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Super Structure is a podcast about the many shapes of power. The power of propaganda, the power of political repression, and the power of revolutionary struggles the world over.We help you — and comedian Jon Gabrus — understand current events, history and politics. So join us as we live, laugh, and radicalize together.
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How did the Bolshevik revolution actually occur? In this second of two parts, we explore the endless committees and meetings and denouncing of committees and meetings. We also explore the rise to power of the soldiers’ and workers’ soviets as the situation with World War I becomes untenable. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Episode researched and written by Chris Beausang. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Flow by Laurie Anderson.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.comBibliography available on patreon
What paved the course for the 1917 Bolshevik revolution? In this first of two parts, we explore the turmoil of World War I, the Czar’s many ignoble failures, the rise of the Narodniks, and the arrival of Lenin and Trotsky. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Episode researched and written by Chris Beausang. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Green Apple by Amanaz.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.comBibliographyCarr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018.Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htmKołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.Lenin, Vladimir. ‘The Crisis Has Matured’. Marxists.org, 2000. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/20.htm——. The Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats. Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1897/dec/31b.htm#fwV02E107——. What Is to Be Done? Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx 1843 to Capital. Verso, 2015.Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. Penguin, 1990.
French protests heat up. Trump taps Russia for oil as the Iran war continues to drive prices up. ICE keeps metastasizing. Flock cameras continue to be misused for personal reasons by (sometimes former) cops. Israeli settler violence in the Palestinian West Bank accelerates further. Lula suffers electoral setbacks in Brazil. And things fall apart between Eritrea and Ethiopia in Tigray. That’s right, it’s another news episode. Our guest is Jake Rockatansky of the QAA Podcast & Spectral Voyager Mini-series. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Follow Jake: https://x.com/RealRockatanskyEpisode researched and written by Spencer Barrows & Grace Cathedral Park. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Slowburner by Swithold.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.com
We spoke with writer and journalist Marlon Ettinger about the rise of the far right in France and western Europe more broadly. Your host is Julian Feeld. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Follow Marlon Ettinger: https://x.com/MarlonEttingerListen to Sacré Bleu: The French Presidential Election Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacre-bleu-the-french-presidential-election-podcast/id1752354722Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Fire by Black Savage.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.com
From World War II to the Global War On Terror, the United States has armed the world in various ways. We break down the history of US Arms Exports with Josef Burton, former diplomat, researcher and writer. Your host is Julian Feeld. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Follow Josef Burton: https://x.com/PinstripeBungleEpisode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is How Can You Say It by Gloria Ann Taylor.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.com
A movie about friendship with a Nicaraguan dictator in the process of being overthrown by revolutionaries. Last Plane Out (1983) is the story of an American journalist being sexy, intrepid, and in support of Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. Specifically: Jack Cox, who produced this self-mythologizing movie at the height of Ronald Reagan’s efforts to arm the Nicaraguan counter-revolution. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Baila Chibiquiban by Nico Gomez.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.com
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We conclude our two-parter about Indonesian propaganda with an examination of (mostly) anti-communist propaganda under the Suharto administration after the successful coup that deposed Sukarno. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Episode researched and written by TooSlick. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Dendang Remaja by A. Romzi and The Hooks.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.comBibliographyM. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory HistoryDavid van Reybrouk, Revolusi Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern WorldVincent Bevins, The Jakarta MethodTheodore Friend, Indonesian DestiniesElisabeth Jackson, “‘Warring Words’: Students and the state in New Order Indonesia, 1966-1998”Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing (2012)
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We kick off a two-parter about Indonesian propaganda with an examination of “Pancasila”, Indonesia’s official national ideology, and how it was expressed throughout both the Sukarno and — after the coup — Suharto administrations. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Episode researched and written by TooSlick. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Evil War by Shark Move.Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/Superstructurepodcast.comBibliographyM. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory HistoryDavid van Reybrouk, Revolusi Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern WorldVincent Bevins, The Jakarta MethodTheodore Friend, Indonesian DestiniesElisabeth Jackson, “‘Warring Words’: Students and the state in New Order Indonesia, 1966-1998”Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing (2012)
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