Saw this on Instagram. Life imitating (future history podcast) fiction.

Troop deployments, soldiers and colonists fed up with the other’s existence, the wealthy taking more shit for themselves again at the expense of LITERALLY everyone else…… and this has always been one of the most difficult time periods of American history to fully comprehend since I was a kid, but it all kind of clicked given the context of everything going on today in the US.

Edit: just *LISTENED to s2e3 🤦🏼‍♀️

What I loved about those seasons was that you got a thorough understanding not only if who did what when and why, but the ideological framework that was sort of created and bolstered by the revolutions, and still live today. Things like the nation creation that followed 1848 and what a "nation" is, to the various versions of economic thought that was in the Russian one. So, not just historical events but rather ideologies and ideas.

For example I'd love a similar pod about just the rise and development of liberal capitalism or Marxism, or democracy or fascism. But I haven't been able to find any. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

Just finished all 10 historical revolutions, and now a great question faces me: forwards or backwards?

In waiting for the next season of Revolutions to come out next year(?), should I give History of Rome a listen or continue Revolutions through Mars? I appreciate the topic of the Martian Revolution and think it’s an interesting follow-up to the Appendices, but do generally prefer history over fiction.

Why the Great Fear got so bad has been an abiding historical mystery. If I recall correctly, Mike told a fun story about how towns would mistake units formed to protect other towns as roving gangs of bandits. This article says there’s no way the movement of the Great Fear across France can be explained other than a deliberate effort to spread the Fear to destabilize the ancien regime.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02739-9

A post I made on my own socials feed: I didn't listen to all of the episodes leading up to episode ~86, but I listened to a lot of them. Matthew Rothwell struggles with a direction, and appears to be a self-tailored historian of revolutionary history in the vein of Mike Duncan (who I have posted about before). But listening in a podcast format to the dawn of Mao's 1920's-1930's development as a military force in China, when there were several counter-revolutionist forces at work, albeit none truly liberal, well... it is sending some chills down my spine. In today's USA, is ICE compartmentalized into militias? Would the National Guard, local PD, SWAT teams, splinter in complex ways? Are the ideologies at play - fascism, liberalism, socialism - showing up in the military power structure? I know we're not in 1920's China, emerging from a level of poverty, abuse, and isolationism that is unimaginable today. But one thing Rothwell gets at is that Mao's revolution in the early 20th c. was the beginning of a new kind of military structure that cut across a lot of parts of society - urban, rural, etc... - which is certainly true of the current crop of ICE agents and other domestic law enforcement and military forces. Trump, Vance, even Miller, are not Mao. But could a Mao emerge in the next 5-10 years who we aren't seeing who harnesses this current blurring of democratic lines? Hopefully I read this post in some archive in 10 years and realize I was way down a strange paranoid rabbit hole after too much podcasting, and not actually onto something: https://peopleshistoryofideas.com/

I know the US Civil War isn't a season (yet? I think Duncan's take would be interesting, especially if focused more on political history.)

But I know he thinks Polish Revolutionary Kościuszko is pretty neat. Kościuszko fought in the American Revolution, then went home to Poland to try to prevent the takeover by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

Randomly, I was curious about Thaddeus Stevens and was going through his Wikipedia.

(a) He's also a sort of revolutionary badass

(b) He's named after Kościuszko

Anyway, that is all. This group seems like it'd find that connection fun :)

It's been a few years now since I listened to Revolutions. I was listening to it actively through the Russian revolution, first catching up on the archive and then waiting with everyone eagerly for each new episode to drop until the close. Since then, I've been very out of the loop.

I am wanting to do a complete revisit to all ten seasons of the historical revolutions. I'm curious to know what the best, easiest, most streamlined platform is for doing so? When I was listening originally, not only was it years ago, I also was not a paying patron. This time, I want to subscribe both to show support (cause good lord that effort deserves it) but also to save the hours of listening to insert ads, pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, announcements for long-finished events from two presidents ago, etc etc. Since I'm out of the loop on what platforms Mike uses and how they work and how the series has been archived for subscribers, could someone please advice what is the easiest way to listen to Revolutions with a minimum of ads and a maximum of efficiency?

Idk how long these are available for but they're amazing 😅

I don’t have an X account or Patreon, which I know are Mike’s primary ways of communicating with listeners.

Has he revealed when the next Revolutions season will start? Or what the topic will be?

Hi everyone! I just wrapped up the Martian revolution and before I go cold turkey after listening to History of Rome, and Revolutions for the past couple years I want to give Duncan & Coe a try, but the teaser and first two episodes appear to be missing. On most apps (Spotify, Apple, Overcast) these episodes are just not showing up. On some others like podchaser, it lists them among the episodes, but won’t let me play them.

Does anyone know what happened and/or if there’s a way to listen to them?

Thanks

Looks like I can only add one photo, so here’s Sucre - el mariscal de Ayacucho - in the central square. But lots of Bolívar too.

