Engels on Insurrection

People's History of Ideas Podcast

Sep 9 2021 • 24 mins

The story behind how guidance on communist armed struggle got into a major American newspaper in 1852. Listener requested background on the text used by Lenin and which was so influential in the Guangzhou Commune.

Further reading:
Frederick Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Lenin, “Advice of an Onlooker

Some names from this episode:
Zhang Tailei, leader of the Guangzhou Uprising of December 1927

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