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Breht and Alyson explore Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity, a foundational work of existentialist ethics that asks a deceptively difficult question: if there is no God, no predetermined human purpose, and no absolute moral order written into the universe, why shouldn't ...  Show more

Through one family's journey from socialist China to the United States, we explore the gulf between the mythology of the American Dream and the realities of American capitalism. From the Cultural Revolution and Voice of America to racial and class hierarchies, liberal academia, a ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists against each other, to renew the revolution that he feared had become too bourgeois and to remove his enemies and rivals. Universities closed and the students for ...  Show more

Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Zhang Zongchang.

FOOTNOTES:

China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912—1949 by James E. Sheridan

https://1lib.us/book/6061335/d193d2</ ...

On this episode of Red Menace Alyson revisits 'On Practice' by Mao. Text can be found for free here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm Additional material suggested by Alyson https://www.google.com/amp/s/kites-journal.org/2021/04/ ...  Show more