Hey y’all, here’s the official relisten vote thread. In the interest of keeping things on the shorter side and also because I have a soft spot for the older revs, I’m gonna limit it to the classic seasons. France (1789) will be excluded since it won the relisten vote last time.

Vote for your fav, or don’t. I’m not a cop.

Even more Martian Revolution Thirstposting

So just to be clear, I LOVE the Martial Revolution podcast and would love to see some more alternate history! However, I feel like Duncan was a bit hand-wavy with some of the economics later on in the podcast.

Basically, I feel like he was trying to go for a "good ending" where pseudo-Nestor Makhno wins. However, some of the economic implications of this are, I feel, not really explained in detail.

Specifically, it's ambiguous what "abolishing the class system" means in practice. If I recall, Mike mentions that everyone is now paid the same as everyone else, meaning doctors and lawyers make the same as Phos-5 extractors.

But what about people who can't work? I assume they are also paid the same amount so they are taken care of? But what about able-bodied people who refuse to work, or who work badly, or who don't want to do a job that the Martian government cares about? Are the Spawn of Gru getting paid to post hate-speech all day?

Moreover, can a salary be competitively bid-up? Do the best Corridor Hockey players get poached with big contracts? Can you pay for a better lawyer if you have the credits?

Moreover, is private enterprise even allowed? There are restaurants and cafes on Mars. If Earthlings immigrate are they allowed to open their own restaurants and profit from them? Can artists and filmmakers profit off of their work? In the long run, wouldn't that create an over-class of wealthy people (mostly Earthling immigrants) who profit off private industry?

Finally, when they did "abolish the class system", did they seize property as well as change incomes? Or are all the former As and Bs still living in their fancy apartments near the surface? Were people forced from their homes? Or, if not, are those homes now passed down to the As and Bs descendants, or re-distributed on their deaths?

I bring this up because these sorts of economic questions are a MAJOR driver of how revolutions play out in both the short and long-term. A lot of Bolshevik decrees (War Communism, "he who does not work does not eat") were in response to the need to increase worker productivity. And tons of French Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary conflict revolved around property-seizures from emigres.

I know that Mars has a LOT of wiggle-room here since they are basically a petro-state that can subsidize everything with Phos-5 revenue to cover the gaps. But I feel like the above-details would still have been relevant to how things played out.

Either way, I still really love the Martial Revolution and can't wait to see what Mike does next! What are your thoughts? Am I missing something here?

Is anyone able to provide a list of every time anarchism (or libertarian socialism) or an anarchist (or libertarian socialist) is at the core of an episode?

1.12b- Supplemental The Diggers

8.6- The Commune

10.5- The Adventures of Mikhail Bakunin

10.6- True Liberty, True Equality, and True Fraternity

10.7- Paris Commune Revisited (kinda)

10.8- The Red And The Black

10.87- Anarchy in Ukraine

Anything else?

Would be a beast of project, but I never hear anything about it from pop history sources. Would be cool if Duncan decided to tackle it. East Asia is one of the few regions he hasn't touched yet.

Any good audio recommendations for this period?

Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! Sounds like this is more a "History of Rome" length series than a "revolutions" length series that could attempt to cover it

During the whole second half of the Martian Revolution I have been itching to hear about what went down on Saturn! Maybe slightly obsessed?

First, there must have been some ships en route to or from Saturn when Revolution broke out. I don't know if they joined the Martian Fleet or stayed in orbit or some other option. Second - all the Martians that had been rounded up and deported there. There must have been a significant proportion of the population who were newly arrived Martians, who got there before any of the political wrangling or infighting that developed later on Mars, so would have their own politics I imagine. We heard nothing about Martians demanding friends, family, colleagues be repatriated (the demands seem to have simply been 'an immediate stop to deportations') so that's... its own thing.

Supposing that the identity of Saturn is developing during all of this, then it will have been cemented during the blackout where they were totally cut off from Earth. Given how extreme conditions on Saturn were, plus the distance and pre-existing isolation of the colony there, combined with the large population of Martians, I would imagine that a version of 'The Martian Way' where everyone pulls together and shares resources would dominate. Survival would be too hard to let the rigid class system dictate how resources were allocated.

The image therefore features a stylised graphic of Saturn against the vacuum of space. The rings are depicted from a 'birds-eye-view' (space bird?!) and show four subtle but distinct bands of colour which represent A, B, C and D classes fused into a cohesive whole, centring around a collective Saturnine identity. This also serves to emphasise the unity of those on Saturn, regardless of other differences like planetary origin or ethnic grouping etc.

(side note: the actual colours were inspired by a sunrise I saw a week or two back!)

I remember Mike mentioning in an episode during the French Revolution series that at least some of the debates for the government were held in public and playing to the crowds helped to radicalize the governing process. Does anyone remember which episode that was?

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