40 - 35 secondsJules and I have some very exciting news to share with you.... We're launching a new podcast season! Stay tuned!
On Liberty (Further extract from Chapter 3)
History Re-Read - September 20, 2021 03:32 - 12 minutesMill decries the individual who chooses what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. ‘It does not occur to them,’ he says, ‘to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is ...
On Liberty (Extract from Chapter 3)
History Re-Read - September 13, 2021 03:00 - 11 minutesHere, Mill bemoans the lack of strong will among the men of his day, comparing them to the kings of Holy Roman Empire who resisted the Popes. He then goes on to dismiss the Protestant mind-set, which, in the form of Calvinism, he detests. It all comes across as uncomfortably elitist today. The t...
On Liberty
History Re-Read - September 06, 2021 03:00 - 32 minutesThis issue remains all over the media. Wearing a mask to abide by the law based on the principle of protecting others is an example of negative freedom; choosing to wear a mask based on a concern for the wellbeing of oneself and others is an example of positive freedom. If someone decides not ...
The Lodge Reservations over U.S. Membership of the League of Nations
History Re-Read - August 30, 2021 03:00 - 11 minutesThe following is in highly esoteric American legal English. Commentaries of them may be found on the relevant page in Wikipedia - they might almost be taken as plain language translations. The stentorian tone of the original language is emblematic of the arrogance of Empire which, de facto, was w...
The Lodge Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of 1912
History Re-Read - August 23, 2021 03:25 - 6 minutesIt was not mentioned explicitly in the analysis that Lodge had earlier stated his position in a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine following the recent opening of the Panama canal, which was expected expand American shipping (both merchant and Naval) to rival and then supersede that of Britain and...
Our Authoritarian Moment
Hidden Perspective - August 19, 2021 19:00 - 1 hourRob and Jules discuss the government and tech crackdown on "misinformation" and online bullying, the right to protest, and vaccine passports. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell some people about the show! Cheers! *** Let us know your thoughts: IG: hiddenperspective_ Twitter: greco_...
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of 1904
History Re-Read - August 16, 2021 03:35 - 10 minutesThe Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 was made as part this President’s state of the Union address that year. It asserted that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and ...
Text of The Monroe Doctrine 1823
History Re-Read - August 09, 2021 03:11 - 8 minutesJohn Quincy Adams while Secretary of State, later U.S. President, wrote the text concerning Imperial Spain’s threat to the western hemisphere, the New World, for his President’s annual address to Congress, James Monroe's seventh address to both houses on December 2, 1823. It articulated America’s...
The Monroe Doctrine
History Re-Read - August 02, 2021 03:00 - 51 minutesThe fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, proclaimed in 1823 that the New World, the Western Hemisphere, was closed to further colonization; and that any attempt by the European powers of the Old World, whether Portugal and Spain diminished powers in the south to recolonize or Brit...
The Monroe Doctrine (Preview)
History Re-Read - July 19, 2021 13:42 - 19 minutesPREVIEW The season will start in earnest next month (August 2021) The Monroe Doctrine: American foreign policy from the time of nation’s 5th President (James Monroe) through to the present can be seen through the prism of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Not fully understood as a doctrine at ...
Is This The Worst Piece of Journalism in History?
Hidden Perspective - July 14, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourRob and Jules discuss the ABC's reporting of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 100th anniversary , as well as the media's backflips on whether COVID originated from a lab. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell some people about the show! *** Let us know your thoughts: IG: hiddenperspe...
Reasonable Skepticism
Hidden Perspective - June 26, 2021 06:00 - 1 hourRob and Jules are joined by Dr Brendan Putko to discuss the COVID vaccines, the debate around taking vaccines, Ivermectin's potential as a COVID cure, and much more. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell some people about the show! Cheers! P.S. I apologise for the audio quality. There we...
A Change of Direction
History Re-Read - June 19, 2021 19:35 - 12 minutesThe idea had been in this series of podcasts to have a kind of three-act structure for each, taking in the Views from Germany, Russia and America in the 20th century from the perspective of 100 years on. I had hoped when starting out 18 months ago to present historical events episodically on a m...
Jules Loses It At Melbourne's Most Recent Lockdown
Hidden Perspective - June 11, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutesJules and Rob discuss Melbourne's most recent "snap lockdown", the lack of an economic framework to support shuttered businesses and unemployed workers, and the mysterious reason why the Victorian Government took so long to call the "snap" lockdown. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell so...
What do AFL, Mindfulness and Gambling Have in Common?
Hidden Perspective - May 28, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutesRob and Jules have a wide-ranging conversation on AFL, mindfulness, gambling and everything in between. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell some people about the show! Cheers! *** James Hird & Shane Crawford Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UGWPwfTro *** Let us know your...
The Impact of Weimar’s First Reparation Instalment
History Re-Read - May 19, 2021 19:47 - 31 minutesTHE VIEW FROM GERMANY Twenty-four hours before the deadline of May 31st 100 Gold marks were duly paid to the inter-allied reparations commission. But not under the chancellorship of Constantine Fehrenbach. Yet, his party, Zentrum, the Catholic Centre Party retained its in influence in all the m...
April 1921. Upper Silesia: Security and Ethnic Make-up Across City & District.
History Re-Read - May 02, 2021 20:59 - 41 minutesTHE VIEW FROM GERMANY The Sicheheitpolizei (Sipo) was made up of disparate elements of the Freikorps and others ready to do violence for the sake of the nationalist cause. When I say ‘disparate,’ by way of analogy, I mean as disparate as the many of claiming German linage in order to register t...
Why Was An African-Australian Academic Called Racist
Hidden Perspective - April 24, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutesRob and Jules have a conversation exploring why Dr Amanda Porter (Melbourne University) labelled the Swinburne University academic, Dr Stephane Shepherd, racist, before retracting her comment. Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell some people about the show! Cheers! *** References: htt...
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