Episode notes
Helen, Esther, and Crane tackle the first book of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, reading Machiavelli as a precursor to historical materialism and a radical republican. In the process, they pose the question: what can the critical theory of society learn from Machiavelli today?
Keywords
critical theory
Frankfurt School
Horkheimer
Historical Materialism
communism
Council Communism
Intellectual history
Hegel
Machiavelli