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The Religious Appeal of Communism | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 137
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18:02Now PlayingBook Club Series, Episode 5
Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I'm still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of LiberationA History of the Chinese Revolution 19451957 ( ). In this vignette I want to share with you from the book, near the end, Dikotter explains the appeal of Communism, at least to the Chinese in the 1950s, even though all around them was failure, starvation, and death. That appeal is, as you won't be surprised to learn, ultimately religious in nature. They find meaning building a future they believe will be better. Join me to hear this sad but revealing passage.
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