Socialist Sunday School: Recent Episodes
Michael Mochaidean
Each week, we will discuss the historical foundations of socialism and its contemporary practical applications.
This week, we discuss the functions of the Roman government and the leftist reactions to it, which helped to form our modern understandings of strikes and collective bargaining.
In this podcast, we explain how the roots of warfare are intertwined with the power of the state and its own interests – this time, in the case of two brothers who tried to reform it, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.
In this podcast, we discuss how Plato’s Republic laid the basis for Marxist conceptions of a future communist society, but in ancient Athens.
In this podcast, we discuss the themes for this podcast, the history of socialist thought, and how ancient legal systems helped to create the challenges of modernity.