Ep 8. World War I as a Revolutionary Opportunity
- TV-PG
- November 8, 2019
- 26 min
With the outbreak of the First World War, Lenin (who called war an accelerator of history) had the world crisis he could turn to his advantage. Topics here include Marxist debates over the philosophies of defensism and defeatism, the arrival of Leon Trotsky and his theory of permanent revolution, and the widening rift between socialists and communists.