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The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
Season 6 · Episode 6

The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left

The Regrettable Century · Chris, Jason, and Ben

March 11, 20241h 42m

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Show Notes

This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship.

The Ex-Communist’s Conscience
https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm

Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Right
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right 

From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol
https://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html

The Neoconservative Counterrevolution
https://jacobin.com/2015/04/neoconservatives-kristol-podhoretz-hartman-culture-war

How Ex-Communists Shaped American Conservatism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-ex-communists-shaped-american-conservatism/426849/

Trotskycons
https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/06/trotskycons-stephen-schwartz/

The Neoconservative Journey
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817945725_105.pdf 

The Legacy of the Trotskyist Right
https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/SneigoskiTOQV6N2.pdf

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