The "Right Side of History": Communism in America, Lenin, Cuba, & Zero-Sum Games | The Simpleton Podcast

The Simpleton Podcast | Catholic Culture, Mission, and Politics with Clark Massey and Laura Hehman

Laura sits down with Mary Smith and Ryan Haber to discuss Leninthink, Communism, partyness, and more in this episode the Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:

• How Lenin's ideology influenced our American thinking

• Do Americans believe authority is a sham?

• Carlos Eire's "Waiting for Snow in Havana"

• Party-ness, gaslighting, and Chernobyl

• Cancel culture, Who/Whom, oppression, and ideologies

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Links:

Article - "Leninthink" by Gary Saul Morson: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink

Podcast - "Ep. 15: Thinking Like Lenin, with Gary Saul Morson" (from The Moral Imagination Podcast):

https://youtu.be/EmQM3TzzZjM?si=-7ucU5hNYvCErYxK

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro to Ryan and Mary

2:09 The three main ideas of Leninthink

3:11 "The right side of history"

14:25 Lenin's view of morality and truth

20:09 How Lenin's ideology influenced our American thinking

31:35 Do Americans believe authority is a sham?

35:16 Carlos Eire's "Waiting for Snow in Havana" & communism

42:19 The loss of morality

45:51 Party-ness, gaslighting, and Chernobyl

59:32 Carlos Eire's experience with communist ideology in Cuba

1:06:07 The Leninism spectrum: misinformation, Covid, Cancel Culture, & Cuba

1:22:43 Who/Whom, Zero Sum Games, oppression, and ideologies

1:37:46 Using history to defend Catholicism?

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