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Understanding Socialism: Part Five. 1871 to 1917. Revolutionary Divide.

This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and onset of World War I, which precedes (and leads to) the Russian Revolution in 1917. We’re going to cover the Russian Revolution briefly in an epilogue th…

Understanding Socialism: Part Two. The Seeds of Socialism.

Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American a…

Understanding Socialism: Part Three. The “Critique Phase” (1825–1870).

We have the third installment in our socialism series, where we resume our journey beginning in 1825 and the collapse of Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment. This next chapter introduces the work of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx and touches on Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, both of w…

Understanding Socialism: Part Four. Praxis.

It’s Part Four this week, and things are really heating up. We’re bridging the gap between the “critique” years and the “praxis” years with a deep dive into the late 1800s. Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon make grand entrances into our narrative and bring some intrigue along with them. Pa…

Understanding Socialism: Part Six. Epilogue.

The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to identify factors that contributed to the Bolshevik departure from Marxist theory and how nationalism squashed any hope for an internationalist movemen…

Ep 144: Home Improvement Before Knitting

Lots of home improvement talk (and some power tool noise) before we get down to the knitting this week. Full show notes with photos and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com.. Also, we have a coupon code for 3GreenSisters Etsy shop. Visit their si…

The Living Frequency

Welcome back to The Dark Paranormal. What if some hauntings aren’t about fear — but about being heard? In this deeply personal account, a listener shares a lifetime of encounters with the unseen, beginning with an extraordinary experience at the bedside of a dying parent and unfolding into years …

A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell

Charlotte Riddell, born Charlotte Cowan in 1832, was a prolific and accomplished British writer during the Victorian era. She was recognized for her contributions to the literary landscape, particularly in the genres of Gothic fiction and supernatural tales. Riddell began her writing career in the …

A Tale Of Two Wives

A Double Dose Of ArsenicJump to the AD-FREE SAFE HOUSE EDITIONEpisode 119 tells the sordid tale of Edith Carew, an English society woman living as an expatriate in Japan, who goes to trial for poisoning her husband. The the press couldn’t help but compare it to the case of Florence Maybrick, which …