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What Happens in China in 2049? (opens the original)
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Xi Jinping's Plan for 2049, the China Dream of National Rejuvenation, Explained.★Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/williamcfoxSourcing (too many characters for YT)https://williamcfox.substack.com/p/china-sourcing-and-reading-list?r=2fkhlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true00:00 China History before Xi56:43 Xi's Dream1:58:00 Economics2:44:12 Unity & Foreign Policy3:28:10 CrystallizationSocial Media ▼Twitter➜ @williamcfoxInstagram➜ @williamcfoxTikTok ➜ @williamcfoxS
Every Social Contract Theory, Explained. (opens the original)
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0:00 Intro 00:40 Hobbes Leviathan 1:23:39 Interlude: Pateman 1:48:12 Locke's State of Nature 2:26:03 Locke's Social Contract 3:02:12 Interlude: Mills 3:24:06 Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality 3:56:34 Rousseau's Social Contract 4:36:28 Why Obey? 4:55:42 ??? Sources: Bertram, Christopher, "Jean Jacques Rousseau", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)Fukuyama, Francis. *The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French
When is it Democratic Socialism? (opens the original)
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What is Democratic Socialism? What makes it different than Socialism, Communism, Marxism or Social Democracy? 00:44 Manifesto for 1848 40:13 Interlude: Inevitability 01:29:15 Marxism to Orthodoxy 02:27:23 Revisionism 02:56:54 Reform or Revolution 03:22:50 Social Democracy vs Democratic Socialism 04:03:18 Defining the 'types' Sourcing Ascher, Abraham (Ed.). 1976. _The Mensheviks In The Russian Revolution_.Berman, Sheri. 2006. _The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's T
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Explained. (opens the original)
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Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism captured the essence of total domination as seen in Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII. This lecture is a good-faith attempt to explain the book and Arendt's 'origins' in full. Sourcing for this episode can be found here: (There is also a topical index at this link, along with a page of Latin/German/French terms found in the book) 00:00 Intro 1:00 French Revolution & Nation-States 01:31:56 Arendt Bio & Book Concept 01:52:36 Generic Totalitarianism
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